Smashmouth Marketing

MARCH 4, 2009

Inbound: SEO, SEM, Blogs. HubSpot 's survey, made up of companies of all sizes, shows that in 2008 the average marketing spend from b2b companies on outbound telemarketing efforts to be 12%. Their study covers a much wider spectrum of b2b companies and sizes, and reports 21% invest in similar outbound efforts in 2008.

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Cost per Lead Inbound Marketing Top of Funnel Cost 100

Online Marketing Institute

APRIL 4, 2011

Real-Time Activity Stream 5 Steps for Crafting an Effective B2B SEO Blogging Strategy Derek Edmond | Mar 4, 2011 | 0 Comments Search engine marketers frequently recommend blogging as a tactic for achieving search engine optimization ( SEO ) goals. The Argument for B2B Blogging Some may argue blogging is a " dying initiative. "

SEO 40

SEO SEM Effectiveness Enterprise Management 40

WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 30, 2009

Is there SEM life beyond AdWords (and if so, where?)? What steps should take to optimize SEM campaigns—and which mistakes should you avoid? Discover the answers to all of these quandaries and more below, in some of the best blog posts and articles on search engine marketing from 2008. How do you write a killer search ad?

Search Engine Marketing 20

Search Engine Marketing Cost per Acquisition Paid Search Agency Search Marketing 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 28, 2009

Top 10 Resources to Pass the Google AdWords Exam in a Week by SEOptimise Richard Fergie provides a helpful list of resources to help with the Google AdWords certification exam from the AdWords blog, O'Reilly , seobook, PPC Hero and other sources.

Adwords 20

Adwords Tactics Tips PPC 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Three Ways People Who Aren't Running for President Can Make Social Media Pay by HubSpot's Inbound Marketing Blog Rick Burnes explains three ways that even organizations which don't have tens of millions of dollars to spend and thousands of volunteers can use social media for marketing and PR, and measure the return.

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LEADSExplorer Social Media Optimization Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 20, 2009

Of course it isn't only big businesses that make mistakes, so to be fair Sonia details in another excellent post dumb things small businesses do , advising entrepreneurs to avoid the number "one," as in over-reliance on one customer, one vendor or one partner.

Marketing & Strategy 20

Marketing & Strategy Brand Identity Branding Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

As Loren explains, "The simplest (way to create a video domain) is launching a Wordpress Blog and then embedding your YouTube, Google Video or other video sharing service commercials on the blog, one for each post, with a unique title tag and description for each post. CFOs are the most skeptical (yeah, another shock).

Social Media 20

Social Media Optimization Media Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 17, 2009

Search, Social and Direct Traffic by ProBlogger Darren Rowse provides a detailed analysis of his blog visits from various sources—which, given the obscene volume of traffic his blog draws, is probably fairly representative of blogs in general. set of the best posts of last year on search engine optimization.

SEO 20

SEO Best Practices Adwords Copywriting 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 4, 2009

Find the answers to these inquiries and more here in some of the best articles and blog posts about interactive PR from the last year. blogging and SEO). How should marketers and PR professionals adapt to the decline of traditional publishing and the rapidly increasing influence of social media? Thankful For PR 2.0

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PR Best Practices Blogger Copywriting 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 6, 2009

Find all of this and more here in another group of the best articles and blog posts from the last year on the practice of SEO. Google's SEO Starter Guide by the Google Webmaster Central Blog Google made quite a splash when it published this guide last November. In many communications, it's best to avoid jargon or at least define it.

SEO 20

SEO Marketing Proposals Best Practices PageRank 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 13, 2009

Find those answers and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts about social media marketing from the last year. Social Media Marketing best practice even used by Google by LEADSExplorer A brief post that makes a solid point: blogs have become a primary conduit for corporate announcements and news releases.

LEADSExplorer 20

LEADSExplorer Social Media Optimization Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 11, 2009

Find the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best blog posts and articles on SEO from the last year. She provides an excellent primer on SEO staring with objectives, keyword research and onsite optimization techniques and continuing on through SEO tools, local search, image optimization, video, online PR and blogs.

