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?

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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? SEO is sort of like tweaking your resume.

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SEO SEM Best Practices Buzz 20

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. Matt Cutts Translated: 8 SEO Tips I Heard Him Tell Eric Enge by SEOmoz SEO expert Brent D.

SEO 20

SEO Microsite Best Practices SEM 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

How can online video help with SEO and online reputation management ? Domains for SEO and Reputation Management by Search Engine Journal Loren Baker describes how to use a.tv If you are planning to use these for SEO, check for do-follow status first. Which social bookmarking sites have the most clout? Take Advantage of.TV

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Social Media Optimization Media Web 2.0 20

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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WebMarketCentral

JULY 13, 2009

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. You can still find his list of 55 Do-Follow Social Networks on Google's cache for now, however. Got something to tell the world?

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Search Engine Performance Report: ROI up 13% in Q4 07, 97% of Additional Spend Goes to Google by Efficient Frontier It's hardly a shock that Google dominates search marketing budgets, but it is somewhat surprising, as this post reports, that the 800-pound gorilla continues to grow at the expense of competitors with higher ROI increases.

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 30, 2009

New Sites Make It Easier To Spy on Your Friends by The Wall Street Journal Though the tone is a bit overly dramatic, Vauhini Vara makes some good points here about how you can use sites like Google Maps and Spokeo to learn things about others they may not want you to know—and how to protect yourself from the same behavior.

Marketing Budget 20

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 17, 2009

Exalead An alternative search engine, Exalead may not be a "Google killer" but does provide some interesting features. The top menu and right sidebar box make it simple to narrow your search to the entire web, just your PC, or Wikipedia, as well as by related terms, site type, media type and other criteria.

Tools 20

Tools Best Practices RSS Adwords 20

WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 13, 2008

How can you use pay-per-click (PPC) advertising intelligence to improve organic SEO? 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. Tweak something every day.

Search Engine Marketing 20

Search Engine Marketing Paid Content Search Marketing PPC 20

Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

When I am asked by companies, I show them the website I worked on regarding content marketing and then search on Google for the keywords they rank for to show the value of content marketing. Specifically, in regard to capturing Google Home answers. Google provides most of its voice answers from the featured snippet (i.e.,

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FAQ Paid Search Agency Content Marketing Work Management 96

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

Created: March 3, 2008. As one of the largest groups on LinkedIn, this community is chock-full of inspiration, intriguing discussions, and detailed tips and best practices for improving your online marketing, including mobile, SEO, email, and a heckuva lot more. Created: February 2, 2008. Created: November 4, 2008.

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Linkedin B2B Thought Leadership Planning Demand Generation Agencies 28

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

MarketingSherpa recently published its Search Marketing Benchmark Guide for 2008 , providing data on cost per click (CPC), conversion rates, SEO and other key online marketing metrics. A third of respondents anticipate double-digit spending increases on both SEO and Google PPC programs in 2008.

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Cost Per Click Advertising Benchmark Search Marketing CPC 20

seo.co

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This list of the top 50 Internet marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) blogs , websites, and social media accounts is in no particular order. Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan was one of the first experts in SEO , and is still widely considered to be among the best. Social Media Examiner. The Moz Blog. Buffer Blog.

SEO 98

SEO Work Management Marketing Management Advertising Agencies 98

seo.co

MARCH 8, 2020

This list of the top 50 Internet marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) blogs , websites, and social media accounts is in no particular order. Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan was one of the first experts in SEO, and is still widely considered to be among the best. Social Media Examiner. The Moz Blog. Buffer Blog.

Internet Marketing 105

Internet Marketing SEO Social Marketing Marketing Websites 105

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

. #10: The 8 Layers of a B2B Web Marketing Plan , October 8, 2008 The most recent post to make this list presents B2B marketing as a series of concentric layers, with SEO at the core then moving outward from highly measurable online direct response tactics to broader brand advertising. #9:

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Web 2.0 SEM CTR Adwords 20

Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

link] [link] SEM Does Your Blog Have a Long Tail? link] [link] SEM Does Your Blog Have a Long Tail? I am showing as 2291 keywords where my site appears in Google's index, but only 170 words where they have actually clicked through to the site itself. marierowley thank you for your great information.

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Long Tail Marketing Blogger Paper Content 117

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2009

In our case, I can understand because Online Marketing Blog has become pretty popular, but it’s highly unlikely we’re going to run a story about another SEO firm’s recent client win or office expansion. Ruby Web says: September 9, 2008 at 2:53 am Great article. Makes me wonder if some people ever think for themselves.

Online Marketing 40

Online Marketing Blogger PR Digital Asset Management 40

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

so if last decade consumers trusted google organic results and arguably ppc positions, then this decade they will place greater value on their increasing reliance of social recommendation via their social circles. more here: Crushing the Myth of B2B Social Media | | Social Media Consulting … Share and [.] power to the people ?

