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Nine Social Media Marketing Stats You Can Use

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According to Google Trends, social media marketing as a topic if search interest recently turned nine years old (or is about to turn 11 years old, depending on when you place its origin). Small Business Trends ). of marketing budgets in 2009 to 11.7% Facebook was opened up to the public in 2006. MarketingSherpa ). WordStream ).

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Best Web Analytics Tools and Tips of 2009

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In the world of analytics, all information is, by its nature, backward looking (you can’t measure what hasn’t happened yet). But it isn’t the historical measures themselves which are of interest to analysts, rather the trends they reveal and path(s) forward they illuminate. by ECommerce Guide.

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Best Web and Landing Page Design Tips of 2009

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Lee Munroe offers a helpful to-do list before launching a new website, taking care of tasks such as optimizing titles and meta tags, proofreading, checking the site in different browsers, double-checking all links and installing analytics. Must-have features your website is missing by iMedia Connection.

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Best Random but Interesting Posts, Articles and Resources of 2009

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Chris Campbell provides an outstanding list of tools for gathering insights and information about your competition, including SpyFu (finds competitors’ AdWords keywords), Compete PRO Search Analytics (see what keywords drive traffic to a given site) and Google Trends for Websites (traffic data and geographic visitation patterns of your competitors–pretty (..)

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12 Lessons I’ve Learned from Writing 1,000 Blog Posts

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The New York Times reported back in 2009 that 95% of blogs are abandoned, and there’s little evidence that state has changed much since then. 11) Analytics are important—but use them the right way. Google Analytics provides a treasure trove of website visitor data, for free. 1) Persistence is essential. Data quality.

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Book Review: Marketing in the Age of Google

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While those figures are now a couple of years old, it’s astounding that as recently as early 2009, more than half of small businesses still lacked a basic web presence. • “Most prepurchase activity involves generic terms and…brand searches tend to happen only close to purchase.&#.

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

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The first step to improving digital marketing results is to understand the emerging trends and best practices. e-Strategy Trends ). e-Strategy Trends ). Just 139 of the Fortune 500 corporations maintain public-facing blogs, only 29 more than in 2009. ( e-Strategy Trends ). e-Strategy Trends ).