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FEBRUARY 4, 2008

With that in mind, here are some of the best articles and blog posts from 2007 on website design considerations and action items. Here you can provide specific information that visitors both expect to find and that will help them feel "safe" with the offerings you provide."

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

Should you have an interesting article, resource or any other item which may be of interest to them; they will link to your site from their own internet property. These Social Media Experts will usually charge a fee though for helping your story reach the front page of a particular site.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

And search engines love social media, which helps expose that rant to anyone searching for the company's name. Jon has a somewhat unusual name obviously (and the "Jon" spelling helps), but he isn't the only person on the planet with that moniker. Another executive acquaintance has things a bit worse.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Here are some of the best articles and blog posts from 2007 on optimizing the use of web analytics. Jordan supplies a 20-point website "fitness assessment" to help answer the question. And how can you most effectively use web analytics to make productive changes? After asking "Is your web site working hard enough for you?,"

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MARCH 3, 2008

Here's a list of interesting and useful tools to help you convert files, find content, promote your blog, and add content to your website, among other activities. File conversion tools Still running Office 2003, but need to convert the new XML-based formats from Office 2007 so you can read and work with them?

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JANUARY 7, 2009

Welcome to the first post in the official Best of 2008 series, which will summarize and link to some of the best blog posts and online articles about SEO, social media, online marketing strategy and more. tags: best SEO articles, Matt Cutts, Eric Enge, SEOmoz, Brent D. tags: best SEO articles, Matt Cutts, Eric Enge, SEOmoz, Brent D.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Here are some of the best articles and blog posts from 2007 on effective blog design, writing and promotion. To help ensure that your blogging efforts don't go unnoticed, Stephan Spencer provides a helpful list of tactics to optimize search engine positioning for your blog. Titus Hoskins offers a helpful list.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Three other articles from iMedia Connection worth reading are 7 marketing mistakes to avoid on Twitter by Rodney Rumford, Meet the brands that 'get' Twitter by Michael Estrin, and 7 tips for the perfect Twitter profile by Jason Baer. It’s all about the engagement."

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JUNE 22, 2009

With all the hype that's built up around social media marketing, it probably shouldn't be surprising to see a backlash of sorts in the form of a spate of recent articles suggesting that social media is worthless for marketers. These remind one of the link-baiting SEO is dead articles that pop up periodically.

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MARCH 19, 2009

It may seem a little odd to see an article about the best WordPress-related posts on a Blogger blog, but for various reasons the WordPress platform inspires a sort of geeky passion that Google's blogging platform just doesn't. Delicious Count WordPress Plugin … for Tracking and Improving Blog Post Quality!

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Many marketers have figured out that David Meerman Scott was right in The New Rules of Marketing and PR : buyers are interested in information that helps them solve problems, not marketing brochures. Those marketers are now writing insightful, helpful thought-leadership content. Through SEO, it continues to draw traffic in both places.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Expanding beyond the scope of his book, here are some of the best articles and blog posts of 2007 on maximizing the impact of public relations activities through interactive PR. Polishing your story, aggregating data in a pretty format, citing sources, and stroking egos are crucial to helping your story spread.If

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MAY 11, 2009

Find the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best blog posts and articles on SEO from the last year. The 5 Goals Of A Search Optimized Page - SEO 101 by SEO Scoop DazzlinDonna Fontenot nicely explains the basic goals of SEO: to help search engines find, index, understand, evaluate and rank the pages on your website.

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OCTOBER 9, 2007

Dan Briody recently wrote a helpful article for Inc. From my own experience, here are a few basic practices to help maximize conversion rates (which average 3% according to Dan's article) and minimize your cost per conversion: Keep content short.

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DECEMBER 28, 2009

Learn the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best blog posts and articles from last year on Twitter techniques, tools and tactics. In this article, Daniel Flamberg explains why he is "stumped and frustrated" by Twitter (maybe he needs to read Jason's post above?)

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JULY 28, 2008

There have been so many excellent blog posts and articles written already in 2008 that it's just not practical to wait until January of next year to recognize them. I may have to start doing these monthly or something, but for now, here are some of the best pieces written about the art and science of SEO so far in 2008.

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SEO Best Practices Search Engine Marketing Tagging 20

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

More specifically, on the day this article was posted, Twitter accounted for 60% of the total blog traffic, LinkedIn about 10% (the remaining 30% was mostly Google search plus a few miscellaneous referring sites).

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

9: Best of 2007: Articles and Blog Posts on SEO (Part 1) , January 28, 2008 Summaries of and links to a dozen outstanding articles on SEO from some of the top pros like Lee Odden , Jon Rognerud and Danny Sullivan. Also, I think, the first time on this blog I made the case that SEO is far from dead. #8: Happy Thanksgiving!

