marketing in traffic by brian branca

It’s not like you’ve got anything else better to do…

• Which URL Shortening Service Should You Use? -- Search Engine Land -- I thought everyone just picked what they thought looked/sounded the coolest.
• URL Shorteners Are  Bad for Most of Us -- Joshua Schachter’s Blog -- Are they?  What do you think?  The only thing that bothers me is when they don’t work.
• DIY Social Media Monitoring Dashboards -- Michael Leis -- Why just plugin when you can plugin & monitor?  It’s the logical next step…
• The Top 5 Video Game Ninjas -- Unreality -- Ninja-related material is always must-read.
• Twitter Traffic Explodes…And Not Being Driven By the Usual Suspects -- comScore Voices -- Even though the 18 -- 24 year old demographic has a low adoption rate compared to the rest of the olders demos, I see lots of growth coming in the next year.  I base this solely on the fact that my cousin, who’s a senior in college, is now tweeting.
• Quarterly Online Sales Flash Survey, Q1 2009 Results -- Shop.org -- More than half of the retailers surveyed reported an increase in sales during Q1.
• Pre-roll Ad Viewing Up, Interaction Down -- ReelSEO -- Not surprising that people looking for content they’d normally have to pay for are more willing to tolerate watch pre-roll.
• Amazon Cuts Paid Search Affiliates -- Amazon Affiliate Blog -- I wonder if this has anything to do with the pending tax nexus changes.  Search Engine Marketing firms who dislike affiliates will tell you that other merchants should do the same.  What’s your opinion?
• And when in doubt, think with your dipstick…or don’t.  I think I’ve found my Halloween costume.  I’m Scottish, I could pull it off.  Check out this behind the scenes video; it might be funnier than the commercial.