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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Use social media to enhance your SEO efforts and build your business? Get the answers to these questions plus learn more about the largest and the fastest-growing social bookmarking and social networking sites in this installment of some of the best SMO blog posts and articles written so far in 2008.

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Social Media Optimization Linkbait Media 20

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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 20

SEO Marketing Proposals Best Practices PageRank 20

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Blog Project: 30 Traffic Generation Tips by Daily Blog Tips Daniel Scocco invited 30 bloggers to provide a key traffic-building tip and posts the list here, including recommendations from Sridhar Katakam : " Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them.

RSS 20

RSS Best Practices Business Blogger 20

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APRIL 20, 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 (..)

Landing Pages 20

Landing Pages SEM Best Practices Search Engine Marketing 20

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JULY 20, 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 (..)

Marketing & Strategy 20

Marketing & Strategy Brand Identity Branding Best Practices 20

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JUNE 30, 2009

Most of this is common sense (or at least should be): be careful about what you post on sites like your Amazon Wish List and Flickr , and don't ever give a social media site access to your email address book. 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

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JUNE 24, 2009

Networking 101 – Building Relationships with Bloggers by Blogsessive Alina Popescu provides an invaluable roadmap for establishing relationships, starting with commenting on their blog and actively participating in the conversation, through connecting on social media sites, linking, contacting directly, and writing guest posts.

RSS 20

RSS Best Practices Business Blogger 20

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MAY 4, 2009

How do PR, SEO and social media work together to build name recognition and credibility for a company? How should marketers and PR professionals adapt to the decline of traditional publishing and the rapidly increasing influence of social media? SEO social media interactive PR? SEO social media interactive PR? tags: PR 2.0

PR 20

PR Best Practices Blogger Copywriting 20

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APRIL 27, 2009

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).

Best Practices 20

Best Practices Business Adwords Blogger 20

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AUGUST 31, 2009

Learning for the 21st Century by Informal Learning Blog In this profound and beautifully crafted post, Jay Cross identifies what is broken in today's educational systems, particularly in workplace training, provide detail to back up his statement that "Most organisational learning is built on nineteenth-century principles, and these days that’s a formula (..)

Paid Content 20

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Best Practices Advertising Agencies 20

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JUNE 17, 2009

How about slick tools to creating a social media email signature or conducting a video chat session? WiseStamp This is a slick tool that enables you to easily create a graphical HTML social media email signature for use with most common webmail services (Gmail, Yahoo mail, AOL, Hotmail etc.).

Tools 20

Tools Best Practices RSS Adwords 20

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MARCH 2, 2009

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. He believes that while it's still critical to get the basics of SEO (like on-page optimization) right, with each passing day "you need a bit more (economic and/or social) capital to compete."

Link Building 20

Link Building SEO Ad Building Linkbait 20

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APRIL 14, 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 (..)

SEO 20

SEO Tools Peer-to-peer Best Practices 20

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MAY 11, 2009

The Yin Yang of PR and SEO by Online Marketing Blog The ubiquitous, oblivious Lee Odden explains the symbiotic relationship between PR and SEO: PR tools and techniques (such as online press release distribution, social media relations and blogger outreach) build valuable links that help with your SEO efforts, while producing well-optimized, relevant (..)

SEO 20

SEO Best Practices PR PageRank 20

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Content marketing within the realm of social media is extremely powerful, but it does have a downside. Naming Conventions: Pot Calling Kettle Black by The Officially Official Blog of Searchles The folks at social bookmarking site Searchles have some fun with web 2.0 Any time people are involved, there’s room for ugliness and stupidity."

Web 2.0 20

Web 2.0 Creativity Copywriting Best Practices 20

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JUNE 3, 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 (..)

Brand Identity 20

Brand Identity Branding Marketing & Strategy Best Practices 20

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APRIL 7, 2009

Search Marketing, MSN AdCenter, Ask SponsoredListings, Google Content Network Tips, Inside AdWords, Adwords Conversion Optimizer, PPC Blog, Gordon Choi, semvironment, AdWords Quality Score, PPC Hero, Blogation, David Rodnitzky del.icio.us tags: Google AdWords, search engine marketing, SEM, Yahoo!

Adwords 20

Adwords Tactics Tips SEM 20

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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.

Creativity 20

Creativity Paid Search Agency Best Practices Adwords 20

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MAY 28, 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 (..)

