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Tracy Mu Sung talks about Google Lab Trends and how you can use it for competitive analysis. It is a good tool to see how your site traffic compares to others in your industry. read more »
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A list of awesome social media marketing books. read more »
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The economic Grinch is threatening to steal Christmas this year, but there are some things local businesses can do to avoid getting coal in their stockings this holiday season. Here are three tips for punching up your online local marketing presence read more »
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We create blogs with tons of great content and we base our content on Social Media that attracts a link or two. (Boy, isn’t that the understatement of the year!) We rely on this content to create user engagement and get people to keep coming back. B read more »
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Would you like your site content to rank well? Would you like your content to draw links like nails to a magnet? There is one strategy you can use to make sure the content you create is almost guaranteed to be a hit - and in the process it gathers b read more »
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About 150 business leaders attended Friday's Social Media Breakfast in Minneapolis, and heard David Meerman Scott, author of "The New Rules of Marketing and PR" give a presentation the changing landscape of marketing and public relations practices. read more »
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You have a Twitter account, and you’ve followed some people. Some of those people are now following you back and you’re thinking “great, now what?” Or maybe you saw my Viral Tweet Test and wondered how you could accomplish the same effect for your c read more »
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Some people consider LinkedIn to be a full-fledged social network, while others see it as a mere contact list or business network. The devil is in the details. read more »
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In SEO, success is as much about your toolkit as it is about your skillset. Without great tools at your disposal, your ability to get the job done is really hampered. At SMX East this month I presented some of my favorite tools on the “Tools, Glorio read more »
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Lee Odden - We continue our series of weekly SEO basics questions and answer today with a question that acknowledges the value of approaching search engine optimization holistically, but indicates a desire to keep things simple and focus on the basi read more »
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After showing up to ScarySEO looking like a priest, Bruce Clay's Chris Hart decides to embrace it and offers up the 10 Commandments for SEO. Well played. read more »
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Great interview with Craig Newmark - mentions thoughts on where he thinks the net/communication is going. read more »
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Creating a successful e-commerce operation is no easy task. Take the grueling process of creating a successful company offline and add to it a multitude of complexities from online marketing challenges to technical issues and you have an e-commerce read more »
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Google have obviously been clamping down on paid links during the last year, but it now looks like they may also be taking a stance against blog reviews made in exchange for free gifts! read more »
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Another great article by Lee Odden, working at a PR/Ad Agency i can honestly say Lee "gets it" on how PR and SEO must maintain a balance. read more »
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Crafting an effective title is genuine art as it should aim at two main targets:

* to increase click-through (as this is the most prominent element of your site listing in SERPs);
* to achieve higher rankings (being the most important on read more »
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To tap in to the stream of marketing-savvy collective wisdom online, we reached out to our network with a top internet marketing tactics poll for the next 6 months. Over 400 business marketers responded, making this the most popular poll Online Mark read more »
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You’re a blog owner. It has a catchy name. After submitting a blog post, you’re amazed at the inbound traffic. The ads in your sidebar are paying your mortgage. People recognize you on the street as that “Cool Blogger”. Next year, you’ll retire read more »
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How can you make sure that your blog or website will stand out of the crowd and attract visitors?

In one word: branding. read more »
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All Twitter benefits and (potential) spheres of usage are yet to be explored. However it is great to see some of huge companies already taking advantage of the tool read more »
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Lee Odden writes, "With search engine optimization a challenge for most company marketers to stay current with, how exactly are businesses supposed to confidently hire a SEO consultant? Google has an opinion on this if you haven’t noticed." read more »
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The emergence of social media has been a game-changer for newspapers and magazines. On the one hand, they have seen their print numbers continue to drop as more and more people turn to the internet to get their news and information. On the other han read more »
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Lee Odden's Poll of his readers on what methods of online marketing they are going to be focusing on in the next 6 months. Not surprisingly, so far the top 3 are... read more »
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Aaron Wall writes, "The number of internet marketing tools launched over the past couple years has been staggering. Many of them are both free and highly valuable. This article aims to highlight the best search engine marketing tools." read more »
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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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