Bloggers Digest 2/13/09
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- Attention all PPC managers, call your Adwords Reps ASAP and try to get in on the plus box beta — you could have image thumbnails appearing in your paid search ads.
- Now more than ever, cost controls are crucial to e-tail profitability, whether you’re drop-shipping or holding inventory. Check out Maxim Mironov’s discussing best practices for pricing.
- Apparently Bryan Eisenberg and I have company in the Amazon Screenshotaholics Anonymous club. Ann Smarty analyzes the evolution of Amazon’s navigation menu. Many good takeaways here.
- Think your site might suffer from duplicate content issues? Good news, the search engines will now support a
>canonical URL tag which will prevent indexing of URL copies like affiliate links, tracking parameters and session IDs. Yahoo!
- Bryan Eisenberg shares 3 retailer examples of how they’re using personas in their personalization strategies: The Power of Persona-lization.
- A timely post on the heels of the NBA All-Star weekend, Justin Palmer asks Is your online customer service strategy defensive or offensive?
- Anna Jacobson recap’s a landing page optimization analysis for OnlineShoes.com by Marketing Experiments’ Senior Analyst Boris Kot, complete with ideas for testing.
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Original post by Linda Bustos