WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

How can generate more targeted traffic to your blog? Find the answers to these questions and others here in WebMarketCentral's final list of the best posts on business blogging from the last year. What techniques will help you write more compelling posts? Which "rules" should every blogger know and follow? about your organization?

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RSS Best Practices Business Blogger 20

WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 24, 2008

The last post here presented some of the best articles and blog posts on general search engine marketing practices. This post focuses on interesting observations and helpful advice pertaining specifically to Google AdWords, the largest SEM platform. This post shows how Target screwed up a PPC campaign, and how it could have been fixed.

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Adwords Paid Content SEM Google 20

WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 30, 2008

Following up on my last post, there were just too many excellent newsletter articles and blog posts on SEO last year to fit them all into one post, so here are more of the best bits of SEO guidance from 2007. video, audio files and PDFs) and encouraging mashups. video, audio files and PDFs) and encouraging mashups.

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SEO SEM Work Management Thought Leadership 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 24, 2009

Everyone who writes a business blog ultimately wants the same thing—more traffic. A more broadly helpful post from this blog is 7 Steps to Better Business Blogging guest contributor Ann Handley of MarketingProfs. All good ideas, though you'll need fairly substantial traffic to begin with for these techniques to be practical.

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RSS Best Practices Business Blogger 20

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?

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Brand Identity Branding Marketing & Strategy Best Practices 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). Social media participation helps drive business. Random variation? Phases of the moon?

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SEM CTR Paid Search Agency Press 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?

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Adwords Tactics SEM Tips 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.

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Web 2.0 SEM CTR Adwords 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

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.

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Adwords Tactics Tips 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.

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Adwords Tactics Tips PPC 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?

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Search Engine Marketing Search Marketing Adwords SEM 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.

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SEO Wiki Best Practices Allocation 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.

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SEO SEM Best Practices Buzz 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.

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Design Marketing Websites SEM Best Practices 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?

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Search Engine Marketing Paid Content Search Marketing PPC 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 4, 2009

How do PR, SEO and social media work together to build name recognition and credibility for a company? How should marketers and PR professionals adapt to the decline of traditional publishing and the rapidly increasing influence of social media? blogging and SEO). blogging and SEO). Thankful For PR 2.0

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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.

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Creativity Paid Search Agency Best Practices Adwords 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 17, 2009

How about slick tools to creating a social media email signature or conducting a video chat session? WiseStamp This is a slick tool that enables you to easily create a graphical HTML social media email signature for use with most common webmail services (Gmail, Yahoo mail, AOL, Hotmail etc.).

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Tools Best Practices RSS 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."

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Web 2.0 Creativity Copywriting Best Practices 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.

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Marketing & Strategy Brand Identity Branding Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 6, 2009

Find all of this and more here in another group of the best articles and blog posts from the last year on the practice of SEO. Google's SEO Starter Guide by the Google Webmaster Central Blog Google made quite a splash when it published this guide last November. Bookmark this page and keep it near the top of your list.

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SEO Marketing Proposals Best Practices PageRank 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 17, 2009

Which social media sites are most helpful for SEO? 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.

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SEO Best Practices Adwords Copywriting 20

WebMarketCentral

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. Matt Cutts Translated: 8 SEO Tips I Heard Him Tell Eric Enge by SEOmoz SEO expert Brent D.

SEO 20

SEO Microsite Best Practices SEM 20

WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

Snitter Snitter is a small desktop application that makes it easy to keep up with those you are following on Twitter, a social networking site that lets you keep "followers" up to date on what you're up to, and stay in the loop on what they're doing. Like KickApps, Ning is a social networking platform. Ning Marketing 2.0

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Web 2.0 Ning Wiki Enterprise Management 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.

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Paid Content Paid Search Agency Best Practices Advertising Agencies 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?

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Analytics Best Practices Blogger Banner Ads 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.

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PR Web 2.0 Best Practices Blogger 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?

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Tools Best Practices Web 2.0 Digg 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?

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Brand Identity Branding Marketing & Strategy Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 30, 2009

Most of this is common sense (or at least should be): be careful about what you post on sites like your Amazon Wish List and Flickr , and don't ever give a social media site access to your email address book. The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Podcasting by Search for Blogging Mert Erkal delivers just what this post's title promises.

Marketing Budget 20

Marketing Budget Classified Ads Best Practices Budget Programs 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.

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SEO Best Practices PR PageRank 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

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. Check out these stories from the penultimate entry in WebMarketCentral's Best of 2007 series.

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Best Practices Web 2.0 Paper SEM 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 3, 2009

Feedoor Similar to feedkiller , previously reviewed here , Feedoor.com lets you merge RSS feeds or even individual blog posts into a single feed. It also lets you create Javascript widgets for your blog or site that display headlines from your custom feed, and does it all with a simple, straightforward interface.

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Tools Best Practices SEM Adwords 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

As I recently passed 400 posts on this blog, here is a look back at the 10 most popular items here of all time. 9: How to Create a Social Media Marketing Strategy , March 4, 2009 A summary of research from MarketingSherpa , Eloqua's Steve Woods , and green marketer Lorna Li on how marketers should approach social media strategically.

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Banner Ads Web 2.0 Eloqua CTR 20

WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Does advertising on social media sites really work? 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. The writers of the MediaPost blogs also frequently do a great job of covering online research findings.

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