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:
Twitter Tests Desktop Trends Box That Displays Details About Each Trend The trends box on Twitter’s desktop site is very spartan — a list of 10 topics and hashtags displayed without context and tucked inconspicuously into either the right or left rail. It’s likely many users overlook the feature, making it a missed opportunity for Twitter as it attempts to make its platform more engaging and […]
Think Breadcrumb Links Aren’t Good For User Experience? Yes, They Are! Web designers and UX professionals have long butted heads on this issue. Can they find a common ground? Columnist Shari Thurow weighs in.
Pay Per What? Choosing Pricing Models In Digital Advertising How to determine which of the many different digital advertising pricing models makes the most sense for your business.
Google Brings Analytics To Chrome Toolbar For AdSense And Other Google Publishers Google publishers using the Google Publisher Toolbar can now see Google Analytics data directly in the toolbar. The toolbar is available for those using AdSense, Ad Exchange or DoubleClick for Publishers. Rather than having to open Google Analytics separately, the Toolbar window provides analytics about that page, including visitors, pageviews, bounce rate and average time […]
Google’s Head Of Ads On Video And YouTube’s Rising Influence, Enhanced Campaigns, CPCs, More This week, AdAge has an interview with the head of Google ads, Sridhar Ramaswamy, that is worth reading in its entirety. It’s the first interview Google’s senior VP of advertising and commerce has given since taking over the role he once shared with Susan Wojcicki, now YouTube’s CEO, in February. An eleven year veteran of […]
Toyota Mobile Ads Showcase Future Uses Of Location There are many uses of location in mobile advertising. Increasingly, however, location is being used in the background to identify and qualify audiences and to do behavioral targeting or retargeting. Those tactics are often combined with geofencing for a multi-layered approach to mobile targeting. One representative illustration of this is a current campaign for Toyota created by Opera Mediaworks and agency Saatchi & […]
Facebook Adds Ability To Advertise Events In News Feed More than 400 million people interact with Facebook events every month, the social network says. And today, the company announced that it’s giving Page owners another avenue to reach those people. Facebook has enabled ads for events to be placed in mobile and desktop News Feeds. Previously, event ads only were available for display in […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Google Dorking: It’s All Fun & Games Until The Hackers Show Up
Google Allows Store-Exclusive “Nearby” Product Listing Ads On Desktop
Search In Pics: Google Coffee Lab, Android Ice Bucket Challenge & Public Urination Fines Via YouTube
Live @ SMX East: Breathing New Life Into A Tired Paid Search Campaign
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
Chartbeat’s Campaign IQ Dashboard Offers A Less Wonky Way To Measure Ads, techcrunch.com
Social analytics improve, paving way for bigger marketing budgets, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Blogs & Blogging
Blog Inspiration To Fill Your September Editorial Calendar, heidicohen.com
Is Your WordPress Site Fast Enough? Here’s How to Tell, www.wpexplorer.com
You’re Writing Blogs, But Are You Reading Them? [3 Reasons You Should], www.lyntonweb.com
Business Issues
Content Marketing
3 Content Creation Strategies That Will Help You Prosper, www.quicksprout.com
5 Steps for Getting Sales and Marketing Alignment through Content, www.thesaleslion.com
7 Content Marketing Lessons From Red Bull Media House, relevance.com
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Content Strategy, contently.com
Tricks That Will Bring Treats to Your Content Marketing Toolkit, contentmarketinginstitute.com
Using Twitter and Pinterest analytics to build engaging content strategies, econsultancy.com
What Great Content Marketing and Football Fandom Have in Common, contently.com
Why You Don’t Have to Write 2,000-Word Articles, blog.kissmetrics.com
Conversion Optimization
11 Ideas for Conversions You Can Dare to Apply, www.searchenginejournal.com
5 Top Tools to Optimize Conversions and ROI |, www.pammarketingnut.com
Conversion Optimization on a Shoestring Budget, blog.crazyegg.com
Domaining
.club first new gTLD to sell 100,000 domains, domainincite.com
4 Super Stealth Moves To Secure Valuable Domain Names For Cheap, www.blogtrepreneur.com
Holiday.com Hitting The Auction Block & Experts Predict It To Sell For More Than $30 Million, www.thedomains.com
E-Commerce
4 Alternative Social Sites for Ecommerce Merchants, www.practicalecommerce.com
Brands: Consumers Don’t Want to Be Your BFF, adage.com
The Next Phase Of Commerce Is Amazon Vs Google, www.adexchanger.com
There’s more work to be done on personalization, www.internetretailer.com
Uncovering the secret to B2B e-commerce, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
5 reasons why you absolutely must be collecting email addresses, www.attacat.co.uk
Seven Tips to Increase Your Email Deliverability, www.marketingprofs.com
What Is Email Marketing? Here’s What You Need to Know, www.leapfroggr.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Internet Marketing Well Represented on the Inc. 5000, www.dexmedia.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
Brands are missing a mobile opportunity with seniors, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Developing a Roadmap to Advance Enterprise Mobility, online.wsj.com
Five retailers are among the top 25 most visited mobile apps, www.internetretailer.com
Understanding and serving shoppers on smartphones, www.internetretailer.com
When Do You Check Your Smartphone?, www.emarketer.com
Social Media
10 Tumblr accounts to inspire your own social media strategy, econsultancy.com
Beginner’s Guide To Direct Messages On Twitter, www.socialbro.com
Can a CEO or star employee boost your Facebook engagement?, www.insidefacebook.com
Can your LinkedIn company page replace your corporate website?, econsultancy.com
Facebook Adds Grid Tool to Ads Manager to Determine If Ads Violate 20 Percent Text Rule, allfacebook.com
Facebook responds to Pew study on social self-censorship, www.insidefacebook.com
Facebook Testing Searching of Friends’ Older Posts by Keywords in Its Mobile Apps, allfacebook.com
How to Figure Out Your Facebook Audience, www.dexmedia.com
Is Visual Content the Future of Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC], www.mediabistro.com
The Magic Behind Your Facebook Like Button, www.searchenginejournal.com
Twitter “Happy” for Users Not to Tweet, www.mediabistro.com
Twitter Plans Office in Social Media-Crazy Indonesia, The Next Web
Using Testing to Improve your Social Media Marketing, www.convinceandconvert.com
What LinkedIn’s Big Bet on Content Means for B2B Marketers, relevance.com
Why choosing a Facebook and Twitter approved partner matters, www.conversocial.com
Video
How to Make Social Video Work for Your Brand [INFOGRAPHIC], www.mediabistro.com
Looking for a college-bound influencer? Look on YouTube, www.marketingpilgrim.com
Video Has Earned its Place in the Customer Journey, www.reelseo.com
Vine: Short Videos and What Marketers Need to Know, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
YouTube: Hollywood’s Hit Factory for Teen Entertainment, www.businessweek.com
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