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:
Moments ago at its fMC marketing event, Facebook confirmed plans to add realtime data to Facebook Insights. During one of the breakout sessions, Facebook staff said, “in the coming weeks, Realtime Insights will be available to all users.” The comments were made in conjunction with a pesentation slide discussing the benefits of brands being able […]
For the first time, Facebook is making it possible for advertisers to reach the site’s enormous base of mobile users. Speaking today at Facebook’s first fMC marketing event, Mike Hoefflinger, Director of Global Business Marketing, announced that Premium Ads and Sponsored Stories now include distribution on mobile devices. They’ll also show for the first time […]
Google has released a new video of a behind the scenes of the Google Doodle team as a way to promote the 5th annual Google 4 Doodle competition. The video takes you through how Google doodles are created and gives some inspiration for competitors on how they can make their Google Doodle. Here is the […]
Today Facebook rolled out a new version of pages that look much closer to profiles thanks to the addition of Timeline. As reported, this release coincides with the Facebook Marketing Conference (fMC) occurring today in New York. The new look Pages have much bolder and visually appealing look: Some of the highlights of the new pages give admins the ability […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Optimizing Search Engine Marketing For Seasonal Opportunities
The Conversion Chain In Paid Search: Beyond Traditional Key Performance Indicators
Beef Up B2B Publications With Rockstar Industry Conference Coverage
How To Creatively & Effectively Build Links Using Public Data
New comScore Study Suggests 50 Percent Of Local-Mobile Search Happening In Apps
msnNOW Is Driving More Traffic To Bing, But Is It Artifically Inflating Searches?
“Spreading Santorum” Drops At Google; New Site Keeps Anal Sex Definition At Number One
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Georgia Affiliates Are Screwed, www.internetmarketinggorilla.com
Affiliate Marketing: Segmenting Your Affiliates, Part 2, www.practicalecommerce.com
Major Online Forums Hacked by Affiliate Cookie-Stuffers, www.amnavigator.com
Analytics
Understanding Google Analytics Time Calculations, cutroni.com
Blogs & Blogging
How To Make Money From Your Blog, www.ricardobueno.com
Business Issues
Vocus Buys Email Marketing Company iContact For $169 Million, TechCrunch
Another Day, Another AOL Exit, allthingsd.com
Foursquare Is Doing Big Things, So Existing Investor Spark Capital Buys $50M Of Employee Stock, TechCrunch
Google Grows in New York City, Wall Street Journal
Google once considered issuing currency, www.itworld.com
Conversion Optimization
7 Free or Low Cost Tools to Improve Landing Page Conversion Rates, searchenginewatch.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Creating A Useful 404 Page For Your Site, Small Business Trends
Design Gallery sites to submit your web, 200 best!, www.webdesignshock.com
General Internet Marketing
Best practices for e-commerce consumer surveys: part one, econsultancy.com
Local Marketing
15 Miles and Localeze release New Data on Mobile, Social, Local Search, blog.kelseygroup.com
Here’s What Facebook’s Timeline Looks Like for a Local Business, Small Business SEM
Mobile Marketing
New App Stats for Publishers on Android Market, android-developers.blogspot.com
Other Items
I’m Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web, www.theatlantic.com
Introducing Windows 8 Consumer Preview, windowsteamblog.com
Search Marketing
How To Become an SEO (how I did it, and how you can, too!), www.internetmarketingninjas.com
SEO is Just Marketing. Deal With It, www.toprankblog.com
Stop Paying for Stupid Clicks: Negative Keywords for Positive ROI, www.seomoz.org
Social Media
Why Google+ Doesn’t Care If You Never Come Back, TechCrunch
250+ Brands on Pinterest, socialfresh.com
Facebook, social media is growing up for brands, www.chicagobusiness.com
How to Make Facebook’s New Timeline For Pages Work For Your Brand, www.blueglass.com
Industry Reacts To Premium Ads, Sponsored Stories For Mobile And Facebook Timeline Pages, www.allfacebook.com
Social hubs – what are they and why you may need one?, www.smartinsights.com
The Complete Guide to Setting Up the New Facebook Page Design, blog.hubspot.com
Why More Brands Should Copy the New York Times’ Facebook Timeline, techland.time.com
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