The Web Marketing Today team is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, September 25 at 2.00 pm EDT. The topic of the webinar is “Collecting Payments on Tablets and Smartphones”. Web Marketing Today team says, “Tablet and smartphones are changing how businesses accept payment from their customers. Service providers no longer have to refuse... [Read more]

Shawn Collins’ latest blog post is titled “Free Booths at Affiliate Summit West 2014 for 4 Start-Ups”. Collins Says, “Affiliate Summit will be selecting 4 early stage startups to exhibit for free as part of our Affiliate Summit Startup Program. These booths will be for Affiliate Summit West 2014, taking place January 12-14, 2014 in Las... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “If The Future of Advertising is Mobile, Then Why is it so Lame Now?”. Mike Gualtieri says, “The future of online advertising is absolutely mobile, says Forrester Principal Analyst and Research Director Melissa Parrish. The problem is that mobile advertising today is just a compact,... [Read more]

Backlinks are still important ingredients for an SEO strategy, but they need to have diversity. Not all from forums; not all from blog comments; etc. To impress the search engines, it’s important for your links to come from a range of sites around the web. Stephen Hawkins has created Link Robot Express to manage your backlinking campaigns. It... [Read more]

The latest ‘SEO Book’ blog post is titled “How To Think About Your Next SEO Project”. Eric Covino says, “The independent webmaster has taken a beating over the last couple of years. Risk has become harder to spread, labor costs have gone up, outreach has become more difficult and more expensive as Google’s webspam team and the growing... [Read more]

The latest article on Mark Ling’s ‘Affilorama’ blog is titled “Affiliate Marketing Niche Idea: Time Management”. Cecille Loorluis says, “I’m back with this week’s niche idea and I have chosen to highlight a sub-niche of the self-help niche: Time management. It was not easy for me to pick this niche, because I personally am not... [Read more]

The latest article on ’Marketing Land’ is titled “Beyond Gathering Likes: Moving Past Followers & Fans”. Kelsey Jones says, “When social media was new, the main go-to metrics were how many Twitter followers, Facebook Fans (remember those?) and even MySpace friends you had. However, social media marketing is continuously... [Read more]

Arief Ramadhan is a website developer, working for a variety of clients. he had a business problem that really bugged him: His clients needs were so varied that every time he had to build a new site from scratch, which was time-consuming and which limited his profitability. To solve this problem, he decided to create an innovative WP theme that is flexible... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “What Boosts a Web Page’s Search Rank in Google? [Infographic]”. Verónica Maria Jarski says, “To find out what high-ranking pages in Google have in common, Searchmetrics examined the 30 top search results for 10,000 keywords, analyzing 300,000 websites. It then published its findings... [Read more]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”Got 5 Minutes? Use It to Find a New Prospect on Social Media”. Maggie Hibma says, “Do you remember the children’s book Where’s Waldo? C’mon, you know — the one where each page is filled with a busy scene full of people but you’re always looking for the same, brown-haired,... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Twitter Will Start Pushing ‘Follow’ Recommendations To Mobile Users”. Selena Larson says, “Twitter is rolling out a new feature that automatically sends mobile users suggestions on who to follow. Twitter has been testing this feature with@MagicRecs, an account that sends direct... [Read more]

An attractive opt-in form is a critical ingredient for high conversion rates. You could use the one provided by your autoresponder company, but they are bland and yours looks like everyone else’s. You can hire a professional designer to create a custom one for you, but it could cost $100 or more. Even worse for the serious marketer, these opt-in... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Google’s keyword data apocalypse: the experts’ view”. Graham Charlton says, “Yesterday it emerged that Google is planning to encrypt even more organic search queries, thus removing even more search keyword data from sites. The already tricky task of measuring... [Read more]

The latest article on ’Marketing Land’ is titled “AdStage Aims To Bring Cross-Channel Ad Management To SMBs, Launches Partnership With ReTargeter, Unbounce And Others”. Ginny Marvin says, “Kenshoo, Marin and Adobe: watch out, AdStage has you in its sights. Today at Advertising Week in New York, AdStage announced new... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “How Email Marketing Tactics Have Changed in the Last Five Years”. Ayaz Nanji says, “Since 2008, marketers have adopted a more simplified email sign-up process for new subscribers and now ask for significantly less personal information, according to a recent study by Return Path. The report,... [Read more]

