The Effective Marketer

JUNE 13, 2009

And if you do a simple Google search, you’ll find tons of other free stuff that does not require registration. From free PPC tips , free guide on Facebook for business , free eBook on Twitter for Business , free email marketing guide , and other miscellaneous free stuff (some of which you wish you had never found).

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Budget Programs Marketing Management 100

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Facebook Lets Users Open Up Profiles by MediaPost Online Media Daily 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. "

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Marketing Burn Rate Web 2.0 20

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

The good news is that you can use a free tool like Google Analytics to get a very good handle on your customer engagement. Let’s see how Google Analytics can help you do just that. Involvement : Measured by tracking traffic to your site or your blog, Pageviews, bounce rates, New vs. Returning visitors and time on site.

B2B 60

B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Web 2.0 Buying Cycle 60

Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In order to satisfy the demands of the C-suite, the marketing department usually provides easy-to-measure metrics like traffic, page views, time spent and number of leads captured. Don’t put lead generation before traffic Traffic is the lifeblood of any business blog or website. How do you drive more traffic?

Lead Generation 60

Lead Generation Business Blogging Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 60

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 17, 2009

She emphasizes that SEO is a long-term project, that getting on page one of Google isn't always realistic (at least in the short term), and that ultimately, traffic and conversions are what matters—not just rankings. Focusing on longer-tail terms can provide respectable traffic and conversions without huge costs.

SEO 20

SEO Marketing Analytics Tools Best Practices PageRank 20

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

How can you utilize rich media ads to take advantage of the coverage provided by Google's content network? Find the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts on maximizing the value of Google AdWords from the past year. Is The Hype Over Google AdWords Quality Score Justified?

Adwords 20

Adwords Tactics SEM Tips 20

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

title tags, and viewing SEO as a one-time process rather than an ongoing discipline. He outlines the tag's purpose, operation, and treatment by search engines as well as answering common questions. The incredible number of comments this post generated is a testament to the tag's importance in the SEO toolbag.

SEO 20

SEO Forrester Best Practices Adwords 20

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. Page title (Title Tags) – This is what is visible at the top of the browser window. It is a very important part of your on site SEO strategy and you should take the time to customize your title tag for each post and page.

Optimization 60

Optimization SEO Buying Cycle Web 2.0 60

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

Summary: Hubspot offers a bundle of Web traffic generation and lead management features in one low-cost package. Although Hubspot positions itself as an “inbound marketing system,” it actually does more than the search engine optimization, blogging, social media interactions and related analytics needed to generate Web traffic.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Bundling Work Management Paid Search Agency 120

Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

It takes extensive knowledge, expertise, experience and a lot of detailed work in order for your website to be ranked high for specific keywords and phrases in Google and other major search engines. It will help to drive more traffic to your site where you could build a deeper relationship with them. And yes, it does cost money.

Rules 60

Rules Marketing Websites Marketing Automation Services Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

That’s a shame and here’s why — among the top ten in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2009 , IBM was listed at #2, Microsoft, GE and Intel at number 3, 4 and 9 respectively. Post these content assets to various distribution sites and increase awareness, drive traffic to your site and build your brand.

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Brand Identity 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? Otherwise, your traffic will dry up and the hard-earned readership will lose interest.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Copywriting Content Buying Cycle 60

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2009

Have Some Popular Tips Most Improtant Questions To Prepare For Social Media Marketing Interview Twitter Tips For Local Business 10 Important Points to Improve Ad Quality Score in Adwords Is facebook worthy for PPC? Let’s Know Do You Really Need To Open The Doors Of Mysteries Of Listings At DMOZ? B2C SEO: What is the Difference?

Search Engine Marketing 40

Search Engine Marketing Paid Search Agency Search Marketing Adsense 40

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

You want your business blog to become the hub that attracts traffic, establishes your credibility and ultimately, moves those readers forward in their decision making process and become paying customers. The first one is All in One SEO Pack and the second one is Google XML Sitemaps.

Business Blogging 60

Business Blogging Web 2.0 Long Tail Marketing Business 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

My take: Use a keyword research tool like the free Google Keywords Research Tool to come up with a list of keywords and phrases based around the problems and solutions you discovered in step #1. Develop content for each section using these keywords and phrases to help you get found on search engines and drive traffic to your site.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Work Management Marketing Management 60

Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Way back in the early days of PitchEngine (like 2009), people thought we were crazy to offer our social media news release service for free. Aside from optimizing the structure of the site and the pitches themselves, sheer volume and traffic drove our authority with Google and other search engines. How Does This Help You?

Social Media 115

Social Media SEO Marketing Websites PR 115

Hubspot

MAY 29, 2013

The amount of digital information created worldwide, tagged, and shared has grown 9-fold in the past five years, and should quadruple again by 2015. 5) Google+ is doing better than you think. It’s now the #4 social media site, behind Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. And it’s closing in on Twitter. 4) Short form is hot.

Internet Marketing 28

Internet Marketing Marketing Report Trends Paid Search Agency 28

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Six months later, very little traffic, even fewer leads and no sales > The new web site sucks, hasn’t done anything for our business. > Oh, we need content, okay let’s just copy & paste from our old marketing collateral.

