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Samsung’s Gear series has brought us was one of the most well-received smartwatch lineups in the market. Today, at IFA 2016 event held in Berlin, the Korean company is extending the legacy by launching the third generation upgrade, Gear S3. The Gear S3 is mostly an incremental refinement over the S2, however, there are two big changes: It’s a lot chunkier and comes with LTE as well as dedicated GPS. Also, there are two variants this time with minimal differences – Classic and Frontier. Other than the design, the Frontier edition includes LTE.For starters, the new Gear S3 features a slightly bigger 46mm casing and a 1.3-inch display (360 x 360 resolution) compared to 44mm and 1.2-inches on the S2. Samsung says the big size allows them to add core essentials customers desire from a smarter watch and it’s “on trend in the luxury watch space right now.” In terms of design and build, the Classic variant is built using stainless steel and flaunts a polished silver look. On the other hand, t…

Part of a followup email via AdRoll WooCommerce is today adding another tool to its kit.The company is announcing that the AdRoll ad/email retargeting platform is now integrated with WooCommerce. Last month, WooCommerce similarly added to its growing list of add-ons by announcing it was integrated with offline payments solution Square.WooCommerce is a free, open-source plugin from Automattic for that company’s popular WordPress publishing platform, with additional features available as premium add-ons. Created in 2011, it was acquired in the spring of last year by Automattic and claims to be employed by over 37 percent of all online stores.In a post about the integration, AdRoll Product Marketing Manager Kelly Eng wrote:“With this latest integration, you’ll be able to target every site visitor with dynamic product ads on the web, in a Facebook News Feed, and even in the inbox. […]“With our new email retargeting product, SendRoll, marketers who connect AdRoll and WooCommerce can also fa…

As CMO, Meg Goldthwaite says she considers herself Conservation International’s chief storyteller.“What’s truly important from a marketing standpoint is that you are able to connect your donors, or in other instances your customers, with the dollars that they spend, and in our case, with the life that’s changed,” says Goldthwaite.“We do that through stories. We demonstrate how important nature is to livelihoods, and I help bring those stories out that communicate how Conservation International is protecting nature and giving nature a voice.”In October of 2014, the organization launched the first of its “Nature Is Speaking” video series – a star-studded influencer marketing campaign that includes high-profile celebrities like Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Ed Norton, Penélope Cruz and Robert Redford.“When people hear Julia Roberts as Mother Nature, it goes into their being,” says Goldthwaite.“They’ve been listening to that incredible voice for such a long time, and it’s had such an emo…

With over 3.5 billion searches per day, it’s no secret that search engines like Google have become a key place for consumers to find products and services. It’s the reason people like me have a job!The majority of companies looking to start a new SEO program would like to improve their overall search presence, increase brand visibility and drive new visits.Pay attention to that last piece — new visits.While new visits are important, when it comes to purchasing decisions, most people visit a site more than once. In fact, according to a recent report by Webloyalty and Conlumino, the average consumer consults about five channels before making a purchase, meaning the people converting are likely going to be return visitors.As SEOs, it’s important not to get hung up on optimizing only for new visits. We also must focus on the buying cycle itself to ensure we are giving our customers the information they are looking for when doing their longer-term research.We also must think beyond new cus…

Did you know that you can increase your SEO task efficiency by using extensions in Google Chrome? If you perform most of your SEO tasks manually, these extensions can help reduce the headache of repetitive tasks and help you make your work day run more smoothly.Following are five free Chrome extensions I use on a daily basis to help increase productivity. From screenshots to checking links to content analysis, it’s all here!1. Nimbus Screenshot and ScreencastAs the name suggests, Nimbus is a handy screenshot and screencast tool. This tool is handy for capturing and annotating screenshots, which can help when putting together a report for a client, convincing a client to take a particular step or showing them errors we are seeing on our end (that they may not be seeing on theirs). You can make annotations right within Nimbus: arrows, text, image blurring for sensitive materials — it is possible to do all that with this tool.In addition, you can use Nimbus to create videos. Say you want…

