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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

What the best practices for professional networking, generating sales leads, connecting with potential business partners, sharing content and getting answers to tough business questions? Mark Walsh reports on company pages, another new feature added by LinkedIn in late 2010. What new features should you get familiar with?

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Economic conditions may have been tough in 2010, but there was no shortage of online innovation. Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of 2010 by Lifehacker. ** 5 Stars. Monitor social media discussions of your company or product in real time? Create animations? Promote events through social media? Gather competitive intelligence?

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

Find the answers to those questions and others here in more of the best guides to business blogging of 2010 so far. New Rule: Size doesn’t matter, the content does.&#. Continually come up with fresh and interesting topics? Avoid dumb mistakes that even smart bloggers make? 10 SEO Tools Every Blogger Must Use by Daily SEO Tip.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Read on to learn how social media is changing PR, how pitching bloggers is different from traditional media outreach, how to optimize press releases for search and online distribution, which tools should be in your social PR toolbox and more here in some of the best articles and blog posts on social PR of 2010 so far.

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MAY 3, 2018

The people who believe in this happen to follow the same obsolete techniques (which worked in 2010), don’t bat an eye at the content, have a user interface which will make their visitors puke and yet, claim that SEO is dead. The most absurd of these myths is the old claim that SEO is dead. This really ticks me off.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Without a solid content strategy to support movement through the marketing and sales cycle, marketing automation software is just a nice email system.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

This last area can be a rich source of data for keyword targeting, future content development and navigational changes to improve the user experience. While a few of the mistakes that Tom Funk identifies here are specific to ecommerce sites, most apply more broadly as well, e.g,

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

WordPress is no longer just the leading blog platform , but is now the most popular open-source CMS (content management system) as well. Among the many reasons for the popularity of WordPress : it’s affordable, search engine-friendly, reasonably easy to use, and extensible through an incredible array of plugins.

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

This is an update of the looking back at 100 post in July 2010. How to Write an Effective Business Blog (January 8, 2010). 33 (of the) Best Marketing Strategy Guides and Insights of 2010 (February 14, 2011). The One Effective Use of Facebook for B2B Marketing (March 9, 2010). It Depends (October 13, 2010).

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Posts about marketing strategy were also popular (two of the top 10, four of the top 20), followed by content marketing, tools, and WordPress. October 13, 2010. More than 80% of b2b marketers now distribute content on social networks. 18 of the Best Content Marketing Strategy Guides of 2013. August 27, 2013.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Some sites step it up a notch and create a documented content marketing strategy. With this acknowledgment of blogs as a business asset and the core of content marketing activities , it’s imperative to not just write haphazardly but to create a content strategy that will appeal to our target audience and drive results.

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APRIL 26, 2010

What are the leading marketing thought leaders saying about marketing strategies in 2010? Why is content marketing becoming critical? Web Strategy in 2010 by baekdal.com. Thomas Baekdal offers a 22-point checklist for maximizing the way the web works today, from content generation and social media to calls to action.

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APRIL 5, 2010

9 Steps for a Public Relations Plan in 2010 by The 60 Second Marketer. SideWiki changes everything by The Digital Content Blog. 10 Reasons Media Relations Will Get Easier in 2010 by Journalistics. A detailed 11-step process to optimize press releases for search.

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JUNE 28, 2012

And while we continue to discuss website effectiveness in terms of conversions – providing content that prospects find interesting enough to be willing to give up some of their own information in order to receive it – now that’s no longer enough.

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JANUARY 7, 2011

Facebook added more than 150 million new users in 2010. 02 percent…What you need to focus on is the content and optimizing the content to get comments and likes,&# per Paul Dunay. “News Feed Optimization (NFO) on Facebook will become the new SEO. Social media will become targetable. link on Twitter.

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MAY 16, 2011

While print in general has taken a beating over the past decade, B2B publications have been particularly hard hit, leading to speculation about the future of B2B trade magazines (content marketing? Content aggregation ?). As of December 2010, almost a third (31%) of U.S. Slide 35: Nearly one-third of U.S.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Whatever questions you may have about social media marketing, you’ll probably find the answers in the 2010 Social Media Marketing Industry Report from white paper guru Michael Stelzner. If content generation is included, overall costs aren’t likely to change much. Share this on del.icio.us. Seed this on Newsvine.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Rising demand also helps; as the volume of online content has exploded , making search exponentially more competitive, SEO professionals have had to expand their use of SEO technology to remain effective. When I came to Netpeak, which is a digital marketing agency, in 2010, there was a need to automate some of the processes.

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MARCH 24, 2010

By writing articles about topics of interest to your readers, and distributing them on article directories, you can give your content the kind of exposure that would be hard to get anywhere else. Social media has become an effective vehicle for content distribution, and articles are no exception. Share this on del.icio.us. Tweet This!