Marketing Websites 60

Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle 60

Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Jeffbullas's Blog Internet Marketing Home Bio Speaking Grade your Site Marketing Resources Twitter Jeff’s YouTube Contact Congratulations: You have successfully subscribed! Provide “share this” buttons to Facebook and Twitter as a minimum 22. Implement “subscribe” buttons via RSS and Email 23. be authentic.

Paid Content 40

Paid Content Tips Webinar Metrics Ideal Customer Profiles 40

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. Funneling traffic from the blog to some other Web destination (typically a corporate site or lead form) is the prime objective.

Webinar Metrics 130

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Paid Search Agency Blogger 130

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 10, 2009

Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Facebook 5 73,787,766 +159.0% Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Facebook 5 73,787,766 +159.0%

Social Media 20

Social Media PageRank Digg Wikipedia 20

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Top 25 Social Networks by Navel Marketing Brian Critchfield reports on the top social networks ranked by traffic. While most of the sites on the list are hardly surprising (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), there are a few unexpected results, like Tagged at #6 and Yuku at #16. Social Tagging. Tags: Web 2.0

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Marketing Web 2.0 Forrester 20

Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Remember, your most important customer is Google, and your content ladder needs to maximize your chances for search success. This is especially important now that Google and Bing are incorporating social content into real-time search results). and search for them on Google, Bing, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and SocialMention.

Paid Content 143

Paid Content Ad Building Brand Identity Branding 143

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. This whitewater rafting place has the customers doing all the marketing work with time investment on Twitter, etc.,

Social Media 140

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 140

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Website Grader Badge Connect with Us HubSpot on Facebook HubSpot on Twitter InboundMarketers LinkedIn Group ProMarketers Facebook Group Subscribe to Blog RSS Want to share your Inbound Marketing advice with the community? posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM by Jack Leblond Jack - thanks for the comment.

Blogger 40

Blogger RSS Inbound Marketing Internet Marketing 40

Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Blog Start with a Lead Twitter BrianJCarroll. Blog WritingontheWeb Twitter PatsiBlogSquad. But I have a secret: I get a kick out of traffic stats. I use Google Analytics and Sitemeter, and advise my clients to do the same.

ROI 100

ROI B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning 100

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Android Mobile 2.0 The team focused on creating communities for NYC professionals, which resulted in a @RegusNYC Twitter feed and a Facebook Page. The company started a blog, participated in LinkedIn LinkedIn and engaged on Twitter.

Social Media 40

Social Media Enterprise Management Social Marketing B2B Marketing 40

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Based on my own anecdotal research, natural search typically drives at least 40% and average more than half of all unpaid traffic to b2b websites. Create content on a blog or produce videos, and promote using Digg, Twitter, and other social bookmarking and social networking sites. Tags: b2bmarketing.

Marketing Budget 40

Marketing Budget Budget Programs Marketing Budget Creation Paid Search Agency 40

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. &#. 8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams by Social Media Today. by HubSpot.

Social Media 100

Social Media Marketing Budget Social Marketing Paid Search Agency 100

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Yesterday, Demandbase announced a new software suite to help marketers harvest passive traffic visiting Web sites. 3) Online activity analytics — rather than examine overall site traffic and usage patterns like Omniture and WebTrends, these tools focus more on tracking what one individual or opportunity is doing. Among other stuff.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

Social Media 117

Social Media Webinar Metrics Media Marketing & Strategy 117

Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

You can study your Web analytics, and see which pages get the most traffic, and what questions are likely to be in prospects’ minds when they are on those pages. Remember that video is 52 times more likely to show up on the first page of Google search results, so don’t skip that part. You don’t need a film crew.

FAQ 137

FAQ Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Social Media 137

Hubspot

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In this series, HubSpot Director of Acquisition (and co-founder of Traffic Think Tank ) Matthew Howells-Barby and Academy professor Jorie Munroe dive into everything a search-oriented marketer or SEO needs to know this year. You'll learn how to drive traffic to your store or website, nurture those visitors, and convert them into customers.

Resources 101

Resources SEO Lead Ranking Marketing Analytics Tools 101

Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. In fact, a search for “social media agencies&# on Google yields more than 41 MILLION matching Web pages. Go beyond the obvious and use customer service metrics, social connectivity of customers, and Web traffic patterns as measures that matter.

Social Media 121

Social Media Paid Search Agency Media Advertising Agencies 121

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.

Social Media 119

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 119

Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Content marketing is perhaps alone in its ability to be a successful endeavor at every phase of the customer lifecycle: When a potential customer is using Google to research new digital cameras, what is going to get them to a Kodak site? Because content is the most efficient form of marketing available. Smart, optimized content.

Paid Content 124

Paid Content Content Marketing Paid Search Agency Planning 124

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake by Achinta Mitra on October 26, 2009 in Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development You’ve read up on all the traffic generation tactics and optimized your site to rank high on major search engines.

Traffic 60

Traffic Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Top of Funnel 60