Panda 4.1 – Who Wins and Who Loses?

Graphic: Chi King
Grafik: Chi King

On the 24th of September, Google announced the rollout of the search engine algorithm update Panda 4.1. Since 2011, Panda has been making sure that websites with higher quality content rank better than content farms. It has been five months since the last update, and Panda 4.1 brings some changes with it.

 
 

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Why pay with a tweet is the most user friendly paywall

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Graphic: Dan Zen

The idea of a conventional paywall is used by many content providers. However, a non-monetary paywall is rare. Pay with Tweet is one example: content has to be paid for in the form of a tweet or a post. Your own website receives greater reach and therefore more traffic in return. But how can turn-over be raised with this paywall variation?

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New Whitepaper “Digital Transformation” available for download

The effects of digitalisation in the form of big data, e-commerce cloud computing and social media have been felt by companies for some time now. “Digital transformation” is now on the agenda of conservative branches. Entire business models, value creation processes and industries are being put to the test, or at least are being challenged to actively deal with digitalisation.

But what is actually happening right now? Why is digital transformation so extensive and what challenges does it bring with it?> Our new whitepaper “Digital Transformation: Herausforderungen des digitalen Wandels für Marketing, Sales und IT” introduces the most important topics currently being discussed in B2B and B2C with up-to-date figures.

Whitepaper Digitale Transformation

Topics include: the challenges relating to processes and roles in digital trade, the smartphone as a catalyst of change, and the new customer type which is used to independently informing themselves online. Technologies and system architecture for a digital experience are also addressed.

The whitepaper can be downloaded free of charge from our homepage:
http://www.dotsource.de/whitepaper-digitale-transformation/
This whitepaper is currently only available in German. The English language edition will be released shortly, so stay tuned!

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What can online markets learn from classic branding?

Traurig dreinblickendes Model. Schema SS+L von Peer Hartog. Foto von Chung Shao Tung
Photo: Chung Shao Tung

» Online markets beware: products from the fashion and lifestyle industry are particularly difficult to market. This, something like this, is what marketing experts (Carsten Rieman – Director of Consulting Media at Pilot entertainment GmbH, Alexander Wipf – Head of Strategy at Leo Burnett GmbH, Ralph Anderl – General Manager at iC! berlin and Peer Hartog – CEO of GERLACHHARTOG) brought to the point at Battle-Talk on the Modemarketing conference 2014. «

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E-Commerce Solutions Providers Introduced: Magento [update]

E-commerce software Magento was originally published as an open source e-commerce platform by the company Varien Inc. in 2008. With eBay’s takeover in 2011, the company was reformed under Magento Inc. as a 100% daughter company.

Today Magento Inc. is an American software manufacturer with a seat in Culver City (Los Angeles County). Magento mainly focuses on small to medium sized enterprises in the B2C sector, although eBay does have aspirations to win more large companies in the future. Magento’s most well-known clients include Cornelsen, The North Face, Olympus, and Men’s Health.

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Exit Intent Pop-up as new conversion booster?

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Graphic: Christopher Sessums

“Let travellers embark on their journey” – The current exit intent pop-up trend is ignoring this motto. On the contrary, these little windows hold up everyone wanting to exit a site. What initially sounds annoying looks very different on paper. Users of the marketing tool are reporting raised conversion rates and higher sales. Thanks to exit-intent the cost of the tool is supposed to be recuperated within a few days, at least according to providers.

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