2008, Link Building, PR and Tagging

Best of 2008: SEO Link Building

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 2, 2009

Unless you are optimizing only for some extremely niche keywords, off-page optimization—building links from other websites to yours—is a critical and significant factor for SEO success. The blog posts cited here, some of the best of 2008 on the topic of link building, provide guidance on how and where to obtain valuable external links.

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Best of 2008: Interactive PR, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

MAY 4, 2009

What are some of the best tools for implementing PR 2.0? How do PR, SEO and social media work together to build name recognition and credibility for a company? What are the best (and worst) practices in interactive PR? Thankful For PR 2.0 by THINKing Harry Hoover calls out some of his favorite PR 2.0

PR

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 3

WebMarketCentral

JULY 13, 2009

What are the best examples of organizations using social media for marketing, promotion and interactive PR ? Social Tagging. Tags: Web 2.0 How can you make more efficient use of social media? How can you optimize your use of social networking tools like Twitter and LinkedIn?

LEADSExplorer

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 5

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.

LEADSExplorer

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 3

WebMarketCentral

MAY 11, 2009

How can PR and SEO work together more productively? The 3 Cornerstones of SEO by SEOmoz Duncan Morris recommends explaining SEO to prospective clients using a simple triangular diagram to show the three core areas of SEO: content (on-page factors), technical issues and trust (links and ratings).

SEO

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

Discover these answers and others here in more of the best posts from the past year on social media marketing and PR. Top 10 Business Applications for Facebook by Duct Tape Marketing Of the 1,000+ Facebook apps built thus far, only a very small number—perhaps a couple of dozen or so—have value for B2B marketers and PR pros.

Social Media

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 4

WebMarketCentral

JULY 6, 2009

Bookmark this page and keep it near the top of your list. Another great post from Danny is The Beginner's Checklist for Learning SEO , a step-by-step guide to creating a well-optimized website. In many communications, it's best to avoid jargon or at least define it.

SEO

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 5

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 17, 2009

These include duplicate content, lack of keyword research, ignoring link building, and.read her post ! These tactics range from adding a phone number or special characters to your description to catch the searcher's eye to keeping title tags as short as possible and using friendly URLs.

SEO

SEO Best Practices Adwords Copywriting

Best of 2008: Website Design

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 6, 2009

Many of last year's best articles and blog posts on the topic of website design were reviewed here in two posts on the best of website design so far in 2008, but to help answer the questions above, here are a few more. Tags: Web Marketing. Where can you find creative new design ideas?

Design

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 6

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.

Social Media

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Best of 2008: Strategy and Branding, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 3, 2009

The boobs have it, the biggest PR blunder since New Coke by Marketing Edge The always brilliant Albert Maruggi explains how UPS bungled an unusually powerful branding opportunity with Kentucky Derby-winning horse Big Brown.

Brand Identity

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Best of 2008: Blogging for Business, Part 3

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Previous posts in this series: Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 1 Best of 2008: Interactive PR, Part 1 Best of 2008: SEO Tools, Part 1 Best of 2008: Search Engine Marketing Best of 2008: Web Analytics Best of 2008: Email Marketing Tips Best of 2008: SEO Keyword Tips & Tools Best of 2008: Sales & Marketing Copywriting Best of 2008: SEO Link (..)

RSS

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Best of 2008: WordPress Tools and Tips

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 19, 2009

Tags: Blogging for Business. by Search Engine People Jeff Quipp reviews the DeliciousCount WordPress Plugin , which tracks the number of Delicious saves of each of your blog posts to help you (theoretically) improve the quality of your posts over time. 10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.7 by Technosailor Noting that the WordPress 2.7

Blogspot

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Best of 2008: SEO Tools, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

APRIL 14, 2009

the SEOworkers SEO Analysis Tool), readability ( TextAnalyser.net ), heading tag analysis ( Fangs ) and more. I've found its page analysis tools (for keyword density, headings, meta tags etc.) Find the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best blog posts and sites for SEO tools.

SEO

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Best of 2008: Amusing, Creative and Just Plain Odd, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

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." In another noteworthy post, Ian presciently warns readers about 11 Internet Marketing Trends To Ignore in 2009 , such as "Vertical Search.