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

For the record: I wrote 440 posts on the Blogger-based WebMarketCentral blog between 2005 and 2010, and have now published 560 posts here on Webbiquity. Of course, a steady stream of crappy content won’t attract a large or loyal readership. It’s a phenomenal source for content curation. Hence, 1,000.

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MARCH 28, 2011

B2b buyers use social media tools throughout their buying processes, from problem-solving and how-to content in the initial research phase through product/vendor comparisons and customer experience validation. You can find the original sources for most of these findings in Best Social Media Stats, Facts and Marketing Research of 2010.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

This post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in January 2010. Tweeting content of your own that will interest them (i.e. not just your marketing materials), retweeting content they post, and engaging in dialog is a great way to get these people talking, and writing, about your company. To Become a Resource.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Write articles, promote press releases, create content that people want to link to. Retrieved March 11, 2010, from [link]. Try to develop relationships as you do this- it can help you build online communities and really learn from each other. Get creative: Take advantage of every opportunity you have. Source: SEOmoz (2009).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

3 items that should be in your 2010 email budget by BtoB Magazine. A better approach may be a simpler newsletter design with a compelling hook to get the reader to click through to a more graphically-rich web page with similar but augmented content. Email Marketing Tips and Tactics. Share this on Bebo. Share this on del.icio.us.

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MARCH 9, 2010

TechCrunch predicts that “by this summer (2010) well over half of all Internet users will likely visit Facebook each month.&# Because of the intimate, informal nature of Facebook, it is the ideal venue to showcase personal content related to your company that may not be appropriate on a corporate website or even a LinkedIn profile.

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JANUARY 19, 2016

And that usage isn’t all selfies and cat videos; both consumer and B2B purchases are influenced by social content. The three characteristics of brand social media posting most important to consumers, in order, are 1) the brand shares new content; 2) the content is relevant to the brand; and 3) the brand engages with its followers.

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MARCH 3, 2011

Tim Garrigan recommends providing site search capability that gives visitors multiple ways to find content and using labels in your navigation that are clear to visitors (and not based on internal lingo) among other tips for optimizing the user experience on your site. 5 Things That Websites Need in 2010! by Social Media Dudes.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

Twitter came of age in 2010, growing at a scorching pace —from 75 million users at the beginning of the year to more than 190 million by the end of December. Based on research, Courtney Wiley reveals what type of content to tweet, when to tweet it, and the ideal frequency of tweeting to use in order to grow a Twitter following.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

Effectively generate content contributions from subject matter experts in your organization? Produce more stylish and readable content? Tim Gunn’s Top 5 Tips for More Stylish Content by Copyblogger. How can you improve your blog’s position in search engines? Grow your audience? What’s Up, Blog?

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

You’ll find the answers to these questions and many more here in 50 of the best Twitter tools, posts, how-to guides and rants of 2010 so far. 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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JANUARY 17, 2011

Americans spent nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs in 2010, up from 15.8 At its current rate, Twitter will process almost 10 billion tweets in 2010. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn continued to add users in the second half of 2010, albeit at a slower pace than in previous quarters.

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Today’s most effective marketers are optimizing content across channels, coordinating search and social marketing activities with traditional PR, and measuring their web presence and performance with sophistication. and 23% share content on SlideShare. 12 WPO, Inbound and Content Marketing Stats. e-Strategy Trends ).

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JANUARY 10, 2011

It started 2010 with roughly 350 million users and is now on its way to 600 million. She then offers five recommendations for B2B Facebook use including offering a mix of original content and industry news, and asking questions. Need inspiration for new ideas to keep your Facebook page up to date with fresh content?

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Link Building with the Experts – 2010 Edition by Outspoken Media. Best SEO Link Building Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far). How can you optimize the internal link structure of a website? Find the answers to these questions and more here in the best guides to SEO link building from the past year. Related Post. Share this on Bebo.

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MAY 26, 2022

An outdated site (in terms of content, design, or worse—both) reflects poorly on your brand. Posting high-quality content that is relevant to your audience will help you attract more followers and get more engagement than posting multiple times a day with low-quality content. Learn to Use SEO (or Hire a Professional).

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

Posts like How to Build a B2B Marketing Team (2017), the classic Seven Reasons Your B2B Marketing Should Include Cats (2019), and 5 Great Reasons to Retweet Others on Twitter (from 2010!) were all among the most-read posts over the past 12 months. The 15 Best Screencasting and Online Presentation Tools. The 22 Best Virtual Event Platforms.

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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. Gina Gotthilf proposes “6 questions to ask in determining if your website welcomes interaction,&# such as whether or not your content is sharable, dynamic, and open to reader input.

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