There are probably countless articles on Marketing Land (and Search Engine Land) that encourage readers not to put all of their marketing eggs in one basket. And I know that message has been drilled home countless times over the years by speakers at our SMX conferences. Yet, here we were a couple weeks ago, scrambling to come up with a Plan B for our weekly Marketing Land Live video show after Blab closed its doors. It felt, at least immediately, like we had put all our eggs in the Blab basket only to watch it taken away without warning.The dust has settled now and we’ve found our Plan B: Marketing Land Live is now an audio-only podcast! We just made it official with last week’s episode, which was a great conversation about Google’s “intrusive interstitials” penalty, AdSense changes and more with Ginny Marvin, Barry Schwartz and me.I invite you to subscribe to our podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud or Google Play Podcasts. Below, I’ll talk more about what to expect from our new podcast, b…

Pinterest wants brands to feel like they already have an attentive audience to advertise to on its platform. So after adding the ability for brands to retarget people who visit their sites and use their apps with ads on Pinterest, the company is now introducing a way for brands to advertise to people who click on or save brand-related pins that are posted to Pinterest.“Engagement data [like pin clicks and saves] show much higher intent and are more valuable than simply liking a page or following a brand’s account,” said Pinterest product manager Frank Fumarola.According to Pinterest, people who have interacted with a brand-related pin, such as by clicking on it, within the past 30 days are 2.2 times more likely to buy a product from that brand than people who don’t interact with a pin related to that brand. Considering that 75% of the pins on Pinterest are brand-related, like pins linking to product pages, Pinterest thinks it offers brands a lot of opportunities to attract actual cust…

It is easy to embed a YouTube video but you’ll be surprised to know how much extra weight that embedded YouTube video can add to your web pages. The browser has to download about half a Mb of extra JavaScript files (see screenshot) for rendering the YouTube video player alone. And these files are downloaded even if the visitor never plays the embedded video.The embedded video not only increases the byte size of your web pages but the browser has to make multiple HTTP requests to render the video player. This increases the overall loading time of your page thus affecting the page speed score. The other drawback with the default YouTube embed code is that it isn’t responsive. If people view your website on a mobile phone, the video player may not resize properly for the small screen.Embed YouTube Videos without Increasing Page SizeGoogle+ uses a clever technique for embedding YouTube videos – it just embeds the thumbnail image of a YouTube video and the actual video player is loaded onl…

You know, we email marketers can be a pretty conservative lot. There are good reasons for that.First, the limitations of email standards and client software mean we don’t often get to push the envelope, technically speaking. Moreover, we’re an empirically minded bunch, so we tend to iterate and fine-tune what’s worked for us in the past.And maybe most of all, we know that any radical change to our sending and content practices introduces a real risk of deliverability challenges. When our businesses depend on staying on the good side of the inbox, it’s understandable we often default to the attitude “once bitten, twice shy.”So a lot of email marketing sticks very closely to the established playbook. Why would someone want to rock the tried-and-true? You’ve seen these down-the-middle campaigns time and time again, and it might seem like their formulaic approaches aren’t going to change any time soon.At the same time, even the stodgiest email marketer among us has become enamored, even i…

The Clk.im Integrator monetization plugin is perfect for WordPress publishers looking to make money with their site. Many WordPress monetization plugins have limited functionality, which can be fatal for your monetization efforts.With Clk.im, the versatility of your ad serving goes to a whole new level.(The full functionality of the plugin is unlocked when you sign up for an “Expert” account.)In this article, we’ll go into greater depth of using these features to maximize the monetization potential of your WordPress site.We’ll also cover how you can create trackable shortened links for your entire site. These links will allow you to launch:Top-bar HTML adsFull-page interstitial adsPop-under adsThese will launch whenever someone clicks a link on your site (even if it leads to an external domain which you don’t own).The ad customization features are extraordinary, allowing you to easily launch targeted campaigns based on:GeographyDevice typeDate range…and more.You can create branded sho…