Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Subscribe to SmartBrief newsletters, RSS feeds, and Google alerts in order to find ideas for new content (that’s how I found this blog!) Comment appropriately on the top blogs ranked by Google on the major key word or phrase you are trying to optimize for SEO. Post and link your content on the Delicious social bookmarking site.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Mark Walsh helpfully outlines the recent changes Facebook has made to its privacy settings, though noting that “ profiles opened to everyone, however, will still not turn up in searches on Google or other outside search engines. &#. Brian Critchfield reports on the top social networks ranked by traffic. by Dave Fleet.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

There’s a First Time for Everything New research (pdf) by my clients at Compendium Blogware show that for more than two-thirds of corporate blogs, new visitors comprise more than 80% of total blog traffic. I'll have to check my Google numbers, all that good stuff. Anna Talerico Great post. Anna Talerico Great post.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google. I just found a more useful way to search than Google. It only works for a defined use case, but, in a search market that is 85% going on 90% Google-dominated, this can still be significant. The site that provides a better search experience than Google? 12 Comments. Conclusion.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The nofollow tag was misguidedly inflicted upon the online world by Google in 2005. Just like any other type of spam affects its community, comment spam affected the entire blogging community, so in early 2005 (Google and Blogger engineers) designed the attribute to address the problem and the nofollow attribute was born.&#.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Mobile 2.0 Increased spending on online marketing is driving companies to try new and innovative means of getting the word out about their products and services — one area that’s getting a lot of buzz with B2B marketers is social media.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If 2009 was the year many marketers puzzled over, poked at and pondered incorporating social media into their marketing mix, 2010 was the year of diving in. According to a HubSpot study, 71% of marketers viewed Twitter as a useful marketing tool last year, up from just 39% in 2009. by Green Buzz Agency. Adoption soared.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

According to MarketingSherpa research, marketers working in social media report an average 27% conversion rate for organic search traffic, while those not using social media reported a 17% rate. However, Facebook and Twitter send the most-engaged traffic as measured by average viewing spent time per visitor. last year (2009).

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Sharing accounts for nearly a third of all referral traffic, and shared links are “clicked on 4.9 Still, the top 10 social networks account for nearly 80% of all social network traffic. Infographic: Social Media ROI Statistics by Digital Buzz. Google attracts more than one billion unique visitors per month.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 31, 2010

Searchers Using Longer Queries in 2009 by Small Business Search Marketing. in 2009, while 4-word searches increased from 13.3% Predicting the Present with Google Trends by Google Research Blog. Which segments generate the most social media buzz? Google alone has a 63.7 in 2009 to 11.3% Matt McGee.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Another notable Pam Dyer post, this one summarizing a study from online advertising network Chitika which shows that Twitter is the best place to share news: 47% of the outbound traffic from Twitter goes to news sites, vs. 28% from Facebook, 18% from Digg and an imperceptable share from MySpace. 50% of mobile Internet traffic in the U.K

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