June 18, 2013

Infographic: Updated Master List of Social Media Image Sizes and Tips

Posted on 18. Jun, 2013 by in Marketing Pilgrim

Infographic: Updated Master List of Social Media Image Sizes and Tips

A little while back an infographic was making the rounds concerning the image size boundaries of the various social media outlets. Well, as with all good things there will be a next generation and this updated version of this very helpful bit of data was put together by the folks at Tent Social and shared [...]

Success Can Be Found On The Marketing Pilgrim Job Board

Posted on 17. Jun, 2013 by in Marketing Pilgrim

Success Can Be Found On The Marketing Pilgrim Job Board

“Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.” –Marva Collins Today is the day! Go to your success by starting to look for that new job. The Marketing Pilgrim Internet Marketing Job Board is a great place to start. You can find the full listings here. If you are looking for that perfect hire you would be [...]

Google’s New Related Image Search is Cooler Than it First Appears

Posted on 16. Jun, 2013 by in Marketing Pilgrim

Google’s New Related Image Search is Cooler Than it First Appears

Google put up a short announcement post last night about the new Related Image bar in Image Search. As an example, they talk about searching the word Maui. To help you narrow down the thousands of photos of pristine beaches, the Related Image bar pulls out photos of Black Rock, Makena and Maui Beaches Maps [...]

17% of Ecommerce Merchants Don’t Know if They’re Optimized for Mobile

Posted on 15. Jun, 2013 by in Marketing Pilgrim

17% of Ecommerce Merchants Don’t Know if They’re Optimized for Mobile

I think every business should have a website. Small, big, brick and mortar retail, cafe or hair salon – the web is where people go to find you when they want something. Websites are inexpensive and easy to build so there’s no excuse for not having at least a single page with a map, hours [...]

What I Learned About Me From Twitter’s Public Analytics Test

Posted on 14. Jun, 2013 by in Marketing Pilgrim

What I Learned About Me From Twitter’s Public Analytics Test

I’m always looking for new ways to measure my social media response, so I was excited when I heard that Twitter had “quietly” opened up analytics to the public. The tool is a subset of the Twitter Ad Dashboard. I’m not a Twitter advertiser but I was able to log-in and access some of my [...]

Google Streamlines Analytics Experience

Posted on 13. Jun, 2013 by in Marketing Pilgrim

Google Streamlines Analytics Experience

Yesterday, I went into Google Analytics to set up a new website. Once again, it took me several tries to make my way to the proper section. I don’t load things into Analytics all that often, but still, you’d expect a tool this sophisticated to be a little more intuitive. Hopefully, that’s what we’ll all [...]

Ding Ding. Google v Payday Loans SERPS in the UK

Posted on 12. Jun, 2013 by in Hobo Web

Google has declared they are rolling out more changes to combat ‘spammy’ SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages) like “payday loans”. What’s interesting is Google doesn’t often tell us a specific SERP is getting cleaned up. It’s a bit like a fight after school.  It’s worth watching I think if you are interested in SEO. We just started a [...]

Tablet Ownership Nearly Doubled In the Past Year

Posted on 12. Jun, 2013 by in Marketing Pilgrim

Tablet Ownership Nearly Doubled In the Past Year

A third (34%) of American adults ages 18 and older own a tablet computer. A year ago, we were at 18%. That’s a success story right there. The numbers come from the latest Pew Internet and American Life Project post and they’re even more impressive when you look at them graphically. Look at that climb! [...]

Apple iOS 7: iTunes Radio, AirDrop and Photo Filters

Posted on 11. Jun, 2013 by in Marketing Pilgrim

Apple iOS 7: iTunes Radio, AirDrop and Photo Filters

The news from the Apple Developers Conference (WWDC) continues to pour in and it’s only the first day. Instead of saving the best for last, Apple opened with a look at the new iOS 7. I talked about the design changes earlier today and now we’re moving on to the big announcements. We begin with [...]

Saying Thank You To Our Sponsors!

Posted on 10. Jun, 2013 by in Marketing Pilgrim

Saying Thank You To Our Sponsors!

There are so many ways we can say thank you to our sponsors. Here is one simple way – THANK YOU MARKETING PILGRIM SPONSORS!! Since we have rolled out our channel sponsor program we have had great success for our existing sponsors and we are excited to share this opportunity with more sponsors in the [...]