The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Facebook Launches Verified Accounts”. Emily Price says, “Did the real Justin Bieber just send you a friend request? Now you can know for sure, thanks to a new Facebook feature: Verified Pages. Much like verified accounts on Twitter, verified Facebook pages will now display a small blue check mark beside their owner’s name on the social network. The check mark will also appear beside the individual’s name in search results, as well as anywhere else on Facebook where it appears”. Facebook Launches Verified Accounts Mashable.com  [...]

If you want to be successful in any business, you need to stand out from the crowd. That’s as true for affiliates as for any other business. If your affiliate site looks just like dozens of other affiliate sites, you’re not likely to be the top affiliate in your niche. Why should any person or any search engine favor your site? By being unique, you have a chance for your site to stand out and become a valuable property for you. But if you use the typical affiliate tools that other Amazon affiliates use, your chance of standing out are slim. That’s why Ryan Stephenson created... [...]

The latest ‘SEO Book’ blog post is titled “LarryWorld”. Aaron Wall says, “It’s hard to disagree with Larry Page. In his recent speech at Google I/O, Page talked about privacy and how it impairs Google. “Why are people so focused on keeping their medical history private”? If only people would share more, then Google could do more. Well, quite. We look forward to Google taking the lead in this area and opening up their systems to public inspection. Perhaps they could start with the search algorithms. If Google would share more, publishers could do more”. LarryWorld ‘SEO Book’... [...]

Rand Fishkin has announced that now onwards SEOmoz is will be known as Moz. Fishkin says, “For the last two years, the 130+ Mozzers across product, engineering, marketing, and operations have been working to transform this company to the next stage of our evolution. Today, that incredibly demanding, intense, but ultimately rewarding process has reached its first goal. I’m excited to announce that as of today, SEOmoz is formally transitioning our brand, our products, our company name, and all of our efforts to Moz”. Goodbye SEOmoz. Hello Moz! Moz  [...]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “Return of the Content Marketing Know-It-All”. Sonia Simone says, “Yes, it’s back again! The Content Marketing Know-It-All is here to answer your questions. This time, we’ve taken a few questions from recent comments here on the blog, a few from the comments on the earlier post, and one from the forums insideAuthority, our brand-new education and networking community for content professionals. As always, all answers reflect my own biases, strong opinions, personal pet peeves, and individual business experience”. Return of... [...]

Eleanor Ruse has released another of her niche resource packages, this one called CB Desperate Dating Riches. As she has several times in the past, Ruse has created a complete package of promotional materials for Clickbank products in this niche. She has found 30 Clickbank products that pass her stringent filters for profitability. For them, she has built a package with: • High-quality written reviews for the top 10 products in the list of 30 she provides • 25 dating niche graphics you can use in your marketing • Keywords (100s of them) used by people in the dating niche when they... [...]

The latest ‘Aweber’ blog post is titled “Irritating Marketing Trends – Do They Actually Work?”. Rebekah Henson says, “What’s the most irritating marketing trend you know? I noticed a growing trend of businesses using Unicode characters in subject lines – snowmen at Christmas, hearts for Valentine’s Day, suns for summer sales. And to me? It looks like something my 13-year-old cousin would post on Facebook. But trusted retailers must be seeing success with“. Irritating Marketing Trends – Do They Actually Work? Aweber Blog  [...]

The latest ‘MarketingExperiments’ blog post is titled “Analytics & Testing: 3 statistical testing methods for building an advanced customer theory”. Anuj Shrestha says, “When I was in college, I took a class on complex analysis and after all the lectures, studying and nerve-racking exams, I learned one important thing about customer behavior – some characteristics of a person will likely contribute to their future behavior. In other words, my grandparents are not likely to start buying iPods, but at the same time my younger sister and her friends are not going to go out and start... [...]

MarketingSherpa has released a case study titled “Lead Generation: Revamped marketing automation and CRM technology drives 75% more leads”. David Kirkpatrick says, “Technology in the form of marketing automation and CRM software is a key piece of the complex sale. Handling lead scoring and nurturing manually just isn’t an option once marketing campaigns reach a certain size. Managed Maintenance had marketing automation and CRM software in place, but the programs did not integrate, leaving Marketing and Sales technology siloed. After revamping its entire technology setup,... [...]

Gail Trahd’s latest ‘PLR Health Wizard’ blog post is titled “Article Marketing: 9 Vital Content Curation Tools for Your Site”. Gail says, “We all enjoy collecting the best of the best. We assemble art, literature and historical collections and house them in museums and libraries across the world. Curating content is just one more way of pulling together the best of the best and cataloging it to share it with others. As a publisher you can aggregate content, distill it into its most important and relevant concepts, point to general trends or insights, or develop a historically accurate... [...]