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When it comes to web marketing ROI email marketing, to a subscribed list, is the daddy. A quality email list partnered with a targeted, well written email can out perform SEO, PPC and just about any other marketing activity every time. read more »
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Kim Krause Berg was kind enough to post a guest post on the Blizzard Blog to help our travel, tourism and hospitality clients tackle some usability issues.

The tips are good ones and I thought it was something others would find useful. read more »
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Three men defrauded eBay in a “cookie stuffing” scheme that made it appear the men’s companies should be paid commissions, eBay claims in Federal Court. It sued Shawn Hogan and Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning and Kessler’s Flying Circus, and B read more »
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First time Youmoz poster Rob shares a tip from inside the gov't on getting gov't analytics data! Get yours while it's hot :D!! read more »
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After the past year of experiments with online marketing video, some winning formats have emerged. One may surprise you — the long-form webinar. by Denise de Murcie read more »
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What do hot dogs, tanning and sex on the beach have to do with ecommerce? gotta read the list read more »
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Is purchasing multiple keyword-targeted domains an ethical practice? Kurt Krejny considers the risk vs. reward of this tactic, what his current findings of it are, and what could happen in the future to sites that do this. read more »
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Funny thing the site has 19 000 links pointing to it but that not even 5% of it is legitimate! read more »
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The conclusion: all other things being equal (e.g., marketing budget, content quality, design, affiliation with larger websites and so on), a website with a good domain name will always outperform a competitor with a bad or average domain name. read more »
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You’ve picked a topic that your ideal readers are dying to know more about. You can write about the topic with authority. You’ve even chosen an interesting angle. In short, you’ve got a killer post that should bring your blog thousands of new reader read more »
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Lee Odden: With Search Engine Strategies San Jose just around the corner, I thought it timely and appropriate to share insights on how you can get the most out of marketing conferences. read more »
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Great review of basic SEO conversion tactics. The conversion of a visitor to a client is everything. I like the quote "A site that ranks well and doesn't capture customers/visitors is like an umbrella on a sunny day." Exactly right especially if the read more »
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33 Reasons Why You Should Go to the IM Charity Party at SES San Jose read more »
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"No, Seth, it doesn’t take 10 years to become a success."

I follow Seth, I have his books, but I don't agree with everything "anyone" says, SEOblackhat.com echoes my thought. read more »
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“Never assume.” - These 2 words represent the greatest advice ever given to me on the topic of website optimization. Here’s a list of 10 assumptions site owners make (myself included) that could cost you a ton of business. read more »
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Alexa is becoming a joke lately. Some people claim that over the previous two years it was already losing reliability, but lately it went completely nuts. Whatever they did on the last algorithm update, it messed up their rankings badly.

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Dean Chew goes through a big breakthrough with Syndk8's release of Auto Pligg Submitter. Pligg is basically a clone of Digg. Some of our most beloved sites, like Sphinn is using the Pligg engine. What can this release do? Spam the heck out of your read more »
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DoshDosh: Viral marketing is the process of using peer-to-peer communications in order to rapidly spread information about a brand or message. The term ‘viral’ stems from the concept of a ‘virus’, a self-perpetuating phenomenon which infects whateve read more »
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Tamar Weinberg writes, "If you haven’t yet seen the Language Trainers Accent Game, it has won the “best viral marketing strategy of 2008″ (in my eyes). I was able to interview Dave, one of the brilliant minds behind the company and the game, and he read more »
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Today I’m going to share the exact methods I use to help promote linkbait even after it might not have done well initially. read more »
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When talking about usability, most people will refer to "simple things" like making sure your phone number is in the top right corner of your Web pages so the visitor can easily convert for you.

Stuff like that is important (the point of driving read more »
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What good is traffic, in a non CPM format, if it does not convert? In fact, large quantities of non converting traffic can be costing you money that cuts into the bottom line.

A crappy SEO is obsessed with clickstream data figures such as visitor read more »
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Mike Damman interviews Guy Kawasaki and picks his brain about online marketing. Really good interview that offers some solid insight. We all need to stack the cheddar like Guy! read more »
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Lisa Barone offers up some tips about things you should take into consideration when choosing a domain name for a long term, quality website. read more »
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what criteria should use to select an ecommerce package? Marketing does not participate in selecting an ecommerce solution but are stuck marketing afterwards. It might be worth while to learn few things on what makes a good ecommerce solution. read more »
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