WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Back in May of this year, I reported the results of a test of the impact on B2B website traffic growth using Web 2.0 That experiment showed that tagging B2B thought-leadership content on social media sites increased traffic growth for B2B websites by 50%, and on a B2B marketing blog by more than 100%, over 60 days. social tagging.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Why do some websites fail to achieve objectives? How can you whip an underperforming website into shape? Which elements are the most critical when initiating a website redesign project? Learn the answers to these questions and more in some of the best blog posts and articles on website design published so far in 2008.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

For anyone doing interactive PR , PitchEngine has become a vital tool for creating, distributing and promoting social media releases. Search —based on experience, it can take weeks for Google to pick up a press release posted on a client website. PitchEngine is the most no-brainer, must-have PR investment my clients make.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 11, 2009

For new websites, how can you incorporate SEO best practices into the design from the beginning? How can PR and SEO work together more productively? How can you effectively explain SEO (and avoid unrealistic expectations) to prospective clients? What tactics are most effective at driving increased search traffic?

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SEO Best Practices PR PageRank 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 13, 2009

What are the best examples of organizations using social media for marketing, promotion and interactive PR ? Many people add their company website and/or blog. You can get more visibility for your website by customizing with your name instead of the default 'My Website.'"

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 19, 2008

After being part of a team launching a company this week and four new website design projects, plus my "regular" work of helping clients achieve superior online and offline marketing results, I need a short vacation getaway for some family time. So, the blog will take a brief time out.

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 6, 2007

Begin the plan with a high-level state of the market overview, business objectives, and marketing and PR objectives to support those business goals. Marketing & PR Strategies These are high-level statements of how prospects will be reached, such as "Increase awareness and build credibility through PR."

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 18, 2008

B2B companies were building websites, sending out email newsletters and buying ads on trade publication websites well before their B2C counterparts in many if not most cases, and were certainly active in all of these areas before 2000. Separating SEO from broader marketing and PR activities is a really bad idea for several reasons.

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Lead Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking B2B Thought Leadership 20

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 24, 2009

MarketingSherpa's 2009 Social Media & PR Benchmark Guide (PDF) provides a wealth of useful statistics and guidance. Among the findings in MarketingSherpa's research: 76% of marketing and PR professionals "agree" or "strongly agree" that social media marketing is changing the way their organizations communicate. technologies."

Social Media 20

Social Media Paid Content Paid Search Agency Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 12, 2007

You may know me from such websites as The Truth Laid Bear and Porkbusters. There are two ways to incorporate blog feeds into a website (that I'm aware of; there may be others): Javascript or PHP. Should my website include a blog? Blogger relations, social media outreach and interactive PR for starters. * The occasion?

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

Discover these answers and others here in more of the best posts from the past year on social media marketing and PR. Top 10 Business Applications for Facebook by Duct Tape Marketing Of the 1,000+ Facebook apps built thus far, only a very small number—perhaps a couple of dozen or so—have value for B2B marketers and PR pros.

Social Media 20

Social Media Web 2.0 iCrossing Optimization 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 17, 2009

Face to Face video chat by ePoster Concise review of ooVoo, a free video chat tool that's been previously written about here. ooVoo is an easy-to-use tool for conducting video chat with anyone who has a webcam.

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Tools Best Practices RSS Adwords 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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I even have our website on my vehicle," and Mark Alves : " Participate in Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers where you can demonstrate your expertise, get associated with relevant keywords and put your URL out there."

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RSS Best Practices Business Blogger 20

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 16, 2009

A company's online presence is no longer limited to its website. Another report, The Social Technographics® Of Business Buyers recently announced by Forrester , provides insights specifically into using social media for B2B PR and marketing. Social Tagging Research and Reports.

Social Media 20

Social Media Facebook Social Marketing Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 14, 2007

For example, it fails to start with the most basic element of all: building an effective website. Helpfully, however, the Six Pillars model includes interactive PR as a key element; this is an important but challenging area for many PR agencies, let alone small to midsized companies.

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Planning Marketing Plans Paid Search Agency PR 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 3, 2009

The boobs have it, the biggest PR blunder since New Coke by Marketing Edge The always brilliant Albert Maruggi explains how UPS bungled an unusually powerful branding opportunity with Kentucky Derby-winning horse Big Brown.

Brand Identity 20

Brand Identity Branding Marketing & Strategy Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 8, 2007

Before that I served as VP of Direct Marketing and Ecommerce at XOOM.com the 12th most trafficked website and was an officer of the public company. an easy-to-navigate website, tons of marketing resources, PR, tradeshows (we're going to eBay Live in June!) JP: Being a direct marketer I really discounted PR in the beginning.

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Work Management Marketing Management PR Paid Search Agency 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 28, 2009

Previous posts in this series: Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 1 Best of 2008: Interactive PR, Part 1 Best of 2008: SEO Tools, Part 1 Best of 2008: Search Engine Marketing Best of 2008: Web Analytics Best of 2008: Email Marketing Tips Best of 2008: SEO Keyword Tips & Tools Best of 2008: Sales & Marketing Copywriting Best of 2008: SEO Link (..)

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WebMarketCentral

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. Indeed, it is currently the reigning champ for promoting many types of Websites.

Small Business Marketing 20

Small Business Marketing Social Media Wiki Wikipedia 20

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 2, 2009

Unless you are optimizing only for some extremely niche keywords, off-page optimization—building links from other websites to yours—is a critical and significant factor for SEO success. The blog posts cited here, some of the best of 2008 on the topic of link building, provide guidance on how and where to obtain valuable external links.

