Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty? The State of the Blogosphere 2010 Since 2004, Technorati has published its annual State of the Blogosphere report. In 2009 and 2010, we saw microblogs and tumblelogs such as Posterous and Tumblr gain in prominence and universality. MORE >>

Find out here in some of the best blog posts and articles about SEO link building of 2010 so far. Raiding Your Competitor’s Backlinks by Internet Marketing for Business Owners. 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. Nine Tools for Your Link-Building Toolkit by ClickZ. Share this on Bebo. MORE >>

How do social media marketing strategies in small businesses differ from those in larger enterprises? Americans spent nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs in 2010, up from 15.8 More than 700,000 local businesses have active Pages on Facebook. At its current rate, Twitter will process almost 10 billion tweets in 2010. Still don’t think social media is important for marketing your business? 75% of small businesses in the U.S. The State of the Blogosphere 2010 by Brian Solis. in the latter half of 2010. MORE >>

Thanks to two info-packed days I spent at the April 2010 Content Strategy Forum , I’d like to give you a head start. Here are the top 10 takeaways on the how-to’s of content strategy: From the very moment you launch your website, you are in the publishing business. Since you are now in the publishing business, you need to do exactly the same. Why An Effective Content Strategy is Fundamental to Effective Content Marketing. We hope you’re a firm believer in the value of content marketing. With that understanding, you are ahead of the game. MORE >>

Blogging provides business executives and marketers with opportunities beyond and distinct from a typical company website. Here are five key benefits of blogging for businesses. Winning the business, particularly in the b2b world, is usually about doing the best job of solving the customer’s problem. blog lets you attract readers with your knowledge, interests, opinions and observations in a way your website can’t, expanding your circle of influence and business relationships. Blogs are seen as key sources of information rather than just promotion. MORE >>