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:
Why Your Facebook Page’s Like Total Will Probably Fall Facebook is removing likes from inactive and memorialized accounts from Pages’ counts .
Twitter Gives Advertisers Access To More Than 1,000 Big Data Target Audiences With “partner audiences” provided by Acxiom and Datalogix, advertisers can take aim at Twitter users who have signaled purchase intent off the social network.
14 Tips To Incorporate Social Media Into Event Marketing Does your company have a presence at an upcoming trade show or similar event? If so, columnist Timothy Carter has tips for maximizing your event marketing with social media.
Everything’s Bigger In Texas: Sampling & Google Analytics Reports Sites that generate high traffic numbers often use sampling to save on processing time, but columnist Brian Massey notes it’s important to know if your sample is statistically significant.
Expedia Promotes #VanGogh2015 With Free Trips To Holland Using Twitter’s Flock To Unlock The travel company is incentivizing people to tweet and re-tweet for the chance to win a prize.
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
Google Search Now Serving Up Cocktail Recipes With Drink Ingredients & Directions
Bing Listens: New Site Serves As A Suggestion Box For Bing Users
What’s The Most Searched Thing On Google? Turns Out It’s “Google”
Understanding How Your Brand Drives Google Shopping Campaign Traffic
Google: The Mobile-Friendly Ranking Factor Runs In Real-Time & Is On A Page-By-Page Basis
Momofuku Ando Google Logo Marks Instant Noodle Inventor’s 105th Birthday
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing Success Stories: Chris King, The Train Hacker, blog.affiliatewindow.com
Affiliate Program’s Performance is Everybody’s Business!, www.amnavigator.com
Analytics
Blogs & Blogging
5 Psychological Blocks that Stop Bloggers Going from Good to Great, www.problogger.net
Simplifying Your Online Presence with WordPress: Establish a Business, www.wpexplorer.com
What a brand learned from becoming a blogger, econsultancy.com
Business Issues
Content Marketing
6 Rules You Need to Know for Adding User-Generated Content to Your Marketing, blogs.constantcontact.com
Build your Content Marketing around a Hub & Spoke Model, www.verticalmeasures.com
Expert Picks for the Best Content Marketing Tools, smallbiztrends.com
How To Fix 9 Harmful Misconceptions about Content Marketing, contentmarketinginstitute.com
This Is the Most Awful Piece of Sponsored Content I’ve Seen in a Long Time, contently.com
Tips for Successful Content Marketing, www.compukol.com
Conversion Optimization
4 Ways Video Can Boost Your Conversion Rates, blog.crazyegg.com
Do These Landing Page Design Trends Help or Hurt Conversions?, unbounce.com
The Psychological Trigger That’s Confusing Your Customers (and What to Do about It), blog.kissmetrics.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Automating Style Guide-Driven Development, www.smashingmagazine.com
Copywriting Shortcuts: Secrets The Pros Use To Get Done Faster With Better Results, www.marketingwords.com
Designing Animation For Mobile, techcrunch.com
Domaining
Forbes Chats About Google’s New gTLD’s & Mucks It All Up, www.thedomains.com
Google’s Domain Name Land Grab: Consumer Convenience Or Coercive Control Point?, www.forbes.com
Survey: domain name registrars must focus on security and price, domainnamewire.com
You Are Probably Not Going To Be Able To Register That .App Domain You were so keen on, tldinvestors.com
E-Commerce
Card-not-present fraud rates will rise, the only question is when, www.internetretailer.com
Competing on Customer Experience, www.practicalecommerce.com
Cybersecurity: Understand the risks and plug the holes, www.internetretailer.com
Etsy Officially Files To Go Public, Aims To Raise $100M, techcrunch.com
How do 10 top UK retailers present returns information?, econsultancy.com
International consumers want retailers to be flexible, www.internetretailer.com
Email Marketing
6 Ways You Can Increase Email Sign-Ups on Your Website, blog.movableink.com
The Best Triggered Email I Ever Received, blog.returnpath.com
General Internet Marketing
5 Brands Marching to a Different Beat, www.thunderactive.com
5 Tips for Digital Marketing Newbies to Survive and Thrive, www.toprankblog.com
Are Marketers Taking the Internet of Things Seriously?, www.emarketer.com
Quick-Churn or Late-Churn Customers: Which Are More Valuable for Marketers?, www.marketingprofs.com
The Power of Word of Mouth Marketing & How You Can Do It, blog.marketo.com
Internet Marketing Industry
Bill Gedwill, an industry veteran joins Kvantum as VP Business Development, blog.kvantuminc.com
G/O Digital, Altimeter Partner to Support Your Local Marketing, www.cmswire.com
GoDaddy names Chief Customer Officer, new CMO, domainnamewire.com
How CMOs Can Prove Their ROI in the C-Suite, www.marketingprofs.com
Jirafe Announces the Predictive Commerce Intelligence Platform, jirafe.com
Rakuten Marketing Appoints Tony Zito CEO, marketing.rakuten.com
Retale to Launch App for Apple Watch, www.retale.com
Salesforce Launches Marketing Cloud Predictive Decisions, www.prnewswire.com
Mobile/Local Marketing
3 Keys to Driving Mobile App Installs Efficiently, www.adweek.com
A Guide to Mobile Payments, www.adweek.com
Mobile Retail Apps’ Special Role? Price Checkers, www.emarketer.com
Rob Norman on Viewability and Mobile Buying Issues, adage.com
Sephora shapes mobile personalization with tailored, step-by-step experience, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
What the future of mobile data has in store, www.mobilecommercedaily.com
Social Media
11 Words & Phrases to Avoid on Social Media, www.verticalresponse.com
3 Reasons Why Your LinkedIn Invitations Get Ignored, www.jeffbullas.com
5 Pinterest Image Styles That People Love to Share, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
How B-to-B Marketers Can Improve Leads with LinkedIn, adage.com
How B2B Marketers Can Leverage Social Media Product Advertising, www.komarketingassociates.com
How Social Usage Varies Between Men and Women in Canada, www.emarketer.com
How to Manage Social Media for a Multi-Brand Company, simplymeasured.com
How to Prove Your Social Media Impact, www.convinceandconvert.com
LinkedIn and Twitter Struggle to Balance Their Dual Business Model, www.adweek.com
Love across the Twittersphere, www.Twitter.com
New App Index Measures App Usage: Top 15 Social Apps, blog.similarweb.com
Only One-Half of Teens Are Active on Facebook, www.adweek.com
The $1,000 Facebook Guide: How I Advertise to People You Can’t…Yet, www.viperchill.com
Twitter In Talks With Live Streaming App Periscope, techcrunch.com
Yes, Facebook’s Organic Reach Is Terrible, but You’re Crazy if You Delete Your Page, contently.com
Video
Build Better Facebook Videos by Using Insights Data, simplymeasured.com
For MEC North America, The Quest For Online Video Is About Quality, Not Quantity, adexchanger.com
YouTube Channel Strategy: How-to Reach the Right Audience, www.reelseo.com
Video Posts Have the Most Organic Reach on Facebook, www.marketingprofs.com
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