Sharing accounts for nearly a third of all referral traffic, and shared links are “clicked on 4.9 You just shared a link. Hilary Mason reports on research showing the “half-life” of a link on various social networks (the time in which half of all clicks the link will ever get occur). Among her key findings: “(looking at) the half life of 1,000 popular bitly links, the results were surprisingly similar. The mean half life of a link on twitter is 2.8 Google attracts more than one billion unique visitors per month. hours. MORE >>

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. Search engines look at on-site factors to determine relevance, but at external links to gauge authority. Maybe have never even had a sales job or a college-level marketing class. Dec 2009. Best of B2B Marketing. July 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010. MORE >>

Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. Before you dive into the deep end of do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO, you should be aware of the two types of optimization tactics and they are: On-page or on site optimization Off-page or off site optimization (mainly link building, which is a topic for another post) In this article, I’ll be focusing on a few DiY on-site optimization techniques for a WordPress business blog. By default, WordPress creates permalinks that look like this: [link]. Thanks for the link. of Tiecas, Inc. MORE >>

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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. Unfortunately, several of the largest sites including Digg, delicious, Reddit, Mixx and Mister Wong now partially or completely use insidious no follow links. Builds on the arguments made in Social Media ROI vs. RONI (risk of not investing). Which social bookmarking sites have the most clout? Social Tagging MORE >>