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Best of 2008: Random but Interesting, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 31, 2009

tags: PromotionWorld Rob Wood TopRank Online Marketing Blog Lee Odden Informal Learning Blog Jay Cross HubSpot Preshant Kaw B2B marketing MediaPost Aaron Goldman Search Insider Summit micro-conversions white paper downloads iMedia Connection J. Brooke Aker semantic search semantic advertising Wildfire Marketing Group Jeremy L.

Paid Content

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Best of 2008: Amusing, Creative and Just Plain Odd, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 24, 2009

Top 21 Signs You Need a Break From SEO (2008 version) by Small Business Search Marketing The prolific Matt McGee offers his annual list of signs you may be spending too much time in the SEO world, such as "While telling your son about your favorite childhood books, you wax poetic about the 'Wikipedia Brown' series. tags: Web 2.0

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

APRIL 6, 2009

Learn the answers to these questions and more here in some of the best blog posts on social media marketing and optimization of 2008. Social Tagging. Tags: Web 2.0 How can you maximize your results through social bookmarking sites like Digg? How does social media relate to SEO?

Social Media

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Best of 2008: AdWords Tips and Tactics

WebMarketCentral

APRIL 7, 2009

tags: Google AdWords, search engine marketing, SEM, Yahoo! tags: Google AdWords, search engine marketing, SEM, Yahoo! Tags: Web Marketing.

Adwords

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Best of 2008: Random but Interesting, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 30, 2009

Tags: Web Marketing Random. Swim Search for Blogging Mert Erkal free-music-search-engines AddictiveTips Last.fm Karabit BeeMP3 Songza del.icio.us Swim Search for Blogging Mert Erkal free-music-search-engines AddictiveTips Last.fm Karabit BeeMP3 Songza del.icio.us Karabit BeeMP3 Songza Contact Tom Pick: tomATwebmarketcentralDOTcom.

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 30, 2009

Joomla SEO Solutions for 5 Common Issues by Internet Marketing Blog Frank Levert offers some crucial SEO tips to anyone tasked with building a site on open-source CMS tool Joomla , including instructions for changing the ugly (and SEO-unfriendly) default URLs Joomla creates, fixing title tags, and avoiding duplicate meta tag issues.

SEO

SEO Best Practices Copywriting Internet Marketing

Best of 2008 - SEO Tools, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 26, 2009

How about tools for checking search engine rank, grading the SEO efforts on a website, developing an optimized keyword list, and link building? Find these and more in this list of some of the best SEO tools and related reviews of 2008. Counting links the easy way by Searchlight Brian R. Tags: SEO Practice.

PageRank

PageRank SEO Tools Best Practices

Best of 2008: Web & SEO Copywriting

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 23, 2009

There you have it, the best writing on writing from 2008. Tags: Web Writing.

Copywriting

Copywriting SEO Best Practices Internet Marketing

Best of 2008: SEM Landing Pages

WebMarketCentral

APRIL 20, 2009

Tags: Web Marketing.

Landing Pages

Landing Pages SEM Best Practices Search Engine Marketing

Best of 2008: Strategy and Branding, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

JULY 20, 2009

Tags: General Marketing.

Marketing & Strategy

Marketing & Strategy Brand Identity Branding Best Practices

Best of 2008: Cool Web Tools, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 17, 2009

Tags: Cool Web Marketing Tools.

Tools

Tools Best Practices RSS Adwords

Best of 2008: Blogging for Business, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 24, 2009

Tags: Blogging for Business.

RSS

RSS Best Practices Business Blogger

Best of 2008: AdWords Tips and Tactics, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

MAY 28, 2009

Tags: Web Marketing.

Adwords

Adwords Tactics Tips PPC

Best of 2008: Blogging for Business, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

APRIL 27, 2009

Tags: Blogging for Business.

Best Practices

Best Practices Business Adwords Blogger

Advanced Blogging Panel: How to Create Content That Drives Traffic and Engagement

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Blogging is important because, up until 2008, more people still used offline (e.g. Online tipped over the 50% point in late 2008 and has grown every year since. The organizations that give out the awards are doing it largely for their own PR – it gets them attention and confers some degree of authority on them.

