Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

unemployment rate still near 10%, and uncertain prospects for a quick recovery , marketers need to keep two things in mind. unemployment rate still near 10%, and uncertain prospects for a quick recovery , marketers need to keep two things in mind. First, that it’s important to continue investing in marketing through the downturn.

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 14, 2008

In my continuing effort to clean out my bookmarks and stay ahead of the game for the Best of 2008 series in January, here are a dozen of the most linkworthy articles and posts on search engine marketing so far this year. SEO and SEM Shortcuts, Spying and Stats to Dominate Google! Whats the best keyword match type?

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2009

Online Marketing Blog TopRank’s internet marketing blog on the intersection of digital PR, social and search engine marketing. Pitching bloggers and print journalists are somewhat similar, but in the end, they can be very different things. That’s great, but what does it have to do with search marketing?

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 14, 2008

The slowdown across some sectors of the economy is forcing B2B marketers to pull back on spending, yet continue to produce great results (or else). With that in mind, MarketingSherpa last week presented their Top 10 B-to-B Marketing FastFixes: How to Generate & Nurture More Qualified Leads. Here are the highlights from the webinar.

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Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management B2B Marketing 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Which "rules" should every blogger know and follow? 15 Rules for Business Bloggers by Conversation Marketing The brilliant and often very funny Ian Lurie offers up his list of "rules" for writing a successful business blog, such as "Take the B.S. Content Marketing: How do you write to entertain readers?

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 27, 2009

Acknowledge other bloggers you admire? The prolific guest-blogger also contributed 10 Innovative Blog Business Models —a post detailing 10 methods beyond the obvious (AdWords) to monetize a blog, such as selling educational courses, eBooks, premium content, consulting services (hmm, that sounds familiar) and digital products.

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 24, 2009

TopRank Best List of RSS Blog Directories to Submit Your Blog and Feed by TopRank Online Marketing Blog An outstanding list of blog directories, RSS and ping sites to help spread the fame of your blog. As she notes, "It (building relationships with other bloggers) doesn’t work like magic! Networking takes time and effort.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

David Meerman Scott's The New Rules of Marketing & PR provides an excellent primer on the subject. Proof You Can Gain Additional Rankings And Build Relevant Links With Google News by 97th Floor Blogger Matt Siltala shows how to use Google News search to increase the exposure and SEO value of a press release.

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 30, 2008

5 Rules of Social Media Optimization (SMO) by Buzz Marketing for Technology Ãœber-blogger and podcaster Paul Dunay provides five unconventional tactics for improving search engine rank, such as adding social bookmark site buttons to web pages, making content portable (e.g. video, audio files and PDFs) and encouraging mashups.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 13, 2009

What are the best examples of organizations using social media for marketing, promotion and interactive PR ? Find those answers and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts about social media marketing from the last year. Pitch an influential blogger on the story. Got something to tell the world?

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the most appealing aspects of online marketing is the ability to test and measure virtually anything, in detail and with great precision. Bloggers Ponder Google's RSS Syndication Stats by MediaPost Online Spin Following Google's acquisition of Feedburner , Max Kalehoff ponders the importance of the "reach" metric for bloggers.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 4, 2009

How should marketers and PR professionals adapt to the decline of traditional publishing and the rapidly increasing influence of social media? Loren Baker contends that the best way to generate links is to think beyond the one-off pitch and build relationships with key bloggers in your industry. SEO social media interactive PR?

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2008

My Search Engines Blogger David Berkowitz provides an excellent list of specialized search engines to help monitor buzz, find content within blogs, research websites, and find images, video clips and people. A free trial of the software is available here.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

Discover these answers and others here in more of the best posts from the past year on social media marketing and PR. Top 10 Business Applications for Facebook by Duct Tape Marketing Of the 1,000+ Facebook apps built thus far, only a very small number—perhaps a couple of dozen or so—have value for B2B marketers and PR pros.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Search engine marketing (SEM) accounts for roughly three out of every eight dollars spent on digital advertising , with Google alone commanding 31% of the market. So how can search engine marketers maximize their click-through rate (CTR) and conversions from paid search? Which tools and reports are most helpful?

