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:
- Quora Aims To Expand Beyond Q&A, Seems To Have Wikipedia In Its Sights
Quora has big plans for 2013 that will include the site expanding beyond its Q&A format with new products and/or features that might take on Wikipedia, and perhaps even Google. Co-founder Adam D’Angelo shared the company’s mission in a blog post late last night, and promised that Quora will expand in order to meet its [...]
- Marketing Biz: Did Facebook Establish An ‘Awful Ideas’ Department?
This week in marketing was dominated by news from Facebook and Twitter. I don’t know, I must have missed the memo about Facebook establishing an ‘awful ideas’ department. So while Facebook wore the mint shoes Twitter continued to forge ahead. They weren’t the only heavyweights in the news. Both Oracle and WPP make serious acquisitions that [...]
- Comparing comScore’s Top 50 Sites: 2006 And 2012
Once upon a time the comScore “top 50″ sites release was an exciting revelation of gainers and losers in the relatively new internet derby. Now it has become very routine and, frankly, a little boring. Yesterday the measurement firm released the top 50 US site rankings for November. Rather than just say “here it is,” [...]
- Instagram Makes Nice With Revised New Terms Of Use. Will Users Be Satisfied?
Just two days after a social media storm erupted over Instagram’s proposed new terms of service, the Facebook-owned company — as promised — has come up with revisions, in an effort to “communicate our intentions clearly.” Rather than say the company’s plans themselves led to the controversy, co-founder Kevin Systrom has painted it all as [...]
Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:
- Official: It’s Google Panda Update 23, Impacting ~1.3% Of Queries
- Search In Pics: Google Menorah, Google Aura & Glass Water Bottles
- Google Expands Gmail In Search Results With My Orders, My Events & My Reservations
- Bing Linked Pages Now Called Bing Tags
- Facebook Still Top Search Term In 2012 As One-Word Searches Rise 16 Percent [Experian]
Online Marketing News From Around The Web:
Analytics
- Facebook Begins Rolling Out Country-Level Analytics For Global Pages Via Graph API, FQL, allfacebook.com
Blogs & Blogging
- 2012 Was the Year WordPress Grew Up, www.web-savvy-marketing.com
- 10-Point Guide for Blogger Collaboration, Convince and Convert
- 12 Ways to End Your Blogging Year With a Bang, pushingsocial.com
- If You’re Serious About Ideas, Get Serious About Blogging, blogs.hbr.org
- When Pictures are Not Enough: The Art of Blogging, Convince and Convert
Business Issues
- Kantar Media Acquires AdGooroo, www.adgooroo.com
- Why the Instagram debacle just taught every tech company to be shadier than ever, www.theverge.com
Content Marketing
- How Content Length Affects Rankings and Conversions, www.quicksprout.com
- Inspirations to Let Content Be Your Light, BruceClay.com
Copywriting, Design & Usability
Display & Contextual Advertising
General Internet Marketing
- Online Retailers’ New Year’s Resolutions, eMarketer
Mobile/Local Marketing
Other Items
- Nielsen Tops of 2012: Digital, blog.nielsen.com
Reputation Management
- 11 Tips to Prepare Your Reputation for 2013, www.trackur.com
Social Media
- Facebook works with brands on page post strategy during ‘Publishing Garage’ process, Inside Facebook
- Google+ Communities, What Marketers Need to Know, www.socialmediaexaminer.com
- Instagram Adds New Filter, Returns Upload From Any Album Option, thenextweb.com
- Retailers move social media out of its silo, Internet Retailer
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