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:
E-commerce Sales Up 8% In January, With 20% Of Mobile Orders Happening On An Android Marketing analytics firm Custora says US e-commerce sales were up eight percent this January over January 2013. While combined offline and online transactions were down 0.4 percent last month compared to a year ago, Custora claims January was a strong month for e-commerce, with a 6 percent increase in traffic to e-commerce stores. Based on […]
The Inside Scoop From An Ad Agency Search Pro: 5 Questions With Lowe Campbell Ewald’s SEO Manager The world of ad agencies has come a long way since Mad Men’s Don Draper was running things. To be considered a full service agency today, social and search teams are now integral to an agency’s overall offerings. Hillary Glaser serves as Lowe Campbell Ewald’s SEO Manager, an ad agency that defines itself as a, […]
Mentors, Colleagues & New Friends: You’ll Make Invaluable Connections At SMX West We’ve already highlighted the exceptional content and highly qualified presenters at SMX West. But there’s another aspect of the show that is just as important and valuable – networking. And with well over 1000 companies sending delegates (so far), there are lots of people to network with! Keep reading to learn more about the networking […]
The Slipperiest Search Campaign Ever There are a lot slick opportunities out there in search marketing. The wheels of progress have never been greasier. Yep, since people first started paying to be included in search results, a lot of smooth transactions have taken place. Yet, for a whole lot of good reasons, search lacks certain criteria for brand building. Over […]
Content Strategy Gets Tactical: Establishing The Content Workflow Content strategy — creating repeatable processes to govern content marketing and make it accountable to measurable goals — has many components. Your first steps in putting together a content strategy include determining the goals, developing personas, analyzing content needs, and designating someone to serve in an editorial leadership capacity. From there, you’ll want to establish […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Search Marketing Expo – SMX West, March 11-13 In San Jose, CA. Register Now!
Delivering On Search: Behind The Scenes With An Ad Agency SEO Manager
Bing Adds Three New Apps For Windows Phones: Travel, Food & Drink and Health & Fitness
Google Testing More Ads On Knowledge Graph Panels: Google Play Gets The Spotlight
Out Of Beta: Google Shopping Campaigns For PLAs Now Available Globally
Mentors, Colleagues & New Friends: You’ll Make Invaluable Connections At SMX West
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Analytics
Google Tag Manager Disaster Recovery Guide, Luna Metrics
How to Get Your Keyword Data from Google Analytics Part 2: Landing Page Report & Geo Summary Report, KISS Metrics
Universal Analytics: The Benefits and How to Upgrade, www.seerinteractive.com
Blogs & Blogging
5 SEO Tips for Bloggers, www.jeffbullas.com
6 WordPress Plugins That Ensure Your Posts Look Good When Shared on Social Media, Social Media Examiner
Aesop Story Engine Now Available On WordPress.org, wptavern.com
How One Blog Post Generated $2 Million Sales, Heidi Cohen
Business Issues
Apple Manager Mystique Tempts Google in Search for Talent, Bloomberg
Facebook Home isn’t dead yet & more surprises from engineering director Jocelyn Goldfein, VentureBeat
Google to ink massive lease deal with Related, nypost.com
Google To Take Over San Francisco Space For Engineers Who Don’t Want To Commute To Silicon Valley, Business Insider
Meet The Woman Behind One Of Facebook’s Fastest-Growing And Most Lucrative New Businesses, www.buzzfeed.com
Content Marketing
Content Marketing With Real-World Events: Pros, Cons, Examples and Best Practices, Online Marketing Blog
Ten reasons why brands should be investing more in content marketing this year, www.thedrum.com
Why Getting Recognition for Your Content Marketing Is so Critical, Content Marketing Institute
Copywriting, Design & Usability
4 Ways Bad UX is Hurting your SEO, usabilitygeek.com
7 Tips for Writing Effective Short Copy, Crazy Egg
A Great Website Gives Visitors What They Came For, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
A Type Design Brief: What Is In It, And Why Does It Matter?, Smashing Magazine
Usability Tip: No Dead-Ends, Please, uxmag.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
Domaining
JD.com: Was it Acquired for $5 Million USD?, DomainInvesting.com
Sedo sold $70.5 million worth of domain domains last year, 53% were .com, Domain Name Wire
E-Commerce
New Ecommerce Platform Claims Better Performance, Development, Practical E-Commerce
Personalization bumps up Lenovo’s web site conversions by more than 40%, Internet Retailer
Email Marketing
5 Questions Nonprofits Should Ask Before Sending Their Email Newsletter, blogs.constantcontact.com
General Internet Marketing
Defining the Customer Experience: The Rise of the CXO, Part 1, Silverpop
Why most marketing campaigns fail and how yours can succeed, Web Analytics World
Internet Marketing Industry
Mobile/Local Marketing
3 Key Trends That Are Transforming Local Online Marketing, streetfightmag.com
Kochava unveils updated mobile app attribution platform, www.insidemobileapps.com
Other Items
Power to the people: Introducing better ways to compose mail and view contacts, yahoomail.tumblr.com
Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis? , news.idg.no
Social Media
Brands Embrace Facebook ‘Look Back’ Parodies, Contently
Facebook Testing ‘Subscribe On YouTube’ Links?, All Facebook
How Converse uses social media: Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, Vine, Instagram and Twitter, eConsultancy
Reality check: No, Upworthy’s traffic didn’t get crushed by Facebook’s algorithm change, gigaom.com
Secret revealed: inside the most scandalous social network, The Verge
Twitter For Ecommerce: How To Gain Followers And Make Money, www.koozai.com
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