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:
EFF Launches New Do Not Track Standard With Coalition Of Web Companies New standard works in tandem with privacy software with the aim of preventing sites from tracking users’ internet activity.
Placed’s New Revenue Tracker Monitors Mobile Ad Impact On In-Store Sales A recent survey by xAd indicated that a lack of clear ROI was holding some marketers back from a more aggressive use of mobile advertising and location-based mobile ads in particular.
For Potent Email Campaigns, Timing Is Everything The time of day at which you send out an email can have a huge impact on whether or not your recipients click on it. Columnist Eric Dezendorf helps you figure out how to test and find that sweet spot.
Planning Email For When It’s Seen, Not When It’s Sent Columnist Jose Cebrian envisions a future in which email is truly relevant and acts on the data at the time of open — but to get to that point, you must jump the hurdles along the way.
How To Compel Your Audience To Click: 4 Custom Tools For Vastly Improving Your Sales How do you generate more clicks? Hint: personalization. Columnist Steve Olenski discusses three custom tools that will help you create an irresistible offer and engage your audience.
Facebook Lessens News Feed Impact Of “Hide” Button Clicks By Active Hiders A shift in the way that some “hides” will factor into the News Feed algorithm may affect certain metrics within Facebook Insights.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Blogs & Blogging
10 Tips to Become a Blogging Rockstar and Succeed at Business, smallbiztrends.com
7 Steps to Optimize Your Blog Posts Like a Pro, www.ducttapemarketing.com
How To Decide If You Need Blog Writing Help, pushingsocial.com
Thinking of Quitting Blogging? The Tale of One Blogger Who Did (and What Happened Next!), www.problogger.net
Business Issues
Apple is testing a Siri voicemail transcription service, www.businessinsider.com
German Carmakers Buy Nokia’s Mapping Unit for $3 Billion, New York Times
Intel Doubles Up on Hiring Women and Minorities, blogs.wsj.com
TechGirls Visit Yahoo DC, yahoopolicy.tumblr.com
Content Marketing
16 Irreplaceable Tools For Content Marketers To Make Your Content Unique, www.jeffbullas.com
4 Ways to Build Content Marketing Authority with SlideShare, www.toprankblog.com
7 outreach fails all content marketers should avoid, www.stateofdigital.com
B2B Content Strategies Have Room for Improvement, www.emarketer.com
Interactive content hits a milestone in The Great Content Wars, chiefmartec.com
Produce Great Content with a Small Marketing Budget, www.searchenginejournal.com
The Unstoppable Rise of the Digital Content Creator, www.copyblogger.com
This Business Storytelling Tool Helps You Tell Better Stories, www.annhandley.com
Your Customers Like Long-Form Content Much More Than You Think They Do, www.marketingprofs.com
Conversion Optimization
100+ Essential CRO Terms To Help You Conquer Conversion, vwo.com
Quick Tips to Optimize Your Website’s Landing Page, www.martechadvisor.com
Seven Tips to Optimally Organize Your Pricing Page for Conversions, www.marketingprofs.com
The Science of a Powerful, Clickable Call to Action, blog.crazyegg.com
What’s a Good Conversion Rate?, conversionxl.com
What’s Your Conversion Rate by Channel?, blog.marketo.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
7 UX Principles for Building Higher-Converting Landing Pages, unbounce.com
Testing, Testing… User Testing?, www.ppchero.com
Unleashing Mobile Gesture UX, usabilitygeek.com
What happens when you design your website for users and not for Google?, www.branded3.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
The Death Of The Banner Has Been Greatly Exaggerated, www.cmo.com
Domaining
E-Commerce
5 Name-Your-Price Platforms for Local Merchants, streetfightmag.com
A Random (8-year) Walk in Ecommerce, www.practicalecommerce.com
Amazon Cuts Down On Prime Members Sharing Their Benefits, techcrunch.com
AO.com: The best ecommerce experience available online?, econsultancy.com
Build Your B2B eCommerce Platform Around the People Keeping You in Business, www.internetretailer.com
E-retailers can curb cart abandonment with discounts and fewer hiccups, www.internetretailer.com
How Walmart.com differentiates from Amazon, digiday.com
Snapdeal, One Of India’s Largest E-Commerce Players, Reportedly Gets $500M From Alibaba, Foxconn And SoftBank, techcrunch.com
Email Marketing
3 Tips for Growing Your Email List on Social Media, blogs.constantcontact.com
Email Marketers Must Be Portfolio Managers, adexchanger.com
Holiday and Back-to-School Email Benchmarks, www.marketingprofs.com
Improve Your Email Content With a 7-Minute Workout Routine, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Why the Future of Email Marketing is Hyperlocal, blog.movableink.com
General Internet Marketing
7 Financially Smart Digital Marketing Strategies To Invest A Growing Budget On, www.socialbro.com
If You’re Not Paying Attention to Your Influencers, You’re Burning Money, www.adweek.com
Why cost-per-human should be the new currency in digital advertising, venturebeat.com
Why real-time marketing is critical to the modern brand, econsultancy.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Reputation Institute Launches New Global Reputation Tracker Service, www.prnewswire.com
MarTech
Uber Happy: The Necessity of MarTech Convergence, www.cmswire.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
YourMoji Brings Unique Content Directly to Your Keyboard, www.prnewswire.com
How brands can add consumer value to wearables, digiday.com
Mobile Creative Takes A Village, adexchanger.com
Mobile payments leap forward but fall short on benefits for merchants, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Tablet shipments drop again amid shrinking market demand, www.zdnet.com
The Formula for Efficient Mobile Marketing, www.searchenginejournal.com
Social Media
LinkedIn Starts Building a Syndicated Content Network, recode.net
5 Ways to Take Advantage of Google/Twitter Partnership, blog.kissmetrics.com
A Conversation With Michael Lopp, Pinterest’s Head Of Engineering, techcrunch.com
How Facebook just made mobile lead gen a lot more affordable, 3qdigital.com
How Brands are Adjusting to the Maturing Social Media Market, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
How One Social Campaign Drives Engagement Beyond the Screen, www.convinceandconvert.com
How to Create Facebook Ads That Stand Out Using Power Editor, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
How to Hire a Social Media Manager: The 12 Essential Habits, blog.bufferapp.com
How to Use Twitter’s Vine To Promote Your Business, www.verticalresponse.com
Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+, mashable.com
Is Twitter in Trouble?, blog.similarweb.com
Making the Most of Your Social Content, www.compukol.com
Pinterest: How to Run an Effective Promoted Pins Campaign on a Budget, www.socialmediatoday.com
Pixel Perfect: Image Qualities That Drive Engagement on Instagram, www.marketingprofs.com
Why Negative Social Proof Does More Harm Than You Think, www.convinceandconvert.com
Video
Can Marketers Keep Up with Memes and Trends on Vine?, www.adweek.com
Facebook & Twitter: Video Marketers Need to Treat Them Differently, www.reelseo.com
How Yahoo and AOL measure up in live video news, digiday.com
Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video, medium.com
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