EMARKETER — Females are known for being communicators, and their social media usage is legendary among marketers, many of whom focus on targeting women on social sites. But men also care about staying in touch, and do so in much the same way. Accordi…

TECHCRUNCH — App store analytics provider Distimo yesterday published its latest report, once again zooming in on the pricing of mobile applications across a variety of platforms. Consistent with its previous findings, Google’s Android Market has b…

SOCIAL MEDIA EXAMINER — It’s the Holy Grail of interactive marketing: getting “social media influencers” — the ones with the voice and the reach, the ones to whom everyone else listens — to endorse and promote what you’re doing. Recently, my co…

MYCUSTOMER.COM — An increasing number of businesses are now using social network Twitter to engage with customers. But exactly how? Follow this guide to tweeting success. 1. Don’t be cryptic: With only 140 characters at your disposal, it’s often tric…

WEB STRATEGY — Excited about your new Facebook page but don’t know what’s next? What does a truly advanced company look like in social business? They can say yes to seven or more of these ten criteria. We’ve been interviewing the most sophistic…

This is very very early and I don’t have evidence of this myself, since I don’t monitor rankings, but a single post at WebmasterWorld suggested there is a Bing update taking place.

textex, someone I trust at the forum, who has been a member of Webmas…

Yesterday I reported Google is testing “sponsored map icons” in the US. They are basically enhanced point of interest icons using the company’s logo, instead of the basic POI (point of interest) icon Google uses on the map views.

Here you can see som…

I doubt you missed the big SEO community news from yesterday. Danny Sullivan announced in a Sphinn thread that Sphinn will be going the editorial route and be removing voting. Instead, editors will decide what should be on the front page and not user…

Some users have recently been having difficultly removing verified users in Google Webmaster Tools. Google allows you to give multiple users access to view your Google Webmaster Tools reports and data.

Sometimes you want to revoke access to some of …

The obsessed (in a cool geeky way) webmasters at WebmasterWorld are discussing recent patterns they noticed with how Google’s spider, GoogleBot has been accessing their site recently.

One said GoogleBot is crawling 50% less than it normally does. Oth…

Sheara Goldenthal pinged me with a question yesterday about why the Google Keyword Tool shows different search volume data for the same keyword phrase, when she is logged in versus not logged into her AdWords account.

It is a great question, a questio…

GIGAOM — You may have already experienced social media meltdown: a rapid derailment of your previously neat and tidy social media marketing efforts. Because social media cannot be “controlled,” the very thought of putting marketing messages out i…

Yes, deliberate mistake
It grates when people write poorly, huh. When writers write well, the words almost become invisible. The focus shifts away from technical details, and onto the message.
Is there an easy way to write better blog posts? E-ma…

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.

My book is ready and today is launch day. I have moved up to #2,109 on the Amazon list so far, after starting around #60,000 first thing this morning. This is what I’d like for you to do if you would be willing to help me with th…

DACHIS GROUP COLLABORATORY — I tweeted recently that all of the details of planning an online community reminded me of planning a wedding. I submitted the tweet at the very moment I felt overwhelmed by the details of coordinating so many moving piece…

MARKETINGPROFS — Though consumers turn to Facebook primarily to connect with friends and fill downtime, product discounts and "social badging" are the most commonly cited motivations for "liking" brands on Facebook, according to …

MARKETINGPROFS — Though consumers turn to Facebook primarily to connect with friends and fill downtime, product discounts and "social badging" are the most commonly cited motivations for "liking" brands on Facebook, according to …

MARKETING PILGRIM — ChannelAdvisors’ 2010 Consumer Shopping Habits Survey is out just in time for the holiday season. The free report provides valuable insights for anyone in the ecommerce, B2C space. So, what jumped out at me? Well, it wasn’t s…