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  • The Secrets Web3 Marketers Use To Launch New Crypto Projects

    The Secrets Web3 Marketers Use To Launch New Crypto Projects

    My previous background in digital marketing and now having worked in the blockchain sector for 6 years provides unique vantage point on the differences between conventional and web3 marketing. Successful crypto projects create communities of advocates who act as micro-influencers championing the cause. In this article I’ll discuss why “build it and they will come”…

  • Twitter Crypto Ads  | Blockchain Advertising Is Live On Twitter

    Twitter Crypto Ads | Blockchain Advertising Is Live On Twitter

    Twitter crypto ads are live after the platform unofficially relaxed its ban on advertising crypto products. Perhaps due to the Elon bid there seem to be more ads showing up and less stringent controls on ad quality. This opens up an opportunity for companies in the sector to use the platform for growth. In this…

  • 3 Best Types Of Twitter Ads

    3 Best Types Of Twitter Ads

    In this article I share three types of twitter ads that have been most effective and provide the best return on ad spend. Twitter Ads [Video] This video demonstrates the setting up of a follower lookalike Twitter ads campaign along with how to create the ads and optimise performance. James On YouTube Follower Lookalike Follower…

  • Digital Marketing Overview | Beginners Guide

    Digital Marketing Overview | Beginners Guide

    In this beginners guide I provide a digital marketing overview of how to setup and run online marketing campaigns. Check out the video and there’s more detailed information below and in the digital marketing tutorials section. [Video] Digital Marketing For Beginners How Online Marketing Works Performance Marketing Process Analytics & Tracking Website, Landing Page Design…

  • Google Ads vs Facebook Ads

    Google Ads vs Facebook Ads

    The two largest ad networks in the world go head to head in this article. Google Ads vs Facebook Ads provides an overview of the differences between the ad networks with the aim of deciding where to allocate advertising budget for your business. At the end of this article you can find the links to…

  • Lookalike Audience | What, Why & Tips For Building Lookalike Audiences 👀

    Lookalike Audience | What, Why & Tips For Building Lookalike Audiences 👀

    This article provides everything you need to know about lookalike audiences. From the basics of how to effectively seed lookalike audiences to how lookalike audiences work and how you can profit from the technology. What Is A Lookalike Audience When To Create A Lookalike Audience Tips For Building A Lookalike Audience Facebook Lookalike Audience Google…

  • Direct Linking | How To Set Up Quick Affiliate Campaigns 🏹

    Direct Linking | How To Set Up Quick Affiliate Campaigns 🏹

    In this article we look at how direct linking affiliate offers works including a real world campaign setup video. What Is Direct Linking? Benefits Of Direct Linking Finding Affiliate Offers Finding A Traffic Source Testing & Initial Results Optimizing Direct Link Campaigns Scaling Up Affiliate Campaigns 3 Tips For Direct Linking Video Example Direct Linking…

  • Google Ads Performance Max Campaigns

    Google Ads Performance Max Campaigns

    Google Ads Performance Max campaigns are due to be released in 2021 for advertiser who request to be part of the beta test. The ads will be a “next step” in the use of machine learning throughout the Google ads system. What Are Performance Max Campaigns? James On YouTube Performance Max Campaigns Are Conversion Focused…

  • Traffic Sources | How To Get More Traffic To Your Website

    Traffic Sources | How To Get More Traffic To Your Website

    This module is part of a free online course where you can learn digital marketing. In this module we’ll be exploring the most effective traffic sources to drive more visitors and traffic to your website. Website Traffic Sources [Video] Paid vs Free Traffic – Expectations vs Reality Free Traffic Sources Content Marketing Strategy SEO –…

  • 5 Retargeting Examples| Remarketing Strategies With Facebook & Google Ads

    5 Retargeting Examples| Remarketing Strategies With Facebook & Google Ads

    This module is part of a free online course where you can learn digital marketing. Here are some retargeting examples of how to run effective remarketing campaigns on Google & Facebook Ads. As I go through the examples I will be introducing new concepts and more advanced retargeting methods. Content (Re)Marketing Bombardment URL & Event…

  • Facebook Advertising Network | How To Instantly Improve Your Facebook Ads 🧩

    Facebook Advertising Network | How To Instantly Improve Your Facebook Ads 🧩

    This module is part of a free online course where you can learn digital marketing. The Facebook advertising network is the most advanced and powerful marketing platform the world has ever seen. In this module I’m going to show you ways to get the most out your Facebook ads. [Video] 7 Tips To Improve Facebook…

  • Creating Google Ads | Tips, Tools & Strategies

    Creating Google Ads | Tips, Tools & Strategies

    This article is part of a free online course where you can learn digital marketing. In this module I’ll be showing you how to create Google Ads effectively to get the best return on ad spend. Creating Google Ads Video Where Google Displays Ads Setting Up Google Ads Campaigns PPC Keyword List Tool Tracking Conversions…

  • Micro Conversions | Complete Guide To Optimising & Scaling With Micro Conversions

    Micro Conversions | Complete Guide To Optimising & Scaling With Micro Conversions

    What are micro conversions? Micro conversions are minor events such as clicks and scrolls that we can use to track visitor behaviour and optimise advertising and landing pages faster. They are generally not directly linked to key performance indicators for an advertising campaign but can be used to scale (increase traffic volumes) more effectively. James…

  • What does Affiliate Marketing mean?

    What does Affiliate Marketing mean?

    Affiliate marketing is when an “advertiser”, normally a brand or company, offers a 3rd party “affiliate” a financial incentive to promote their products and services.

