Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
Thanksgiving Overtook Cyber Monday As Biggest Day For Visits To Retail Sites Feb 2, 2016 by Ginny Marvin Amazon drew in more than one-third of all visits to leading retail sites in December, according to Hitwise.
Hyundai Super Bowl Campaign Brings Two Kinds Of Cute With Talking Bears & Ryan Reynolds Feb 2, 2016 by Amy Gesenhues The two 30-second ads highlight safety features of the carmaker’s new 2017 Elantra model.
WordPress Releases 4.4.2 To Fix Two Security Issues Feb 2, 2016 by Matt McGee Latest version of popular content management system also fixes 17 bugs.
10 Local Link Building Tips For 2016 Feb 2, 2016 by Greg Gifford Building links for local businesses often requires a different strategy from traditional link building. Columnist Greg Gifford offers actionable tips that you can put to use right now.
7 Ways Small Businesses Can Leverage Third-Party Apps for Local Search & Marketing Feb 2, 2016 by Wesley Young Apps consume the majority of mobile media time, but local business apps struggle to compete for attention. Columnist Wesley Young looks at how SMBs can instead use space on the most popular apps to get in front of customers.
Skimlinks Makes Its User-Intent Data Available To DMP Lotame Feb 2, 2016 by Barry Levine The first-party publisher data from affiliate network Skimlinks means that Lotame can add massive info about what users are now interested in buying to its own behavioral and demographic layers.
Deep-Linker URX Expands Into Related Ads/Content “Carousels” Feb 2, 2016 by Barry Levine New mobile content discovery option offers linked “cards” for tickets, songs, merchandise or other content.
What Marketers Can Learn From David Bowie Feb 2, 2016 by Mary Wallace Multi-faceted artist, musician and businessman David Bowie was a true innovator and legend. Columnist Mary Wallace explains what his accomplishments can teach marketers.
The Wonderful World Of One-Click Mobile Buying Feb 2, 2016 by Jason Warnock With mobile buying on the rise, columnist Jason Warnock discusses how to drive your mobile revenue and improve the mobile purchasing experience for consumers.
Survey: 62 Percent Of SMBs Don’t Know Whether Their Marketing Works Feb 2, 2016 by Greg Sterling The top area of digital investment for SMBs continues to be “my website.”
Google Revenues Beat Expectations With $21.3B In Q4 And $75B In 2015 Feb 1, 2016 by Greg Sterling Revenue growth was driven by mobile search acceleration, YouTube and programmatic advertising. Next, Fiber and Verily drove revenue for “other bets.”
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
9 Analytics Keys for for All Business Models, www.webanalyticsworld.net
Blogs & Blogging
The Only WordPress Blog Post Checklist You’ll Ever Need, www.wpexplorer.com
Business Issues
Content Marketing
Convert Your Content Into Slides to Increase Website Traffic, contentmarketinginstitute.com
How to Create Kickass Content for Your Brand’s Audience, www.seerinteractive.com
Conversion Optimization
4 Surprising Sources of A/B Test Pollution, blog.crazyegg.com
How To Communicate A/B Test Results To Stakeholders, conversionxl.com
How To Determine Your Next CRO Test, www.ppchero.com
Why Your Conversions Suck (And How to Fix It), blog.kissmetrics.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
43 Small Business Logo Design Services, smallbiztrends.com
How a template re-design boosted click rates 750%, myemma.com
How to Write Conversationally: 7 Tips to Engage and Delight Your Audience, www.copyblogger.com
E-Commerce
Amazon deliveries are taking longer if you don’t have Prime, Ars Technica
9 Smart Ways to Boost E-commerce Reviews, ignitevisibility.com
Going direct to the world’s online shoppers, www.internetretailer.com
More E-Commerce Brands Are Turning to Television Ads. Is It Money Well Spent?, www.adweek.com
Top 10 omnichannel retail trends for 2016, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
6 ideas to spruce up your email marketing for Valentine’s Day, blogs.constantcontact.com