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Link Building SEO Ad Building Linkbait 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 21, 2007

social bookmarking sites at driving B2B website traffic, based on my two-month test, are the mid-tier sites. These sites drove a meaningful though not large volume of traffic across the half-dozen B2B websites and blogs in the test. 4) NowPublic News-oriented, a great place to expose user-targeted, thought-leadership PR.

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Web 2.0 Tagging B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 17, 2009

by SEO Book Aaron Wall makes the case for SEO with a brief case study of two similar websites. While noting that "Google’s ranking algorithm takes into account approximately 200+ attributes when determining the position of websites in search engine results," Lorna Li details the top 10 factors that account for most of the ranking results.

SEO 20

SEO Best Practices Adwords Copywriting 20

WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 5, 2009

Use the domain to build a professional website (e.g., Make sure the Management Team page on your company website is optimized for your name. Hire a social media-savvy PR person to help you get interviewed by prominent bloggers and writers in your industry. Tags: Interactive PR Web 2.0 Buy yourname.com if it is available.

Work Management 20

Work Management Jigsaw Wikipedia Digg 20

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 19, 2009

11 Top WordPress Plugins Every Blog Should Have by Yoast tweaking websites Internet strategist Joost de Valk details some of his favorite plugins for functions like feed management ( FeedBurner ), rearranging pages ( pageMash ) and internal search ( Search Excerpt ).

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Blogspot Tips Tools Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 6, 2009

Another great post from Danny is The Beginner's Checklist for Learning SEO , a step-by-step guide to creating a well-optimized website. Bare Lying Google Myths by HomeBiz Resource Louis Liem summarizes the Q&A from a Google webmaster event by dispelling a number of common myths about SEO and how Google ranks websites.

SEO 20

SEO Marketing Proposals Best Practices PageRank 20

WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

related websites and tools either got their start or got traction in 2007. KickApps A hosted web-based platform that enables webmasters and site owners to create, deploy and manage a branded social media community on any website. A number of new social networking, social search, social bookmarking, and other Web 2.0-related

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Web 2.0 Ning Wiki Enterprise Management 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 20, 2009

Previous posts in this series: Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 1 Best of 2008: Interactive PR, Part 1 Best of 2008: SEO Tools, Part 1 Best of 2008: Search Engine Marketing Best of 2008: Web Analytics Best of 2008: Email Marketing Tips Best of 2008: SEO Keyword Tips & Tools Best of 2008: Sales & Marketing Copywriting Best of 2008: SEO Link (..)

Marketing & Strategy 20

Marketing & Strategy Brand Identity Branding Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 23, 2007

Their Corporate Writer Resource newsletter provides corporate communicators in PR and marketing with concise, practical advice about writing, editing, format, design and writing for the web.

Telemarketing 20

Telemarketing Paid Search Agency PR Newsletter 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Previous posts in this series: Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 1 Best of 2008: Interactive PR, Part 1 Best of 2008: SEO Tools, Part 1 Best of 2008: Search Engine Marketing Best of 2008: Web Analytics Best of 2008: Email Marketing Tips Best of 2008: SEO Keyword Tips & Tools Best of 2008: Sales & Marketing Copywriting Best of 2008: SEO Link (..)

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Creativity Paid Search Agency Best Practices Adwords 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 24, 2009

naming conventions SEO copywriting mistakes search engine rap Christopher Richards sloppy copy Steven Wright Copyblogger Brian Clark Small Business Search Marketing Matt McGee Searchles Don McMillan The Chronicles of George del.icio.us tags: Web 2.0 tags: Web 2.0

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Web 2.0 Creativity Copywriting Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 30, 2009

Looking for the best career search websites? Online tools to help you check out that prospective employee, new next-door neighbor or potentially significant other? Specialty search engines? The story behind LOLcats? Resources to improve your Internet marketing skills? Find music online? Record and promote podcasts?

Marketing Budget 20

Marketing Budget Classified Ads Best Practices Budget Programs 20

WebMarketCentral

APRIL 20, 2009

Previous posts in this series: Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 1 Best of 2008: Interactive PR, Part 1 Best of 2008: SEO Tools, Part 1 Best of 2008: Search Engine Marketing Best of 2008: Web Analytics Best of 2008: Email Marketing Tips Best of 2008: SEO Keyword Tips & Tools Best of 2008: Sales & Marketing Copywriting Best of 2008: SEO Link (..)

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Landing Pages SEM Best Practices Search Engine Marketing 20

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Social Tagging Sites, Part 7: The Best , June 26, 2007 "Based on two months of testing across a half-dozen B2B websites and blogs, these Web 2.0 website design, Stoney deGeyter, Ralph Wilson, Mark Jackson, Jay Lipe, Kalena Jordan, Viewzi evangelist Giovanni Gallucci, Guy Kawasaki, SEM best practices benchmark data del.icio.us

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WebMarketCentral

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. No company, big or small, can afford to spend scarce funds inefficiently, particularly in the current economic environment.

Social Media 20

Social Media Paid Content ROI Media 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 24, 2009

Previous posts in this series: Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 1 Best of 2008: Interactive PR, Part 1 Best of 2008: SEO Tools, Part 1 Best of 2008: Search Engine Marketing Best of 2008: Web Analytics Best of 2008: Email Marketing Tips Best of 2008: SEO Keyword Tips & Tools Best of 2008: Sales & Marketing Copywriting Best of 2008: SEO Link (..)

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RSS Best Practices Business Blogger 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 5, 2008

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. Blogs help with SEO , whether you have your own or are generating links to your website from others. More than 60% of U.S.

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