Archive for January, 2009

What is Search Engine Marketing?

January 30th, 2009

What Search Engine Marketing is can be broken down into two major categories – Search Engine Optimization and Pay Per Click Marketing.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)  is the process of helping your website achieve greater visibility with the search engines for select keyword phrases that drive customers to your website.

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Top 100 Social Brands of 2008 by Industry

January 30th, 2009

Yesterday, Virtue posted a Top 100 Social Brands of 2008 list on their blog.

The companies that interested me from the list first were all of the automakers. For an industry that seems to be hitting major major hard times in the US they make up nearly a quarter of the top 100 social brands of 2008 list.

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Twitter

January 30th, 2009

Twitter

Am I Famous Yet?

Social Media Spammers Target Freelancers

January 15th, 2009

I am a member of a freelance SEO site where dozens of projects are posted on a daily basis that allows SEO experts to bid on the projects. Most the projects are for link building (of course) but there are also some good projects that help you keep all your skills sharp.

So, I scroll through the projects that were posted overnight every morning and two stood out from the rest for me this morning – not in a good way either.

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Nobody Gives a F About Yahoo!

January 14th, 2009

The Wall Street Journal broke the news yesterday that Carol Bartz, former CEO of Autodesk, Inc., would be replacing Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo! I thought this was some great news and decided to share it with my fellow Internet marketers on Sphinn – http://sphinn.com/story/96678 Update: (Sphinn Post Removed)

Turns out nobody really gives a fuck about Yahoo!.

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Insurance for Your Search Engine Rankings

January 13th, 2009

Early yesterday morning Brett Tabke (@btabke) dropped a quick tweet on Twitter about starting a new SEO biz model that would offer insurance for your rankings – The Tweet.

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Using H# Tags for SEO – Code Review Tip

January 12th, 2009

Lately I have been contracted to code review a variety of sites. In the code review process you look at the underlying code of a site and offer up a number of suggestions to the client on how they could improve the code of their site. The code review is supposed to help the client achieve better crawlability from the spiders, “clean up” the code, increase usability (to some extent) and increase the usage of favorable tags.

One of the more favorable tags for improving on-site search engine optimization features are the H tags. The H (or header) tags are a serious of numbered tags in this fashion: <H1>, <H2>, <H3>…

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Rock & A Hard Place – Rank Reporting for Clients

January 12th, 2009

Rank reporting is no longer a relevant measure of return on investment (ROI) for search engine optimization campaigns.  This has been common knowledge in the SEO industry for some time but what about your clients?

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Why Jim Tobin & Lisa Braziel Kept Me Up All Night

January 9th, 2009

A Review of Social Media is a Cocktail Party: Why You Already Know the Rules of Social Media Marketing

It happens to all of us, those sleepless nights where we can’t fall asleep or can’t stay asleep for very long. It doesn’t happen to me often, maybe once a year. However, last night was one of those nights and I know just who to blame… Jim Tobin & Lisa Braziel of Ignite Social Media.

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Maintain a Competitive Advantage in a Downturn Economy

January 7th, 2009

Maintain a Competitive Advantage in a Downturn Economy with Search Engine Marketing

When the economy gets tough, businesses (like consumers) need to find ways to save money while maintaining the profits/revenue that keeps their business running. Many businesses will look to cut funding to one of the largest spending areas – Marketing.

If you are a business owner and you are concidering cutting your marketing budget in the slow economy – shame on you. This is the ideal time to add extra funding to the budget for marketing and especially in the area of Search Engine Marketing.

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