A rapid conversion landing page affords the opportunity for publishers to quickly capture the name and email address of visitors in exchange for a free downloadable content product.
PR is so different now than it was even five years ago, nevermind ten or twenty years ago. Because major news outlets still require press releases, we still publish them,
Your email capture rate (ECR) is calculated by dividing the number of new email subscribers your website captures each month, by the number of unique new visitors passing through
If you want to know why your website is, or is not performing, start conducting usability studies. A/B tests are great for content, but when it comes to seeing how
Consistent channel conversion zone architecture (3c), when applied to a publishing website, is a fancy way of saying that every channel (or portal topic) consistently aligns with a product that
A Rapid Conversion Landing Page (a.k.a. “name squeeze” page) is essential to building a database of free email newsletter subscribers. It, along with other landing pages on a website, act
How to make highly converting Floaters, pop-ups and mobile interstitial ads SEO-friendly
As you probably know, earlier this month, Google told publishers everywhere that they would begin penalizing them for pop-ups
The most important SEO tip of the month is suppressing floaters and OFIEs for mobile phone users
By now most of you know that Google has decreed popups and interstitial ads, which
By now most of you know that Google has decreed popups and interstitial ads, which include Mequoda Best Practice floaters, to be outlawed on mobile phones as of January 10,
What to look for in lead management software, from Haven Nexus to Eloqua, Marketo, Hubspot and others
Make money by giving content away.
That statement sounds odd to many people in publishing
Call it what you want, but here at Mequoda we've assigned the title Rapid Conversion Landing Page to a landing page that collects an email address and offers a free
If your freemium conversion rate is less than 2, you can use these resources to create better, more compelling and more clickable freebies.
Email is by far, the most profitable marketing
These audience development models create marketing-qualified leads through freemiums that build larger, more monetizable email lists
“Audience development” is one of those terms that many people instinctively understand, but usually underestimate.
The very successful publishers that we always turn to when evaluating our best practices have used some or all of the following strategies to convert website visitors into email subscribers.
Audience development is one of those terms that many people instinctively understand, but usually underestimate
Although media professionals have worked in audience development for years, most have not bothered to define all the things
The freebie content business model is one website we build for all of our Mequoda Gold Members
Choosing your content focus is a business-critical decision, as the focus you choose pretty
Website architecture refers to the funnel that leads your customers from a page, to a point of interest, like a "buy now" button, or an email subscription form. It refers
Like the best email subject lines, report titles should be short and sweet
In today’s multiplatform publishing world, there’s no such thing as standing still. So when data starts whispering “change”
Have you ever received one of those birthday cards in the mail from one of your "funny" friends, where you open the envelope and glitter basically falls everywhere?
That's close to
The first thing you need to have to create great landing pages is a basic understanding of the seven types of landing pages used by Internet marketing professionals. With that
Ernest Hemingway once said, "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."
Perfection in editorial management is a fallacy. There will always be deadlines that
On content-driven, information-rich websites we use press releases for more than the basic announcement. We also use them to release free white papers because we know they offer more opportunities
The latest publishing trend isn’t just about magazine publishing in general. It’s a digital publishing trend: Launching digital-only magazines without legacy print publications behind them.
Mequoda has a client who is
How to jump start and run a successful SEO campaign
An SEO campaign starts with a keyword and evolves into a multi-media marketing program. When a marketer finds a keyword that
Hide in plain sight and make your advertising messaging look like regular content to block ad blockers
Ad-blocking software has been around almost as long as people have had personal computers
Portals are seen most often because not only are they a profitable model on their own, they’re also intended to build and feed an audience for affiliated premium subscription websites.
If at least 2% of your website visitors aren't converting into email subscribers, then you're reading exactly what you should be. And most publishers are averaging much less than a
People concern themselves with the external factors (link-building, social media, etc.) of SEO, but those are nothing without website architecture that's built to pass link juice through the website's pipeline.
If there's one thing that Mequoda folks have in common, it's a powerful promotional email template that we call the circulation-builder, or circ-builder.
As a publisher, you might assume that this
At Mequoda, we do a lot of work with clients who are starting from scratch with online publishing and subscription website marketing. They get the full benefit of the Mequoda
To put this post together, we banged together the heads of everyone on the Mequoda team to consolidate some of the mishaps that have occurred with our clients. There have
You can build email circulation over forty different ways, and we've got all the case studies to prove it! If you’re subscribed to our email newsletter, then you’re living proof
Deploy your words to make landing pages more powerful
The best landing page designs aren’t about design.
OK, they’re sort of about design. I know that my copy can enhance and work
Proven methods and a new idea for blockbuster SEO campaigns
A lot of people offer advice about the importance of SEO campaigns and SEO copywriting. And a lot of that
5 Tips for Writing & Formatting Email Newsletter Teasers
Which email newsletters do you read on a regular basis?
Like many of you, I subscribe to multiple email newsletters; some for business
Discover how Golf Vacation Insider uses customization on its article landing pages to dramatically increase their website visitor to email conversion rates from search
Website landing page suggestions that will help you build a larger audience
When audience members arrive on your website, they have a few options. If they find your content relevant, they
Two ways to increase your SEO power away from your website
SEO is such a small acronym with such large potential. And in today’s digital landscape, SEO isn’t just about using
Three types of conversions that will improve your online business
There are multiple conversion types that need to be addressed by digital publishers. The analysis will provide statistics on different parts
For consumer marketers, there is perhaps no better audience development program than one anchored by a well-run audience development blog
I almost never meet a publisher who tells me their audience
3 best practices for increasing website traffic
January 2012 has been a record setting month for Mequoda Daily.
As a small B2B company, it can be hard to reach specific milestones
A Mequoda System is a complex system designed to point users towards rapid conversion landing pages
At this month’s Mequoda Summit East 2011, we debuted our latest version of SEO best
Discover how we increased conversion rate by more than 30% when you download our updated Rapid Conversion Landing Page Optimization Guidelines
Download a free copy of Rapid Conversion Landing Page Optimization
4 reasons why you should have a well optimized free report marketplace
If you aren’t offering free download products yet, here’s what you are missing:
An opportunity to
Why social media should be a part of all your SEO campaigns
Ten years ago, you could have launched a new product and gotten straight to work with direct mail and
