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Exploring the Fascinating History of SEO

Content Hacker

Somehow, the page had gotten buried in the SERPs amid promotion from fan sites. 2003: Google Introduces the Florida Update & Nofollow Attribute In 2003, Google introduced the “Florida” update to its algorithm. It was the mid-90s, when the internet as we know it was brand-new. Why was Jefferson Starship’s manager angry?

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How to Target Generation Z Through Paid Ads

Neil Patel

Of 18 to 21-year-olds who weren’t in high school in 2018, 57 percent were in college, compared to 52 percent of Millennials in 2003, and 43 percent of Gen Xers in 1987. With that in mind, here’s a word of warning: advertising to Generation Z is a double-edged sword. Advertising to Generation Z can be a real minefield.

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12 Most Insightful eCommerce Blogs To Follow for the New Year

ContentWriters

As blogging began to grow, WordPress came on the scene in 2003, and in 2004, Merriam-Webster named “blog” as the top word of the year, saying it was the most often looked-up word on its site during the previous twelve months. It’s great for marketing basics, learning how to advertise, and handling customer service.

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21 Successful Marketing Campaign Examples That’ll Inspire You

Smart Blogger

In this post, we’ll share 21 successful marketing campaign examples, each one giving you a fresh perspective on how to promote your company. It launched in Germany in 2003 for the first time and is still being used today, the longest-running ad campaign in McDonald’s history. How can you appeal to them? Always’ Like a Girl Campaign.

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Nine Tips to Create Banners for Profitable Advertising

ProBlogger

The problem is most of us use banners in way as they were used in 1994-2003. However, banner advertising is a flourishing billion dollar industry that pervades advertising, teaching, publishing and every other information marketing industry you could name. The end of banner advertising is a fallacy.

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PB150: How I Make Money Blogging – My Profit Streams Revealed

ProBlogger

On dPS we do two big promotions every year. On dPS we offer sponsorships to advertisers who want to work directly with our audience. I do some affiliate promotions on both. Over on Digital Photography School, we do two really big promotions every year. The year before that, it was a course that we promoted.

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The Team Behind My Blogs: From Solo Blogger to Business

ProBlogger

December 2003 : By this point, I’d started to experiment with making money from my blogs (I had a couple by this point). While we do use some more automated ad solutions (like AdSense) on dPS, we’re also growing the number of ads we are selling directly to advertisers—both banner ads and newsletter ads.

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