Get the most important digital marketing news each day.

Note: By submitting this form, you agree to Third Door Media's terms. We respect your privacy.

Marketing Day: November 8, 2013

Matt McGee on November 8, 2013 at 4:00 pm

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:

Why So Sad? Curalate Study Finds Instagram Images With Blue Hues Win More Likes
After analyzing over 30 image features of eight million Instagram photos, visual analytics provider Curalate found images with blue hues received 24 percent more Likes than photos with predominantly red hues on the photo-sharing platform. Scheduled to be released next week, Curalate’s Instagram study also discovered single-colored images were more popular than images with multiple […]
GoDaddy Opens Pre-Registration On 4 New TLDs, Including .Luxury At $1,200
Interested in one of the many new generic top-level domains that are coming online in the next couple years? Better get out your wallet or start saving now. If the prices that GoDaddy is asking for pre-registration on four new gTLDs is an indication of what’s to come, this is gonna be awfully expensive. GoDaddy […]
Comprehensive Guide To Creating Branded Templates In Excel
Wrapping up my series on dashboards, I want to address an issue I see in just about every spreadsheet I’ve seen in my career as a marketer: using Excel’s (hideous) default formatting for visualizations. You’ve seen them … the blue and red charts are particularly unforgivable. Worst of all, sticking with Excel’s default formatted table […]
Pinterest Teams Up With Michaels Craft Stores & Bloggers To Promote Parties
Pinterest is expanding its reach this weekend, partnering with Michaels craft stores to host Pinterest-inspired parties. The Pinterest parties are scheduled for this Sunday, November 10, and will be hosted at all Michaels locations throughout the US and Canada, with the exception of Quebec. This Pinterest partnership with Michaels is different from its partnerships with […]
Keep Out: Restricted Google+ Communities Help Keep Conversations Private
Like the functionality of Google+ communities, but don’t want to expose your content shared to the world? Well now Google’s got a solution for you: Restricted Google+ communities. Companies will now have the ability to create invite only communities or restricted communities that are open to those with email addresses specific to a domain name. […]
Twitter Ends Day 1 As Public Company In The Clouds
Twitter’s offering price was $26 but by the end of the day the stock had risen dramatically and closed at $44.90. Earlier in the day financial analysts were arguing that the company had under-priced its IPO and “left a billion dollars on the table.” Nonetheless the execution of the IPO was deemed “flawless” by many, […]

Recent Headlines From Search Engine Land, Our Sister Site Dedicated To Search News & Information:

Online Marketing News From Around The Web:

Affiliate Marketing

How to Brainstorm for Profitable Affiliate Niche Ideas, Rae Hoffman

Analytics

German Network Launches Cookieless Fingerprint Tracking, performancein.com

Blogs & Blogging

How We Got 1,000+ Subscribers from a Single Blog Post in 24 Hours, www.groovehq.com
David versus Goliath Blogging, pushingsocial.com
It’s Never Too Late To Start A Blog, www.twistimage.com

Business Issues

Twitter beats Google for #2 on top 10 list of Internet IPOs, VentureBeat
Google airport in San Jose to break ground in January, m.bizjournals.com
Google barge revealed: Artistic structure with ‘fish fins’, San Francisco Chronicle
Twitter’s Next Challenge: Explaining Its Value to the Masses, Ad Age

Content Marketing

7 Infographics You Wouldn’t Expect to Have 1000s of Shares, Crazy Egg
Is This the Top Content Marketing Company in the World?, www.jeffbullas.com

Conversion Optimization

Conversion Rate Optimization: Whose Responsibility Is It, Anyway?, www.beyondthepaid.com

Copywriting, Design & Usability

10 Tools Every User Experience Pro Should Know About, www.usertesting.com
3 Things Holding You Back From $3,000 Plus Website Projects, freelanceswitch.com

Display & Contextual Advertising

Increase Conversions With Facebook Lookalike Audiences, PPC Hero

Domaining

How Your Premium Domain Might Be Sold By Godaddy As People Try To Preregistrations A New gTLD, The Domains

E-Commerce

Discounts Drive Some US Consumers to Disregard Privacy Concerns, eMarketer

Internet Marketing Industry

ClickTale Partners with Optimizely for User Tracking, A/B Testing, www.cmswire.com

Mobile/Local Marketing

At Sephora, Mobile-First Means ‘Connecting’ the Customer’s Experiences, eMarketer
New York Company Will Build Prescription, Fashion & Sport Lenses for Glass, glassalmanac.com
Should You Accept a Custom URL for Your Google+ Local Page?, www.localvisibilitysystem.com
The Importance of International Mobile Search Marketing, www.revenews.com

Other Items

A New, More Dynamic Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Advertising Blog

Reputation Management

You can do better with your reputation monitoring; here’s how, www.trackur.com

Social Media

Google can make YouTubers join Google+, but it can’t make them like it, www.dailydot.com
5 Painfully Obvious But Extremely Effective Facebook Tactics Nobody Told You About, Unbounce
A Wild Rant: You’re Doing Facebook Wrong!, www.jonloomer.com
Google – Let me be ME, www.socialmediaexplorer.com
How Authentic Does This Post Feel? Facebook Wants To Know, All Facebook
Seven Pinterest Content Marketing Tips, Spin Sucks
Twitter Launches An “Alpha” Testing Program On Android, Invites Users To Give Feedback And Collaborate Directly, TechCrunch

Video

Vine hasn’t died yet and Instagram won’t kill it, VentureBeat
Updated one of YouTube’s experimental designs, allgoogletesting.blogspot.com

About The Author

Matt McGee

Matt McGee joined Third Door Media as a writer/reporter/editor in September 2008. He served as Editor-In-Chief from January 2013 until his departure in July 2017. He can be found on Twitter at @MattMcGee.