SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLORER — Rule #1 of Twitter use – be helpful – right? Does that make sense to you? Absolutely. Can you screw up your implementation of Rule #1 and ruin your Twitter presence? Absolutely. By the way, this rule applies to all forms …

MASHABLE — You have created a Facebook Fan Page. Now what? I bet these questions come to mind: “Is my page a success?” “Who is engaging with us?” “Is our engagement effective?” “Does our content strategy work?” The Facebook Insights dashboard will he…

VENTUREBEAT — The problem with most web analytics is that they give you insight into numbers. You can see how many users are visiting your site, when they do so, and where they are coming from. But you don’t understand anything about them as people…

EMARKETER — Older web users are flocking to social networks, according to a May 2010 Pew Internet & American Life Project survey. Usage among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled during the past year, from 22% to 42%. More specifically…

MEDIAPOST — Contests in which consumers help design or contribute to special product labeling — closely tied in with digital/social media and larger marketing missions, of course — seem to be popping up with increasing frequency among food manufact…

INSIDE FACEBOOK — The United States has fully bounced back from a period of slow growth in June. Following fairly strong July numbers, we’re now seeing a big gain of five million new monthly active users in August for Facebook’s home country. Sea…

If you visit Google New Zealand today, you will see a special animated logo. The logo is a buckyball or fullerence. A fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube.

It might show up on ot…

List building is crucial to your success on the Internet. Even though I have been extremely successful with a list of less than five thousand names, increasing the size of that list is one of my top priorities. There are several ways t…

Have you ever stumbled upon a web site that was legally seized by the U.S. government? Sometimes, not always, they contain an image on the site that looks like this:

Some folks at WebmasterWorld are saying that Google has been ranking these web sit…

A WebmasterWorld thread has webmasters complaining that Microsoft is cloaking their MSNBots again, soon to be named BingBot.

It has been going on recently since early August and continues throughout today.

Microsoft has had issues with cloaking the…

Google announced two new webmaster features. The first is related to rich snippets testing tool and the second is related to the breadcrumb URLs in Google.

Google said they have made the rich snippets testing tool error reporting more robust. Many …

Google has been pushing the local maps Google Place tags. They have been giving them away for free for a month, but requiring users to enter their billing information and cancel within 30 days to not be charged.

The thing is, there are many business …

Yesterday I tweeted, “Just cause you spend 65k on a web site, doesn’t mean Google will like it” and referenced a Google Webmaster Help thread.

Well, I was wrong! Well, not 100% wrong. People agreed with me, in fact, it garnered a lot of retweets …

Happy Labor Day Weekend to you! Here is the 9/3/10 issue of Retail Experience in the News…  recapping the latest articles and links shared on Twitter with the #retailexp hashtag this past week.

By the way, isn’t it intriguing how the Mad Men ph…

Cool Marketing Stuff is partnering with UPrinting.com to giveaway 250 business cards with free shipping (in the US) to the two individuals who leave the best comment in response to the following question: What is the best marketing career advice you have ever received? I’ll choose the best two comments by September 25th, 2010 and …

Cool Marketing Stuff is partnering with UPrinting.com to giveaway 250 business cards with free shipping (in the US) to the two individuals who leave the best comment in response to the following question: What is the best marketing career advice you have ever received? I’ll choose the best two comments by September 25th, 2010 and …

MEDIAPOST — Location-based services from Foursquare and Loopt to the new Shopkick app have generated lots of buzz and interest among marketers and investors. But how much spending will they lead to? According to a new report from ABI Research, locati…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

CLICKZ — Virgin America’s two-for-one, airfare-to-Mexico offer on Loopt garnered the fifth-best revenue day in the airline’s three-year history, according to the companies. On Tuesday, they told ClickZ, "thousands of people" flocked to a de…

MARKETINGPROFS — In a minor stroke of genius, Best Buy created @Twelpforce, a Twitter-based means to pose tech questions and get answers in real time. Today, Twelpforce is more than 28,000 followers strong. Reviews are so positive, and its execution …