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MAY 18, 2009

SES San Jose: Social Media Analysis and Tracking by TopRank Online Marketing Blog Jessica Cameron-Ruud provides detailed notes on this SES panel discussion featuring Todd Parsons of Buzz Logic , Rob Key of Converseon , and Edmund Won from iCrossing.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

The Win."). The white paper also details some of the tools used throughout the lead nurturing process, such as automated email responders and customized landing pages.

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OCTOBER 16, 2005

Because this analysis will be a key part of the next step, which is… P: Plan. Based on your research and analysis of the results, develop your marketing plans for the appropriate time frame (immediate, quarter, annual). What tactics are even realistic in the short term? What should you avoid? Who needs to be involved?

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MAY 28, 2009

Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing Flowchart by PPC Blog One of the most bookmarkable posts ever on the topic of search engine marketing, this handy chart guides you through creating an SEM campaign from strategy and keyword research through keyword grouping and ad copy writing to measurement, analysis and optimization.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Here's an example analysis: Did the same thing, the same way, utilized established best practices in SEO, and—got only marginal improvement. So, I coded, I tested, I read some more articles and blogs. Small improvement. These sites have numerous external relevant links, keyword density right in the sweet spot, and optimized meta tags.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Free Keyword Research Tools - the Ultimate Guide by Search Engine Journal Following up on her excellent 5 Tools for Keyword Brainstorming post from the spring of last year, Ann Smarty has compiled here a list that lives up to the title, with tools divided into categories including: synonym search ( Thesaurus.com belongs here BTW), competitor analysis, (..)

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 13, 2006

First, Mike's Marketing Tools guru Michael Wong offers reviews of a large selection of Web marketing tools, including ad tracking software, autoresponders, keyword bid management, email marketing, search engine optimization, and Web site traffic analysis.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Her model outlines a progression of stages from site analysis (available to anyone using free tools) though optimization, targeting, and finally integration—a stage about which she writes "no one has nailed this one and that gives us all something to aspire towards."

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

PPC Web Spy For Competitive Keywords Analysis by WordPress Howto Spotter Alex Sysoef reviews and recommends PPC Web Spy , a free keyword research tool for AdWords and organic search optimization. David Szetela recommends experimenting with using symbols in your ads to increase CTRs, though commenters call him out on the practice.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2008

Firefox Extensions That Make Me A Better Marketer Blogger Mitch Joel of Twist Image provides his short list of favorite Fire Fox plugins for tasks such as checking site popularity, downloading video and tagging content on del.icio.us.

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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 22, 2005

This is a free customized news service that enables you to choose topics you'd like to track -- news, trends and analysis on your competitors, customers and target markets -- and then scans and delivers this content to you via email and the Web. Here are a couple of sites that can help. One that's probably familiar is Individual.com.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

That tiny percentage makes up the vast majority of banner ad clicks." Who are these "heavy clickers"? Read Dave's post to find out.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Search and Find - SEO Your Press Release by PR Meets Marketing Another post from Cece Salomon-Lee, this one on how to search optimize press releases using title tags and keywords in the header, subhead and first paragraph. tags: interactive PR, Web 2.0

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 14, 2009

After careful observation and analysis of the practices of these twerks, here are some of the secrets of those who suck at Twitter, yet appear highly successful. Yet these individuals often have immense numbers of followers—20,00, 30,00, even 50,ooo or more. They aren't celebrities. How do they do it? Twitter Name Never use your real name.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

His advice, which includes setting up a search "center of excellence" and performing sophisticated analysis, is targeted primarily at very large enterprises, though other pieces of information—such as noting that page file names are much more important to Google than Yahoo results—are more universally helpful.

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 18, 2008

Setting Goals for Social Media Profile Development by Search Engine People Blogger Jeff Quipp provides a nicely detailed post on crafting SMART (Specific, Measureable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely) objectives for developing your social media profile and an online professional network.

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 16, 2008

Why MySpace just won't cut it by iMedia Connection Author David Bankston lays out a strategy for using social networking sites to build "high value communities that drive innovation and revenue through increased engagement with consumers, employees and even partners."

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

providing relational analysis and explanatory graphics to give you contextual insight into news stories and current events." Though acknowledging some problems, Pandia calls it an "amazing resource." Who's really clicking?