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 11, 2009

Site Architecture and SEO by Spinfield SEO projects often begin with keyword research, but this post recommends stepping back and beginning with solid architecture instead: assuring that CSS and Java are handled properly, the site has a solid internal link structure, and both HTML and XML sites maps are utilized.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 5, 2008

From advertising to white paper syndication to voicemail, here are a few of the best marketing-related newsletter articles and blog posts from 2007 that simply didn't fit into any other category. A short but useful reminder, particularly for B2B technology marketers. No flashing whack-a-mole banners.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

The first step in crafting a marketing plan is to determine overall strategy, and among the first questions to ask when thinking about the strategy are "What do I want my brand to stand for?" The (marketing emails) that really irritate me are the offers that get sent repeatedly with the exact same messaging. What are they doing?

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

Ning Marketing 2.0 The Marketing 2.0 Ning is a social site "For passionate marketers who are out to define, explore, experiment and determine the value of B2B Social Media Marketing and Marketing 2.0," with posts and networking opportunities from forward-thinking marketers across the web, including podcasting guru Albert Maruggi.

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 28, 2008

Judging by the number of high-quality articles and blog posts still devoted to the topic (so many I had to split this category into two posts), SEO remains a critical component of online marketing success. ”) and questionable ( Stop using keywords in your URLs.

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 30, 2009

Resources to improve your Internet marketing skills? 10 Rules for Setting Your Internet Marketing Budget by Conversation Marketing In yet another of his many remarkable posts, Ian Lurie provides practical responses to the "It costs WHAT?!" Specialty search engines? The story behind LOLcats? Find music online?

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SnapApp

DECEMBER 4, 2017

And as the content marketing landscape continues to rapidly evolve, it makes sense to look to research to identify trends and patterns that can help guide your strategy. That’s why we’ve gathered 54 content marketing stats all in one place – so you can start thinking about how this data will inform your plans for 2018. .

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Hubspot

AUGUST 9, 2018

If someone were to ask you, “Do you know what marketing is?” But when asked to define marketing, you might struggle. Marketing is a seemingly simple concept on the surface, but it becomes more complex as you break it down. What do marketers do every day? How has technology expanded the marketing field?

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. For those not familiar with it, the B2B Marketing Zone (a.k.a. the BMZ) was officially launched a year ago as the first content aggregation hub for leading business-to-business bloggers. June 7, 2010.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 19, 2012

To me if you look at the mechanics of Facebook ads, Twitter ads, LinkedIn ads, even YouTube ads, the way those ads are bought and trafficked and targeted is fundamentally similar to the way Google AdWords works. When you could literally get keywords and clicks at $0.10 It really does feel like the early days of SEM and PPC search.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

For anyone in marketing or PR being asked to make “data-driven&# decisions “based on the numbers&# (and doesn’t that include pretty much everyone in marketing and PR these days?), How do social media marketing strategies in small businesses differ from those in larger enterprises? Social Media Facts and Stats.

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 3, 2009

While their free and blogger plans offer limited funcitonality, their Pro ($60 per year as of this writing), Super Pro ($120/year) and Enterprise ($300/year) plans offer impressive capabilities at very reasonable cost. Tags: Cool Web Marketing Tools. 17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Would Love To Use!

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

What do marketing professionals need to know about online video? Get the answers to these questions and more from this collection of some of the best articles and blog posts from 2007 on marketing research. Creativity & You by THINKing Blogger Harry Hoover comments on the results of study into the roots of creativity.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 29, 2014

Beyond Search & Social: Online Marketing in 2014 by Search Engine Journal. Convergence: Merging Disciplines Between PR and Marketing by InNetwork. Integrated Marketing: The Magic Formula for Success by Blue Kite Marketing. email marketing. email marketing.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Of course, this is why marketing was invented – to draw interest by disseminating information about a brand’s favorable attributes, building desire for its products and services, and providing a clear pathway to make a purchase. When it comes to managing your paid search campaigns, a working knowledge of Google’s AdWords tool is key.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

16 Essential PC Applications for Bloggers by Problogger Frequent Best-of contributor Darren Rowse reviews essential blogging tools including SnagIt for capturing screen images, Digsby for consolidating social networking chat with a single tool, Camtasia Studio for screen recording, PeaZip for file archiving and unzipping, and a dozen others.

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Directive Agency

JULY 26, 2016

You’re reading this because you’re interested in hiring a top SEO company that can exceed your company’s marketing KPI’s. I tweet about #marketing #seo and #business – Contributor to @Entrepreneur and @GulfBusiness. Go with someone that already knows how to market successfully for your business.

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