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SEM Mystery: The Case of the Missing Leads

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Originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in December 2008. Sugar wasn’t going to like this, and as the old saying goes, hell hath no fury like a woman with an underproducing SEM campaign. Tags: Search Engine Marketing CTR Google AdWords ROI SEM. “Care for a drink? Or something like that. Post on Google Buzz.

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Best of 2008: Blogging for Business, Part 1

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7 Strategies to Invite More People Into Your Audience by Problogger Social media rockstar Chris Brogan details several strategies to not just grow your blog audience, but also attract the right kind of readers (these do not include getting on the first page of Digg).

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 5

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StumbleUpon and Digg) is "spiky" and doesn't convert well, but supports SEO through the links generated. Among his findings: organic search is the source of both the highest volume and best quality of traffic. Social traffic (e.g. There's lots more red meat for web analytics data junkies as well.

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 2

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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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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 6

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Unfortunately, several of the largest sites including Digg, delicious, Reddit, Mixx and Mister Wong now partially or completely use insidious no follow links. Top 30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites by Anything Goes Blog A great list of the top social bookmarking sites, with visitor statistics, as of late last year.

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Best Social Media Stats, Facts and Marketing Research of 2010

Webbiquity

5% of Americans had heard of Twitter in 2008; that figure rose to 87% last year. B2B Marketing: Red-Headed Step-Child of SEM World? Twitter has the fifth oldest. 75% of small businesses in the U.S. have a company page on at least one social networking site (but only 39% blog and just 26% tweet). 80% of Twitter use is on mobile devices.