Marketing Day: February 16, 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. Pinterest Drops Skimlinks, Might Try Ads; Says Copyright Issues Not A Significant Issue Yet

Pinterest has stopped using Skimlinks to monetize some of the “pins” that its users were publishing on the site and, in other news, the company also says that copyright issues haven’t been a “significent issue” to date. Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann has been making the rounds a bit this week (“finally,” some would say) and […]

1. 8 Great Ways To Use QR Codes For Marketing

QR (Quick Response) codes are an awesome mobile marketing tool, and are now popping up literally everywhere. Some of the methods of using QR codes today make great sense, like on a business card, so people can scan your info instead of having to type it all in. And then the placement of some QR […]

1. Hands On With msnNOW, Microsoft’s New “Social Trend Breaking” Site

Last night Microsoft announced msnNOW, a service that aggregates content around trending topics. msnNOW allows users to choose what the hottest trends are by showing a share count for each trending topic. Other than the web presence at now.msn.com, users can interact with the msnNOW Facebook app and mobile site. What Is It? One of the […]

1. Report: Some Brands Will Get Facebook’s Timeline This Month

Some U.S. companies with Facebook pages will be able to use Facebook’s new Timeline interface at the end of this month, according to a new report. Ad Age is reporting that Facebook will launch Timeline for brands/business pages during its fMC conference in New York City on February 29th. FMC is Facebook’s first event geared […]

1. Google+ Suggested Users Get 10,000 New Followers Per Day, But Are They Real?

Two NBA teams with Google+ brand pages are adding about 10,000 new followers/circlers per day since being added to Google’s official suggested users list. The suggested users list is shown to new Google+ users during the sign-up process, and can also be seen by existing users at this URL: plus.google.com/getstarted/follow. At the moment, Google suggests […]

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

1. Search Engine Land’s SMX West Conference Comes to San Jose, CA in Less Than Two Weeks – Register Today!

2. Google Showing Fewer Than 10 Results For Some Searches?

3. How To Get A 10x Lift In Monthly Unique Visitors

4. An Inside Look At How Yahoo! Handles Olympic Games Marketing

5. Everything You Need To Know About SEO Web Structure & Internal Links

6. Microsoft Security Patch Marked Google.com As Malware

7. Blekko Testing Search Ads

8. Report: 52 Pct Of Local-Mobile Search Clicks Turned Into Calls

Online Marketing News From Around The Web:

Affiliate Marketing

1. Should Affiliate Managers Worry About Pinterest?, www.hasoffers.com

Blogs & Blogging

1. Variety: The Spice of Life, and Your Blog, Small Business SEM

Business Issues

1. The $600 Million Social Life Of Foursquare Founder Dennis Crowley, www.businessinsider.com

2. Gnip Is First Authorized Reseller of Historic Twitter Data, allthingsd.com

3. Opera Acquires Two Mobile Advertising Firms, www.eweek.com

4. Pinterest’s Rite of Web Passage—Huge Traffic, No Revenue, Wall Street Journal

Content Marketing

1. Beyond Tools, Marketers Must Focus on Content (Altimeter Report), www.web-strategist.com

2. Brands As Publishers, www.omnlondon.com

3. Good to Great Content Marketing – 6 Differences That Separate the Best, blog.junta42.com

Conversion Optimization

1. Authority + Trust = Conversions, BruceClay.com

2. Site conversion strategy, www.smartinsights.com

Copywriting, Design & Usability

1. Are You Making These 7 Mistakes with Your About Page?, www.copyblogger.com

Display & Contextual Advertising

1. Moving Beyond Paid Search, www.retargeter.com

Email Marketing

1. Email Summit: Integrating mobile, social and email marketing channels, MarketingSherpa

2. In the Know: Email + Mobile: No More Excuses: Get Started Optimizing for Mobile, www.returnpath.net

Internet Marketing Industry

1. 10 Internet Marketing Experts to Follow on Twitter, www.portent.com

2. The 2012 Facebook Advertiser’s Survey, socialfresh.com

Mobile Marketing

1. Local Ads Preferred Among Mobile Audiences, networkedblogs.com

Social Media

1. Elections, The Olympics and the End of the World: What’s Next for Social Video, Marketing Pilgrim

2. Pinterest keeps and engages members better than Twitter, data shows (exclusive), VentureBeat

3. ‘Pinning’ Has to Become Bigger Than ‘Liking’, Read/Write Web

4. 5 Ways to Get Your Entire Company On Board With Social Media, www.socialmediaexaminer.com

5. Built-in Flickr photo sharing coming to Mac OS this summer!, Flickr Blog

6. Commentary: Five key secrets of social loyalty, www.fastcasual.com

7. Early Success Stories: Timeline Apps and Open Graph – Facebook Developers, developers.facebook.com

8. Facebook Launches Verified Accounts and Pseudonyms, TechCrunch

9. For social sharing, Apple turns to Twitter again, gigaom.com

10. New version of Twitter, now on for everyone, Official Twitter Blog

11. Promote Your Google+ Profile on YouTube, thenextweb.com