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  1. 25 May 2013 >

  2. The Weekly Compete Pulse

    The marketing team here at Compete compiled a list of the most popular digital marketing stories online this week. Enjoy and happy competing, marketers! 67% of smartphone users would rather…

  3. Hot New Internet Products May 20th – May 24th.…

    Here is a list of the newest internet marketing tools. All items listed are certified with volume sold and refund rate. Refund rate is a great indication of customers satisfied with the…

  4. 24 May 2013 >

  5. Why Tumblr Was a Massive Steal for Yahoo

    The blockbuster acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo for $1.1 billion — all cash — has been portrayed as a gigantic gamble on the part of the acquirer. However, for those of us who believe there can…

  6. Why Google’s Display Ad Business Drew FTC…

    Just a few months after escaping an antitrust case on its search ads, Google is now the subject of a Federal Trade Commission probe of its display-ad business. This comes as little surprise…

  7. Five For Friday — May 20-24, 2013

      Here are five of this week’s most interesting and informative posts and news items for this week: 1.  Google’s Penguin Update 2.0: Loser analysis — Of course the big news this week is…

  8. The Industry’s Future, According to European…

    May 24, 2013 by MarketingCharts staff The next generation of marketers and advertisers have some strong opinions on where their industry is headed, according to results from a report by…

  9. 8 Great Tools to use with Google Analytics

    We hear so much about great SEO tools that we should be using, but we rarely see much written about tools to help you with your Google Analytics data. Over the past year I have been using more…

  10. Building Successful Low Budget PPC: Keywords

    In charge of building your first PPC account? Don’t have a lot of time or money to spend within AdWords? Well you came to the right place. We’re in week three of our six-part blog series in…

  11. Travel Research and Booking Seen A Multi-Device Process

    May 24, 2013 by MarketingCharts staff Among mobile owners who booked travel in the past 90 days, only 53% used a single device (smartphone, tablet, or laptop) to do so, according to…

  12. One Year and Counting: Review of Facebook Post-IPO…

    By Rachel Young, Marketing Coordinator, IgnitionOne EU In its 10th year running, Facebook has evolved at an incredible rate. Within the last year, since Facebook went public, the company has…

  13. Penguin 2.0/4 - Were You Jarred and/or Jolted?

    Posted by Dr. Pete The long-awaited Penguin 2.0 (also called "Penguin 4") rolled out on Wednesady, May 22nd. Rumor has been brewing for a while that the next Penguin update would be big,…

  14. B2B Media and Info Industry Revenues Up 3.4% in 2012

    May 24, 2013 by MarketingCharts staff Business-to-business (B2B) media and information industry revenues reached $25.5 billion in 2012, representing 3.4% growth from $24.7 billion in…

  15. Google Reportedly Facing FTC Probe on Display…

    Google looks like it will probably be hiring yet again in their legal department. Well, there is no announcement to that effect but considering the number of countries stepping up to the plate…

  16. What Brands has Vine Helped?

    Vine is one of the cooler and more interesting services to hit social media in awhile. Like anything, learning to use it properly for digital marketing and branding is a whole different…

  17. Native Ad Terminology is a Mess

    If native advertising is the future of digital media, the industry should at least agree what it means.

  18. LIVE: The Top 10 Future Tech Trends From 5 Top…

    The only thing people in Silicon Valley like to do more than talk about the future of tech is to invent it. Tonight they settled for the second-best thing, in the form of the popular Top 10…

  19. 23 May 2013 >

  20. Conducting Market Research Before Investing in…

    Posted by randfish The phrase "look before you leap" has never been more true! Before you start investing in tactics, it's important to do your market research. Many businesses are tempted…

  21. 5 Trends Of The Burgeoning Ecommerce Revolution

      We’re in the midst of another revolution in online commerce. Much like the first round of dot-com innovation from 1997-2000, another societal shift is happening related to devices,…

  22. "Use It Anywhere, Anytime" Web Design :…

    We no longer create websites that have fixed size layouts of 960px wide. With an ever-growing range  and variety of different screen sizes we now create websites that visually look great no…

  23. Meet the PPC Team (Star Trek: TNG Style)

    Here at Portent, we have many Internet marketing teams: SEO, content, and design, just to name a few. But the best team, objectively speaking*, is the PPC team. *This is completely…

  24. Showrooming Might Not Actually Be So Common

    May 23, 2013 by MarketingCharts staff Fresh off a research release showing that webrooming is actually far more common amongst Millennials than showrooming, new statistics from xAd and…

  25. How to Write Content for Trending Topics without…

    Businesses will frantically look around for new consumer behavior trends. Will the mobile be the future of the web? How will mobile consumption patterns evolve? What products and services are…

  26. 10 Lessons from a 100k Pageview Post

    Posted by SteKenwright This post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his…

  27. Mozscape in the Wild: How The API is (and Could be) Used

    Posted by Ryan_Watson Did you know that there are over 90 billion URLs are packed into our Mozscape API? That’s a lot of links. So many links, in fact, that it can be daunting to dream up…

  28. 22 May 2013 >

  29. Majority of Mobile Users Would Rather Engage an Ad…

    The psychology behind how we spend our money is a wondrous thing. I’ll gladly throw down $1 a day for a Diet Coke, but I’m reluctant to spend $1.50 on a box of pasta that would feed my whole…

  30. 4 Time Saving Content Curation Tools

    Content curation services, which had been one of the choice tools of marketing experts for some time now, are finally entering the mainstream. Some research done by the guys over at LikeHack…

  31. Will Mobile Ad Platform Accreditation Curb Wasted Ad…

    With so much going in the Internet and social media space sometimes it feels like you just missed something. After looking at this article from AdAge I had that feeling. It looks at the…

  32. Twitter Launches Ad That Can Collect Personal…

    Twitter announced a new kind of Tweet today designed to allow marketers to easily collect personal information from Twitter users, if they chose to provide it. The format, an expanded Tweet…

  33. Want Social to Boost Sales? Be Prepared to Spend the…

    May 22, 2013 by MarketingCharts staff The top benefits of social media marketing are increased exposure (89%) and increased traffic (75%), finds Social Media Examiner in its annual…

  34. Equifax Selects 360i as its Lead Agency

    Credit reporting company Equifax has named Dentsu's 360i its lead agency as it reevaluates its approach to data and analytics. The shift comes only a year after Equifax selected Publicis…

  35. Decoding Google's Referral String (or, how I…

    Posted by timresnik Last week, I held a Mozinar outlining a method to extract SERP vertical -- called Universal Search by Google --- from Google referral strings. Since the Mozinar…

  36. How Google Ruined Marketing

    Marketing wasn’t supposed to be a zero-sum game. Your competitor bought a TV commercial, you bought a TV commercial. They bought radio time, you bought radio time. Even if they bought every…