Online Internet Marketing Digest May 2013

I make a lot of jokes about Bing, I have to admit it. The gist is that it is a wannabe search engine that will never make it as the number one choice. Unfair? Probably, but I would argue that 1) I don’t care, and 2) It is still the truth. Besides, it is not like Bing will ever see this…it couldn’t find it! See what I did there?
But it is really only right of me to give Google the same shots…

The first steps of commerce take place within the search results. Give consumers a better sense of offers and pricing with your title tags. By exposing more information up front, sites can better align with the right consumer and get more clicks.

Over the various updates Facebook has moved from a simple communication tool to something much larger, allowing users to have more control over their accounts. This includes their friends feed, which only shows a certain number of posts from friends that you can specify. All of this is worked out using EdgeRank, a site-specific algorithm that filters through posts to decide whether or not they are important enough to match the specifications you have given each user or page…

Why Your Business Should Be On Foursquare Now! is a post by SEO expert Darin Berntson. For information about our SEO services or more great SEO tips and tricks, visit the SEO.com blog.This is not your parents Foursquare.
Remember the days playing this in school? Foursquare means business now!
Nor is this another rendition of Kick-The-Can!
This, ladies and gentlemen, is one of my favorite SoLoMo (Social Local Mobile) apps out there, and as a business it should be one of yours too! Let me ask you something…
Do you have a local business that thrives on needing new walk-in customers, and a business that values, more than life itself, repeat customers?
If you answered yes, and you better have, Foursquare is an application that you should deploy and use to help market your business immediately…

At the Webby Awards this week, Steve Wilhite, father of the Graphics Interchange Format, used his five-word acceptance speech to end a popular debate: It’s pronounced “JIF,” not “GIF.” Unsurprisingly, this outraged many Internet users.
SEE ALSO: More Sunday ComicsIn this comic, our friends Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech illustrate a different position — that neither is wrong, exactly…

Google has recently released a new analytics tool to help businesses know just how customers decide to purchase from their website and how long that takes.
What Google has released is called the Customer Journey to Online Purchase and this new interactive tool is revolutionary in how it collects customer habits to better help you serve your business and customer needs.
The tool describes in great detail how customers interact online…

Google conversational search rolled out on the new version of Chrome this week. While the “OK Google” search prompt we heard about at the I/O event is not yet available, Google is attempting to have relevant conversations with users.

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Android Bathroom Signs: Source: Google+ Bike To Work Day At Google Germany:…Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.