Archive for October, 2008

SEO Basics: Unlocking Content for Search Engines

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

At the DMA08 conference in Las Vegas this week, the “Search Engine Experience” panel on Tuesday was presented with a number of site reviews which are great sessions because the audience gets free SEO consulting advice and speakers get to demonstrate their expertise.
One of the questions that came up was related to a site that […]

SEO Tops Recession Internet Marketing Tactics

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Let’s face it, we’re experiencing more than “interesting” economic times, especially those with a marketing responsibility in-house and at agencies.
To tap in to the stream of marketing-savvy collective wisdom online, we reached out to our network with a top internet marketing tactics poll for the next 6 months. Over 400 business marketers responded, making this […]

DMA08 Las Vegas Internet Marketing Roundup

Monday, October 13th, 2008

TopRank Online Marketing has been fortunate to present at the Direct Marketing Association annual conference for 4 years in a row and a 5th appearance several years before that. (See photos from DMA07 here) Over 10,000 marketers attend the DMA show making it the largest marketing conference in the world and with this year’s show […]

Wish List for Twitter

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Microblogging is hot with the shiny new object set and as the practice of Twittering extends beyond early adopters and gets more mainstream media coverage, the crowd will get hungrier for more functionality. I don’t know about you, but I’m hungry for more Twitter functionality now. Check me out onTwitter here.
Whether the enhancements come from […]

SEO Basics: Are Directory Submissions Still Worthwhile?

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Here’s another search engine optimization Q/A on on the topic of web site marketing via directories compared to search engines plus a bonus on the value of meta search engines.
These are real questions from a web site owner and due to the vintage nature of the topics, reflect the need for ongoing education and updates […]

SEO Basics: Ensure Your Site is Crawlable

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Online Marketing Blog has always been about more than search engine optimization, covering digital public relations, social media marketing and plenty of other internet marketing topics. And yet, SEO is a core component of nearly every thing we do in our consulting practice.
For the web site owners  and marketers fairly new to the site optimization […]

Monday Links: Greeking, Linking, Fishing, Social, Mobile & Engagement

Monday, October 6th, 2008

1. Geeking with Jonathan, no wait, “Greek-ing with Jonathan Mendez with the speaker, the listener and the argument in “Lessons in Ad Persuasion from Aristotle“.
2. Proactive Profile Linking. Social profiles and profiles of any kind can provide benefits as part of a Search Engine Reputation Management effort since they can rank well on brand and […]

Enter This Contest At No Cost And Win A NEW Corvette!

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Hi Marketers!
I want to let you in on a cool contest my buddy Russell Brunson is doing. It’s a contest where you get training at no cost…and you can win a New Corvette!
It’s called the $100 Million Dollar Challenge. Russell’s going to personally train you to make money online, and he wants everyone to make […]

BIGLIST SEO Blogs Update 100208

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Admit it. You’ve missed the BIGLIST. Well, we’ve have a nice bundle of SEO and paid search blog reviews for you to snuggle up to. Fire up your feed reader and grab a hot cup of joe.

SearchEngineWorld - One of several sister sites to WebmasterWorld, this long time search marketing site has been reinvented and […]

Wrap Up of MIMA Summit 2008

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

The dust has settled, mountains of email have been sorted through and most of this year’s attendees of MIMA’s Summit, branded “FEED” are back into the swing of things.
As you can tell from the photo above, it was a sold out event and a very big venue. Both keynotes were informative and entertaining. Rebecca Lieb’s […]