6 Tips to Improve Email Marketing Deliverability in 2016, multichannelmerchant.com
Baby Steps in Email Automation, www.martechadvisor.com
Email: Break Through the Noise, blog.marketo.com
Gmail Now Has More Than 1B Monthly Active Users, techcrunch.com
How to Re-Engage a Dormant Subscriber List, www.reachmail.net
How to Use Bizarre Holidays to Craft Email Marketing Campaigns, www.goinflow.com
Some retailers prioritize mobile shoppers when designing holiday emails, www.internetretailer.com
Why email is the king of one-to-one marketing, econsultancy.com
General Internet Marketing
10 Stats That Will Make You Rethink Marketing to Millennials, www.wordstream.com
Growth Marketing Through Your Customer Care Team, 3qdigital.com
Influencer Marketing 101 – How to Identify and Track Influencers, www.searchenginepeople.com
Miss This One Thing & B2B Marketers Will Never Demonstrate ROI, www.komarketingassociates.com
What Keeps Marketers Up at Night?, www.emarketer.com
Internet Marketing Industry
MarTech
Target’s Kristi Argyilan finds the emotion in marketing technology, venturebeat.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
Becoming a Mobile Leader in a $600B Market, www.cmswire.com
Fansided Tackles Mobile Monetization, adexchanger.com
Get Moving: How Mobile Web Can Help Your Restaurant, www.verticalresponse.com
How To Increase Retention Using Mobile Marketing, usabilitygeek.com
Mobile’s influence on offline sales continues to grow, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Resurgence of SMS marketing, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Understanding the Context of Local Advertising’s Supply and Demand, streetfightmag.com
Reputation Management
Yelp Consumer Alerts: We Take the Guesswork out of Online Reviews, officialblog.yelp.com
Social Media
28 ‘Grams: Instagram launches serial thriller, 15 seconds at a time, www.cnet.com
4 Examples of an Evergreen Facebook Campaign Trigger, www.jonloomer.com
7 Valentine’s Day Ideas That Will Win The Hearts Of Your Fans, www.jeffbullas.com
Bringing Tweets to more people around the world , www.Twitter.com
Dave Portenoy crashes Twitter HQ, demands verification, Business Insider
Facebook & Twitter make UX changes in fight to stay social, econsultancy.com
Facebook and Twitter Compete for Users Ahead of Super Bowl 50, www.blogherald.com
Facebook Learns To Make Money Where There Isn’t Much, techcrunch.com
Focus on Brand and Audience to Leverage Your LinkedIn Profile’s Referral Power, www.searchinfluence.com
How to Create a Twitter Chat: 4 Success Tips, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
How to Keep Employees from Tweeting Company Secrets, www.cmswire.com
Join Us at F8 – Registration is Now Open!, developers.facebook.com
Nearly Half of Social Media Users Trust Facebook Friends for Financial Advice, www.adweek.com
Snapchat CEO Welcomes Publishers, Shuns Creepy Ads, adexchanger.com
Social Media Authenticity Lessons From Nicki Minaj, www.convinceandconvert.com
Social Media Branding & Brand Examples, www.toprankblog.com
The Ultimate Guide to Facebook Carousel Ads, blog.bufferapp.com
Twitter Starts Taking Its Logged-Out Users Seriously, techcrunch.com
Twitter’s Branded Emojis Come With a Million-Dollar Commitment, www.adweek.com
WhatsApp has a billion users, and it got there way quicker than Gmail did, qz.com
With Facebook Stadium & Twitter Moments, Sports Fans Have the Power, www.adweek.com
Video
Adstream Eyes The US Video Market With Acquisition of Deluxe AdServices, adexchanger.com
Drowning in a $77-Billion Sea: Why Your Mobile App Needs a Demo Explainer Video, www.marketingprofs.com
Fine Bros back down, rescind trademark claim on the word “react”, arstechnica.com
Five Tips For Successful Facebook Live Videos, blog.newswhip.com
How Jason Nash and Klarity Found Creator Success on Vine, www.reelseo.com
How To Turn Millions Of YouTube Subscribers Into An Angry Mob, www.fastcompany.com
Mobile video ads poised to explode, www.luxurydaily.com
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