Con­ver­sion Rate Op­ti­miza­tion

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What are the most important KPIs in online marketing?

In the online business, you can’t avoid various per­for­mance metrics to re­al­is­ti­cal­ly evaluate your company’s success or failure. Not only in e-commerce but also in pub­lish­ing, analysis tools are used to develop op­ti­miza­tion strate­gies based on diverse KPIs and to get the most out…

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What are affiliate networks?

Many website owners make extra money by placing links on their website that lead to a product or service. The owner of the website where the links are placed receives a com­mis­sion for each customer action taken via these links. This is known as affiliate marketing. To bring…

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Dark Patterns

Dark Patterns are all over the internet – on shopping sites, email platforms, download portals, search engines, social networks, and so on. But their goal is always the same: to coerce visitors into buying a par­tic­u­lar product or click on a link. If you want to find out more…

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Online marketing basics: affiliate marketing

Com­mis­sion-based business trans­ac­tions are familiar to most readers when it comes to the real estate or insurance industry: If a broker manages to suc­cess­ful­ly sell a flat or insurance to a customer, he or she receives a com­mis­sion. The same principle applies for the classic…

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Web usability: How user-friendly is your site?

When building and designing a website, there are numerous points to consider: technical im­ple­men­ta­tion, design, suitable content, and of course, the marketing aspects. All these aspects should have one goal: to optimize website usability. Websites need to be user-friendly in…

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Augmented Reality: how Pikachu helps e-commerce

Augmented reality is con­sid­ered to be the marketing trend of the future. And it’s true that this new tech­nol­o­gy really does build a bridge between the tactile and virtual worlds, a fact that offers enormous op­por­tu­ni­ties for both busi­ness­es and marketers. This is due to the fact…

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CTAs: Turning clicks into customers

Op­ti­miz­ing your CTAs is the key to boosting your profits by turning more of your website visitors into customers! CTAs do not only improve your customer ex­pe­ri­ence, but they can also help boost your SEO rankings. Find out more in this article.

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Neu­ro­mar­ket­ing – the way into the consumer’s brain?

‘I think therefore I am’ – René Descartes’ iconic saying, it seems, may only be half true. If you choose to believe neu­ro­sci­en­tists like António Damásio and Joseph E. LeDoux, then cognitive and emotional processes play a part in every rational decision. Even clicking the purchase…

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Content curation

“Content is King.” The content marketing battle cry is still relevant. However, for a few years now, there has been a slight shift: further back in the past there was nothing but self-developed con­tri­bu­tions, today you also have to rely on dis­trib­ut­ing external content. Content…

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What is Con­ver­sion Rate Op­ti­miza­tion (CRO)?

Suc­cess­ful SEO measures help land you a spot in the top ranking positions of the search engine results pages (SERPS) and increase the influx of visitors to your site. But what happens when only a few visitors are actually buying your products or sub­scrib­ing to your newslet­ters?…

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