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:
Pinterest is quietly earning affiliate commission off of some images that its users “pin” on the site and, while some users are getting vocal about the practice, the company whose technology makes it possible says it’s not a big deal. That company is Skimlinks, and in a blog post today, co-founder Alicia Navarro calls what […]
On October 28, 1939, an auctioneer sold off the entire company-owned village of Chichester, located in upstate New York: each and every house; factory building; the old social hall; and even the two-roomed schoolhouse. Seventy years later, this small hamlet isn’t unlike most other small rural communities. The grocery store exists only in the distant […]
To understand how Google became the world’s most popular search engine, think of it as a giant vote counting machine. That’s why there’s so much attention these days on Google’s competition with Twitter and Facebook. They’re the new, popular ways that people are voting for things they like, casting ballots that Google can’t easily count. […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Survey: People Largely Negative About Google’s Personalized Search Results
adCenter Releases Features Aimed At Improving Advertiser Time-Efficiency
Google Screenwise: New Program Pays You To Give Up Privacy & Surf The Web With Chrome
Wolfram|Alpha Goes Pro With Powerful Data Analysis & Presentation Tools
Google Clarifies: No, Ads Shouldn’t Help Rankings & No, SEO Isn’t Bad
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Landing Page Optimization Requires A/B Split Testing, www.affiliatemanagementdays.com
Submit Your Affiliate Summit East 2012 Speaking Proposal, blog.affiliatetip.com
ValueClick Announces Fourth Quarter 2011 Results, ir.valueclick.com
Analytics
Google Analytics has learned 9 new languages, Google Analytics Blog
Let’s Stay Together: Merging AdWords & Analytics Reporting, PPC Hero
Blogs & Blogging
3 Simple Ways To Make Your Blog an Unforgettable Resource, contently.com
67 Blog Ideas: Blog Topics to Help You Create Content, www.highrankings.com
Business Issues
Facebook: The Last Great Company of the Desktop Age, Playing Catch-Up in a Mobile World, www.wired.com
Google, Cisco top the list of the greenest IT companies, GigaOM
Groupon Announces Fourth Quarter 2011 Results, investor.groupon.com
Q&A: Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley on What He’s Learning From Twitter and What’s Next, Read/Write Web
We are sorry., blog.path.com
Yammer Closing Monster $50M+ Funding Round Imminently, pandodaily.com
Content Marketing
Content Marketing – Show Me The Money, Heidi Cohen
The Time For Content Marketing Is Now, www.distilled.net
Conversion Optimization
Five Landing Page Must Haves (with Examples)!, www.trada.com
Why the iPad, Flash, Adobe Products and User Agent Detection Really Do Matter, www.wolf-howl.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
3 More Alternatives to CAPTCHA, www.getelastic.com
Copywriting Tips that Improve Flow & Conversions, www.marketingwords.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
Top five policy resources to know, Inside AdSense
Internet Marketing Industry
GigaOm Acquires PaidContent, TechCrunch
Local Marketing
Finding places on the go has never been easier – check out the new Explore for your phone!, blog.foursquare.com
Google Places Updates Quality Guidelines on the Use of PO Boxes, Mike Blumenthal
Lots of National Advertisers are Ignoring Basic Local Search Tactics, Small Business SEM
Mobile Marketing
FTC issues warning to marketers about certain mobile apps, www.zdnet.com
AdMob auction enhancements, googlemobileads.blogspot.com
Analysis: Kindle Fire Conversion Rate Worse for Advertisers than iPhone, www.rimmkaufman.com
Other Items
EPIC Sues Federal Trade Commission to Enforce Google Consent Order, epic.org
Faster browsing, safer downloading, chrome.blogspot.com
Tweetbot 2.0: The Best iPhone Twitter Client Just Got Even Better, siliconfilter.com
Reputation Management
The Biggest Reputation Truth Susan G. Komen Overlooked, www.trackur.com
Search Marketing
5 ‘Moneyball’ Tips for Search Marketers from Billy Beane, searchenginewatch.com
Measure or die; breaking the black art perception, searchnewscentral.com
The “New” SEO Secret Weapon, www.copyblogger.com
Social Media
5 Marketing Tips from the Social Commerce Summit, Marketing Pilgrim
Flickr Shuts Off Access To Snapjoy’s Flickraft, thenextweb.com
Oregon Law Targeting Twitter Mobs Defeated by Twitter Mob, www.betabeat.com
Pinterest Hits 10 Million Monthly Uniques Faster Than Any Standalone Site Ever, TechCrunch
SMM – The Many Ways Virtual Communities Impact Our World Offline, www.bruceclay.com
14 Brands on Pinterest, www.practicalecommerce.com
Ask Him What NOT to Do: Woody Harrelson’s Social Media Smackdown, BruceClay.com
Does ‘Liking’ a Brand Drive User Loyalty?, www.emarketer.com
Facebook rolls out new photo viewer, similar to Google+, www.zdnet.com
How To Optimize Your Facebook Shop For Valentines Day, www.allfacebook.com
Lady Gaga’s New Social Network Resembles Pinterest, Reddit [PICS], mashable.com
Remember iLike? The Social Music Network Officially Died Today, www.hypebot.com
Were Turntable.fm and "Group Listening" Just a Summertime Fad?, Read/Write Web
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