It's always good to look back at what yourself and other e-commerce companies did during the holiday season to boost sales, in order to begin planning for your next holiday season.

GM announced a range of new OnStar services, including one called AtYourSe

We have all eaten at McDonalds.  It was after a soccer game or maybe at a birthday party, no matter what the occasion, we have all consumed their Happy Meals and Big Macs.

It's been estimated that Google received 345 million DMCA complaints last year from copyright holders

SEO is one industry where almost all the information about it is easily found online.

It should be no surprise to anyone that more people are watching videos on their mobile devices.

More ways competitors can drive sites down in the serps: https://goralewicz.co/blog/negative-seo-with-no-backlinks-a-case-study/

Pinterest had been beta testing their "Promoted Pins" advertising product and found some great success with it. They now plan to roll this out to all of their partners at the start of 2015.

Seroundtable.com recently reported that they've been seeing a decline in organic traffic that the main guy, Barry Schwartz, believes is due to Panda 4.1.

Almost half of us have visited a brand’s Facebook Page and about 40% of the one of us who did, clicked like.

After 20 years, they decide to just wrap it up 5 days early, lol. Oh well!

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Interesting and very detailed article on operationalizing content marketing within an organization for link acquisition

http://www.movoto.com/blog/movoto-com/buzzfeed-for-real-estate/

According to the National Retail Federation, 2014 was a good year!

A great article on how to incorporate traditional marketing methods such as scarcity, personalization and appealing to basic emotions as part of your digital marketing strategy to increase leads an

Google now supposedly provides song lyrics directly in search results, causing a concern for lyrics websites.

Fractl and BuzzStream recently teamed up to survey 500 publishers to find out how to pitch a digital

We all remember the missing child pamphlets and milk cartons beginning in the 70’s and 80’s as they began the first outreach for missing and abducted children.

Wordpress released a new version on 12/18 and it has a handful of new features which are nice, but not the main point.

Who could have thought!

2014 Bot Traffic Report published 12/18/14. Researched annually by Incapsula, shows 3 year trends of the first time.