Social Media 147

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 147

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 3, 2009

Helpful Firefox plugins and SEO analytics tools. Unlike Google Analytics (the application it's most likely to be compared to), Clicky provides real-time stats, Twitter analytics, separate mobile visitor tracking, visitor details , WordPress integration and more. An easy tool for automatically creating music videos.

Tools 20

Tools Best Practices SEM Adwords 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 22, 2009

The previous post on this topic advised search engine marketers to bid on their own company name and branded terms, keep keyword lists clean and cross-pollinate SEO and SEM efforts. Here are three more tips for optimizing results from SEM programs such as Google AdWords. Keep your content network clean.

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SEM Campaigns Optimization Tips 20

Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

The metrics available on Facebook are in many ways better than you can get from Google Analytics. But if your saying Twitter isn't a tool as in a hammer, that you can use to build your SEM, SEO, or PR then I am not following your logic. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC.

Social Media 134

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Video Marketing 134

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

She gains valuable insight about your audience through Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and social media marketing. A Stanford grad with two degrees in computer science, Marissa is known for long tenure at Google, where she was the company’s first female engineer and later served in different VP roles. Ilene Kaminsky. ilenealizah.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Work Management Twitter Marketing Management 100

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

She gains valuable insight about your audience through Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and social media marketing. A Stanford grad with two degrees in computer science, Marissa is known for long tenure at Google, where she was the company’s first female engineer and later served in different VP roles. Ilene Kaminsky. ilenealizah.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Work Management Twitter Marketing Management 100

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

By having more organizational flow to your website, you also increase SEO. Google Alerts are important for less time sensistive monitoring but so far nothing beats Twitter when it comes to stream of consciousness monitoring. Google warns not to do anything with your site that is explicitly meant for bots or to try to game page rank.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services B2B Marketing 40

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

10: Best of 2007: Website Design , February 4, 2008 Reviews of articles and tools on website design, including a couple of pieces from the brilliant and frequently cited Stoney deGeyter. Much has changed since then, and social media is now an integral part of SEO efforts. range, with a typical conversion rate of around 2.8%. #2:

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Banner Ads Web 2.0 Eloqua CTR 20

Webbiquity

APRIL 6, 2017

Social customer relationship management (CRM) was being written about as a distinct product category as far back as 2008, but market interest really began to take off the following year. According to Google Trends , the average number of monthly web searches for the phrase “social CRM” quadrupled from June 2009 to June 2011.

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Marketing Automation Services CRM Marketing Management Tools 250

Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

Sutton concludes, “Clearly, SEO is more effective at attracting attention and ultimately converting people. Well, about two-thirds (64%) of the traffic from third-party sites to video sources currently comes from Google, followed by Yahoo (11.9%), Facebook (4.3%), Bing (2.6%), and Twitter at 1.2%. Twitter has the fifth oldest.

Paid Content 100

Paid Content Stats Social Media Marketing Budget 100

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook. Google has made a couple of dollars by reading and ranking Web pages. Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages.

Social Media 167

Social Media Facebook Paid Content Marketing Websites 167

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook. Google has made a couple of dollars by reading and ranking Web pages. Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages.

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Facebook Marketing Websites Paid Content Social Media 167

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Of course, there’s always been pressure to do more with less—the definition of productivity improvement—but the mantra seems to have taken on almost religious status as the anemic, drawn-out recovery from the 2008 financial crisis drags on. Google Review Count: 355. Google Review Count: 183. Google Review Count: 170.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Personalization Tools Product 100

WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Which SEO tools and techniques produce the best results—according to the experts who use them? There's Still Room on the Web for Small E-Tailers by bMighty.com Writer Fredric Paul cites a study showing that smaller web-based retailers have an opportunity to take share from more established sites by implementing solid SEO.

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Research Planning Best Practices Buying Cycle 20

Biznology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Part of the issue is that blogger and influencer outreach is no longer new, unique, human, or novel; another part is that there are a lot more people doing it so bloggers are getting deluged; and, post 2008, things have been very bleak out there, economy-wise; finally, there’s a lot of money in blogger outreach. Like this post?

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Blogger Outreach Media Public Relations 80

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Or one to help you find just the right word, or submit content to all of your favorite social networking sites at once, or grab screen images, or test landing pages, or instantly perform special searches on Google? You'll find all of these and others in this final set of cool web tools and resources from last year.

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Tools Best Practices Web 2.0 Adwords 20

Biznology

MARCH 3, 2015

I write to share my ideas and to build brand recognition, I don’t write for SEO or SEM. Share your old content via Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and maybe Pinterest? Blogging Personal Brand 2008 Aleppo Apple Inc. Well, until now, what would you do? Copy and paste?

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Advertising Mediums Stats Twitter Tagging 80