Online Internet Marketing Digest March 2013

Change can by terrifying. But great testing results can sometimes be a result of a series of bad or “failed” tests. Embrace test failures as a necessary part of the process. Only then will you have the courage to try, try again, and succeed.

Recently, I was asked to run an estimate of traffic opportunity for a multinational sports franchise in which I modeled their current global traffic against brand visibility growth opportunities. However, I also identified that to make the estimate relevant, I needed to quantify the traffic more…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

At the recent SXSW event, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s search spam team, announced that Google’s Penguin algorithm updates would undergo some major changes in 2013. So take this as your official warning!
Cutts claimed that the Penguin algorithm update in 2013 is going to be so large that it is likely to be the most talked about algorithm update that Google makes all year. In fact, Cutts says that the search quality team has been working very diligently on this update which is going to be extremely significant to Google…

Did you know that the higher a site is listed in search results, the more traffic that site is likely to receive? If you’re a search marketer, or anyone with a dose of common sense, you do. But Microsoft had research conducted to yet again prove this point, in an attempt to influence the…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Bing has announced support for HTML5 pushState as a way to implement AJAX on a site in a way that enables Bing to crawl and index the URLs and content. As Google has supported this implementation since early 2012, site owners finally have an AJAX option that can be crawled and indexed by both major…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

T-Mobile is finally getting the iPhone 5— the last major carrier to do so.
The company announced during a press event in New York City on Tuesday the iPhone 5 is finally coming to T-Mobile, for a $99.99 down payment and $20 for each month (for 24 months). Although it will be available without a contract, customers can subscribe to its LTE network.
Meanwhile, the iPhone 4 can be purchased for a down payment of $14…

Google’s Universal Analytics aims to help you understand how customers interact with your business across devices, give insights into mobile app performance, and improve your ROI by helping you understand which channels drive the best results.

Many people wouldn’t think there is a link between SEO and videos on your website. In fact, the two are very much related. Especially with the popularity of YouTube, video is more important than ever in getting your message across. Search engine crawlers see multimedia elements on a webpage as more diverse, as opposed to just text, so this helps to boost your SEO efforts. Of course, the video description, tags, and title all need to keep your site’s SEO in mind, too…