Marketing Day: June 20, 2012
Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Facebook’s Marketing Effectiveness Backed By Two Of Its Biggest Advertisers Just days ahead of Facebook’s IPO, GM dropped Facebook Ads citing that they weren’t effective. While Facebook lost that $10 million […]
Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web.
From Marketing Land:
- Facebook’s Marketing Effectiveness Backed By Two Of Its Biggest Advertisers
Just days ahead of Facebook’s IPO, GM dropped Facebook Ads citing that they weren’t effective. While Facebook lost that $10 million dollar account lost last month, today Facebook gathered support from their two largest advertisers, Ford and Coca-Cola. Both brands stated that Facebook ads bring value to their marketing efforts. painting a much different picture in the […]
- Flipboard Partners Up With Google+ Thanks To New & Improved API
Google has been very hesitant to share Google+ data with 3rd party partners. Today however, Bradley Horowitz, Google’s VP of product management, announced the integration of Google+ on Flipboard. The announcement was made at LeWeb ’12 in London. The new integration is made possible thanks to a new Google API that not only allows public data to […]
- Twitter Releases A Toggle-able Profile View So Users Can Hide Replies
Sometimes when visiting a Twitter profile page users can be inundated with a list of reply Tweets to other users instead of seeing what someone is up to. This reply-heavy timeline typically ocurs during back and forth exchanges. Today Twitter has announced the release of a reply-free user profile option to help users cut through the clutter […]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Yahoo Images With Tiled Design, Latest & HQ Images & Getty Images Deal
- A Look At Cross-Device Search & Conversion
- Google Webmaster Tools Adds Download To Google Spreadsheets
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- Google Analytics Email Reports, www.seo-positive.co.uk
- Google Analytics Graphs Just Got 732.89% Better, www.blindfiveyearold.com
- The Ultimate Guide to the New Google Analytics Social Reports, blog.kissmetrics.com
- Website Form Tracking and Goals Using Web Analytics (video), www.jonrognerud.com
Blogs & Blogging
- The One Thing Killing Your Blogger Outreach, Online Marketing Blog
- Why I Don’t Post Regularly and Why You Shouldn’t Either, www.blogtyrant.com
Business Issues
- After Facebook’s IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth, www.theverge.com
- Top Yahoo Ad Exec Riley Departs in Wake of Recent Changes (Memo), allthingsd.com
- Yahoo, Facebook in settlement talks over patent infringement, news.cnet.com
Content Marketing
- 8 Attributes of Content That Inspire Action, SEOmoz
- Is Content Strategy the New SEO?, www.freelancecontentstrategist.com
- Rethinking the Curator’s Code: The Hidden Dangers of Elevating Content Sharing, contently.com
Display & Contextual Advertising
- aimClear’s Roadmap for Facebook Ads: Building A Better Channel Together, www.aimclearblog.com
Email Marketing
- The Subject Line Strategy That Gets 541% More Response, www.aweber.com
General Internet Marketing
- To Market Niche Drugs, US Pharma Goes Online, www.emarketer.com
Internet Marketing Industry
- 6 SEM Tips for Avoiding Mistakes That Could Cost You a Client (A Cautionary Tale), www.searchenginejournal.com
- The importance of building ‘Good to Great’ teams to win online, econsultancy.com
Mobile Marketing
- 42% of smartphone owners go online to check prices in-store, econsultancy.com
- Apple Passbook at the Eighth-Way Point?, www.localseoguide.com
- Seven Mobile Marketing Best-Practices, www.marketingprofs.com
Search Marketing
- Getting the Maximum Number of Links From Your Infographic, www.seomoz.org
- AdWords’ new look rolling out globally, adwords.blogspot.com
- Essential PPC Metrics That Matter, www.seerinteractive.com
- Link Building With The Experts – 2012 Edition, pushfire.com
- Read This Now! – A Look at Effective Calls to Action, www.ppchero.com
- The Description Tag Debate: To Write or Not to Write?, www.marketingwords.com
Social Media
- Is Facebook an Effective Marketing Platform?, blog.compete.com
- Bringing Like to Mobile, Facebook Developers
- Facebook hides page content from logged-out users, Inside Facebook
- Facebook vs. Pinterest, wearesocial.net
- Google claims Google+ service yet to reach hypergrowth stage, www.v3.co.uk
- Marketers, Meet Moms on Social Networks, www.emarketer.com
- Nobody Is Using Facebook’s Life Events – Not Even Mark Zuckerberg, Read/Write Web
- The Importance of Creating Clear Social Media Goals, blog.allwebpromotion.com
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