WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Here are a collection of the best online articles and blog posts to help you think about the big picture and answer the big questions about brand-building and marketing strategy. by Loyalty Marketing Blog Jonathan Treiber makes the case that customer loyalty can't be bought, only earned. Can you buy customer loyalty?

Brand Identity 20

Brand Identity Branding Marketing & Strategy Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 30, 2009

Is there SEM life beyond AdWords (and if so, where?)? What steps should take to optimize SEM campaigns—and which mistakes should you avoid? Discover the answers to all of these quandaries and more below, in some of the best blog posts and articles on search engine marketing from 2008. How do you write a killer search ad?

Search Engine Marketing 20

Search Engine Marketing Cost per Acquisition Paid Search Agency Search Marketing 20

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Find the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts on maximizing the value of Google AdWords from the past year. How can you calculate the potential advertising value of AdWords before making a costly investment? Is The Hype Over Google AdWords Quality Score Justified?

Adwords 20

Adwords Tactics SEM Tips 20

WebMarketCentral

APRIL 7, 2009

Even features unique to AdWords often "migrate" to other services over time, so search engine marketing (SEM) mastery begins with AdWords. Here are a few of the best blog posts about AdWords from last year, covering topics such as getting results from the content network, using the conversion optimizer, and reporting.

Adwords 20

Adwords Tactics Tips SEM 20

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Or, most likely, something you did that was totally unrelated to SEM that nevertheless had an effect? Brand advertising-yes, even print ads-support SEM success. So do comments on blogs (provided they are do-follow blogs). Random variation? Phases of the moon? Change in the national mood?

SEM 20

SEM CTR Paid Search Agency Press 20

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. SEO is dead? Balderdash! ”) and questionable ( Stop using keywords in your URLs.

SEO 20

SEO Wiki Best Practices Allocation 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Learn these answers and more from this collection of blog posts and articles, some of the best reporting on online research topics so far this year. I was most interested in learning that the average SEM conversion rate for B2B technology companies is 2.8%. Who's really clicking on your PPC ads? Why do PPC costs keep rising?

Marketing Budget 20

Marketing Budget Web 2.0 Research Paid Search Agency 20

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

On the occasion of the 300th post on the WebMarketCentral blog, and to see how things have changed since the first 100 posts , here are the 10 most popular posts of all time so far. #10: Also, I think, the first time on this blog I made the case that SEO is far from dead. #8: That will do it for me this (short) week.

Web 2.0 20

Web 2.0 SEM CTR Adwords 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 14, 2008

Google Analytics Keyword Sleuth vs Search Query Performance Report by Google Analytics Blog Mark Curtis offers up a detailed comparison of these two helpful PPC keyword research tools. SEO and SEM Shortcuts, Spying and Stats to Dominate Google! Both are free, but one is considerably faster and more thorough.

Search Engine Marketing 20

Search Engine Marketing Search Marketing Marketing Analytics Tools Paid Search Agency 20

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 3, 2009

What's the real the optimal cost per lead for your SEM program? How can you improve conversion rates? Keep your search marketing program growing? Assure you that aren't overlooking any important opportunities for optimization?

Search Engine Marketing 20

Search Engine Marketing Search Marketing Adwords SEM 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 28, 2009

Top 10 Resources to Pass the Google AdWords Exam in a Week by SEOptimise Richard Fergie provides a helpful list of resources to help with the Google AdWords certification exam from the AdWords blog, O'Reilly , seobook, PPC Hero and other sources.

Adwords 20

Adwords Tactics Tips PPC 20

WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Before embarking on a serious search engine marketing (SEM) program, it's critical that your website is designed to take full advantage of the increased traffic. With that in mind, here are some of the best articles and blog posts from 2007 on website design considerations and action items.

Design 20

Design Marketing Websites SEM Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 9, 2008

Welcome to the first in a series of posts on the best blog posts, articles and websites from 2007 covering various marketing topics. To start off, here is a list of the best tools for analyzing and optimizing SEO efforts. For example, Flash content, Javascript and images are invisible to search engines.

Analysis 20

Analysis SEO Tools SEM 20

WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 13, 2008

How can "conquesting" be applied as an SEM tactic? Get the answers to these inquiries and more in the following blog posts and articles, some of the best written on the topic of search engine marketing so far in 2008. Where should you apply direct marketing methods to your website? What challenges lie ahead for PPC marketers?

Search Engine Marketing 20

Search Engine Marketing Paid Content Search Marketing PPC 20

WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 16, 2008

Social media (blogs, podcasts, forums) and social networking sites ( Digg , del.icio.us , StumbleUpon , Searchles , etc.) present exciting new possibilities for marketers—but are also a potential minefield that must be navigated carefully to avoid doing more damage than good to your brand. David Bankston del.icio.us

Social Media 20

Social Media Web 2.0 Social Marketing Digg 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 7, 2008

Blogs and Microsites Can Help with SEO—Eventually Creating a blog or topic-specific microsite can supplement SEO efforts by providing a venue to share thought-leadership content, in a more casual tone than a corporate site, free from content management or other technological constraints that may apply to a company website.

Lead Generation 20

Lead Generation Work Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 20

WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 29, 2009

In addition, Andy and I had a little back-and-forth about the SEO value of backlinks as well as the risks and benefits of paid links on the Website Optimization blog. In addition, Andy and I had a little back-and-forth about the SEO value of backlinks as well as the risks and benefits of paid links on the Website Optimization blog.

