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AUGUST 5, 2008

Blogs are one of six broad types of social media. This post will discuss how PR and marketing professionals can use blogs (even if you don't write your own) to increase brand awareness and credibility; the next will discuss all of the other tools of social media. In addition, check out the blogrolls of the most relevant blogs you find.

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JULY 30, 2009

Understandably, as businesses begin to invest more marketing/PR dollars into social media, there is great concern over the ROI of these activities. Consider, for example, a tactic viewed by many marketers as extremely measurable: Google AdWords. Simple, right? Balderdash.

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JULY 13, 2009

How can you make more efficient use of social media? What are the best examples of organizations using social media for marketing, promotion and interactive PR ? Find those answers and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts about social media marketing from the last year. Got something to tell the world?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

For anyone doing interactive PR , PitchEngine has become a vital tool for creating, distributing and promoting social media releases. high-volume automated web publishing ), these social media releases often get 100+ views in just the first few hours. It's simple, fast, powerful and gets results.

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JULY 22, 2008

The stock market can be brutal when a company fails to meet earning expectations, such as it was last week when Google's stock price fell by 10% despite a 35% increase in earnings. Like the farmer's hungry children, investors are demanding that Google squeeze more out of its turkeys. Err, advertisers. But first, the paranoid fantasy.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Google's content network can be a valuable addition to any AdWords search marketing program. It gives you the opportunity to very cost-effectively display text or graphical ads across Google's network of AdSense partner sites, many of them industry-specific online publications and blogs. Once that's done, go to the "Sites" tab.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

As noted, DoubleClick provides fairly reliable data across those media. It's surprisingly difficult, however, to get meaningful data on the average click-through rate (CTR) for Google AdWords ads. On the B2B side, I'd place the average Google AdWords CTR in the range of 0.9-1.4%. 1.2%, 1%-2% and 3%-5%.

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JUNE 3, 2008

As Google continues to dominate the search market despite recent hiccups , still more competitors emerge. Aaron Goldman recently wrote a nice series on Google killers, more Google killers, and Even More Not-So-Natural-Born Google Killers on the Search Insider blog. Viewzi is an entirely different animal.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

One of the most popular posts ever on this blog was The Social Media Email Signature , in which I noted that "In the old days, email signatures pretty much just mirrored business card information (which is still the case for most people).A The post included several creative examples of social media signatures, though most are are text-based.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Based on my informal research, here are the most popular social media elements people are adding to their Web 2.0 Social media email signatures can also include elements like AIM name, Digg page, Sphinn profile and Ning group. But the best Web 2.0 / social media email signature I've seen so far belongs to.Guy Kawasaki.

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JANUARY 24, 2008

This post focuses on interesting observations and helpful advice pertaining specifically to Google AdWords, the largest SEM platform. Google Campaign Optimizer No Substitute for Experience by StraightUpSearch A prescient blog post on the importance of trusting experience and established best practices in SEM over Google's optimization tool.

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 9, 2009

While most marketers have now embraced social media for monitoring and participating in brand conversations, questions still abound. How are b2b buyers actually using social media in their research and buying decisions? What's the best method for approaching social media marketing?

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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). Social media continues its rapid growth"—check.

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APRIL 6, 2009

Everybody uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, but which niche social media sites are worth investigating? How does social media relate to SEO? Learn the answers to these questions and more here in some of the best blog posts on social media marketing and optimization of 2008. Why is online reputation management so important?

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JANUARY 28, 2009

It's been obvious for some time that social media has an increasing role in b2b marketing , and that b2b companies will increasingly invest marketing dollars there as social media marketing practices become more standardized. How can b2b firms approach social media more strategically?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The term "social media" encompasses several different types of sites, and it's important to use all of them properly in order to really be effective at social media optimization (SMO). So, here are some tips for using different types of social media sites for SMO. potentially viral, and increasingly searchable.

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APRIL 15, 2008

Note: the following is a guest post from expert researcher and freelance writer Heather Johnson on how businesses can effectively use social media as a component of PR efforts, and efficiently focus their efforts on the most productive sites. The site's many entries are highly ranked in Google and read by millions each day.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Use social media to enhance your SEO efforts and build your business? Brown contends that the webistes for these three shows really "get" social media, offering fans more than the usual static trivia. How can you generate lots of high-quality links in just half an hour per day? Increase e-commerce conversions by a third or more?

