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On March 25, many Google+ brand accounts noticed a big dip in followers displayed on profile pages. In fact, Marketing Land decreased by 20%, even Search Engine Land decreased by 40%. Initially some have thought that this was a “spring cleaning” of spammy Google+ accounts following profiles pages; however, it’s really pulling out the followers […]
If you’re looking to follow all the big brands that are advertising during Super Bowl XLVIII, we’ve got you covered with our latest twitter list, Super Bowl 2014 Advertisers on Twitter. How To Follow This Twitter List Of Super Bowl Advertisers Following this list is easy. Just go to Marketing Land’s Twitter account, click on […]
Happy New Year Marketing Land fans! We kick off 2014 with our last look back at 2013, the most-shared Marketing Land stories on Google+. What was the hottest topic our readers “+1’d” this past year? Just as our Facebook fans prefer to share stories about Facebook, our readers on Google+ like news and stories about Google, […]
Welcome to another installment of our Year In Review series. We have already shared our top news stories and our most tweeted stories; but in 2013, our Facebook sharers like to share news and features about Facebook – such as the changes in the News Feed algorithm, using hashtags, “story bumping,” and ultimately how to […]
Happy Holidays from Marketing Land! From Vine and Instagram video, to Google and Twitter Analytics, there’s a wide range of digital marketing topics that appealled to Marketing Land Tweeters in 2013. Compared to our most-read news stories, you’ll see a few familiar articles, but quite a few new ones as well. Which stories stood out […]
A powerful — and meaningful — site design is more important than ever; it takes less than two-tenths of a second for an online visitor to form an opinion about a brand. Expectations to be entertained and involved by online media are only rising, and one way to captivate an audience is to use parallax […]
LinkedIn took another step toward targeting brands today, announcing the Company Page API and providing marketers more options to manage and measure their Company Page presence on LinkedIn. Some social partners have had access to post to LinkedIn Company pages for over a month now, including Hootsuite, HubSpot, Shoutlet and Percolate, but by opening up […]
Now you can get a fast glimpse of your Tumblr stats right in your dashboard. Tumblr brought back the Activity feature last Thursday, allowing users to view top fans, posts and notifications without using a third-party tool. You can view stats from the past 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days or last month. Beyond a […]
Have you noticed recent changes to LinkedIn? If you have looked beyond checking out Who’s Viewed Your Profile (I know you have) you’ll see they recently updated their navigation. Unless you use the search field at the top, the nice easy navigation to your preferred areas — such as companies and groups — is no […]
Pinterest has been considered a top traffic driver for many sites, most recently showing its marketing clout by launching Pinterest Web Analytics. But, clicking on an image isn’t the slam-dunk traffic driver as it may seem. And, adding a shortened link to the caption of a pin may be stopping potential traffic in its tracks. […]
Have you been having trouble with your LinkedIn company page? There have been two bugs these past few weeks that have impacted the visibility and potential traffic you may be getting from LinkedIn, especially from your company page. Posted Links Pointing To Error Pages The first problem we encountered a few weeks ago was that […]
Wouldn’t it be great to get weekly website performance updates as a simple, easy-to-read graphic? Now you can go beyond the Google Analytics dashboard with a new creative – and free – tool by Visual.ly. The New Google Analytics Report tool automatically delivers an infographic depicting your favorite metrics right to your desktop. Below is a […]
Yesterday, it was Burger King. Earlier today it was Jeep. And now it’s MTV. It’s a brand marketer’s nightmare — getting your Twitter account hacked. About a half hour ago, the MTV account tweeted “MMM. THIS BURGER TASTES GOOD!!!!!!!!!! #MTVHACK.” MTV is the third major brand account that has been hijacked this week. The account […]
Have you noticed a drastic drop in your Google+ brand page +1 numbers? You aren’t alone. This morning while reviewing our social channels, we noticed a 384,000 drop in Search Engine Land’s +1 numbers that appear below the logo. Yesterday, it was over 409,000 – today only 25,000. Luckily, the number of people and pages […]
It’s funny how subjective using social media tools can be from person to person. Every day, I use at least a half dozen tools to post and track social activity online, primarily SocialFlow, Chartbeat, Google Analytics, Tweetdeck, Facebook Insights, Exact Target. On occasion, that toolset grows: Google Webmaster Tools, Simply Measured, PageLever, Followerwonk, Raven Tools, […]
Today is our final round up of our top stories of 2012 with the Marketing Land stories most shared on Facebook. Unlike the top stories shared on Google+ – where our audience clearly preferred Google-related stories – Facebook sharers preferred different kinds of marketing articles, including content marketing, Facebook marketing, using Twitter and other social […]
From the Google Dance, paid inclusion and authorship to Pinterest, content marketing, storytelling, here are the top 20 tweeted stories of 2012. Compared to our most read stories, you’ll see that the list is quite different. 1. How Google Went From Search Engine To Content Destination (735 tweets) 2. Twitter Quietly Launches A User Directory […]
Today we’ve begun wrapping up our top posts of 2012 series here on Marketing Land and our sister site, Search Engine Land. In the next few days we’ll be sharing some of the most popular stories from 2012, including some of the most read, most tweeted and the most liked on Facebook. To get us […]
In case you missed the big announcement on the Today Show yesterday morning, Twitter has updated profiles with a new Timeline-like header photo that will appear across platforms, transitioning the social channel to become more visual and image-centric. How To Update Your Twitter Profile Header There isn’t an obvious “update” on your profile, though, you’ll […]
Photos are said to improve engagement on Facebook, but does that engagement in turn boost traffic or fans? No, our testing found — but there still might be value in using them. Ever since Facebook started displaying Reach data directly on Facebook fan pages, here at Marketing Land and Search Engine Land we have been […]
Pinterest became the social media’s new golden child earlier this year when marketers learned that it drives more web traffic than YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn combined. Yet despite recent studies showing that referral traffic from the channel is decreasing, it’s still a big hitter in the social space. As B2B publishers we haven’t seen the […]
Google+ users can now publicly broadcast from Google+ and YouTube. You’ll also be able to record hangouts and share them after they are over. You would be hard pressed to find a Google+ feature I was more vocal about when brand pages first launch. Hangouts are great for special circles and exclusive content, but not being able […]
We recently launched our Marketing Land and Search Engine Land accounts on Tumblr. We’ve been quietly developing them this month, familiarizing ourselves with the platform in terms of how to post, what to post, who to follow and ultimately defining why we should be there in the first place. If you’ve been thinking the same, perhaps […]
Late last week SEOmoz’s Rand Fishkin and Hubspot’s Dharmesh Shah collaborated to launch a “for fun” Hacker News-like site called Inbound.org. According to the site, “The goal of Inbound.org is to prevent great content from the world of inbound marketing from going unnoticed. There’s an amazing community of bloggers, marketers and enthusiasts passionate about non-paid channels like SEO, social […]
Here at Marketing Land we are a big fan of tracking links. We have a specific UTM codes we use across all of our marketing channels, and have had great results measuring and understanding where our traffic is coming from. (Caveat: Except for LinkedIn, they strip the UTM codes, more on that another day.) We just like […]
When the new Twitter updates were announced last week website owners and publishers were assured: no action was needed. However we noticed here that the new Twitter buttons were not passing in the extra parameters when used on our sites. Apparently they were all impacted by this bug: It initially affected all of our posts and […]