Web Marketing Digest - March 5

Mar. 05, 2010

olympic rings vancouver Alright, it's Friday again and so it's time for the latest installment of our Web Marketing Digest series. This week we have a video on the state of the internet today, a few stats about the Olympics (we are located in Vancouver after all), the best custom 404 page we've ever seen and for all our readers looking for something more informative than entertaining, a great article on conversion optimization. Here they are:

If you like video representations of facts, you'll love this video on the state of the internet today made by JESS3. Here are just a few of the facts the video shows:

1.73 Billion internet users worldwide
90 trillion emails sent in 2009
81% of the emails sent were spam

We don't want to ruin the surprise, so you'll have to check out the video to learn the rest.

Want to learn which Olympic athletes from N. America had the most online buzz surrounding them? This report from Neilsen shows the internet buzz surrounding different Olympic athletes who won gold, and the most talked about people might surprise you!

I know it's hard to believe, but 404 error pages can be cool! Don't believe me? Check out this custom 404 page from imjustcreative and tell me that it's not the best one you've ever seen.

As promised, here is a great article, The Five Rings of Conversion Optimization, from Search Engine Land on how conversion optimization involves more than just your website.

Have a great weekend!

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Posted by Amberlie Denny at March 5, 2010 9:00 AM