Archive for February, 2009

A Strategic Approach to Internet Marketing with Content & SEO

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

We’ve debated content vs links as it relates to SEO as well as the general merits of content in online marketing for serveral years on this blog. Most of the advice about content optimization comes from a search engine optimization perspective, or at least, from SEOs.  I decided to reach out to a good number […]

BIGLIST SEO Blogs Update 021009

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

 In this update of the TopRank BIGLIST of  search marketing blogs  we have a mix of new and old, funny and serious. We hope you find these blogs as informative and interesting as we do. Enjoy:

Mediatrust Blog - Peter Bordes, Trip Foster, Scott Parent and Christopher Smith combine to write this agency blog about everything from […]

Reader Poll: Top Digital Marketing Tactics for 2009

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

We’ve run several Reader Polls on favored internet marketing tactics over the past year and a half flavored by a sentiment towards recession and also as a general indication of future plans. The state of the world and certainly the marketing world is as unique and challenging as it’s ever been. Many companies and vendors […]

12 Twitter Stream Aggregators To Make You Smarter

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

There are so many Tweets and so little time. What’s a “Tweeple” to do? Twitter aggregator and trend websites use a variety of tactics to filter out what’s up and coming and of interest to the Twittersphere in contrast to the mass of mundane Tweets.  Twitter stream aggregators are useful for a variety of reasons […]

Best Recession Marketing Investment? Relationships

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Search marketing has been known as recession resistant because so many companies shift or increase internet marketing budgets there in good times and in bad.  When other marketing and advertising channels don’t hold up to ROI scruitiny, tactics like SEO hold up rather well.  Sage advice on how to execute on this insight can be […]

Visualizing Blog Analytics

Friday, February 13th, 2009

There are many ways to analyze the effect of blogging with Google Analytics ranking at the top for most due to the pricetag of free and robust features.  As the social web continues to grow and become central to the internet experience, analytics and social monitoring software will HAVE to converge to measure on and […]

Best and Worst Practices Social Media Marketing

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Social media is hot, just take a look at Google Trends and to see the comparison between topics like “search marketing” being eclipsed by “social media” in terms of search volume and news references - at least according to Google. Along with all that “hotness”, there’s good and bad when it comes to the way […]

Aggregating Social Media: Best Buy Connect

Monday, February 9th, 2009

 
Whether you think “social media” is an overused term (yes, it is) or it’s a fad, or the evolution and revolution of the web, you don’t have to look far anymore for abundant examples of how companies, organizations and the U.S. Government are going social.
Social media can involve a variety of platforms and media ranging […]

BIGLIST SEO Blog Reviews 0020209

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Today’s BIGLIST update of search marketing blogs includes a smattering of agency blogs from the US and the UK as well as appearances from Poland and Singapore. Step right up and get your daily dose of SEO, social media and PPC with this collection of new entrants.

The Woah Factor - Brad Shorr and  Jeanne Dininni write this insightful company […]

4 Tips For Clean Link Checking

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

It’s time for another SEO Basics post and this time getting more out of link building efforts is the topic. 
Link building continues to be an important part of marketing and optimizing web sites and web marketers can often get distracted by quantity goals rather than quality.  Link building efforts for search engine optimization purposes rely […]