Author Archives: Net Age

Bulk Email Marketing & Communications

The ease and convenience of communicating by email has turned the medium into a popular marketing channel. Most businesses want, (or need), the ability to send out bulk emails to their existing (and potential) customers at some point. Bulk email marketing sometimes has a bad reputation. When people think of bulk emails, they tend to […]

Google Expands Site Links

Site links have been around for a long time now. Since 2006 in fact. You’ve probably noticed them, used them, and forgotten about them without ever knowing what they were called. And now they’ve been updated by Google. Site links are the small secondary links that you get under a search engine result, when there […]

IAB Opposes ICANN Brand Domains

According to a recent report in WebProNews, IAB, the Interactive Advertising Bureau, is opposing the recently publicised decision by ICAAN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to lift restrictions on generic top level domains. The lifting of this restriction will make it possible for companies to use their own brand names as top level […]

Social Media Marketing Drives Little Traffic

In today’s online marketing environment, social media marketing is a big buzz word. everybody is a social media expert, and everybody has a strategy to leverage your social media presence… Except it doesn’t do much good yet. We’ve been dubious about the value of social media marketing for some time now, and it’s nice to […]

Few Referrals From Social Media Marketing

Social media marketing is still set as one of the important things to do when it comes to online marketing. However, thanks to a recent report released by Outbrain, it looks like the huge social media machine isn’t providing websites with many visitors at all. Social Media Drives 11% of Traffic According to the report, […]

Twitter To Serve Promoted Tweets

According to recent news reports, Twitter announced yesterday that they will begin placing advertisements in users timelines, in a long anticipated attempt to effectively monetise the service. These ads, or “promoted tweets” as Twitter calls them, will be delivered only to followers of the company that’s advertising (for now?) and they’ll be launching it with […]