Paid Content

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Especially in comparison to many other communication programs like traditional PR, TV advertising, outdoor advertising and others, social media actually offers pretty solid metrics. From a PR angency perspective (I work on the digital team for Porter Novelli), I’d add the myth that social media is a specialist skill.

Social Media

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How NOT to pitch a blog | Online Marketing Blog

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. For example, we get pitches from PR firms about major brands running new viral or social media campaigns. Excellent food for thought for us PR hacks out there. Please don’t.

Online Marketing

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What Works Now in B2B Lead Generation, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 18, 2008

MarketingSherpa has just released its 2008 B2B Lead Generation Handbook (that's a link to the free executive summary PDF; the complete report will run you a cool $500). Separating SEO from broader marketing and PR activities is a really bad idea for several reasons. Third, SEO and PR/marketing shouldn't work at cross purposes.

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14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media

Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

link] great way to think about it [link] Genevieve Pritchard 14 Things I Think I Think About #SocialMedia [link] RT @jaybaer [link] Jessica Johnson @jaybaer 14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media [link] – great post Jay…Smart ideas come from Flagstaff:0 [link] Thos003 I am with Stanford on this one.

Social Media

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

link] Top 250 Blog Posts – Advertising, Marketing, Media and PR « Spotlight Ideas [.] Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. The tactics that follow will then become obvious.

Social Media

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Best of 2008 (So Far) - Blogging for Business, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Find the answers to these questions and more in this list of some of the best posts of 2008 so far on blogging for business. In terms of subject are, more than half of the 100 leading blogs are focused on technology; green blogs account for 1%, but marketing and PR as a topic doesn't even make the list. Hello, My Name Is.

Blogspot

Blogspot Blogger Best Practices Business

Best of 2008: Cool Web Tools, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 3, 2009

Tags: Cool Web Marketing Tools.

Tools

Tools Best Practices SEM Adwords

Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Jenise Uehara Henrikson highlights the phenomenal growth of social media over the last six years, and particularly since 2008. 11 infographics for your next presentation by Ragan’s PR Daily. ** 5 STARS. Arik Hanson shares a collection of “Infographics that would fit nicely into many digital marketing/PR presentations.”

Paid Content

Paid Content Social Media Statistics Research

Best of 2008: Cool Web Tools, Part 3

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Tags: Cool Web Marketing Tools.

Tools

Tools Best Practices Web 2.0 Adwords

Best of 2008: SEO Link Building

Best of 2008: Interactive PR, Part 2

Webinars

Trending Sources

Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 3

Webinars

Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 5

Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 3

Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 2

Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 4

Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 5

Best of 2008: Website Design

Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 6

Best of 2008: Strategy and Branding, Part 1

Best of 2008: Blogging for Business, Part 3

Best of 2008: WordPress Tools and Tips

Best of 2008: SEO Tools, Part 2

Best of 2008: Amusing, Creative and Just Plain Odd, Part 2

Best of 2008: Random but Interesting, Part 2

Best of 2008: Amusing, Creative and Just Plain Odd, Part 1

Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 1

Best of 2008: AdWords Tips and Tactics

Best of 2008: Random but Interesting, Part 1

Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 2

Best of 2008 - SEO Tools, Part 1

Best of 2008: Web & SEO Copywriting

Best of 2008: SEM Landing Pages

Best of 2008: Strategy and Branding, Part 2

Best of 2008: Cool Web Tools, Part 1

Best of 2008: Blogging for Business, Part 2

Best of 2008: AdWords Tips and Tactics, Part 2

Best of 2008: Blogging for Business, Part 1

Advanced Blogging Panel: How to Create Content That Drives Traffic and Engagement

Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

How NOT to pitch a blog | Online Marketing Blog

What Works Now in B2B Lead Generation, Part 1

14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media

Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Best of 2008 (So Far) - Blogging for Business, Part 2

Best of 2008: Cool Web Tools, Part 2

Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Best of 2008: Cool Web Tools, Part 3

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