Archive for December, 2007

Getting to First Base: A Social Media Marketing Playbook

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

[Note from Lee: Is that chicken wearing a garter belt?]
Beginning with a blog post on creative blogger pitches, Darren and Julie caught TopRank’s attention with Lee Odden’s name showcased on a flirty pink envelope. Watching Lee dig through the mail looking for his pink envelope only intrigued me more, and I knew I had to […]

Voting Begins - Search Marketing Blog Awards

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Loren Baker’s Search Engine Journal has recently taken nominations for best search marketing blogs in a variety of categories. I am happy to say TopRank’s blog, aka “Online Marketing Blog” has been nominated in 4 of the 19 categories.
Thank you to friends and readers of Online Marketing Blog for nominating us! You can now […]

BIGLIST SEO Blogs Update 122807

Friday, December 28th, 2007

It’s here. It’s finally here. The last BIGLIST seo blog reviews post of 2007. In all, we’ve reviewed over 700 SEO, PPC and Social Media Marketing blogs with only 400 or remaining. Who made this final BIGLIST post of the year? Read on:

Digerati Marketing - UK based Mark Cook uses a blog as […]

Top Online Marketing Blog Posts 2007

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

A lot of work can go into producing and promoting a popular blog. While we’ve made some progress in terms of raising the visibility of TopRank and have made a tremendous number of connections, I think we’re really only “half way there” as far as where we could be. Using blogs as a […]

TopRank Tips: Conference Live Blogging

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

For anyone that reads Online Marketing Blog from time to time knows we do a bit of conference blogging. In fact, during 2007 OMB covered 14 conferences involving nearly 100 blog posts, over 1500 photos and 20 videos. Besides the conference sessions and after hours coverage, we also typically conduct interviews before the events, […]

AdAge Power 150 and Bloglines Reporting Issue

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Readers of Online Marketing Blog may have noticed the “ranking” for our blog reported by the AdAge Power 150 widget has dropped from #12 to #43 or so the past week. I just wanted to assure new readers this is not because of any change in subscribers, links or traffic but due to Bloglines not […]

Happy Holidays from TopRank!

Friday, December 21st, 2007

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BIGLIST Search Marketing Blogs 122107

Friday, December 21st, 2007

After a lackluster entry last week, at least as far as blogs to be added, we’re back on track with SEO and SEM blogs for the BIGLIST.

Seer Interactive SEO blog - Wil Reynolds at Philadelphia based Seer Interactive blogs the gamut of SEO/SEM and internet marketing subjects.
Billy’s Blog - Billy works at Widemile in […]

Search Engine Optimization for Small Business

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Recently I did a podcast for AllBusiness.com , recently acquired by Dun & Bradstreet, along with their Marketing Director, David Saries. The audience for AllBusiness.com is small businesses, so the questions were flavored toward the perspectives many do it yourself or hands on web site owners and online business owners have.
The podcast discusses a […]

Frozen Sunrise Lake Minnetonka

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

The great thing about winter in Minnesota when you’re in a computer/indoors intensive profession, is that there aren’t as many distractions to go outside. Compared to all the snow and ice, back link analysis and code optimization seems pretty appealing.
I’m not sure how many of our readers are in warm climates, but I thought […]