SEO 20

SEO Best Practices PR PageRank 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 31, 2009

Increase ROI From Marketing Conferences by TopRank Online Marketing Blog Lee Odden provides an outstanding guide to making the most of marketing conferences. Networking, gaining knowledge and gathering material for blog content are just a few of his recommendations.

Paid Content 20

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Best Practices Advertising Agencies 20

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

First, marketers of all stripes seem to have accepted (for now) that social media in large measure = Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and blogs. Esteban Kolsky´s last blog. Esteban Kolsky´s last blog. Esteban Kolsky´s last blog. Focus on How, Not What I draw two conclusions from this data.

Social Media 147

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 147

WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

Google Social Bookmarking and Blog Recommendation Engine by Key Web Data The inimitable Chris Lang explains social features added to Google Reader (such as bookmarking capability and a friends list), why they were added, and how Google will likely use this information (to create a Digg-like system that can't be gamed).

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Social Media Web 2.0 iCrossing Optimization 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 17, 2009

Retaggr Another valuable site for reputation management, Retaggr not only enables you to create an online profile linked to your accounts on other social media sites, but also lets you easily create an online business card, social media email signature , and blog widget to help visitors easily add you to their friend lists.

Tools 20

Tools Best Practices RSS Adwords 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 3, 2009

Read about all of this and more in some of the best articles and blog posts from the last year on marketing strategy and branding. Why do corporate marketing departments often seem so chaotic—and how can they operate more like a well-oiled machine? What do sales people need from marketing when launching a new product?

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Brand Identity Branding Marketing & Strategy Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Learn these answers and more from this collection of blog posts and articles, some of the best reporting on online research topics so far this year. I was most interested in learning that the average SEM conversion rate for B2B technology companies is 2.8%. Who's really clicking on your PPC ads? Why do PPC costs keep rising?

Marketing Budget 20

Marketing Budget Web 2.0 Research Paid Search Agency 20

WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 13, 2008

How can "conquesting" be applied as an SEM tactic? Get the answers to these inquiries and more in the following blog posts and articles, some of the best written on the topic of search engine marketing so far in 2008. What challenges lie ahead for PPC marketers? What critical intelligence can be gained from PPC analytics?

Search Engine Marketing 20

Search Engine Marketing Paid Content Search Marketing PPC 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

They're all here in the final best of funny, creative and just plain strange blog posts from the past year. I hate to kick that dead dog again, but it sucked in 2007, it sucked in 2008, and it'll continue to suck wind in 2009." Ads that never should have seen the light of an LCD screen. What do all of these things have in common?

Creativity 20

Creativity Paid Search Agency Best Practices Adwords 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 24, 2009

The Steven Wright Guide to Content Marketing by Copyblogger Brian Clark uses a series of one-liners from the inimitable comedian Steven Wright to illustrate his thesis that copy matters when writing blog posts, white papers, web copy or anything else you hope will be read and acted upon. You never correct yourself. He doesn’t, either."

Web 2.0 20

Web 2.0 Creativity Copywriting Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 30, 2009

The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Podcasting by Search for Blogging Mert Erkal delivers just what this post's title promises. Swim Search for Blogging Mert Erkal free-music-search-engines AddictiveTips Last.fm 3 Reasons Why Purpose is Essential in Business by Words for Hire In this thought-provoking, almost spiritual post, Karen D.

Marketing Budget 20

Marketing Budget Classified Ads Best Practices Budget Programs 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 14, 2008

In my continuing effort to clean out my bookmarks and stay ahead of the game for the Best of 2008 series in January, here are a dozen of the most linkworthy articles and posts on search engine marketing so far this year. SEO and SEM Shortcuts, Spying and Stats to Dominate Google!

