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:
Having suffered through technical problems, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) now says it’s planning to re-open the top-level domain (TLD) application system on May 22 and leave it open for five business days. That would make May 30 the last day for interested parties to apply for their own “dot anything” […]
Bing’s Search Summit is today at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT and we will be live blogging the details from the event here. It’s focused around the relaunch of Bing, which you can read about in detail on our sister-site, Search Engine Land, here: The New Bing: Microsoft Tries Again With Search Meets Social. Qi Lu […]
In the marketing game, numbers are crucial. I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. There’s a reason why MarketingLand has a whole area designated for analytics. If you’re a website owner or marketer, chances are you spend a lot of time looking at Google Analytics for your website. Do you give your mobile site […]
Yesterday marked the half-birthday for Google+ brand pages. In honor of this anniversary, social analytics company, Simply Measured, released a report focusing in on Google+ brand page adoption and engagement since inception. The Interbrand 100 were used in measuring all the statistics for the study. One constant across all of the data is growth. The number of circlers […]
AddThis, a provider of social sharing buttons, says it now has more than 14 million domains in its publisher network and reaches more than 1.3 billion web users per month. For comparison, ShareThis says it has 1.3 million publishers in its network and Shareaholic says it has more than 200,000 websites using its tools. AddThis’ […]
Facebook apps are are getting a new centralized, mobile-friendly destination for users. The App Center has been officialy announced as the new home for all social apps. Apps can be easily viewed, sorted, search, reviewed and previewed: Not only does the App Center look slicker, it will have a variety of benefits for users and […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
a4uexpo Europe 2012 – Performance Marketing Agenda Announced, www.affiliates4u.com
Voting is officially open for the Golden Link Awards!, blog.linkshare.com
Analytics
Social Analytics Formulas to Use for ROI Reports, Social Media Today
89% of UK consumers think the EU cookie law is a positive step, but is it?, econsultancy.com
Attribution Modeling Without Google Analytics Premium, www.lunametrics.com
Reminder: Migrate to the new Core Reporting API, Google Analytics Blog
Blogs & Blogging
5 Bad Pieces of Legal Advice Bloggers Get Regularly, Performancing.com
5 Things You Need to Know About Shareaholic’s WordPress Update, blog.shareaholic.com
Successful Blogging is Not About Becoming a Superstar, seo2.0.onreact.com
Utilizing Guest Bloggers for your Blog – an SEO’s Advice, www.lunametrics.com
What Makes a Blog Post Low Quality?, www.seo-theory.com
Business Issues
Facebook and Yahoo: A Tale of Two Internet Pioneers, Bloomberg
Court directs Google to take down blog against cult leader, www.zdnet.com
Drawbridge Comes Out of Stealth With $6.5m in Funding and a Solution to the World’s Mobile Ad Problems, pandodaily.com
Facebook Says, Lower Your Expectations About Mobile, New York Times
Hot Analytics Start-Up Mixpanel Raises $10.25M Led by Andreessen Horowitz, allthingsd.com
Microsoft Accused of Hindering Firefox Browser, Wall Street Journal
Norway! Yes Way!, Yelp Official Blog
Twitter Gambles on a Patent Plan, Wall Street Journal
Content Marketing
6 Steps for Writing Content Your Audience Wants to Read, www.blueglass.com
Shut Up About Yourself, www.johnfdoherty.com
Conversion Optimization
Using Photos & Images for Conversion Rate Optimization, www.webranking.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
45 Examples Of Websites Designed With HTML5, www.smashingapps.com
7 Basic Best Practices for Buttons, www.uxmatters.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
50 Ecommerce Remarketing Strategies, www.cpcstrategy.com
Domaining
Meet the Meet.me $450,000 domain buyer, www.domainnamenews.com
Benefits of trading in internet domain names, businesstoday.intoday.in
Email Marketing
10 Ways to Optimize Your Enewsletter Landing Page, blog.junta42.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Announcing PushFire (and what it means for the Sugarrae site), www.sugarrae.com
Scamworld: ‘Get rich quick’ schemes mutate into an online monster, www.theverge.com
Three Ways to Be a Better Integrated Marketing Professional, spinsucks.com
You Don’t Have to Lie to Get Ahead, www.forbes.com
Search Marketing
How to hire an SEO company, 2012 edition, www.portent.com
How to Implement the Rel=Author Tag – A Step by Step Guide, www.vervesearch.com
The 6-Step SEO Audit Every Marketer Should Conduct, blog.hubspot.com
Social Media
Ten Effective Uses Social Media at Industry Conferences, socialmediaforsmartpeople.com
How to Prevent Social Media Fatigue, Performancing.com
Pinterest drives more sales than Facebook: stats, econsultancy.com
Report: Facebook Still Dominates Ad Agencies’ Social Media Plans, allfacebook.com
Take the Test: Integrating Creativity with Social Media, community.microsoftadvertising.com
Yelp Check-in Comments, Yelp Official Blog
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