Optimization 20

Optimization Marketing Websites SEM Sample 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 27, 2008

So, if you'd like to read my blathering on about marketing innovation, blogging, social bookmarking, SEO, SMO, SEM, b2b lead generation, lead management and B2B marketing and PR in general (which maybe you do, since you're here after all), check out Jon's interview.

B2B Thought Leadership 20

B2B Thought Leadership SEM Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 20

WebMarketCentral

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. Learning SEO and SEM - Where to Start? So here are several more of the best SEO-related pieces from 2008 thus far. A tad self-serving, but informative.

SEO 20

SEO SEM Best Practices Buzz 20

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 19, 2008

So, the blog will take a brief time out. I'll be back to writing about social networking, interactive PR, SEO and SEM, and the usual stuff as soon as I make sure my clients are well taken care of for the moment.

SEM 20

SEM PR Database Marketing Social Networks 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 20, 2009

Of course it isn't only big businesses that make mistakes, so to be fair Sonia details in another excellent post dumb things small businesses do , advising entrepreneurs to avoid the number "one," as in over-reliance on one customer, one vendor or one partner.

Marketing & Strategy 20

Marketing & Strategy Brand Identity Branding Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Three Ways People Who Aren't Running for President Can Make Social Media Pay by HubSpot's Inbound Marketing Blog Rick Burnes explains three ways that even organizations which don't have tens of millions of dollars to spend and thousands of volunteers can use social media for marketing and PR, and measure the return.

LEADSExplorer 20

LEADSExplorer Social Media Optimization Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Here are some of the best articles and blog posts from 2007 on optimizing the use of web analytics. One of the most appealing aspects of online marketing is the ability to test and measure virtually anything, in detail and with great precision. But which metrics are really important?

Analytics 20

Analytics Best Practices Blogger Banner Ads 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

Google Social Bookmarking and Blog Recommendation Engine by Key Web Data The inimitable Chris Lang explains social features added to Google Reader (such as bookmarking capability and a friends list), why they were added, and how Google will likely use this information (to create a Digg-like system that can't be gamed). Social Tagging.

Social Media 20

Social Media Web 2.0 iCrossing Optimization 20

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Check out Joe Pulizzi's Junta42 blog , pick up a copy of Ardath Albee's wonderful new book eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale (which builds upon the foundation laid by David Meerman Scott and others), follow @Mike_Stelzner on Twitter—it's everywhere. Content marketing is all the rage. Authority and independence. Advertising.

Marketing Management 20

Marketing Management B2B Thought Leadership Microsite Planning 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 4, 2009

Find the answers to these inquiries and more here in some of the best articles and blog posts about interactive PR from the last year. blogging and SEO). How should marketers and PR professionals adapt to the decline of traditional publishing and the rapidly increasing influence of social media? Thankful For PR 2.0 tags: PR 2.0

PR 20

PR Best Practices Blogger Copywriting 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

They're all here in the final best of funny, creative and just plain strange blog posts from the past year. Ads that never should have seen the light of an LCD screen. What do all of these things have in common? So put on your headphones, make sure the boss isn't nearby, and check these out.

Creativity 20

Creativity Paid Search Agency Best Practices Adwords 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 24, 2009

The Steven Wright Guide to Content Marketing by Copyblogger Brian Clark uses a series of one-liners from the inimitable comedian Steven Wright to illustrate his thesis that copy matters when writing blog posts, white papers, web copy or anything else you hope will be read and acted upon. You never correct yourself. He doesn’t, either."

Web 2.0 20

Web 2.0 Creativity Copywriting Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

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?

Tools 20

Tools Best Practices Web 2.0 Digg 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 13, 2009

Find those answers and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts about social media marketing from the last year. Social Media Marketing best practice even used by Google by LEADSExplorer A brief post that makes a solid point: blogs have become a primary conduit for corporate announcements and news releases.

LEADSExplorer 20

LEADSExplorer Social Media Optimization Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

As Loren explains, "The simplest (way to create a video domain) is launching a Wordpress Blog and then embedding your YouTube, Google Video or other video sharing service commercials on the blog, one for each post, with a unique title tag and description for each post. CFOs are the most skeptical (yeah, another shock).

Social Media 20

Social Media Optimization Media Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

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?

Brand Identity 20

Brand Identity Branding Marketing & Strategy Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

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. David Meerman Scott's The New Rules of Marketing & PR provides an excellent primer on the subject. Her links are summarized and updated on a periodic basis.

PR 20

PR Web 2.0 Best Practices Blogger 20

WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This panel will dispel the misperception that social media can’t be applied in the B2B arena by illustrating how tools like Twitter and blogs can be applied to monitor, communicate and engage audiences.” Tom has also created successful interactive marketing and PR programs including video, blogging, podcasting and social media optimization.

Enterprise Management 20

Enterprise Management Social Media Work Management Marketing Management 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 17, 2009

Retaggr Another valuable site for reputation management, Retaggr not only enables you to create an online profile linked to your accounts on other social media sites, but also lets you easily create an online business card, social media email signature , and blog widget to help visitors easily add you to their friend lists.

Tools 20

Tools Best Practices RSS Adwords 20

WebMarketCentral

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. She provides an excellent primer on SEO staring with objectives, keyword research and onsite optimization techniques and continuing on through SEO tools, local search, image optimization, video, online PR and blogs.

SEO 20

SEO Best Practices PR PageRank 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 31, 2009

Increase ROI From Marketing Conferences by TopRank Online Marketing Blog Lee Odden provides an outstanding guide to making the most of marketing conferences. Networking, gaining knowledge and gathering material for blog content are just a few of his recommendations.

Paid Content 20

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Best Practices Advertising Agencies 20