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OCTOBER 27, 2008

Which social media sites are the most valuable? Read on to discover all of this and more in some of the best blog posts and articles on social media and Web 2.0 Read on to discover all of this and more in some of the best blog posts and articles on social media and Web 2.0 Google Reader, Opera and Firefox), audio (e.g.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

How can you utilize rich media ads to take advantage of the coverage provided by Google's content network? 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. Is The Hype Over Google AdWords Quality Score Justified?

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 23, 2009

As budgetary fat was trimmed from keyword lists, ROI improved dramatically for the last two months.common tactics were to move away from proven but expensive, high-volume PPC keywords on Google to a greater emphasis on SEO, social media and PPC opportunities outside the high-competition arena of Google."

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JULY 6, 2009

Which commonly-held beliefs about Google's algorithm are true, and which are myths? Google's SEO Starter Guide by the Google Webmaster Central Blog Google made quite a splash when it published this guide last November. Looking for a concise explanation of the different types of redirects?

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Next, she makes her blog posts easy to share using social media badges and other techniques, such as turning on Email Post Links within Blogger. Along the way, the author cites helpful tools such as text editors ( HTML Kit , Arachnophilia , Dreamweaver) and color tools ( Color Hunter , transparent color generator, VisiBone colors by shade).

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Even in the early days of online, trade publication websites and their newsletters were essential media. Across all media, more than 35,000 jobs have been lost in the past year. But the fact is that no type of media has ever been truly objective, and it may not even be possible. Tags: Media.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Or one to help you find just the right word, or submit content to all of your favorite social networking sites at once, or grab screen images, or test landing pages, or instantly perform special searches on Google? You'll find all of these and others in this final set of cool web tools and resources from last year.

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DECEMBER 29, 2009

How can you get the most of out of Google's free webmaster tools to improve rankings? For example, one website shows up at #2 on Google for "business services management," but at #23 for business service management. Which factors are really most important in search engine rankings? This one tool lets you explore many others."

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Use social media more effectively for research? 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.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Depending upon your industry and the keywords you are trying to rank for, those efforts may be enough to get you a top spot on Google and the other major search engines. Create a social media release through PitchEngine. Interactive PR. Write compelling news releases with key terms linked back to corresponding pages on your site.

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MAY 28, 2009

How can the Google AdWords search-based keyword tool be used for competitive research? 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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DECEMBER 1, 2008

It is changing, however, as Google's plans for search personalization are rolled out. Using factors such as geographic location, "preferences" as indicated by your search history, and even integration of tools like SearchWiki and Google Friend Connect (nicely explained by TechCrunch ), Google will customize search results for each user.

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JUNE 30, 2009

New Sites Make It Easier To Spy on Your Friends by The Wall Street Journal Though the tone is a bit overly dramatic, Vauhini Vara makes some good points here about how you can use sites like Google Maps and Spokeo to learn things about others they may not want you to know—and how to protect yourself from the same behavior.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Among the ideas: looking at terms used by visitors in your site search box, gathering terms from offline conversations with customers and prospects, and checking tags clouds on social media sites. This is one tool that belongs on every SEO pro's list.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

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. Much has changed since then, and social media is now an integral part of SEO efforts.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

How does Google view search quality, from the inside? 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. Google Previous Query Reason For Crazy Google Rankings?

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Spying On Your Paid Search Competitors by Search Engine Land Mona Elesseily of Page Zero Media shows how to use tools like Compete , Alexa and SpyFu to get a better understanding of your competitors' positioning and online marketing strategies, and use that intelligence to fine-tune your own market approach.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Best of 2007: Blog Posts on Social Media Marketing , January 18, 2008—A wrap-up of some of the best blog posts of 2007 on social networking and social media marketing strategies and tactics. tags: best blog posts on social media marketing, Web 2.0, tags: best blog posts on social media marketing, Web 2.0,

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AUGUST 1, 2008

Beginner and Comprehensive Guides to SEO, Link Building, PPC, Social Media, Affiliate Marketing and Blogging by SEO Scoop An outstanding post from DazzlinDonna listing her favorite resources and guides for help with everything from SEO and online reputation management to blogging and social media marketing.

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