Archive for October, 2006

Why Use Social Media With Your Press Release?

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Of the many motivating factors for the use of social media press releases, there are two driving forces that stand out: The changing needs of the end consumer and increasing ease of use for the media.

Due to the increasingly social and sharing nature of the web and the increasing importance of press releases as direct […]

Site Monetization Live Case Study

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

For the first time ever in Internet Marketing history, you can watch a live case study of an actual MONEY-MAKING site being built right before your eyes.
Visit Profit Pulling Videos
You’ll be able to witness the entire step-by-step process to turn a blank website into an automatic revenue generator.
You can see EVERYTHING, including the cpanel, AdSense […]

Social Bookmark Service Reddit Acquired by Condé Nast

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

It’s a day for announcing acquisitions I guess. I just read over at TechCrunch that the popular social news and bookmarking site Reddit has been acquired by the parent of Wired Magazine, Condé Nast.
“All four reddit employees will relocate from Boston to Wired’s San Francisco office and become part of Wired Digital.”
Congrats to Steve, Alexis, […]

Google Acquires JotSpot

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

I just received an email from JotSpot, a wiki service provider we use. JotSpot was co founded by Joe Kraus, a name you might remember in search engine history as a founder of Excite.com
Here’s the email:
We’re writing to let you know that Google has acquired JotSpot. We believe this is great news for our users. […]

Top RSS Feed Readers

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

As you can see from the graph above, the number of RSS and RSS to email subscribers of Online Marketing Blog has grown substantially since we moved over to WordPress and updated the design. Participating in a little social media optimization hasn’t hurt either.
One of the metrics we look at with client […]

Is Yahoo Courting AOL Again?

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Via TW, Fortune reports that Yahoo may be resuming talks with AOL about an acquisition as a play against rival Google.
“FORTUNE has learned from multiple sources that Yahoo! recently approached Time Warner (parent of FORTUNE’s publisher) about buying America Online - essentially trying to jump-start talks that broke down a year ago. A source close […]

MarketingPilgrim 2.0

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

It only took 5 years, but Andy Beal has finally come over to the world of WordPress for his blog, MarketingPilgrim. Previously, Andy ran SearchEngineLowdown.com on Google’s Blogger platform, building it up to one of the top SEO blogs on the Internet. Then after going out on his own, started MarketingPilgrim.com using the same tools.
The […]

Search Marketing Links 102906

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Andy Beal comes over to the dark side and launches a new blog design using WordPress.
Rae posts an excellent interview with Brian Prince of BOTW.org.
Gord Hotchkiss of Enquiro does it again with a great article on search marketing reaching critical mass in a follow-up to his previous “Cross the Chasm” article.
Aaron Wall posts “Trusted vs […]

Resources for BtoB RSS Marketing

Friday, October 27th, 2006

There’s lots of buzz about how to use RSS for business marketing of late, particularly for business to business RSS marketing, so here are some tried and true resources as well as a few recent articles:
KnowledgeStorm Research Report: “How Blogs and RSS Affect B2B Technology Purchase Decisions” also covered by DMNews.
If you work in […]

Google Alerts on Blogs

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Recently Google added links to blog search in Google News and now Google Alerts has been updated to include blogs. The Google Alert options now include:  News, Web, Blogs, Groups or Comprehensive. Time intervals of notification are: as it happens, once a day or once a week.
Google Alerts are very useful to see who is […]