Archive for March, 2009

Geeky Gadgets for Surviving and Thriving at Conferences

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Here I sit blogging in my hotel room at the Renaissance in Austin, Texas before a full day of search and social marketing brain dump at Pubcon South. Immediately after that is SXSWi for a few days. A few days after that it’s NYC for a PRSA thing followed by SES New York.  I speak […]

BIGLIST SEO Blog Reviews 030909

Monday, March 9th, 2009

We’ve been reviewing the TopRank BIGLIST of  search marketing blogs  for over 2 years, starting in January 2007. In that time we’ve reviewed nearly 1,000 blogs covering internet marketing and search marketing related topics.
Blog features we like include: Design, On-topic to SEO, Social Media and Internet Marketing, an About page (for the blog specifically), Categories and […]

11 Ways to Find Brands & Companies on Twitter

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

A big question for marketers that want to connect with businesses on Twitter is that they often don’t know where to look.  Part of the rub is that Twitter is predominantly a service used by individuals, not companies.   While you can use search.twitter.com advanced features to find individuals using specific criteria, it can be […]

TopRank March 09 Events: Pubcon SXSW PRSA SESNY

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

So much for taking time off from the conference and speaking drill. February was a sweet reprise from a whirlwhind tour of speaking events in 4th quarter 2008. Now February is over and March starts the conference schedule for TopRank Online Marketing once again. Here are the conferences I’ll be speaking at or just attending […]

Social Media Marketing Tops Digital Marketing Tactics for 2009

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

With concerns over the recession and its impact on marketing, we decided to run a TopRank Reader Poll to discover reader (and their networks) preferences for digital marketing tactics in 2009.  Companies world-wide are cutting costs as well as looking for creative, high impact and accountable marketing.  Our amazing readers both on Online Marketing Blog […]