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:
Even with the lean-back nature of online video, it can be a great channel for branding a product or service in the minds of relevant video viewers. But, marketers typically have both branding and direct response goals. Online video can achieve both – compelling viewers to lean-forward and engage. In today’s digital video landscape we […]
Google announced that the number of content removal requests submitted by governments have spiked in the first half of the year. From January through June 2012, there were there were 1,791 requests from government officials around the world to remove 17,746 pieces of content, almost double the previous six-month period. Here is the chart showing […]
Twenty years ago, Alec Baldwin delivered one of the most powerful scenes in movie history when he told Jack Lemmon to “Put… that coffee… down!” and went on to explain why coffee was only for closers (and a whole lot more). If you haven’t seen Glengarry Glenn Ross, Alec Baldwin’s scene (which was written especially […]
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Yesterday an exciting new ‘Popcorn’ based project was released at the Mozilla Festival. Popcorn is a video editing & hacking project from Mozilla that allows developers to integrate the web into their videos with dynamic interactivity and information. Yesterday the product ‘Popcorn Maker,‘ a 100% web-based video editing platform, was announced. With Popcorn Maker, users can […]
In April, Google+ launched the popular feature “Hot On Google+” that allowed users to see popular content from around the community. Late last month, the “hot” articles began to display as “Hot And Recommended.” “What’s Hot and Recommended” could be a valuable tool if leveraged properly. A user’ +1′s, +’s and share footprint should provide a solid base for […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
14 Online Marketing Tips – Avinash Kaushik #SESCHI, toprankblog.com
Google Analytics for Business: The Ultimate Guide, www.ahaingroup.com
Blogs & Blogging
WordPress 3.5 Beta 3, wordpress.org
Business Issues
DataSift Raises $15M To Help Businesses Mine And Analyze Social Data, TechCrunch
Facebook insiders could sell 773 million shares Wednesday, news.cnet.com
Microsoft Announces Leadership Changes to Drive Next Wave of Products, microsoft.com
Starbucks, Amazon and Google accused of being ‘immoral’, Telegraph
Twitter Adds Ex-Googler And First Amendment Vet to Its Legal Team, All Things D
Zynga’s CFO Leaves For Facebook, Business Insider
Conversion Optimization
5 Main User Experience Barriers To Sales Conversion And How To Overcome Them, usabilitygeek.com
Customer Relationships – Humanizing the Web With Personalization 2.0: Three Tips to Get Started, MarketingProfs Article
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Simple Tips On How To Build A Good Landing Page, designrfix.com
General Internet Marketing
Other Items
Search Marketing
A Week in the Life of 3 Keywords, SEOmoz
Benchmarking PPC in your Industry for the Holiday Season, www.ppchero.com
Getting Your Paid Search Program Ready for Holiday 2012, RKG Blog
How to Add Reviews to Your Site Using Schema Structured Data Markup, searchenginewatch.com
PPC Textgasm, PPC Associates Blog
Social Media
When Is My Tweet’s Prime of Life? (A brief statistical interlude.), www.seomoz.org
10 reasons your Facebook page isn’t taking off, www.ragan.com
25 Quirky Social Media Tips That You Probably Don’t Know, www.simplyzesty.com
Best Social Media Management Tools for Small Business Owners, www.businessesgrow.com
Facebook test makes comments on page posts more like web plugin, including in-line replies and ranking algorithm, Inside Facebook
False Posts on Facebook Undermine Its Credibility, New York Times
Getting Answers Faster, www.quora.com
How social data is changing the way we do business, www.zdnet.com
The Future of Social Media: 50+ Experts Share Their 2013 Predictions, blogs.sap.com
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