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Tablets and Smartphones Account for One-Fourth of All Paid Clicks

Bill Hartzer

The Search Agency has released its quarterly State of Paid Search Report, which, among other findings, reports that smartphones and tablets drove 23 percent of total clicks in the fourth quarter of 2012, an 89 percent increase year over year. percent in Q4 2011 to 26.1 percent of total spend). Google and Yahoo!-Bing

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Friday's 5 Fun Social Media Finds

Firebelly

Bold & Digital Men of Social Media 2011 Calendar Seriously. A funny social media strategy generator. Click around a bit to figure this site out. Hunch Answer 20 quick questions to personalize your internet experience. But the money raised is apparently going to a good cause.

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Toyota's "Sienna Family" YouTube Campaign

Firebelly

Fun idea and I had a few laughs, but (see update at the end of post) Toyota really should have included the YouTube URL at the end of the ads!

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What Does Integrated Marketing Mean to the Future of the PR Professional?

Social Media Strategery

There was paid media, and there was earned media — and for the most part, everyone understood their role. Today we have Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Managers, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) analysts, Digital Analysts, Community Managers, Content Marketing Specialists, and way too many social media ninjas, gurus, and rockstars.

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity SMM

While 47% felt somewhat good at social measurement in 2011, just 38% said the same in 2012. Search is as popular as ever, but the percentage of searches actually done on search engines declined slightly in 2012 (by about 1%). More searches are taking place on websites (e.g. Marketing Charts ). MediaPost ).

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The risk of silence on your company news page or blog…

The Way of the Web

Take for instance, the recent New York Times article covering the ‘secrets of search’ which led to JC Penney dominating Google results for lots of top product purchases in what appears to be the largest example of linkbuying and other ‘black hat’ practices. Executives there did not return e-mail or phone calls.’

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In January of 2011, I said that I’d make our Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 subscriber only. This year, I am pleased to bring back our Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 thanks to an excellent sponsor, HubSpot. But how do we make sure the search traffic we had stays intact? It’s pretty exhaustive too.

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