Marketing Day: April 11, 2012

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.

From Marketing Land:

1. About Half Of The Top Blogs Use WordPress, Research Shows

Blogging is a WordPress-dominated world. Close to half of the top 100 blogs are using WordPress as their publishing system. That’s according to new research published today by the folks at Royal Pingdom. Pingdom used the Technorati Top 100 blogs list as its source list and found that 49 of those 100 blogs are running […]

1. Google+ Gets A New Look With Interactive Navigation & “Timeline-esque” Profiles

Big changes are waiting for you the next time you log into your Google+ page. Today Google’s social network launched a total refresh of the look, making images and videos larger and navigation customizable. The design fits very well with the new streamlined Google look and helps to draw more attention to the content that users are […]

1. Please Take Marketing Land’s Audience Survey

We’ve got a special request of our Marketing Land visitors and Marketing Day newsletter readers. Take our 2-minute audience survey! Please? If helping us keep the lights on isn’t enough of an incentive, we’ll include a chance to win a ticket to Search Marketing Expo – SMX Advanced in Seattle June 5-6. SMX Advanced is […]

1. Jon Stewart Takes On Google Glasses & Facebook Buying Instagram

Glasses from Google that let you interact with the world? Facebook paying a billion dollars for Instagram? It’s all left Jon Stewart of The Daily Show perplexed, confused and with plenty of fodder for poking fun. In last night’s episode, the comedian took shots at both developments. Of the Google augmented reality glasses, he led […]

Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:

1. Reports: Google CPCs Continue To Decline And Yahoo/Bing’s Rise While Spend Overall Grows In Q1

2. Remarketing For Conversion: The Long Way Rocks!

3. Four Steps To Building A Powerful SEO Brain Trust

4. comScore: Only Search Engine To See Drop In Queries In March Was Yahoo

5. What Does Big Data Mean To You?

Online Marketing News From Around The Web:

Affiliate Marketing

1. Server Side Tracking Basics, www.hasoffers.com

2. Skimlinks grows traffic 337% with Google Affiliate Network [A Google Case Study], blog.skimlinks.com

Blogs & Blogging

1. What’s Your Blogging Process?, blog.shareist.com

2. Why you should have comments, even when they are bad, GigaOM

3. 10 Ways To Put Old Blog Posts To Good Use, www.b2bbloggers.com

4. Comments are Bad Business for Online Media, animalnewyork.com

5. One CEOs Story On the Benefits of Daily Blogging, contently.com

6. Tumblr updates Android app with a radical new look, VentureBeat

7. What Every First-time Guest Blogger Should Know, lauraleewalker.com

Business Issues

1. Apple, Macmillan, Penguin Sued by U.S. for Price-Fixing, Ad Age

2. Google ‘Plans To Make Substantial Investment’ In Motorola, Not Sell It, www.businessinsider.com

3. Google’s $12 Billion Toy, Wall Street Journal

4. Not Shocking: Google Could Already Be Eyeing a Motorola Hardware Sale, Gizmodo

5. Resistance Is Futile: Why Facebook Acquisitions Tend to Actually Work, pandodaily.com

6. To Pivot Or Not To Pivot: Instagram vs. Pinterest, Read/Write Web

Content Marketing

1. How to be sure content marketing produces sales, econsultancy.com

Copywriting, Design & Usability

1. 35 Beautiful Landing Page Design Examples to Drool Over [With Critiques], unbounce.com

2. 4 Reasons Customers Prefer Your Mobile Web Site, Small Business Trends

3. How to Select the Right CTA for Every Page on Your Site, blog.hubspot.com

Display & Contextual Advertising

1. Adult Females Prime Audience for US Online Video Advertisers, www.emarketer.com

2. Twitter Ads Earn More Money Per Impression Than Facebook Ads [REPORT], www.mediabistro.com

Email Marketing

1. 7 Reasons Why Email Newsletter Marketing Still Works, emailcritic.com

2. Email marketing: five strategies to drive relevance, econsultancy.com

Internet Marketing Industry

1. 25 Ways To Fail and Come Out on Top, www.conversationagent.com

Local Marketing

1. 6 Online Marketing Problems Local Business Owners Face and How to Fix Them, BruceClay.com

Mobile Marketing

1. Telmetrics Reports Mobile and SMBs Are Driving Pay-Per-Call Growth, blog.kelseygroup.com

Other Items

1. Google Currents goes international, Official Google Mobile Blog

2. Livestand Gets A New Look, ymobileblog.com

3. MPAA: you can infringe copyright just by embedding a video, Ars Technica

Search Marketing

1. Linkpreneurs: the new school of link building, econsultancy.com

Social Media

1. One Facebook Visit Kills Your Ability To Stay Focused, WebProNews

2. 5 Tips for Managing Your Community on Google+, SEOmoz

3. Amazon Begins Including Pinterest Buttons on Product Pages, ryanspoon.com

4. Buffer Partners with Tweriod To Help You Find the Best Time of Day to Tweet, socialtimes.com

5. Facebook acquires photo-sharing network Instagram, www.experian.com

6. Google Plus Business Page Cover Photo Size, www.cypressnorth.com

7. How to Prevent a Data Security Breach from Wrecking Your Online Reputation, www.trackur.com

8. Pinterest Rolls Out Vimeo Integration For More Video Pinning Pleasure, TechCrunch

9. Product Change: Redesigned Site Header, Quora

10. Spotify "Play Button" Adds Songs To Sites Beyond Facebook, AllThingsD

11. TripAdvisor Upgrades Again For Facebook Social Graph, allfacebook.com