links for 2007-11-29
Universal Digital Library Digitized books put online by Carnegie Mellon University. (tags: books libraries library reference research) Word of Mouth Marketing Association (tags: association WordofMouth marketing internetmarketing socialnetworking socialmedia viralmarketing buzz es) Flickr: Places Browse the whole globe, from your hometown to your favorite place, or places you’ve never even heard of… (tags: flickr geotagging map photography photos gallery local photomarketing) Flickr: Explore [...]Defining White/Black Hat Internet Marketing
Link building pro Eric Ward has an article in the Winter 07/08 issue of Search Engine Marketing Standard called "Staying White Hat in A World of Gray." The article is not, unfortunately, online. Ward’s piece is a fair and evenhanded attempt at defining just what is "black hat" and what is "white hat" Internet marketing, [...]links for 2007-11-28
November 28, 2007 · Categories: Uncategorized · View Comments
E-tailers launch holiday shopping season – Yahoo! News
With an overall holiday season that is expected to be the weakest since 2002, and the number of new online customers leveling off, Web retailers are dangling even more incentives to keep them buying online, from fat discounts to free shipping without mini
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links for 2007-11-27
Content Management RSS Feeds for Websites Free Content – Feedzilla FeedZilla continually tracks, collects, categorizes and delivers online content from thousands of qualified content providers. (tags: feeds directory index syndication news widgets OpenSource) Old maps given new life on the Internet – Yahoo! News Two and a half centuries after men braved the trackless wilderness to map Vermont, using [...]links for 2007-11-25
definr – incredibly fast dictionary (tags: dictionary tool reference) Facebook Member Stats – Gender « Travels With My Overnight Bag Gender breakdown of Facebook users. (tags: facebook Statistics demographics women gender) VisioBrand Brand directory & search engine. (tags: brands searchengine directory index business)links for 2007-11-24
Review: Amazon reader needs more juice – Yahoo! News It’s in some ways an amazing device, but it’s severely undercut by its poor battery life, making it hard to see it as a game-changer. (tags: review ebook books bookmarketing amazon mobile mobilemarketing hardware wireless) Facebook users complain of new tracking – Yahoo! News Some users of the online hangout [...]Black Friday Search Queries
November 23, 2007 · Categories: Ecommerce, Holiday Marketing, Keyword Research, Online Behavior, Search Engine Marketing, Seasonal Marketing · View Comments
I posted a piece yesterday examining people’s Thanksgiving-related search behavior so I figure today is an appropriate time to examine people’s Black Friday search behavior.
As you can see from the Google Trends chart below, a day after the 100 most popular searches are dominated by Thanksgiving-related queries, Black Friday is all about shopping; and [...]
Thanksgiving Day Searches
November 22, 2007 · Categories: Holiday Marketing, Keyword Research, Online Behavior, Search Engine Marketing, Seasonal Marketing · View Comments
People perform Thanksgiving-related searches near that holiday, so we see predictable spikes in query volume for such searches.
Thanks to the magic of Google Trends, this is the search volume for the top Thanksgiving-related searches since 2004 (click on the graphic to get a larger size):
This is how the search volume grew for those same [...]
links for 2007-11-22
Google Goes Wireless A coalition led by the Web search giant is scoring early wins in a tussle over $10 billion in wireless airwaves (tags: article google mobile mobilemarketing wireless wifi internetaccess internetusage broadband) Making Social Connections and Selling Cookies – New York Times FOR decades, Nabisco has sold cookies called Social Tea and crackers called Sociables. Now a [...]links for 2007-11-21
[watch out for webcreepz] What she didn’t know was that MileyWorld also features an interactive chat room, and there’s no way to know who is lurking in there. (tags: videogames es onlinebehavior teen) Skip the sweet snuff: A new health department campaign advises teens : Local : Redding Record Searchlight The "Don’t Buy the Lies" campaign will focus on [...]-
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David Erickson is Director of e-Strategy at Tunheim Partners strategic communications company.
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