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 1, 2008

There will also likely be more emphasis on search-driven conversions, though this is, strictly speaking, more of a website optimization than an SEO issue.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Search, Social and Direct Traffic by ProBlogger Darren Rowse provides a detailed analysis of his blog visits from various sources—which, given the obscene volume of traffic his blog draws, is probably fairly representative of blogs in general. Get the answers to all of these questions and others here in the final(!)

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MARCH 5, 2008

The Five Biggest White Paper Mistakes by The Content Factor Paul McKeon details the most common mistakes made in authoring white papers, including overselling, poor formatting and lack of illustrations. A short but useful reminder, particularly for B2B technology marketers.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

People Search Engines In this post from the Search is the Internet OS blog, Arnaud Fischer provides helpful reviews of 10 people-search sites, including Spock , ZoomInfo and Naymz. Worth reading just for the comment from Charles Knight. net, complete Web 2.0 directory, Snitter, Twitter, KickApps, Socialtext, enterprise wiki tool, Ning Marketing 2.0,

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 26, 2009

Ann provides helpful, objective comparisons and reviews of more than 60 SEO tools across 15 different categories such as keyword research, on-site analysis, rank checking and reporting.

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 14, 2008

Armed with analysis from PPC testing, SEO efforts can be focused on optimizing for the most valuable terms for a specific company, product or service.

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 24, 2008

More Quick Fixes for Your PPC Account: Get More Clicks by PPC Hero A nice follow-up to the previous post, this one with concrete suggestions for addressing low click-through rate (CTR), low ad position and disappointing traffic levels.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Tips for Optimizing Blogs and Feeds by Search Engine Guide Ross Dunn offers several tips for making your blog more search engine-friendly, from RSS feeds and PR to commenting and linking.

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APRIL 10, 2009

How to Avoid Bad SEO In How to Avoid a Rogue SEO Company , the Orange Soda blog offers some excellent advice on practices that serve as a warning signal for illegitimate SEO practices, such as guaranteeing a #1 ranking on Google (SEO expert Rand Fishkin has provided a detailed analysis of why reputable SEO firms don't promise guaranteed search engine (..)

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 18, 2008

Parts of this analysis are very helpful, for example, "The easiest way to save money (during the 2000-2002 recession, when marketing budgets were being slashed) was to replace old media with cheaper new media.

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Opentracker is a simple yet powerful service that provides real-time visitor monitoring, search term analysis, online reporting and other analytical capabilities. The service is integrated with Salesforce.com and is used by a blue chip customer base including RR Donnelly, Praxair and AMD.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2005

I've written about this office products company's Web site before here, and that analysis still holds true – the company does have an excellent site overall, one that is feature-rich and does a lot of things right. Finally, there is the all-too-common example of Avery.

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OCTOBER 16, 2008

Monthly SEO checks / Ongoing reporting, analysis and optimizing Monitor and analyze the results of your SEO efforts on a monthly basis, so you can bask in your successes and focus continuing efforts where needed. (Here are more press release SEO tips for writing search optimized press releases.)

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FEBRUARY 4, 2008

offers six techniques to make your Contact Us page ("one of the most important and crucial pages on your site") as effective as possible.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2008

(each form of) Advertising has a completely different place in your media mix. We would never recommend.that you do one or the other; you always do them both wherever possible."

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JANUARY 30, 2008

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OCTOBER 30, 2007

This tool tells you how many external links to your website have been detected by each of the major search engines: Link Popularity Tool from SEO Tools Finally, my favorite overarching, tie-it-all-together in one SEO analysis tool: SEO Analysis Tool from SEO Workers These seven tools will go a long way toward maximizing your SEO efforts.

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JANUARY 14, 2008

An Exhaustive List of Search Engine Based Keyword Research Data by SEOmoz A post that provides a "list of every which way you can look at a keyword to get an idea of metrics, value and potential from the (search) engines themselves" rather than single-purpose keyword tools.

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DECEMBER 29, 2009

What other tools are worth checking out for keywords, linking and website analysis? How do search engines treat different forms of keywords? How can you get the most of out of Google's free webmaster tools to improve rankings? Find the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best SEO blog posts from this year.

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