Facebook Marketing is a topic we’ve covered for several years and with the significant increase in Facebook users there’s even more interest in how to make sense of what people do there. I’ve seen a significant increase in referring traffic from Facebook to web pages over the past 6 months and while a lot of that lift comes from marketing activities, I don’t anticipate the trend in Facebook users leaving to visit websites slowing down any time soon. Participation on Facebook has traditionally been behind the login or confined to your network

Facebook Marketing is a topic we’ve covered for several years and with the significant increase in Facebook users there’s even more interest in how to make sense of what people do there. I’ve seen a significant increase in referring traffic from Facebook to web pages over the past 6 months and while a lot of that lift comes from marketing activities, I don’t anticipate the trend in Facebook users leaving to visit websites slowing down any time soon. Participation on Facebook has traditionally been behind the login or confined to your network

In light of this week’s news that Google Wave has crashed, plus Danny Sullivan’s follow up piece about Google’s other failures, it’s somewhat ironic that Slate magazine this week published an interview with Peter Norvig about … being wrong. Norvig is Google’s Director of Research and has been with the company for almost ten years – *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Advertising pioneer John Wanamaker once famously said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” And as digital marketers/SEO ninjas, you certainly know how this feels. We pay for impressions that result in almost no clicks

The presentation will discuss: Why your customers aren’t buying more from you How automated recommendations increase AOV How Claflin Medical Equipment increased conversion by 150% Download Now *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Let’s Celebrate Google’s Biggest Failures! “We celebrate our failures,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said yesterday when speaking at the Techonomy confernce, in response to the surprise closure of his company’s Google Wave product.

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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….

According to The Associated Press , 80,000 videos have been submitted to YouTube.s ” Life in a Day ” project.

“We celebrate our failures,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said yesterday when speaking at the Techonomy confernce, in response to the surprise closure of his company’s Google Wave product. When it comes to failures, Google’s celebrating more than you might realize. Some believe that anything Google touches is golden.