Archive for May, 2008

BIGLIST SEO Blogs Update 050908

Friday, May 9th, 2008

What a week! Spring is officially here in Minnesota. Don’t laugh, it snowed just 2 weeks ago. This week’s BIGLIST of SEO and SEM blogs includes a nice mix of search, social and online PR content. When I co-hosted the Daily Searchcast on Thursday it was great to have Danny Sullivan mention the […]

Agency + Client = Superhero Link Building Team

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Two heads are better than one. How many times have we all heard that in our lives?  When having a brainstorming session, it helps to bounce ideas off of one another to generate the best possible solution. Even when saving the world, is it always important to have a sidekick. Or a team of sidekicks.

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Top 10 Reasons for Monitoring Brands in Social Media

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

[Editor’s note: We’re excited to share this next guest post from David Alston of Radian6. A fast emerging leader in the field of social media measurement, Radian6 (a TopRank client) provides social media monitoring tools to hundreds of leading PR firms, ad agencies and brand marketers.]

David is VP Marketing at Radian6 in New Brunswick, Canada […]

Tips on Content Centered Link Building

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Yesterday, Junta 42 announced their latest list of top content marketing focused blogs (Online Marketing Blog came in at #2 in between Copyblogger and PR 2.0) and it reminded me yet again of how important content is for SEO. It used to be when discussing search engine optimization services 5-6 years ago, we’d focus […]

Book Review: Achieving The OPEN Brand by Way Of An Open Worldview

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

TopRank’s Mike Yanke reviews the new book, “The Open Brand: When Push Comes to Pull in a Web-Made World by Kelly Mooney and Dr. Nita Rollins with advice both for marketing agencies and in-house marketers looking to make sense of branding in a Web 2.0 World.

Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Right along with Facebook, YouTube and blogging, Twitter is one of the most often written about social media communication tools. (Follow me @leeodden) We’ve run polls about how people use Twitter as well as aggregated tips from the Twitter community on how to get the most productivity out of it. This post shares a few […]

BIGLIST Update Search Marketing Blogs 050208

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Going by the last month of updates, we’re now updating the BIGLIST of SEO blogs every second Friday. That should give us more time to filter out the better sites for inclusion. Read on at the bottom as there are several reminders on how to get on the list as well as stay on.

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Site Re-Design? Call Your SEO Expert First!

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

It’s a near nightmare situation really. A client sends an email on Friday saying, “We’re launching a new web site on Monday, can you take a look at it to make sure our site optimization is ok?”.
The Account Manager asks for a URL and upon receiving, clicks to find a “pretty” home page with 90% […]