Search engine optimization, Facebook, Business-to-business, and more.
2010 March 4
Internet marketing news from around the web:
SEO Wins & Sins: 5 Questions with Industry Leader Joe Laratro on Search Engine Journal
| “Effective search engine optimization is equal parts art, science, and EXPERIENCE, so I sat down with industry veteran Joe Laratro to get the dish on what matters most in SEO. Joe is a recognized and leading expert in the Search Engine Marketing…” |
Interview with Geno Prussakov, Outstanding Affiliate Marketing Expert on Search Engine Journal
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“I love Twitter for putting me into contact with really outstanding people (well, since I don’t have time for conferences, Twitter is my major source of valuable contacts). Today I am happy to feature the interview with one of the marketers who…” |
3 Ways to Find Tweets Around Any Domain on Search Engine Journal
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“I have once shared a few ways to check Twitter comments about any page but what if we need to keep an eye on all Tweets around some domain? All the three tools listed here have three things in common: (1) They will list all the aggregated…” |
Google Search Results Get the Star Treatment on Search Engine Journal
| “Google’s long-standing effort on making its search engine results pages more personalized continue with the roll out of a new feature – marking search results with cutesy, yellow star icons. Actually, Stars are replacing the…” |
Juggling Branding, Usability And SEO With Internal Links on Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
| “There’s no doubt that using keyword-rich text links will help your SEO efforts. However, if you’re a search marketing professional trying to convince your stakeholders to utilize the value of keyword-rich text links in your body copy, you’ve…” |
Does SEM = SEO + CPC Still Add Up? on Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
| “I’ve found it annoying that over the years, more and more people use SEM to mean paid search, as if SEM excludes SEO. That’s not how I defined SEM — search engine marketing — back 2001. I’d still like to see the original…” |
How Wikipedia Turned PPC / Paid Search Into SEM on Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
| “What’s search engine marketing? If you ask Wikipedia, it’s currently defined as the act of buying listings on search engines. That’s not how SEM started out being defined. It’s still not how I define it, though that might…” |
Facebook revenue estimated at $1 billion; we’re not surprised on Download Squad
| “Filed under: Internet , Web CNET’s Caroline McCarthy says Facebook is predicted to pull in over $1B of revenue this year. Why am I not surprised? There are a couple of interesting things to note here: 1) This is just a guess. An…” |
Will Facebook replace your B2B Marketing email system? on Buzz Marketing for Technology
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“I want to roll the clock back a few weeks to the announcement of an initiative by Facebook called – Project Titan . At the time that I saw it and tweeted about it (of course) it really hadn’t hit me just how important this could be to…” |
Chef… errr… Captain Patrick Announces Domain Conference Cruise on Elliot’s Blog
| “Chef Patrick of Chef Patrick.com is going to be hosting a domaining conference so awesome it will literally make you float. This event will be the first domaining conference he’s held and the industry’s first ever conference on a boat. The…” |
Google Grades Themselves on Their SEO Skills on Search Engine Roundtable
| “The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted a Google SEO Report Card as a detailed PDF document. The document breaks down the SEO report on the following areas: Search result presentationURLs and redirectsOn-page optimizations Google said: The project…” |
Web Analytics Gets Cozy with Customer Feedback on CMSWire.com – All News
| “As the quest to understand Web analytics continues, Omniture ( news , site ) is doing what they can to provide the answers. Their recent partnership with Kampyle , a company specializing in customer feedback, is one of the latest attempts. …” |
Because 10,000 People Can’t Be Wrong on Daily Blog Tips
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“As of today 11,969 people have already download the Make Money Blogging ebook . And what is more interesting, none of them ever asked for a refund! Jokes apart, the feedback to my free ebook has been terrific. I receive emails pretty much daily…” |
SMX West 2010 Day Two Coverage on Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
| “The second day of SMX West 2010 is in the books, and here are links to our own coverage of the day’s keynote: Liveblog: SMX West 2010 Keynote – An Insider’s Look At Google Research Google’s Norvig: PageRank Is Overhyped But…” |