Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
A Colorado-based firm has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it falsely advertised free mortgage refinancing services online. The lead generator, Intermundo Media, LLC used the name “Delta Prime Refinance” in ads that claimed homeowners could refinance their mortgages for free to attract leads it then sold […]
Would a billboard better get your attention if it pictured a friend, family member, or even yourself? That’s the idea behind a new campaign collecting selfies to deter speeding.
Are you inadvertently turning customers away? Contributor Tim Ash outlines simple fixes that can make all the difference.
Pioneering online retailer Amazon is tweaking its product pages to display user ratings by segment for some users, apparently hoping to encourage people to purchase when they see that others with similar characteristics rated a product favorably. The new display, which aggregates and displays ratings by Amazon Mom members for other Amazon Mom members, was […]
A court in Berlin Germany has ordered Google to “stop ignoring customer emails and start offering a way to communicate with the company.” This comes in response to a complaint brought by the Federation of German Consumer Organizations. According to PC World the automated response to the email address “support-de@google.com” said that Google couldn’t read […]
For the second time this month, Facebook is down for many users. We started hearing reports of the outage on — where else? — Twitter, soon after 8 p.m Eastern. Last week, the social network suffered a 20-minute outage; it had several more lengthy blackouts earlier in the summer. Here’s the current Twitter chatter about […]
EBay has announced that it will open up its mobile app to brand advertisers at some point this fall. “Now, for the first time, we’re giving you the opportunity to connect with eBay users throughout their entire shopping journey,” writes the company on its website. “eBay mobile advertising will be a native experience, beautifully integrated […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Enterprise Local Marketing Automation Tools – New Market Intelligence Report
Search In Pics: GoogleBot Chained Up, Android Statue Reorganization & Community Manager Dance
B2B Content Marketers: Are You Making These 5 Common SEO Mistakes?
Nearly A Year Later, Are We Finally Going To Get A Penguin Update Refresh?
With Apple’s Help, Google Search Gets Special Info Boxes For iPhone 6 & Apple Watch
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Blogs & Blogging
3 Fundamental Ways to Promote Blog Posts, relevance.com
5 brands using data to generate blog content, digiday.com
Give Your Blog’s Graphics a Lift, basicblogtips.com
How to Add Mashable-Style Social Sharing Icons to Your Blog, www.blogtyrant.com
How to Migrate Your Website to WordPress, www.wpexplorer.com
SBlog and Social Media Usage by Fortune 500 Companies, www.marketingprofs.com
Business Issues
Alibaba to Close Order Books Early and May Lift Price of I.P.O., New York Times
Facebook Tries to Muscle In on YouTube, Wall Street Journal
Feds Tried to Charge Yahoo $250K Per Day for Not Complying With PRISM, www.adweek.com
Google Hires P&G’s Top North America Media Executive, adage.com
Content Marketing
5 Content Marketing Tips That’ll Help You Appeal to a Hispanic Audience, contently.com
5 Ways to Weaponize Mobile Content Marketing, www.searchenginejournal.com
Here Comes the Content Marketing Shakeout, www.convinceandconvert.com
How Content Partners Can Boost Your Content Marketing Strategy, www.convinceandconvert.com
Is content marketing about emotion or utility?, digiday.com
The Visual Content Inspiration You Need, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Conversion Optimization
The Secret of Great Landing Page Copy, www.wordstream.com
Your 12-Step Landing Page Recovery Program, www.getelastic.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
How To Talk To Your Graphic Designer, blog.visual.ly
Why the Written Word Is Your Marketing Advantage, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
Domaining
ICANN board getting three new directors, domainincite.com
ICANN New gTLD Auctions Scheduled For Next Week Include 1st Between Amazon & Google, www.thedomains.com
March Of Dimes Switches Its Website Domain From .Com to .Org, www.thedomains.com
Email Marketing
3 Email Newsletter and Autoresponder Plugins For WordPress, just-ask-kim.com
Email and Smartphones: Tips for Closing the Conversion Gap, www.silverpop.com
How To Export Feedburner Email Subscribers To CSV File, just-ask-kim.com
Tips and Tricks to Engage Trick-or-Treaters: Halloween Email Marketing, blog.movableink.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
Do Your Apps Respect Your Privacy? Probably Not, New Report Says, blogs.wsj.com
Millennials are open to new forms of payment, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Omniplatform is biggest change in mobile this year, says Zappos exec, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
The One-Size-Fits-All Model Doesn’t Apply To Mobile, www.adexchanger.com
Social Media
5 Ways to Overcome Roadblocks to Measuring Social Media, www.vocus.com
7 Research-Backed Tips on Improving Twitter Conversions, blog.crazyegg.com
Can Competitors Negatively Influence Your Facebook Ads With New Changes?, www.thesempost.com
Can Snapchat Really Work for Marketing?, www.marketingprofs.com
Fashion Week, blog.pinterest.com
How happy are our social networks?, econsultancy.com
Should Your Business Be on Instagram?, www.dexmedia.com
The Huffington Post Continues to Dominate Facebook Publishers in Interactions, Shares, allfacebook.com
This is Twitter’s first vision for the Apple Watch era, qz.com
Why does everyone have a beef with Facebook?, econsultancy.com
Video
Earned Media Drives Brand Awareness for Uber on YouTube, www.reelseo.com
Watch These Metrics to Measure YouTube Marketing Success, smallbiztrends.com
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