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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 tags: social networking, social search, social bookmarking, Web 2.0,

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Read on for all of this and much else in some (more) of the best articles and blog posts written about SEO to date this year. Introduction to Google Search Quality by The Official Google Blog Since Google is the most important search engine for SEOs, it's helpful to understand how its engineers view search.

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MARCH 23, 2009

Here are some tools, tips and guidance for crafting more effective and compelling web copy, from among the best articles and blog posts on web and SEO copywriting from last year. Writing for the web involves requires as much art as any other form, plus another level of science.

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JUNE 4, 2009

While you may be able to get away with no pants, please DON’T remove articles of clothing while on a video conference. To save us all, ooVoo turned to the etiquette experts at Beverly Hills Manners to help develop tips to optimize the outcome of video chat and video conferencing. No kidding. Quite embarrassing.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

As Mike Kaselnak, CEO of Hoard Client Systems wrote in response to my recent RainToday article How To Build Website Traffic With Content , "The days of trying to trick the search engines are over. Two words -- valuable content. Content is King!"

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Traffic Marketing Websites Paper Internet Marketing 20

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OCTOBER 18, 2007

Rarely do I drop what I'm doing to read a newsletter article, but that's what happened when I came across Elge Premeau 's Using Blogs to Attract Attention (Without Having Your Own) in the RainToday newsletter. She helpfully provides advice on how to find relevant blogs to comment on, track them, and write appropriate, productive comments.

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MAY 21, 2008

Articles and blog posts written to help marketers adapt and shift tactics in light of the economic slowdown have also proliferated, with Recession: The best thing for SEO from Brian R. News reports about the "R word" have certainly abounded since the beginning of this year.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Discover all of this and more in these blog posts and articles, some of the best so far in 2008 on link building strategies and tactics. Link Building Tips by Traffic Travis This article details 15 strategies for generating links. Link Building Tips by Traffic Travis This article details 15 strategies for generating links.

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JUNE 1, 2009

Note: This is the final article in a four-part series of guest posts on B2B branding strategy and website design from Rebekah E. When approaching a re-skin or redesign of your company’s website, it’s helpful to keep in mind both branding goals and user goals. Donaldson ("Red") and Cris Rominger of B2B Communications.

Design 20

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MARCH 6, 2009

Many of last year's best articles and blog posts on the topic of website design were reviewed here in two posts on the best of website design so far in 2008, but to help answer the questions above, here are a few more.

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MAY 6, 2006

George Dixon of the Minneapolis-based virtual marketing agency KC Associates recently put together a concise but helpful summary of the pros and cons of business blogging titled To Blog, or Not to Blog. Blogs can be a productive supplement to other marketing activities, but are not a replacement for PR, newsletters, and other communications.

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MAY 7, 2008

He makes an insightful and very timely argument, particularly given the spate of news articles over the last six months or so from sources like RCR Wireless News , Wireless And Mobile News and TechCrunch about free, ad-supported wireless calling models currently being tested. A similar trajectory could happen in wireless.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Which tools can help make your efforts more productive and effective? Get the answers to these questions and more in the pieces below, some of the best articles and blog posts from the past year. This article answers those questions and more. What are the most critical design factors to keep in mind? Do you need a.mobi domain?

Design 20

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Johnny Makkar provides some helpful guidance on how to get your co-workers to start Twittering , in which he links to this long but informative video from HubSpot on how to use Twitter for marketing and PR. You see, the human mind does not really think in blog and article form.

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JUNE 3, 2009

Read about all of this and more in some of the best articles and blog posts from the last year on marketing strategy and branding. Why do corporate marketing departments often seem so chaotic—and how can they operate more like a well-oiled machine? What do sales people need from marketing when launching a new product?

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APRIL 14, 2009

Another of her articles from last year worth bookmarking is 3 Tools to Generate and Manage Keyword Phases , which describes three tools to help with the task of generating large keyword lists. Traffic Travis Traffic Travis is very helpful free SEO tool for keyword analysis, backlinks and on-page SEO.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

You can do this by either writing an encyclopedic article about a topic; adding to or editing an existing article; or adding links to your own thought-leadership content as supporting material. At best, these sites can help you make valuable new business connections.

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AUGUST 1, 2008

Again, there have been so many excellent blog posts and articles written on SEO already this year that I'm trying to get a jump on 2009. It's helpful if you just think about which words people would use to search for your content. So here are several more of the best SEO-related pieces from 2008 thus far. A white hat super affiliate?

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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. About 5% of online marketing spending is dedicated to SEO.

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