Archive for January, 2010

5 Ingredients for a Perfect Twitter Marketing Recipe

Friday, January 29th, 2010

After reading Lee’s post earlier this week on how to source content on Twitter, I started to think about the homemade guacamole I made for the football playoff games last weekend. Stick with me here.
With my guacamole, I carefully strategize on the right mix of each ingredient to achieve the perfect flavor and consistency.
Not enough […]

BIGLIST Update: Search Marketing Blogs 012810

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Welcome to a new BIGLIST review of SEO blogs. While it’s by no means a requirement for blogs to post daily or even every week to provide useful content to readers, it does take at least 1 post every 2 weeks to be included in the BIGLIST. We’re seeing a shift with many blogs to posting […]

10 Tips For Content Marketing Success

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

As more companies, marketers and industry professionals flood the web with content, the value of those with a true understanding of content marketing keeps going up. More noise increases the value of signal. If your content marketing defines you as that source of signal, you’ll consistently be found, referenced and chosen ahead of […]

5 Ways to Source Content on Twitter

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

With the increasing emphasis on content marketing for both SEO and Social Media, I thought I’d offer some specific tips on dealing with one of the most prevalent issues companies face in this area:  long term sourcing of content.  While we’ve written about content sourcing for corporate blogs in the past, but this post will emphasize how […]

Survey Results: Impact of Blogging on Search Engine Optimization

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Recently I posted a series of informal poll questions about blog SEO on Twitter to gain insights and feedback which were leveraged to construct a more in-depth survey.  I used the longer survey to collect information on how companies are using blogs for search engine optimization purposes and what kind of impact those efforts have. Essentially, […]

Facebook Marketing Tips: Make the Most of Your Fan Page

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

If you haven’t already integrated Facebook into your online marketing mix by creating a fan page, consider the most recent staggering Facebook statistics:

More than 350 million users are active on Facebook
50% of active users log in on any given day
The average user spends 55 minutes a day on Facebook
More than 1.6 million active Facebook fan […]

Search Engines Bringing Back Variables In URLs – At Your Expense

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Did you realize that search engines have gone full circle on URLs in variables? It used to be considered something to avoid, now search engines are saying variables in URLs are good, as long as you use the canonical meta tag. Google is pushing them with FeedBurner and if webmasters aren’t careful, they could fall […]

25 Women That Rock Social Media

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Last week Erik Qualmann posted a list of “All Star Social Media” players in his ClickZ column. Being included in such a list with the likes of Chris Brogan and Scott Monty was humbling to say the least.  Erik qualified the list by saying they were mostly people he knew and he welcomed suggestions.  I […]

Marketing in the Age of Google: Vanessa Fox Interview

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Vanessa Fox is works as Entrepreneur-in-residence with Ignition Partners but is especially well known in the Search Marketing world because of her past work as Google’s search engine strategy spokesperson and creator of Google Webmaster Central. I’ve interviewed Vanessa several times on video in the past here, here, here and podcast here but nothing as […]

5 Examples of Social Media in Healthcare Marketing

Friday, January 15th, 2010

More than ever, it’s essential for hospitals and health providers to rethink their healthcare marketing mix to include social media.
The proof is in the numbers: 34% of consumers use social media to search for health information, according to research data from How America Searches: Health and Wellness.
While it’s easy to identify demand, many healthcare marketers […]