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  • Iab reveals a week in the life of a mobile phone shopper
    Shopping via a mobile phone isn't an everyday experience for most people, but already we can see patterns forming around the how, the why and the when. Last month, IAB asked a group of mobile shoppers to keep a diary of their activity in a two week period. Here are some of the things they found out: Home Usage Here we see that almost half of all e-commerce interactions happened at home. They found that purchasing peaked in the late afternoon, early evening."
  • Google's penguin update continues to smack small business
    Last week, a small business owner talked to me about his new marketing plan. It went something like this: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, MySpace, blog, blog outreach, YouTube videos, forum posting, SEO articles written and posted to Hubspot, Squidoo, every other article site then promoted on StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit and every other appropriate sharing site. He figured someone could do this in ten hours a week. I told him he was in over his head."
  • Our latest release: your questions answered
    Earlier this week, Robert Dietz and Nate Buggia joined Laura Foy in the Channel 9 studios to discuss all things related to the release of Bing.com/New.. Nate and Robert provide an overview of the changes and answer questions that you have posted regarding the release."
  • Interview with lynsey little from distilled
    Our industry's conferences are a lot of fun, and of course educational. In the past few years several companies, like Distilled, have been offering smaller conferences which allow attendees to get to know each other better and have more contact with experts in the field. Distilled has been offering conferences for the past three years. ."
  • How fast is your smartphone? #smokedbywindowsphone
    Bit of Friday fun for you! Do you remember we talked to Ben Rudolph a few weeks back about the Windows Phone and how well it had bee received by tech critics? Well recently he posted about their Smoked By Windows Phone challenge and the numbers behind that awesome campaign and they're impressive. Read his full post for all the stats, but know that the team estimate more than 100,000,000 people have seen or heard about the challenge through social media."
  • A high search volume doesn't mean it's the right keyword for you
    by Nick Stamoulis One of the most common mistakes I see website owners and marketers make when launching their first SEO campaign is that they let search volume dictate which keywords they should target. I can completely understand the rationale behind their thinking- if more people are searching for keyword X that means more visitors for my site which means more money for my company. Unfortunately SEO is not that cut and dry."
  • Friday humor: game of thrones
    Since HBO took the Game of Thrones books and created a fantastic show the books and the series have taken off. The show is great and the books are fantastic! I have collected some funny Game of Thrones items for fans everywhere. Oh and remember, Winter is Coming! Are you ready? Disclaimer - If you ."
  • Comscore releases april 2012 u.s. online video rankings
    comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 181 million U.S. Internet users watched nearly 37 billion online content videos in April. Video ads saw another record-breaking month with nearly 9.5 billion, representing 1 in 5 videos viewed online in April."
  • Bing's new social search engine goes live to select users
    After announcing that they will launch a social-friendly search engine last week, Bing's new feature goes live last Tuesday. Users can now access the new Bing search engine, and the page will show a new message saying "The best search, now with people from your social networks." Introducing Bing's Social-friendly Search Engine It should be ."
  • Where our social media efforts are best served
    For many small businesses, their ability to make a profit or keep their heads just above water hinges on being able to successfully promote their companies. In today's day and age, part of those promotional efforts revolve around social media and the ability to interact with both current and potential customers. As many of us ."
  • Ring in the new: facebook grows while hp contemplates huge cuts
    We already know that Facebook and its 2,000 or so employees are about to hit the big time. If you haven't heard you must live under the same rock as SpongeBob's buddy, Patrick, does. So rather than belabor an already over-reported "story" let's do a quick comparison that today's Facebook IPO brings to the forefront. Let's just say this is a day when we may see the real changing of the guard in the world of 'tech'."
  • Online marketing: a beginner's guide
    The Internet is used by billions of people worldwide to connect with each other. That's why a lot of businesses are taking advantage of the World Wide Web to reach millions of their target market. However, online marketing is not just about building a website and waiting for the traffic to come. There are things ."
  • Nielsen statistics on global visitors to facebook in march 2012
    Today, Friday, Facebook's stock starts trading. Public demand is expected to explode and at its initial offering price of $38 a share, the social media giant is now worth more than established heavyweights Disney and Kraft, notes Business Insider . Analysts are still largely divided as to whether the just 8-year old company is a good investment. Cynics say that Facebook's current numbers aren't even close to matching the hype,"
  • Twitter supports do not track privacy feature
    Ed Felten, the Federal Trade Commission's chief technology officer, recently announced that Twitter is now providing support for the Do Not Track feature. The feature, which was initially proposed by researchers in 2009, was first implemented by Mozilla Firefox in early 2011. Since that time, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera have all added support and ."
  • Twitter admits not everyone likes the bieb and offers tailored suggestions
    If you have ever signed up for a new Twitter account you have been 'offered' a list of suggested people to follow. Let's just say that unless you intend to use Twitter for the most shallow and useless reasons (which, let's face it, most do but I digress) that suggestion list is awful. Well, six long years into this Twitter has admitted as much. As a result they are introducing tailored suggestions. The Twitter blog explains Currently, when new users come to Twitter,"
  • Online marketing news: top internet retailers, google penguin & panda party crash, users distrust facebook
    Top 250 Internet Retailers Social networking for retailers makes sense right? Make your brand visible where your consumers are spending the most time. This infographic from Campalyst shares information on one of the things that helps makes retailers successful online, a social presence."
  • Seth godin on when you should start marketing your product, service, or idea
    What is marketing? Is it a process of gathering as much money as you can, throwing it to the "creative" winds , and hoping something will come back? Is it a practice of interrupting as many people as possible with a message they don't care about, and never asked to receive? Is it a performance you frantically stage around your product, service, or idea, in the final moments before launching it into the world? Or is it something else entirely? And if it is,"
  • Ways to win customers and influence rankings - whiteboard friday
    Posted by randfish Starting up your own consulting agency can be quite a difficult process and often times the most challenging step to your endeavour will be finding new customers or clients. In this week's Whiteboard Friday we will be covering some tips and tactics that you can use to get referrals and win customers. Don't forget to leave your own advice in the comments below. Happy Friday Everyone! Enjoy! Video Transcription Howdy, SEOmoz fans."
  • Making more pages load instantly
    Webmaster level: All At Google we're obsessed with speed. We've long known that even seemingly minor speed increases can have surprisingly large impacts on user engagement and happiness. About a year ago we rolled out Instant Pages in pursuit of that goal. Instant Pages makes use of prerendering technology in Chrome to make your site appear to load instantly in some cases, with no need for any extra work on your part."
  • Postal service moves ahead with massive clossures
    "We simply do not have the mail volumes to justify the size and capacity of our current mail processing network." And with that, the Postmaster General dropped the ax on 232 mail processing centers around the country. We've seen it coming for awhile , but the Post Office is such a staple in our world that I don't think any of us really expected to see it fail. Then again, think about all the things you don't mail anymore."

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