Sorry to disappoint you, but it is not about minimizing barriers. It is actually interesting stuff about best practises acquired during several years of lead generation for a Fortune 500 company. One of the points is how to effectively follow up generated leads, a less covered topic.…

I am glad you have been saying this too :). Dont grumble :), just stick to what you are saying :)…

i agree with u Nice your post is very useful. Thanks for all of the sites you’ve shared.

I remember something about eating the forbidden fruit of commercialism or something. Or was it Black Hat?…

I've always been saying this, but noooooooooooooo, *someone* always tells me that Americans aren't interested in what some shitty Malaysian is saying...*grumble*…

:) Thanks for the post. I'll be reading this for a while.…

@earlpearl: How dominant should a website be in both the organic and local search listings in order to get a one-box listing?@David Mihm: …

I'm not going to fill out the seven required fields to download the white paper, but I'm guessing that the white paper on lead generation discusses minimizing barriers to getting the lead.…

A guy offered me 10% of every sale, if I helped him. He was not selling anything and about to go under. This guy was into debt heavy. I agreed to the deal and got him position one on many of his keywords. Sales started to come in.Then he said that he did not have to pay me. This is becau…

Agreed on that point as well - it is a rare occasion that I actually care about up-to-the-minute news/information. A lot of this really is a 'buzz' monitoring approach more than anything and the flavour of the month as well. As we noted, much of the current stock are little more than social aggregat…
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Good stuff, great for anyone new to PPC…

Damn, that was good!…

Adoption curve, fellas...…

If Google and Bing DO integrate Twitter into their search results... damn. How would they decide which tweets are most relevant?…

TwiChuck sounds like an interesting app.…

Good to see someone pointing this out. Data I have from respected source Marketing Sherpa is that most companies have already invested in Google Ads and SEO (filling in the pipeline bucket) but NOT in ensuring our Sales Funnel does not leak . I found the details in this White Paper pretty persuasive…
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its not for google to decide. sometimes webmaster's have to do this when the "terms and conditions" and "about " pages out rank all the others on the site it can be confusing for visitors who then go elsewhere. …

Michael, thanks for updated on this. I will run few test on larger sites to see if XML sitemaps will help to get them indexed.…

this is a great info!…

The reality is that there is very littel real-time information I search for.  I mostly look for information that is accurate.  Veracity and immediacy are rarely compatible.…

Dave and David, thanks! I can always count on you guys to offer good guidance.Reinier, I appreciate your enthusiasm and input and I wish I was smart enough to have planned the multiple 10 packs too, but as David points out it was unintentional and it WOUL…

@sebastian yes pinging was turned off@stevec828 sometimes when you work on large sites with over 100,000 pages you'll want to speed up the natural crawling of really deep pages. And yes there are legitimate sites with over 100,000 pages.…

I think Bing is starting to make ripples in the search engine market. Especially now they have aquired 1 employee from google and yahoo. This should help them develop  …

Ahh.. Quite nice when Google does exactly what you want.  If only all our customers could get such exclusivity!What we're seeing here is the result of an exact name match combined with ambiguity on the geomodifier.  The "New Orleans" token is not deemed as a specific location landmark.…

Pretty lame exercise. Who really cares about getting a site indexed just to say it can be done?…

ReinierNL, thanks for taking the time to comment on this.  First of all, I only see ONE local search result (an authoritative onebox) when I search for "New Orleans Chiropractic","New Orleans Chiropractor", and "New Orleans Chiropractors." So I presume the additional …

ReinierNL:  I read your comments.  actually check out the placement of the subject site both in organic and maps.  Not only does the subject site have the one box placement but the site has the first two rankings in organic search.  In fact that is a great combination-dominance in…

No pay, no game. In todays economy, what right mind fronts for anything? I feel that most performance based SEO agreements are perfect recipe for disaster. These situations allure companies to engage in less than desired techniques to generate needed results in order to stay profitable. …

Well, I'm not sure how accurate this test is. Wordpress by default pings Ping-o-Matic which sends information about new post/page on Wordpress to over 20 pinging services. If pinging feature hasn't been disabled then the real reason of indexing may be pinging - not the XML sitemap.Unfort…

What is so fantastic about this case study?! Hasn't anybody noticed that this chiropractor has no less than three top-ten listings (positions B, C and F today)?! This could be a case of Google Maps/Local Search spam (is that worth to be sphunn?), cleverly abusing a flaw in the Google Local algorithm…
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You will soon find out that a signed contract is not worth the paper it is written on.…

I agree. Not only is Twitter driving traffic to our site, but it is also helping us keep our clients, prospects and friends up to date with our company and what we are doing.…

This is hard to believe, but the promotions and ads have been running pretty aggressively. We started seeing some links comming from bing already. This is pretty cool.…

Inbound marketing is something new we added this year and we are starting to see some very impressive results.…

I always try to go for blogwalking,read the articles and submit comments related to the topics.Many times I got the new knowledges from the site and that was very useful to wider my horison.I visit this blog also to explore all articles to enhance the effectiveness and exposure of my site.Than…
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Did you read the article? It might help you find more traffic :)…

Good one.…

This is a good idea to check beforehand but sadly you can't rely on it too much. Your example has been submitted by a well known power stumbler with lots of friends and the source is well known too. You can't assume that it will work for you too just based on the categories.By the way, I…

I strongly advise everybody not to comment on just one "blog" ;-)…

Yeah. Simple but effective. Short of bribery though :->…

Great article Christoph. Will be good to hear your thoughts on the new SearchCowboys show on WebmasterRadio.FM next month!…

Someone's gotta do it! :-)…

Pimp, good interview.  Cannes Lions, lucky git. :)…

Loved it!…

i will second that, Gab!…

Sphunn for a good story!…

Thanks Gab - pointing this out (again) was my goal ...BTW we also created a german version of the post herehttp://www.cemper.at/seo-knowhow/co-citations-link-building…

part 2 comes out tomorrow, 3 will be next tuesday, 4 will be next Thursday, so on and so forth…