We've filled three positions on our editorial team and it's a pleasure to introduce you to the newest Third Door Media staffers: Amy Gesenhues, Jessica Thompson and Ginny Marvin. Amy Gesenhues is our new, full-time General Assignment Correspondent. She'll be covering a variety of marketing- and search-related stories for us on both Marketing Land and Search Engine Land. Amy has more than 10 years of marketing management experience, and was an award-winning syndicated newspaper columnist before joining our team. She's also written for sites such as Marketing Profs and Software CEO. Amy's [...]

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Along with our new writer and editor hires announced today, more news: Monica Wright and Elisabeth Osmeloski are gaining new titles, reflecting their work on growing and working with our Search Engine Land community. Monica joined Marketing Land and Search Engine Land as our community editor in July 2011, overseeing all of our social media and community efforts. In her role as Director Of Community, Monica will continue to reach out and interact with our existing Marketing Land & Search Engine Land community as she's been doing, plus explore new ways of serving our community in th [...]

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As we promised last month, our expansion continues. In addition to the two positions that we added last week, we're now ready to accept applications for three more positions on our editorial team. In response to some questions that have come in, we've added a little more information at the end of this article. Please be sure to read to the end. Thanks! All three openings are full-time, salaried positions, and each is a telecommuting opportunity. The three positions are listed below in alphabetical order, and instructions for applying are included after the job listings. If you have journa [...]

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It's a pleasure to announce the two newest members of our Third Door Media editorial team: AJ Kohn and Ginny Marvin. Ginny joins us as a Contributing Writer and will focus primarily on covering paid advertising topics -- paid social media/display advertising here on Marketing Land and paid search on Search Engine Land, for example. When she's not writing for our sites, Ginny works as Director of Demand Generation at Yeoman Technology Group, a company that specializes in internet sales channel development for B2B, hi-tech and industrial manufacturers and publishers. You can follow her on Twi [...]

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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 media posts. Anecdotally, Facebook posts do well on Facebook, and Google-related posts are popular on Google+. Facebook popularity also depend on other factors such as whether the social post incorporated an image or video, when it wa [...]

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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 (670 tweets) 3. Once Deemed Evil, Google Now Embraces “Paid Inclusion” (578 tweets) 4. Infographic: iPhone Beats Outlook As Top Email Client, As Mobile Overtakes Desktop (546 tweets) 5. Step-By-Step: How To Download All Your Tweets With [...]

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What were our most popular columns on Marketing Land over the past year? Below, the contributed columns published in 2012 that were read the the most: Once Deemed Evil, Google Now Embraces "Paid Inclusion" 8 Great Ways to Use QR Codes for Marketing How Google Went From Search Engine To Content Destination 12 Content Research Tools You Should Be Using The Return Of The Google Dance 21 Unexpected Ways Brands Can Use Pinterest Is Google's "Over Optimization Penalty" Its "Jump The Shark" Moment In Web Search? Dark Google: One Year Since Search Terms Went "Not Provided" Pengui [...]

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What were our most popular stories on Marketing Land over the past year? Below, the news stories that were published in 2012 that were read the most: Microsoft To Make Same Privacy Change Google Was Attacked For; No One Seems To Care (October) Hands-Off: Microsoft Surface Tablet Review (June 2002) Schmidt: Google+ Not Favored, Happy To Talk Twitter & Facebook Integration (January) For Consumers, Android Is More “Clopen” Than Open (January) YouTube Is Top Free App In iTunes Charts; Google Maps To Be Next? (September) If Google’s Really Proud Of Google+, It Should Sh [...]

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Marketing Land is celebrating its first birthday today, and as we go into our second year — some news! We have a new editor-in-chief as well as some expansion plans coming up. Congratulations to Matt McGee, on his new position as Editor-In-Chief of Marketing Land and Search Engine Land! He begins on January 1, 2013. Matt joined our publications in September 2008 as assignment editor for Search Engine Land, and he was promoted to executive news editor in December 2010. In his new position, he'll handle day-to-day operations of both Marketing Land and Search Engine Land, as well as ove [...]

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Thank you to all those that took part in our Marketing Land reader survey. Your input is very valuable to us. We want to take the opportunity to announce the winner of our drawing for an SMX Advanced All Access pass. Congratulations, Kristy Bolsinger! Thank you all again, we greatly appreciate your feedback and support. ps: Don't have a ticket to SMX Advanced yet? Join us with a Network Pass or attend one of our workshops on June 7th in Seattle. [...]

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We’ve got a special request of our Marketing Land visitors and Marketing Day newsletter readers. Take our 2-minute audience survey! Please? If helping us keep the lights on isn’t enough of an incentive, we’ll include a chance to win a ticket to SMX Advanced in Seattle June 5-6. Programmed by our sister site Search Engine Land, SMX Advanced is the only conference dedicated to experienced search marketers, with over twenty sessions on paid search, search engine optimization, mobile search and more. Keynoting will be Google Distingushed Engineer Matt Cutts. You can find the survey h [...]

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We’ve got a special request of our Marketing Land visitors and Marketing Day newsletter readers. Take our 2-minute audience survey! Please? If helping us keep the lights on isn’t enough of an incentive, we’ll include a chance to win a ticket to Search Marketing Expo – SMX Advanced in Seattle June 5-6. SMX Advanced is the only conference dedicated to experienced search marketers, with over twenty sessions on paid search, search engine optimization, mobile search and more. Keynoting will be Google Distingushed Engineer Matt Cutts. You can find the survey here: https://www.etouche [...]

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It's official. Our beta test period is over, and Marketing Land is now declared formally open! In addition to the news coverage we've already been doing about internet marketing, our columns will now begin. Marketing Land Columns In particular, we'll have columns on each of these topics beginning this week: Affiliate Marketing Analytics & Marketing Email Marketing Mobile Marketing Search Marketing Social Media Marketing Marketing Land News Coverage In addition to column content, Marketing Land has original news and analysis content on internet marketing topics that goes [...]

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Welcome to the Marketing Land beta! We're excited to get going with our new site. Here's what to expect during our beta test period and beyond that, when we launch formally on December 11. Marketing Land is being produced by the same team behind Search Engine Land. Whereas Search Engine Land focuses on news and tips relating to search engines and search marketing, Marketing Land encompasses internet marketing more broadly. During the beta period, you'll find us covering news stories on topics that include social media, affiliate marketing, display advertising, mobile marketing, analytic [...]

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