Obama’s Google+ Hangout: Google Angers Potheads, President Won’t Dance a Jig
Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by admin in Search Engine Watch
President Barack Obama took part in a virtual town hall meeting late yesterday afternoon, with five hand-picked participants face-to-face with the president in a Google+ Hangout. Obama also answered questions submitted by YouTube users and, though most of the questions were prescreened and voted on prior to the hangout, answered a few personal questions on [...]
Facebook Wants to Make a Movie About Your Life
Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by admin in Marketing Pilgrim
Imagine a movie based on your life. Would it be a blockbuster adventure? A romantic comedy? Hopefully not fodder for a Lifetime Original. Oh forget imagining, Facebook wants to make it so, with the Timeline Movie Maker. Opt in, click a few choices and you’ll have a mini movie showing the best years of your [...]
Non-Food Marketers Grab Greater Share of Digital Coupon Space
Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by admin in Clickz
As the digital coupon space continues to flourish, non-food marketers are increasing their share of the market, according to a new report from Kantar Media. The number of digital coupon “events” increased by 12.3 percent in 2011, according to the report, with non-food marketers now accounting for 40.5 percent of the overall market. That’s an [...]
Mozilla Firefox 10 Released, With Added Developer Tools
Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by admin in Webmaster World
Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds powerful built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default. Firefox adds a number of new built-in developer tools that let developers change the look and feel of websites in real-time. With Page Inspector, developers can peek into a pages structure and layout without [...]
Google: Spam Links To 404 Pages Won’t Hurt You
Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by admin in SE Round Table
Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Webmaster Help thread said that if you have bad or spammy links pointing to 404 pages, it should have no negative impact on your overall site’s rankings. John said not only should it not happen, he has never seen it happen. He said: To be clear, I have [...]
Bing Local Basics
Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by admin in SEOchat
(Page 1 of 2 ) You run a local business, and you claimed your Google Local listing so searchers would see your website. That’s a start, but with Bing and Yahoo together holding more than a quarter of the search market in the US, you’re still leaving money on the table. Fortunately, you can easily [...]
Twitter’s revenue could reach $540 million by 2014
Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by admin in Internet Retailer
Twitter is increasingly focused on the bottom line. That’s why the microblogging service is rolling out new ad formats, such as Promoted Tweets in Timelines, which enables a marketer to pay to target a consumer with a tweet based on his location, demographics or interests, and making acquisitions that could pave the way for a [...]
Email Marketing: A closer look at budgets
Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by admin in Marketing Sherpa
With MarketingSherpa Email Summit 2012 coming up next week in Las Vegas, we wanted to take a moment to take a look at a common email question. It’s a touch-and-go economy, are my competitors still investing in email marketing? The answer is a resounding yes, according to research from MarketingSherpa’s 2012 Email Marketing Benchmark [...]
MRMLOGIQ and ABN AMRO Expand Brand Portal
Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by admin in AllTop
MRMLOGIQ, the operational marketing efficiency company, announces the expansion of the ABN AMRO Brand Portal with the addition of a marketing webshop. The ‘Shop’ enables ABN AMRO executives who are responsible for customer communications management to create posters, invitations and advertisements independently, according to local wishes and demand. Because the publications are generated from a [...]
A Bird, a Plane, a Movie-Marketing Stunt
Posted on 31. Jan, 2012 by admin in Adage
To promote its forthcoming film, “Chronicle,” which is about three high schoolers that suddenly gain super powers, 20th Century Fox thought up a brilliant stunt. In partnership with Thinkmodo, the crew behind other viral exploits like “The Shaving Helmet” and “iPad Head Girl”, they sent up custom-made aircraft shaped like people up into sky. Looked [...]