Search Engine Marketing 20

Search Engine Marketing Search Marketing Marketing Analytics Tools Paid Search Agency 20

Hubspot

JANUARY 7, 2014

This is certainly understandable, given all of the projects on their plates on a daily basis -- from setting up workflows , to analyzing blog metrics , to creating premier content. Created: March 3, 2008. Created: February 2, 2008. Created: November 4, 2008. Created: August 6, 2008. Marketing. 1) Digital Marketing.

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Linkedin B2B Thought Leadership Planning Demand Generation Agencies 28

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 1, 2008

Again, there have been so many excellent blog posts and articles written on SEO already this year that I'm trying to get a jump on 2009. So here are several more of the best SEO-related pieces from 2008 thus far. Learning SEO and SEM - Where to Start? A tad self-serving, but informative.

SEO 20

SEO SEM Best Practices Buzz 20

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

Email Marketing 60

Email Marketing Planning Web 2.0 BtoB 60

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2009

Online Marketing Blog TopRank’s internet marketing blog on the intersection of digital PR, social and search engine marketing. There is no editorial calendar or story board in place with 99% of blogs. For example, a list of competitors that run blogs in your client’s industry. Please don’t.

Online Marketing 40

Online Marketing Blogger PR Digital Asset Management 40

WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 7, 2009

Welcome to the first post in the official Best of 2008 series, which will summarize and link to some of the best blog posts and online articles about SEO, social media, online marketing strategy and more. not too many links pointing to your site with the same exact text), and, wait, there's more!

SEO 20

SEO Microsite Best Practices SEM 20

seo.co

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

For busy Internet marketers, blogs long ago replaced any static news or information sources such as newsletters or books. With a blog you can access the latest information quickly, compare ideas and news from different sources, and ask questions and get answers directly from the source. Seth’s Blog. Likeable Blog.

SEO 98

SEO Work Management Marketing Management Advertising Agencies 98

seo.co

MARCH 8, 2020

For busy Internet marketers, blogs long ago replaced any static news or information sources such as newsletters or books. With a blog you can access the latest information quickly, compare ideas and news from different sources, and ask questions and get answers directly from the source. Seth’s Blog. Likeable Blog.

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Internet Marketing SEO Social Marketing Marketing Websites 105

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

On the occasion of the 300th post on the WebMarketCentral blog, and to see how things have changed since the first 100 posts , here are the 10 most popular posts of all time so far. #10: Also, I think, the first time on this blog I made the case that SEO is far from dead. #8: That will do it for me this (short) week.

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Web 2.0 SEM CTR Adwords 20

Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

ClickInsights is an Expert Interview Series brought to you by Connect the Docs (ClickDocuments blog). Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Ardath Albee's blog Marketing Interactions. Rebel Brown's blog Phoenix Rising. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. via Beth Harte).

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ROI B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning 100

WebMarketCentral

JULY 7, 2008

Blogs and Microsites Can Help with SEO—Eventually Creating a blog or topic-specific microsite can supplement SEO efforts by providing a venue to share thought-leadership content, in a more casual tone than a corporate site, free from content management or other technological constraints that may apply to a company website.

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Lead Generation Work Management Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 20

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Do You Know Your Customers Enough to be a Social Media Hit?

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Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 117

Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: Are You Growing Enough Voices Content Lessons Learned From 25 Popular Blog Posts Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse?

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Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Video Marketing 134

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 3, 2009

Feedoor Similar to feedkiller , previously reviewed here , Feedoor.com lets you merge RSS feeds or even individual blog posts into a single feed. It also lets you create Javascript widgets for your blog or site that display headlines from your custom feed, and does it all with a simple, straightforward interface.

Tools 20

Tools Best Practices SEM Adwords 20

Outgrow

AUGUST 26, 2022

Welcome to the Marketer Of The Month blog! . Khalid El Khatib: Sure, Stack Overflow itself is a technical term an error that developers experienced, and that was the name of the community after a naming contest that was run in 2008 or 2009 when the site was launched. Why you should hire people who are smarter than you.

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Work Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency Outgrow 52