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Editor’s Picks: July 27-31, 2009

Social media audits. Since the social media landscape is changing so often, how frequently should you reassess your strategy? If you were targeting college students on Facebook a year ago, is that demographic still there or has it moved on somewhere else? Reviewing your goals and priorities is an important part of any branding campaign and it is just as applicable to social media. Jeremiah Owyang has an interesting post on the types and frequency...

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Editor’s Picks: July 13-17, 2009

How to get started blogging? Many of us realize the importance of blogging for online marketing but as with anything else, it is difficult to get started. So how do you get started? There is a nice post on ProBlogger this week on the first steps for new bloggers which answers this very question. Increasing landing page conversions. The upcoming issue of Search Marketing Standard will feature a great interview with Tim Ash on the...

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Editor’s Picks: June 22-26, 2009

Negative reviews and your business. With the rise of social media and increased customer reliance on consumer reviews, many businesses dread negative comments and try to avoid them at all costs. This makes a lot of sense and there are a lot of firms out there offering online reputation management services. However, believe it or not, negative reviews are not all bad for your business. Matt McGee has an excellent article out this week where...

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Editor’s Picks: June 15-19, 2009

Strategic link building. Linking has been with us since the dawn of the Internet era. Links facilitate browsing, and without them searching would be close to impossible. Links are also vital in ranking, and most search marketers have focused on link building as a fundamental strategy in any SEO campaign. These days content link building is the strategy of choice, but it is certainly not the only one out there. Lee Odden, who has always...

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Editor’s Picks: June 8-12, 2009

New technology adoption and your customers. Many new content distribution channels like RSS or Twitter have become second nature to a tech-savvy crowd – so much so that we often forget that there is a whole world of newspaper-reading, AOL-using potential customers out there. As Michael Gray recently noted in his post on RSS adoption issues, the adoption rates for new technologies drop off the cliff outside of the tech section. It is always a good...

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Editor's Picks: June 1-5, 2009

Website usability resources. As you undoubtedly already know, a successful search engine marketing campaign does not stop at the ad copy or even at the landing page. It also includes a positive user experience, making website usability a crucial part of any marketing effort. To help you improve your website, Kim Krause Berg shares links to some great usability resources. How might Bing affect your PPC campaigns? Hate it or love it, Microsoft is betting...

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Editor’s Picks: May 18-22, 2009

Juiceless links. Although all links are equal in the eyes of the user, some are more equal than others when it comes to SEO. By now it’s well understood that .edu, .gov and other authority sites are valuable sources of link juice and marketers are always concerned with the quality of those links. However, you need to evaluate such links carefully before you jump on the opportunity to acquire a few. At times these links...

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Editor’s Picks: May 11-15, 2009

Google Content Network. Many marketers have been burned advertising on the Content Network but as our contributors have repeatedly stated in the magazine, there are ways to make sure your Content Network campaigns perform. There is little doubt that it is trickier than the Search Network but the rewards could be greater as well. Here is an interesting article on broadening exposure on Google Content Network to get you started. For more on the Google...

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Editor’s Picks: April 27-May 1, 2009

Social media marketing tips. Lee Odden has a nice list of 25 different social media marketing tips. Advice, coming from the top names in the social media marketing industry, addresses important questions of engagement, measurement and the required corporate structure changes to achieve success. Improving form conversions. How well is your mailing list sign up form performing? Kim Krause Berg, a well-known usability expert, talks about some of the best practices in the science of...

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Editor’s Picks: April 20-24, 2009

Promoting content on Twitter. With the popularity of Twitter growing by the hour, it is important to start considering some of the ways to push your content on Twitter. Just like “digg it” and “stumble it” buttons made it easier for your readers to submit content to these popular social media sites, it might be time to add that “retweet” button as well. Ann Smarty does a great job of listing all the different ways...

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