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JANUARY 5, 2009

One executive I know, the president of a software company, shares the first page of Google with a biomedical researcher, a diplomat, a (not exactly best-selling) author, and the Facebook page of a college student from North Dakota. Yet he owns the first five pages of Google for his identity. A few examples.

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AUGUST 5, 2009

The writing style gets a bit cutesy at times, but never crosses the line into annoying. . ** technorati tags: Google Blogger platform Blogger Beyond the Basics book review Lee Jordan Arachnophilia Color Hunter VisiBone social media buttons Twitter widget del.icio.us There's very little to not like about this book.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

PeoplePond PeoplePond is a secure social profile site that can be connected to your Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts. Mixxr This is a cool alternative search engine that lets you search Google, Yahoo, Bing and Twitter simultaneously. Great for viewing the differences between "traditional" and real-time search results.

Tools 20

Tools Best Practices Adwords Word of Mouth 20

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Skype ID and Facebook page: these are used in a quarter of the signatures I looked at. BTW, Jon has really got the reputation management thing nailed, as a Google search on his name quickly reveals.) Matthew Balthazor This Senior Marketing Manager at TechWeb added his Twitter link and Facebook profile to a standard email signature.

Social Media 20

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 7, 2008

Over time, virtually all markets consolidate around three major players (for example, Google, Yahoo and MSN in search) plus a few wannabes (e.g. del.icio.us , Digg , Furl , Backflip ), community ( MySpace , Searchles ), networking ( LinkedIn , Facebook ), etc. Ask , AOL ) and a number of niche sites ( Mahalo , TopNetPix ).

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Social Networks Web 2.0 PageRank Digg 20

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Wikipedia is the best known but also the most difficult to work with ; that leaves an opening for alternative wiki sites such as Google's Knol , open-site.org , Freebase and others which are less contributor-hostile. Video Unless you've been stranded on a desert island for the last four years, you know that online video is hot.

Social Media 20

Social Media Wiki Optimization Digg 20

WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 28, 2009

Still, most of what's being done today, from creating a company Facebook page to using a social media email signature , is extremely tactical. The creators of the site believe that buyers will post reviews because 1) they increasingly use social media ( Twitter , Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)

Enterprise Management 20

Enterprise Management Social Media Paid Content Marketing Management 20

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Using Google's Custom Search Engine for Internal Site Search by Ask Enquiro Manoj Jasra, who writes a lot of great stuff on web marketing , explains why Google's Custom Search tool is excellent way to add this functionality to your site in this brief but informative post.

Design 20

Design Marketing Websites CMS Development Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

APRIL 6, 2009

Everybody uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, but which niche social media sites are worth investigating? spite of my wide-ranging stardom, readership of nearly 10 people and my 3 friends, Google still drives most of my site traffic." Why is online reputation management so important? How does social media relate to SEO?

Social Media 20

Social Media Optimization Digg Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

version, now incorporating elements such as LinkedIn profiles, blog links, Twitter pages, Facebook, StumbleUpon, even Second Life IDs. . #3: The Social Media Email Signature , September 18, 2008 A look at how traditional email signatures have evolved into their Web 2.0

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JULY 30, 2009

Consider, for example, a tactic viewed by many marketers as extremely measurable: Google AdWords. John Wanamaker 's observation that " “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half” is still (largely) true. Simple, right? Balderdash.

Social Media 20

Social Media Paid Content ROI Media 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 13, 2009

A List of Social Media Marketing Examples by Being Peter Kim In this truly amazing resource, Peter Kim lists and links to examples of how more than 300 brands are using social media, from Abbott Labs on Facebook to Zappos on Twitter. You can still find his list of 55 Do-Follow Social Networks on Google's cache for now, however.

LEADSExplorer 20

LEADSExplorer Social Media Optimization Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 23, 2009

"Press releases are an especially effective way to get guaranteed inbound links that say exactly what you want in the link text.Spend the extra money to include link text for your URLs rather than using 'naked' URLs for maximum Google juice." Buzz , Digg and Photo.net. "A He recommends paying for links.

Optimization 20

Optimization Marketing Websites PageRank Lead Scoring 20

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JANUARY 28, 2008

Most entertaining of all is Grehan's view of social networks: "I HATE Facebook! If one more twat invites me to Facebook I'm going round their place with an axe! Wal-Mart has a Facebook profile. Please God, take it away and let me get some work done. Go away and leave me alone. All of you. I have a job to do for crying out loud!

SEO 20

SEO Wiki Best Practices Allocation 20

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

While most of the sites on the list are hardly surprising (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), there are a few unexpected results, like Tagged at #6 and Yuku at #16. Top 25 Social Networks by Navel Marketing Brian Critchfield reports on the top social networks ranked by traffic.

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Marketing Web 2.0 Forrester 20

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JUNE 17, 2009

Exalead An alternative search engine, Exalead may not be a "Google killer" but does provide some interesting features. WiseStamp lets you control the look of the email signature as well as adding RSS feeds and social networking links like LinkedIn and Facebook.

Tools 20

Tools Best Practices RSS Adwords 20

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Twitter Tools Similar in concept to Facebook applications —but different—Twitter has spawned an industry in clever little tools. After all, alternative search engines have been trying to take the death-by-a-thousand-small-bites approach to knocking off Google for years without diminishing the search giant's dominance.

Twitter 20

Twitter SEM Tools Practices 20

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites by eBizMBA A fantastic list of the top 30 social bookmarking sites, in rank order, and including for each site the number of inbound links (as of August 2008), number monthly vistors according to both Compete and Quantcast , Alexa ranking and Google Page Rank. The only difference is the ugliness."

Social Media 20

Social Media Optimization Linkbait Media 20

WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This year will feature expanded, finer-grain categories (such as separate best-ofs for Twitter- and Facebook-related posts) and some renamed categories ("social media marketing" will replace "social media optimization" which in turn replaced a varied basket of terms before it). Welcome to the first best-of-2009 (so far) compilation.

Social Media 20

Social Media Marketing Budget Social Marketing Web 2.0 20