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What to Know About Banner Advertising

The Startup Magazine

Google uses the Quality Score algorithm to determine the ads to show, what position they’ll display in, and how much an advertiser will be charged for each click. . There are big discounts for ads that have a high clickthrough rate, which is meant to be an incentive to get people to create quality ads.

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How to win with marketplaces: The three success factors

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Sangeet Paul Choudary who analyzes business models for Internet startups at his blog Platform Thinking. Hence, the quality of the search algorithm and the intuitiveness of the navigation are critical to delivering value. You can follow Sangeet on Twitter at @sanguit.

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How to start making sense of your data

Version One Ventures

If your startup is drowning in data, the good news is you can actually learn a lot about your company and product with some simple math. Now, consider rephrasing the question above into a hypothesis: “ Our best clickthrough rate is on Fridays in New York City.” We need to hire a data scientist immediately!”. Stay tuned!

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We’re Running Web 2018 With Web 2008 Dashboards. And That’s a Problem.

Hunter Walker

Back and forth flame wars on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere register as “engagement” and high clickthrough on “new comment” mobile notifications. Next wave of startups trying to use your phone’s camera and sensors to calculate emotional response.

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5 Insights from Every Speaker of ConversionXL Live 2016

ConversionXL

Underlines improve clickthrough on Bing for both algorithmic results and ads (so more revenue) and improve time to successful click (better UX). This entire model is very close to the Lean Startup model. Google moved away from basic algorithms. Now they’re using machine learning algorithms. What Instead?

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21 Ways To Market Your Small Business On A Shoestring Budget

crowdSPRING Blog

It used to be that guerrilla marketing was the weapon of choice for scrappy startups and unorthodox small businesses, but those days are over. This kind of metadata can really boost clickthroughs to your site. People who missed out on that giveaway will know to keep their eyes open for the next one. Guerrilla marketing.

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21 Ways To Market Your Small Business On A Shoestring Budget

crowdSPRING Blog

It used to be that guerrilla marketing was the weapon of choice for scrappy startups and unorthodox small businesses, but those days are over. This kind of metadata can really boost clickthroughs to your site. People who missed out on that giveaway will know to keep their eyes open for the next one. Guerrilla marketing.