Archive for March, 2010

Common B2B SEO Mistakes and How to Solve Them

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Working with a variety of companies large and small, local and international, B2B and B2C, on SEO projects over the past 12 years has revealed a variety of common obstacles to success.  For many reasons, B2B marketers often lag behind B2C in terms of tactics and adoption of new marketing technologies.  The customer acquisition and […]

The Role of News in Blended Search – Observations & Best Practices

Monday, March 29th, 2010

We’re starting this Spring Break week off with a very rare guest post from TopRank Marketing client, Jiyan Wei. Jiyan is Director of Product Management at Vocus, Inc. where he drives product platform strategy and roadmap execution for PRWeb. I’ve presented on panels with Jiyan several times at search marketing conferences, talking about the virtues […]

5 Tips for Better B2B Branding

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Think branding only falls in the B2C court? Think again.
In fact, three of the top 10 brands in 2009, as ranked by Interbrand, generate a sizable amount of revenue from their B2B customers: IBM, Microsoft and GE.
As a B2B marketer your brand is your most valuable asset.
B2B branding is less about cool, hip monikers (the […]

How To Develop Great Content – SESNY

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

At Online Marketing Blog, content marketing is frequently a hot topic.  And with good reason:  it’s a vital skill for marketers. Not only do we at TopRank Online Marketing see great results implementing content marketing for clients, but the industry as a whole sees it as a clear trend.  Consider the following stats:

6 in […]

10 Steps to Optimize Your Content Marketing Strategy

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

SES New York kicked off with an excellent keynote presentation by David Meerman Scott (interview) followed by a panel on Digital Asset Optimization including Mark Knowles, Chris Boggs and myself. Richard Zwicky moderated.
The rising importance of optimizing one’s digital assets came out of Google and other search engines’ decision to start including information and file […]

5 Tips To Optimize Press Releases For Search From PRWeb – SESNY

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

TopRank Online Marketing has been working with PRWeb providing SEO consulting services for nearly one year. PRWeb was founded in 1997 to help small businesses and communications professionals leverage the web to share their news directly with the public. As part of this process PRWeb lead the way for the “direct-to-consumer” press release, enabling […]

How to Become a Link Magnet – SES NY 2010

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Links are the lifeblood of the web. Without fresh links, your website has no authority in the engines or consistent referral traffic.
Some companies and individuals appear to attract links without really trying. Others struggle and never break through to the point of building links at increasing velocity.
We’ve shared plenty of linkbuilding tactics at Online Marketing […]

SESNY Keynote Interview: David Meerman Scott

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

David Meerman Scott is a best-selling author and popular keynote speaker on the topics of viral and online marketing as well as the convergence of web marketing, digital media and online PR. One of his most popular books, The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to use news releases, blogs, viral marketing and online […]

Google: The Social Media Company

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Over the last few years, the popularity of social channels – for professionals, teens, grandmas and everyone in between – has skyrocketed. Consider the recent numbers:

Twitter experienced an annual growth in 2009 of 1,382%
Facebook now boasts 400 million active users
Every minute, 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube

Between blog posts, Facebook status updates, tweets, […]

10 Reasons SES New York is a Must-Attend Marketing Conference

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Let’s get it out of the way that Online Marketing Blog is a media sponsor for Search Engine Strategies conferences and also that I serve on the advisory board. In fact, the blog you’re reading right now was the very first blog to be recognized as a media sponsor by a major marketing industry conference. […]