  • Example Media Buy Letter

    Example Media Buy Letter

    Here is an example media buy proposal letter that can be used as a cold email, contact form or social media message. Response rates for media buy proposals are low so anything you can do to connect with the person responsible for monetising a website first is going to be beneficial. Check the whois information,…

  • Publisher Side Ad Platform Statistics

    Publisher Side Ad Platform Statistics

    This really shows the dominance of Google for display advertising, especially for smaller sites with their Adsense platform. I’ve thought for a while that Facebook should be able to enter this market and using their vast amount of user data increase CPM’s for small publishers. As of yet this hasn’t been widely adopted and Adsense…

  • New Page Level Ads – Adsense

    New Page Level Ads – Adsense

    These new ads are now available in the Adsense platform: They can be added to your adsense site and will only pop on mobile when Google thinks it’s a good time to launch an overlay. I’m not sure how they calculate this but it is described as displaying at “optimal times”. Most importantly you can…

  • Setting Up Facebook & Google Adwords Conversion & Retargeting Pixels

    Setting Up Facebook & Google Adwords Conversion & Retargeting Pixels

    Conversion tracking is important because it will show you how much each lead or purchase is costing you in advertising costs. For most marketers this is their key performance indicator as it has a direct influence on their profits. Retargeting (or remarketing) tracking is important because by building an audience we can launch cost-effective marketing…

  • Facebook changes ad text guidelines

    Facebook changes ad text guidelines

    Facebook has changed it’s policy on disallowing ads with more than 20% text. There are now 4 bands in which your ad will be placed. OK, Low Text, Medium Text, High Text. The higher band your ad comes in the lower your quality score and less traffic you will get or higher you will have…

  • Dynamic Tracking Tokens For Major Ad Networks

    Dynamic Tracking Tokens For Major Ad Networks

    Google Adwords Search term insertion {keyword=”leather couches”} {Keyword=”Leather couches”} {KeyWord=”Leather Couches”} {KEYWORD= “LEATHER COUCHES”} {device} {devicemodel} {placement} {creative} {adposition} {target} {network} {matchtype} Facebook No tokens 🙁 Plenty of Fish pof.com {age:} {state:} {gender:} TrafficVance %KEYWORD% MSN Adcenter {KeyWord} = Order Fresh Fruit today {keyword} = Order fresh fruit today {Keyword} = Order Fresh fruit today…

  • Setting Up Retargeting Pixels for Adwords and Facebook

    Setting Up Retargeting Pixels for Adwords and Facebook

    Retargeting works by placing a image pixel or code snippet on your website. You can then launch advertising campaigns targeted at those specific users that have visited the page and “seen” the hidden pixel. This is how to set it up… Facebook Go to Ads Manager > Audiences > Create Audience > Custom Audience >…

  • Designing Banners in Place

    Designing Banners in Place

    Something I don’t hear a lot of affiliates talk about is taking the placement in to consideration when designing banners. Sometimes if you are targeting multiple sites/positions this isn’t possible but for traffic sources like Facebook this is something every affiliate should consider. Simply take a screenshot of the page where you intend to advertise…

  • Disproportionate Tablet Traffc On Google Adwords

    Have you checked your Adwords campaigns by device recently? If not you should definitely take a look because there is a huge amount of tablet traffic and no way to block it for desktop campaigns. You can set bid adjustments at -100% to block mobile traffic but Google have disabled this feature for tablets. This…

  • Facebook taking on Google Adwords

    UPDATE: 29th September 2014 – More details coming in about this. Facebook is expected to make an announcement tonight about the new ad platform. Early reports suggest it is a reworked version of Atlas which they acquired from Microsoft. The key principle is laser targeting across multiple devices. So you can target the same user…

  • Display Marketing Logo Challenge

    Wow I don’t mind admitting half of these companies I’ve never heard of before: Display marketing infographic (from http://www.lumapartners.com a good blog actually looking at the industry from an investment perspective) They also have ones for mobile, social and search: http://www.lumapartners.com/lumascapes/mobile-lumascape/ http://www.lumapartners.com/lumascapes/social-lumascape/ http://www.lumapartners.com/lumascapes/search-lumascape/ and my favourite, just in case anyones working on the next MyFace: http://www.lumapartners.com/lumascapes/digital-capital-lumascape/

  • Direct Linking and Retargeting

    Here is how to do it, you’ll still need a server and a domain. Point all your traffic towards a php file i.e. http://www.mydomain.com/trackandforward.php Then place all your retargeting pixels in to the trackandforward.php file and put a meta refresh at the the end. The page will load the retargeting cookies will be placed and…

  • Ideas for Banner Ad Split Tests

    Here are a few ideas for split testing your banner ads. You could quite easily use these to take a single ad and knock up a 100 variations. Test them optimise out the losers and see what works best. There is no single best banner advertisement, everything needs testing and optimising continuously.

  • Engage BDR – Self-serve RTB

    Have you seen these ads all over the internet? Chances are pretty high it was probably served by Engage BDR. Up until now their minimum deposit just to test a campaign was $25,000 USD. Which for most affiliates is completely out of reach but now they have released a new real time bidding platform which…

  • SiteScout RTB – A Walk Through

    Update 23/08/12 – If you are interested in working with Sitescout make sure you check out their superb knowedge base. Sitescout is a great traffic source for display advertising. They basically act as a reseller for remnant traffic from some of the biggest ad exchanges in the world. There is needless to say massive volume…