Webbiquity

APRIL 14, 2010

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. 10 Easy Ways to Optimize Your PPC Landing Pages & Increase Conversions by PPC Hero.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 7, 2010

While more than 80% of companies now use paid search in some form (primarily AdWords), many of these programs are under-optimized and not delivering the results they could be. Noah Elkin walks through how to use testing, match types, ad text optimization and other tactics to improve search marketing success. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Alex Sysoef reviews and recommends PPC Web Spy , a free keyword research tool for AdWords and organic search optimization. It does this by optimizing the placement of your ads in each auction based on the likelihood of a conversion. PPC Web Spy For Competitive Keywords Analysis by WordPress Howto Spotter. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 23, 2010

How can you optimize your organization’s use of Twitter? There’s no doubt that Twitter is a phenomenon. It’s now the third-largest social network (behind Facebook and MySpace), the fastest-growing , and used by 75% of b2b companies. What are the best ways to search on this platform? How can you measure results? Tony Karrer.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2013

.” Once Oprah gave Twitter her imprimatur, the service crossed the chasm (6 million members before she joined in April, 2009 and 105 million a year later). Twitter chats and interviews have become routine, but the platform’s limitations make it a decidedly less than optimal venue for this type of group communication.

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Webbiquity

JULY 6, 2010

Almost) 100 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Blog Posts and Articles of 2009. Best Social Media Stats and Market Research of 2009. Tags: Random ad agency RFP b2b marketing Business Blogging Facebook social media demographics Social Media Marketing social media myths Web Presence Optimization. What is Webbiquity? Tweet This!

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Make sure the Management Team page on your company website is optimized for your name. Create accounts on social bookmarking sites like Wikio , Mixx , Digg and/or StumbleUpon. Note: this post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in January 2009. Use the domain to build a professional website (e.g., Tweet This!

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 28, 2011

According to recent research from eConsultancy, “Paid search consumes the largest portion of online lead generation budgets, accounting for 28% of spending (in 2010), up from 22% in 2009.&# Yet many marketers struggle to optimize this channel in the face of increasing competition, changes to Google results pages (e.g.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 12, 2011

Optimize company news for SEO benefit? Among her findings: “While most agencies didn’t link to their social media channels on their website in 2009, 83% included this on their home page in 2010. There’s no question that online PR plays a key role, in conjunction with SEO, in successful web presence optimization.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Around this time last year I wrote about some Predictions for 2009 and while I would say 8 out of 10 have already materialized and the other 2 are on their way, it has become clear that this year was the year we past the point of no return on Social Media. There is a huge opportunity here that some company needs to fill fast. Tweet This!

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 25, 2009

link] First shared on Digg by ptrewin Last shared: 6 hours 16 minutes ago | 1 shares (expand) | Tweet It close 1 Total Shares: 1 Diggs ptrewin 6 hours 16 minutes ago - Digg it Why Your B2B Marketing is So Lousy | Sales Machine | BNET Ever wonder why most B2B marketing is so gawd-awful? This is an interesting read.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – this is the ultimate no-brainer. Create helpful and link-worthy content, optimize your pages, and get other sites linking to yours in order to improve your site’s position in the search engines. First, that it’s important to continue investing in marketing through the downturn.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Sometimes we need to find that inspiration to write that next post or optimize the blog so that maybe one day you will be able to monetize your expertise and content and retire to the Bahamas. I then added to that post with some ideas from readers and more of my own with a post titled “ 50 Ways To Optimize Your Blog “. be authentic.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Unfortunately, several of the largest sites including Digg, delicious, Reddit, Mixx and Mister Wong now partially or completely use insidious no follow links. If you are planning to use these for SEO, check for do-follow status first.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Posted by Magdalena Georgieva on Mon, Jun 29, 2009 @ 07:40 AM COMMENTS Been searching for an answer.everyone (nearly) agrees that blogs are a great way to bring eyes to your pages. posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM by Jack Leblond Jack - thanks for the comment. Any numbers to show success of one over the other?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Another noteworthy post from this publication is Facebook is a Personal CRM for Baby Boomers , in which Daniel Flamberg reports on an Accenture study showing that in early 2009, “boomers posted a 59 percent increase in use of social networks; a rate of adoption 30 times faster than any other age group.&# practices, blogs and more.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The Supply Chain Expert Community launched in August 2009 and is home to 3,620 members and counting. From 2008 to 2009, Kinaxis saw a 270% increase in web traffic to Kinaxis.com and a 320% increase in conversions (customer leads), as a direct result of introducing the community. For a niche community, that’s a feat.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Content This is the scenario where you are writing a blog with considerable emphasis on search optimization, attempting to drive traffic to the blog via strategic content creation and keyword inclusion. As I see it, there are 3 options here: 1. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Optimization—the greatest results for the lowest cost—is the goal of every AdWords campaign manager. What are two of the simplest ways to optimize AdWords campaigns? But it isn’t the only factor; what other items are considered, and how can you optimize these? Setting up PPC Campaigns 101, Part 1 by Search Engine Watch.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Also, while I think it’s somewhat less likely that a first-time visitor will tweet or Digg or Stumble your work (I’d love to see a study on that), you should make that process as easy as possible as well. link] video search optimization We parted ways last Monday morning after a fantastic week and a half … Matt let out.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Setting Expectations for Search Engine Optimization by Search Engine Watch. He closes with advice on where to begin, and the missions of an SEO including a clear understanding of goals up front and collaborating with developers and writers to optimize content. Blog SEO: 5 Tips To Improve Ranking and Increase Traffic by PCWorld.

