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:
MTV Uses Twitter Hack To Promote BET Experience Yesterday it was Burger King. Earlier today it was Jeep. And now it’s MTV. It’s a brand marketer’s nightmare – getting your Twitter account hacked. About a half hour ago, the MTV account tweeted “MMM. THIS BURGER TASTES GOOD!!!!!!!!!! #MTVHACK.” MTV is the third major brand account that has been hijacked this week. The account […]
Mobile Email Opens Now 41% & On Pace To Surpass PC By End Of 2013 The number of commercial emails opened on mobile devices is expected to be higher than PC-based emails by the end of the year. That’s according to the latest bi-annual report from the digital marketing agency Knotice, which is based on a sampling of 500 million emails sent in 11 different industry verticals (such as retail, […]
Curalate Adds Instagram Analytics, Expands Beyond Pinterest Curalate has expanded beyond its Pinterest-based roots to offer Instagram-based analytics and marketing tools. In doing so, Curalate says it’s the first company to combine data from both Instagram and Pinterest in a single dashboard. In a news release, Curalate says that 70 percent of social media conversations are using images, making it more important […]
Google’s Stock Price Breaks $800: GOOG All Time High Google’s stock price has broken the $800 barrier this morning for the first time since Google became a public company in 2004 at the IPO price of $85. The 52-week low was $556.52, and just a few months ago, Google became more valuable than Microsoft. Today, Google’s stock is up 1.25% or almost $10. The […]
Content: Six Reasons For Tool Disconnect Do you have what you need to “do” content? If you don’t, you’re hardly alone. We’re in the throes of conducting interviews with dozens of marketers at (mostly) Fortune 500 enterprises about how they are organizing, budgeting and resourcing for content marketing. Ironically, while technology has democratized the creation, production and dissemination of content in […]
Google Shopping: New Revenue Stream Or More Of The Same? The ad community loves free products, and if those products are effective at meeting goals, it’s only right to eventually pay for them. That was the thesis of my last column, which looked at the outcry over Google replacing organic shopping results with paid ad units. Now that marketers have concluded this is a worthwhile […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
ChaCha Defeats Google, Bing And Siri In “Answers Quality” Study
4 Under The Radar Keyword Research Sources You Can Use To Find Hidden Gems
Pass Options for SMX West; Sessions, Networking and More in Silicon Valley, March 11-13
Alibaba Creates Aliyun Search Engine To Challenge Baidu, Google In China
Bing Updates Friends’ Photos Search With Windows Tiles Layout & Slideshow View
Burden Of Search UI Innovation Now Falls To Yahoo Veteran Laurie Mann
Google Was Nearly A Site That Allowed Users To Order Pizza Through A Fax Machine
Reddit AMA Reveals Graph Search Has Been In The Works Since Early 2011 & Specs On How It Works
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Glossary of Affiliate Marketing Terms: 40 Common Abbreviations, www.amnavigator.com
Performance marketing: how can the value of the performance industry be communicated to clients?, www.thedrum.com
Q&A: US Affiliate Marketing Expert Sarah Bundy on Best Practices & Major Market Changes, www.affiliates4u.com
Analytics
A PR Dashboard for Google Analytics, cutroni.com
MeasureCamp London – Brainstorming Event Tracking and Custom Variables, www.koozai.com
Yes, You Can Be an Awesome Analytics Ninja, localu.org
Blogs & Blogging
A Guide to Quora Blogs, www.freshegg.com
Quick Ways To Choose Better Guest Post Opportunities With Audience and Social Metrics, Search Engine Journal
Business Issues
Content Marketing
Content Marketing Skills: 50 Things Every Content Marketer Should Know, www.wordstream.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
10 Web Design Cheat Sheets You Can’t Live Without, designreviver.com
3 Long-Form Copywriting Tricks to Test on Your Short Copy Landing Pages, unbounce.com
6 Evil UX Things Companies Do (That Also Happen to Work), abetteruserexperience.com
How To Design Your Website As Effective Marketing Tool, blog.usabilla.com
Making User Friendly Web Sites is an Internet Marketing Strategy, www.internetmarketingninjas.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
Longer Online Videos See More Ads, Higher Completion Rates, eMarketer
Shopzilla Announces a New Display Media Business, Internet Retailer
The NYT is doing something smart by using Twitter trends to target ads, paidContent.org
Email Marketing
Facebook Connect – Aweber Email Opt In, www.marketerinfo.com
How Quibb Keeps Daily Email Open Rates between 50% and 70%, blog.kissmetrics.com
General Internet Marketing
5 Pieces of Online Marketing Data Small Businesses Should Be Aware Of, blogs.constantcontact.com
In 2013, Mobile, Social Lead Shift From Traditional Media to Digital, eMarketer
Other Items
Anonymous Guest Post: How My Go Daddy Account Was Hacked, www.elliotsblog.com
Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less, blogs.smithsonianmag.com
Apple, Mac computers hit by hackers who targeted Facebook, Reuters
China’s Army Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S., New York Times
Security firm releases screen capture video of alleged Chinese military hackers at work, thenextweb.com
Reputation Management
Google+ Local Combats Fake Reviews and Shares Tips for Generating More Raves, www.reviewtrackers.com
Proactive Reputation Management & Link Building via Brand Monitoring, vysibility.com
Social Media #SOS: How Keeping Up With The News Can Help Avoid Brand Disasters, AIM Clear Blog
Social Media
5 ways to boost traffic to your blog with Twitter, www.prdaily.com
Blogging and LinkedIn Up, Facebook Down Among ‘Inc. 500’, screenwerk.com
Burger King Twitter account back up after Monday afternoon hacking; company apologizes, Washington Post
How to Choose the Right Social Media Management System to Scale your Social Media Marketing, www.jeffbullas.com
How to Identify an Online Community for Your Business, SEOmoz
Multiple Twitter Accounts: Do You Need them in Your Social Media Strategy?, blog.bufferapp.com
Reporting on the Oscars: 7 Data-Driven Social Media Insights, blog.ubervu.com
Seven Social Media Conversation Killers, billprettyman.com
Small Business Twitter Strategy: It’s Easier Than You Think, www.chamberofcommerce.com
Stop Trying to Fit in on Facebook and Start Standing Out, soshable.com
The Do’s and Don’ts of Using Vine for Marketing, blog.hubspot.com
Why We Need To Re-Evaluate Social Media, www.business2community.com
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