Sean Mize knows a lot about traffic. In years gone by, he produced 25,000 articles for ezinearticles.com and they won him a lot of traffic. But those days are over, and now he is finding other methods to bring traffic to his sites. Mize has developed a simple method of getting that traffic in your niche, and he has explained it in How to Generate Unlimited... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Top 3 Mistakes B2B Companies Need to Avoid in Social Media Marketing”. Belinda Summers says, “Everyone today is adopting social media. Be it a start-up business or a huge B2B company. Everyone likes to jump on the wagon to have their brands felt on social networks. Unfortunately,... [Read more]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled ”Content Personalization: How Much Is Too Much?”. Meghan Keaney Anderson says, “The world of personalized media continues to take shape around us. Google, Bing, and other search engines tailor results to reflect our social influences, our past interests, and even the devices we’re... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Report: Twitter Will List on New York Stock Exchange”. Seth Fiegerman says, “It looks like Facebook‘s IPO debacle may cost the Nasdaq one of the most notable tech IPOs of the year. TheStreet reports hearing from multiple sources close to the situation that Twitter will list on the... [Read more]

Nick LaPolla has been working with video software for years. in 2012, he released version 1 of Simple Video Pro, which became the best-selling WSO of all time. Saturday, he released version 2, with many enhancements to the original function. Those who purchased Simple Video Pro after April 1, 2012, can get Simple Video Pro 2.0 at no charge. At the bottom... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “StumbleUpon Makes First Acquisition: Video Discovery Service 5by”. Seth Fiegerman says, “StumbleUpon has acquired 5by, a video discovery service, for an undisclosed sum. This is StumbleUpon’s first acquisition since the web discovery company was founded in 2001. 5by launched earlier... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Pinterest’s Visual Web Makes Way For Text”. Lauren Orsini says, “Usually, social networks determine how users use their products. But today Pinterest has unveiled updates that make its platform more accommodating to a function that its users have been wanting for some time. As a response... [Read more]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “How to optimise your images for SEO”. Richard Yeo says, “Images are increasingly important to the customer experience and search yet many sites are not optimised to take advantage. In the early days of the web images were typically small and of low quality. We all remember... [Read more]

David Coss (he calls himself Cossack) has announced Komenz, which he describes as a “social comments syndicator”. Whenever anyone makes a comment on your account on a major social network about your site, this software will copy it to all your accounts on other social networks so that you get the maximum leverage from it. It supports, Google... [Read more]

Jay Baer‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “How to Create Living Content to Boost Brand Reputation and Visibility?. Baer says, “Over the last ten years, new content types have arisen and lots of great tools have sprung up for creating and marketing content. Video is now ubiquitous, Slideshare has become a prominent... [Read more]

The latest MOZ blog post is titled “When Keyword (not provided) is 100 Percent of Organic Referrals, What Should Marketers Do? – Whiteboard Tuesday”. Rand Fishkin says, “The rate at which Google is lumping keywords into “(not provided)” has skyrocketed in the last month, leading to a huge drop in referral data and speculation... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “Check out the Smart New Look at StudioPress”. Jerod Morris says, “Once Genesis 2.0 was released a few weeks ago, the countdown to a new look and feel for StudioPress.com began. That countdown just ran out … The brand new StudioPress.com highlights the Genesis Framework’s design capabilities. What... [Read more]

Chad Nicely and Chris Jenkins just announced their Photoshop Marketing Graphic Design Pack. With the professional graphics in this package, you will be able to create sales pages, OTO pages and more. These are the graphics actually used by Nicely and Jenkins in their own marketing. Included in your collection are: • Bold and attention-getting headline... [Read more]

MarketingSherpa has released a case study titled “Email Marketing Relevance: Personalized important occasions campaign by online gift retailer achieves a 39% open rate”. Courtney Eckerle says, “When gift website Mud Pie expanded from wholesale to selling directly to consumers, it became clear that a way to draw in and keep consumers... [Read more]