Amazing video showing data visualization. The same technology is what makes Google Analytics Motion Charts work.
Your Guide To The Royal Wedding 2011, Social Media Style. The last time Britain had a big Royal Wedding, one didn’t tweet about it, Facebook about it, Flickr about it and certainly didn’t air it on YouTube. One couldn’t. These things didn’t exist. But the 21st century British Monarchy is hip to the social media channels of today. Here’s how people tuned in to the Royal Wedding today, via social media. Via Search Engine Land.
How CISCO Integrates Social Media in the Organization – Via Dado Van Peteghem on Slideshare.
The new Google Analytics Beta – a detailed review. Via Smart Insights.
Shoppers Use Search to Find Deals. Three-quarters (74%) of US adult online shoppers use online tools to find deals, and the highest percentage (50%) use search engines, according to a March 2011 survey conducted by RetailMeNot.com and Harris Interactive. Via MarketingCharts.
New Google News. Automatic Personalization and Recommended Sections in Google News. Via Google News blog.
Social Media for Marketing presentation from Slideshare.
Amazon Server Troubles Take Down Reddit, Foursquare & HootSuite. So much for high availability hosting. Amazon’s data center issues affected a huge amount of social web activity and nearly 24 hours later, they’re still not back online. A boon for Akamai. Via Mashable.
Social Media Usage By SMBs Often Ad-Hoc. Really? #sarcasm The social web is as mysterious and new to small business marketers now as SEO was 10 years ago. They’re pushing to see what pushes back in the form of marketing value without any coordinated effort or strategy in most cases. That’s a costly way to go about marketing your business. Luckily, experienced agencies like TopRank Online Marketing are here to help Via Information Week.
To continue its path of growth as an industry leading digital marketing agency, TopRank Online Marketing has added two key staff to its team to provide leadership and support in meeting client needs and business growth for the coming year.
Ken Horst has joined the agency as an account manager to assist clients in meeting increasingly critical online marketing goals including content marketing, search engine optimization, and email strategy.
From Mobile Social to SEO Myths and Infographics, here’s Online Marketing News of note for the the week ending October 29th, 2010 :
How to Write for the Web: 23 Useful Rules
Writing for the web is all about understanding how users read and digest information online. When presented in the correct format with the right structure and appeal, content is the key difference in transferring a reader into a customer. Chris Lake at Econsultancy offers up 23 useful rules to follow when writing for the Web.
Here’s Online Marketing News of note for the the week ending October 15th, 2010 :
Social Media Demographics: Who’s Using Which Sites?
Reaching and engaging your customers through social media is just one of the many benefits of a social media marketing campaign. However, over the last several years, social media websites have seen a huge growth in visitors, so how do you know which sites to utilize?
Thankfully, the social media demographics infograph helps make that decision easier with information detailing which site attracts the most educated users, which sites attract the users with the most income, or which site is popular amongst different age groups.
Have you ever wanted a resource where all the best articles about Online Marketing topics are aggregated in one place? Us too. This week we’re introducing a new category of posts for the TopRank Marketing News Blog, where our staff will select content worth sharing with you, the educated online marketing practitioner. We”ll start this off every 2 weeks on Fridays for now.
Without further ado, here are the links for the Week Ending October 1st, 2010 :
Which notable industry publications and blogs mentioned TopRank® Online Marketing the second half of December, 2009? Here you go:
American Express OPENForum – 80 Small Business Twitterers You Should Be Following. TopRank’s Lee Odden was cited in this list of helpful Twitter users for small business information.
pamorama – 40 Social Media Blogs You Should Be Reading. TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog is included in this list of social media content blogs along with Chris Brogan, Scott Monty and Mashable. TopRank’s Adam Singer is also included with his personal blog, The Future Buzz.
Where was TopRank® Online Marketing talked about on the web the first half of November, 2009? Here you go:
Mediaite – Ford’s $1 Billion Q3 Profit: Does Social Media Deserve Credit?. TopRank’s liveblogging coverage of Scott Monty’s presentation at MIMA Summit was referenced in this post about the effect of social media on Ford’s earnings report.
Trends in the Living Networks – The top 10 blogs for small to mid-sized businesses. TopRank was recognized in this list of best small biz blogs.
Search Marketing Standard – 5 Reasons To Bring SMM Into The House. TopRankBlog was cited in this article on social media.
Where was TopRank® Online Marketing talked about on the web the second half of October, 2009? Here you go:
TechCrunch – Digg Acquires Kevin Rose Side Project Wefollow. TopRank’s CEO Lee Odden was shown as one of the top 10 SEOs on Twitter according to the new wefollow ranking alogorithm.
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