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

The hard questions about social media for B2B solutions providers , June 11, 2009. Blog as hub, site as spoke , June 23, 2009. Here are my top 10 posts and topics: Best Social Media Stats and Market Research of 2009 , March 31, 2010. Optimization. Digg this! Axel Kuhn and Eric Goldman ( @gossamar ). Statistics.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Over the last decade, business blogs have gone from being a novelty to a leading-edge practice to an essential element for any company seeking to optimize its presence on the web. What’s more, blogs are a central component of web presence optimization , and the core of a productive social media strategy.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

January 27, 2009 Posted by John Furrier in Technology. link] Cindy Diamond You are spot on regarding companies first optimizing their current marketing before engaging in social media marketing. link to the rest of his article: [link] Posted by Elise Daniel April 29, 2009 at 2:57 pm Posted in Best Practices [.]

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Brian Solis provides a wealth of statistics that answer these questions and more, e.g., 87% of Americans said they were familiar with Twitter in 2010, up from just 26% in 2009.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Achinta Mitra provides step-by-step instructions for integrating Google Analytics with standard ESP email tracking, which produces much richer data to help optimize conversion rates. 3 keys to optimizing the email experience by iMedia Connection. 2009 Email Marketing Metrics Benchmark Study by XDXY eMarketing Tips.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

An alarming number of once-respectable social bookmarking sites—Digg, delicious, Mister Wong, Reddit, Mixx, Bibsonomy, Jumptags, Faves, Yahoo! Note: This post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in October 2009. I don’t want anyone to think we’re together.&#. Absent that, site owners should boycott it.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2011

Ken Mueller uses the example of Dave’s Ace Hardware in Wisconsin to demonstrate how to optimize business engagement on Facebook: be personal, use photos and video, provide great customer service among other things. Best Facebook Marketing Tips and Guides of 2009. Branding & Engagement, pt. Highly creative AND useful!

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The Supply Chain Expert Community launched in August 2009 and is home to 3,620 members and counting. From 2008 to 2009, Kinaxis saw a 270% increase in web traffic to Kinaxis.com and a 320% increase in conversions (customer leads), as a direct result of introducing the community. For a niche community, that’s a feat.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

54% of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) were using social media to promote their businesses as of September 2010, double the number using these sites in December 2009. More than half (53.5%) of marketers currently use social media as part of their marketing strategy, up from 45% in 2009. last year (2009).

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

3) Search engine marketing services providers – Shar VanBoskirk covers this market, but I’ve found companies like Reprise Media, IMPAQT, iCrossing and iProspect doing a lot more to help B2B marketers understand how to turn search optimization or paid clicks into qualified leads. 4) Online portals – I know, this is a broad category.

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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. Adoption soared. 85% of Inc. by Served Fresh Media.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Google Website Optimizer. Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone. Is social media creating a generation of cowards? Have I gone MAD?? And why not?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But after rapid growth in 2009 and 2010, the study found that “There has been little or no change in the number of companies using corporate blogs (0%), Facebook (2%) and Twitter (2%) in the last year.” The most rapid increase in adoption has been in the use of social networking, which has nearly doubled since 2009. •

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

BTW, our recent HRmarketing Trends Report Survey ( [link] ) showed that in 2009 82% of companies didn't measure ROI of social media but now, 69% intend to do so! A challenge for all marketers! Interesting.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Best SEO Link Building Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) - Webbiquity , July 14, 2010 Optimizing a website by incorporating keywords into page titles, headlines, text, page URLs, image alt tags and internal links will help improve the position of a site in the search engines—but it’s only half the battle. Optimization (90).

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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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