Marketing Day: February 22, 2012
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: Google Shutting Down Hosted AdSense For Domains Program Google is emailing participants in its hosted AdSense for Domains (AFD) today to inform them that the sometimes-controversial program is headed for […]
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:
- Google Shutting Down Hosted AdSense For Domains Program
Google is emailing participants in its hosted AdSense for Domains (AFD) today to inform them that the sometimes-controversial program is headed for closure in mid-April. The change will only affect domains that Google hosted. “After evaluating the benefits of our partner network, we’ve decided to retire the Hosted domains product within AdSense,” Google wrote in […]
- Report: New Facebook Premium Ads Arriving Next Week
“Anything you can do on your Page, you can do in ads.” That seems to be the primary slogan/message for a set of new Premium Ads that Facebook will reportedly announce next week — likely at its fMC Marketing Conference on February 29th. On GigaOm this afternoon, Peter Corbett of iStrategyLabs posted a PDF and […]
- Overhauled Look & Enhanced Features Coming To Flickr Next Week
Last month, Flickr announced they were dropping a handful of features. Earlier this month Flickr laid off 12% of its entire staff. Now BetaBeat is reporting that Flickr is undergoing a dramatic transformation that will be rolled out next week. The excessive whitespace, small photos and excessive clicks will be replaced by larger photos assembled […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Bing Linked Pages: Better People Search Results
- Want Quick Money? Improve Your Shopping Cart!
- 7 Steps To Achieving Nirvana By Using A Media Plan
- Google Recommending New Video Schema.org Markup
- Google Wave Logo For 155th Birthday Of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
- 5 Critical B2B SEO Initiatives, In Addition To Developing A Google+ Page For Business
- Geek Chic: Augmented Reality Google Glasses To Go On Sale This Year
- SearchWeek: February 20, 2012
- Google Offers Flight Search To Go
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Affiliate Marketing
- Finding the Time to Get Started with Affiliate Marketing, www.sugarrae.com
- Learn the Latest Trends for Selling Through Affiliates, at #AMDays, Small Business Trends
Analytics
- Setting Up Actionable SEO Dashboards in the New Google Analytics, www.seobook.com
- Track & Segment Your Way to More Accurate Bounce Rates, searchenginewatch.com
Blogs & Blogging
- How to NEVER Run Out of Blog Topics and Ideas Ever Again, www.thesaleslion.com
- Newsflash: We All Have the Attention Spans of a Gnat, So Blog About That Topic Again!, www.mackcollier.com
- Why Every Business Blog Needs Evergreen Content, blog.hubspot.com
Business Issues
- White House to hold online privacy meeting, www.politico.com
- Apple confirms plans for ‘green’ data center in Oregon, www.appleinsider.com
- Google Patent Clearly Eying the Desktop Market for Android, www.patentlyapple.com
- Google Seeks Approval for Kansas City Video Service, Wall Street Journal
- Google: Please Don’t Kill Video on the Web, blogs.technet.com
- Mozilla to challenge big players in mobile web, Mercury News
Conversion Optimization
- 20 Landing Page Designs Get Picked Apart & Analyzed for Conversion, unbounce.com
- 4 Tips For Getting More Site Conversions, Small Business Trends
- Identifying Conversion Problems from the Product Page, www.practicalecommerce.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
- Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touch Target Sizes, uxmovement.com
- So You Think Your Changes Will Help Your Customer? Prove It!, Search Engine Guide
- User Experience The Don Draper Way, www.fastcompany.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
- Facebook Targeting Alert! Gaming the Grid with Power Editor? OMG, RLY?!, AIM Clear Blog
- Google Seen Poised To Overtake Facebook In Display Ads, Wall Street Journal
Domaining
General Internet Marketing
- In Digital Shift Ad Dollars ‘Evaporate’, www.screenwerk.com
- Personalization and Your Ideal Customer, Jeff Korhan
Local Marketing
- The Local Search Ecosystem in 2012, www.davidmihm.com
Mobile Marketing
Other Items
- Firefox Data Visualization Shows You How Dumb Your Passwords Are, www.readwriteweb.com
Search Marketing
- How to Choose an SEO Company: Ignore Top SEO Lists, Outspoken Media
Social Media
- Drilling Down: How Businesses Use Google+, New York Times
- The Bro’s Guide to Pinterest, www.blueglass.com
- 10 Ways to Deal With Upset Customers Using Social Media, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
- 13 Tools to Simplify Your Social Media Marketing, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
- Bahh! How Do We Solve Social Media ROI Measurement Holes?, contently.com
- Facebook seeks to improve iOS app discovery, Inside Facebook
- Promote Content With Credits, www.quora.com
- Social Business: Far Beyond The Like, www.brasstackthinking.com
- The Key to Social Media Success is Understanding Your Audience, Online Marketing Blog
- The Simplified Guide to Social Media for Small Businesses, www.blogtyrant.com
- What the Hell is a ‘Social Business’ and Why Should You Care?, www.mackcollier.com
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