http://www.marketerblog.com Online Marketing Unleashed Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:28:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Plenty of bloggers are talking about the inevitable intersection of social media marketing and search engine optimization. Keyword optimized social content and channels of promotion provide abundant signals to search engines for improved visibility on standard, social and real-time search. The changing nature of social media marketing and optimization create the ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/msEgof1rxyI/ When you think of successful consumer brands in the social media space, names like Dell, Zappos and Pepsi come to mind. Another is Ford. Last year the Ford Fiesta movement generated tremendous amount of awareness (and pre-orders) for a vehicle that wasn’t available to the public yet. At the ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/MlC61cjrkKg/ As with many bloggers, we’ve been using royalty free images for many years.  Many bloggers make use of images from Flickr and we have too but you can’t always find the right image there. I’ve even made a point to take more photos of people, places and things while traveling ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/sDZBi2SyNlQ/ From Facebook to Twitter to You Tube, there’s no limit to the number of social networking sites that can be leveraged to interact with customers and prospects, and build positive brand awareness. LinkedIn, however, stands apart from the crowd. The roots of popular sites like YouTube and Facebook are founded on ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/qLhIbATrD3A/ It’s a little ironic that I’m writing this post about iPhone apps using WordPress on a Motorola Droid (Devour actually), but it allows me a chance to experience how hard it is to blog, using a tiny tiny tactile keyboard and also finally get this post started. Ah, back to a ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/Z3zSS2kHnBY/ “If you don’t eat your meat you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!” Pink Floyd, The Wall. That quote from Another Brick in the Wall reminds me of the cart horse situation with social media marketing:  If you don’t know your ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/XEbOu4vF_r4/ Relevant, Consistently Updated Content + Flawless Technical Functionality & User Experience = Perfect Blog Launch What’s missing from the equation above? You guessed it: blog promotion. Creating a glitch-free blog with informative content means next to nothing without attracting readers. Start promoting your blog today with these five effective tips: 1. Involve influential industry ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/GeKV7dy7xj8/ Our agency TopRank Marketing has been working with Marketo providing SEO, content and blog marketing consulting services for about 2 years. I finally had the opportunity to meet Marketing VP Jon Miller in person today prior to his presentation at Online Marketing Summit: Marketo’s Secret Sauce for Demand Generation. Marketo is one ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/bPMl55w1kq4/ TopRank ran a survey of journalists, reporters and editors on their use of search and social media in 2008. We found 91% use search engines like Google to do their job. 64% use social networks.  Published in Jan 2010, a George Washington University and Cision survey of journalists reports 89% use ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/R4wzaF7EVf0/ Online Marketing Summit 2010 in San Diego is host to a smorgasboard of internet marketing topics and this afternoon I am priveledged to participate on a panel about Social Media. Panelists include: Chris Baggott, CEO, Compendium Blogware Lee Odden, CEO, TopRank Online Marketing Michael Senger, CEO & Founder, StoneMass Caitlin McCabe, Founder, WhiteLabel Marketing Ben ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSEOBlog/~3/3z-lGVd9Rzc/