Adwords 20

Adwords Tactics Tips PPC 20

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Previous posts in this series: Best of 2008 (So Far) - SEO Guidance, Part 1 Best of 2008 (So Far) - SEO Guidance, Part 2 Best of 2008 (So Far) - Search Engine Marketing, Part 1 Best of 2008 (So Far) - Cool Web Tools, Part 1 Best of 2008 (So Far) - Social Media Optimization, Part 1 Best of 2008 (So Far) - Blogging for Business, Part 1 Best of 2008 (So (..)

Design 20

Design Marketing Websites Forrester Best Practices 20

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The posts below, some of the best of 2008 on the topic of keyword research for SEO, provide guidance and reviews of efficacious tools to help throughout the process of generating a comprehensive keyword list; analyzing the competition; and prioritizing keywords to generate maximum ROI from SEO efforts.

Keywords 20

Keywords SEO Tools Adwords 20

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

The new SEO: organic search by iMedia Connection In another noteworthy article fro iMedia, Andrew Rodrigues of Geary Interactive explores how the emergence of social bookmarking, blended search, link competition and other developments have forced a more strategic approach to SEO.

SEO 20

SEO Best Practices Enterprise Management PageRank 20

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

How can small businesses cost-effectively add sophisticated capabilities like custom search and social networking features to their sites? Learn the answers to these questions and more in some of the best blog posts and articles on website design published so far in 2008. What separates effective navigation from poor design?

Design 20

Design Marketing Websites CMS Development Best Practices 20

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Find these and more in this list of some of the best SEO tools and related reviews of 2008. Simply type in any URL and (optionally) a couple of competitors, and this tool provides a very useful and detailed report on the SEO quality of the site, including metadata, domain information, Google Pagerank, social bookmarks, and an overall score.

PageRank 20

PageRank SEO Tools Best Practices 20

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

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 critical intelligence can be gained from PPC analytics? Let the market tell you what works and what doesn't. Tweak something every day. See how it performs.

Search Engine Marketing 20

Search Engine Marketing Paid Content Search Marketing PPC 20

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Social Media Attains Critical Mass by Online Media Daily MediaPost editor Joe Mandese reports on a Universal McCann study showing that "Text messaging, blogging and social networking have reached critical mass, with more than half of adults now relying on at least one of these so-called Web 2.0 UM Finds Web 2.0 Breeding Consumers 2.0,

Marketing Budget 20

Marketing Budget Web 2.0 Research Paid Search Agency 20

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Blogging Tactics for 2008 by Ask Enquiro Writing that "The Online Marketing Blog recently ran a poll asking readers which SEO tactic they plan on using most in 2008 and the winner with 25% of the vote was Blogging.

RSS 20

RSS Blogger Best Practices Business 20

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AUGUST 25, 2008

Want to know how to post links to dozens of popular social bookmarking sites—in a hurry? Check out this group of some of the best web tools and best posts about cool online tools so far in 2008. This is social posting for the lazy (or extremely busy). Search the web from a cool 3D interface, using any popular search engine?

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Tools Best Practices PageRank RSS 20

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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

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AUGUST 1, 2008

So here are several more of the best SEO-related pieces from 2008 thus far. 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. It's almost like a syllabus for your own self-paced interactive marketing guru course.

SEO 20

SEO SEM Best Practices Buzz 20

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JULY 28, 2008

There have been so many excellent blog posts and articles written already in 2008 that it's just not practical to wait until January of next year to recognize them. I may have to start doing these monthly or something, but for now, here are some of the best pieces written about the art and science of SEO so far in 2008.

SEO 20

SEO Best Practices Search Engine Marketing Tagging 20

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MARCH 16, 2009

Several recent studies have put the challenge that social media presents to marketers into stark relief: social media is huge. In social media, where viewers are often creating the content, that bargain doesn't hold up. After all, it is social media. It's growing at an astounding rate. Those in the U.K.

Social Media 20

Social Media Facebook Social Marketing Web 2.0 20

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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:

Web 2.0 20

Web 2.0 SEM CTR Adwords 20

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community by Community and Social Media Chris Brogan shares more than two dozen tips for attracting more blog traffic, divided into three categories: Starter Moves (e.g. share your posts using social media platforms, link to other blogs often). Can Blogs Help Drive Purchasing Decisions?

Forrester 20

Forrester Landing Pages Business Best Practices 20

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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). Social media also plays an important role here, and the report provides some tips in this area.

Lead Generation 20

Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking B2B Thought Leadership 20

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AUGUST 3, 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 (..)

Tools 20

Tools Best Practices SEM Adwords 20

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NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Here are more of the most useful business, social media and web marketing tools of 2008. Propeller At first glance, Propeller look like just another Digg clone or YASN : a social bookmarking site where you can post links, vote on them, comment, and share them with friends or a group.

Tools 20

Tools RSS Digg Best Practices 20