About Online Marketing Blog
Online Marketing Blog provides daily insights, resources and information on a range of internet marketing strategies and tactics including:
- Search engine optimization
- Marketing and branding with social media
- Blog marketing
- Online public relations
Online Marketing Blog and TopRank’s Minneapolis based SEO staff are active speaking at or blogging numerous industry conferences including:
- ad:tech
- Search Engine Strategies
- WebmasterWorld Pubcon
- Search Insider Summit
- Media Relations Summit
- Bulldog Reporter’s PR University
- PRSA International Conference
- ACCM
- DM Days
- Annual DMA conferences.
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We’ve been recognized and we’re proud of it!
- Advertising Age Power150
- Top 30 Social Media Index
- Onalytica list of most influential PR Blogs
- Best Search Marketing Blogs - Larry Chase’s Web Digest for Marketers
- Daily Blog Tips Top 25 SEO Blogs
- Self Made Minds Top 100 - Blogs with the most RSS Subscribers
- Ranked in the top 200 most popular and top 100 most “favorited” blogs out of 92 million tracked on Technorati
- Nominated two years in a row for the Marketing Sherpa best blog about online marketing award
Online Marketing Blog Contributors:

For the most part, posts are made by Lee Odden, CEO of TopRank® Online Marketing, a Minneapolis, Minnesota search marketing agency that integrates natural search optimization with social media marketing and new media public relations to help clients increase sales and brand visibility online. Additional contributors include:
- Julie Brue - VP
- Jolina Pettice - Account Manager
- Mike Yanke - Account Manager
- Thomas McMahon - Web and Blog Designer/Developer who keeps this blog running smoothly and also writes Blogger Design
- Dana Larson - SEO and Linking Specialist
About TopRank Online Marketing:
TopRank has been recognized as a leading SEO firm by TopSEOs.com and PromotionWorld and has been included in Marketing Sherpa’s guide to SEO firms for the past 3 years.
TopRank has also been quoted in numerous business publications including: DM News, BtoB Magazine, NBC11 in Silicon Valley, US News & World Report, The Economist, the Business Journal and has been profiled in The Minneapolis Star Tribune as well as making the cover of Minnesota Technology magazine.
Interviews with Lee Odden, CEO of TopRank Online Marketing:
- Todd And Power Profile of Lee Odden and Online Marketing Blog
- Lee Interviews IBM Distinguished Engineer, Mike Moran Part 8 of 8 -
- Lee Interviews IBM Distinguished Engineer, Mike Moran Part 7 of 8 -
- Lee Interviews IBM Distinguished Engineer, Mike Moran Part 6 of 8 -
- Lee Interviews IBM Distinguished Engineer, Mike Moran Part 5 of 8 -
- Lee Interviews IBM Distinguished Engineer, Mike Moran Part 4 of 8 - The new customer relations
- Lee Interviews IBM Distinguished Engineer, Mike Moran Part 3 of 8 - Improving Response Rates
- Lee Interviews IBM Distinguished Engineer, Mike Moran Part 2 of 8 - Segmenting Online Audiences
- Lee Interviews IBM Distinguished Engineer, Mike Moran Part 1 of 8 - Internet as a Marketing Channel
- Small Business SEO Fundamentals - AllBusiness.com (podcast)
- Enterprise SEO - WebProNews (video)
- Search Trends - NBC11 (Silicon Valley)
- Part 1 Interview on Social Media Optimization by David Wilson
- Part 2 Interview on Social Media Optimization by David Wilson
- Beginning SEO Podcast
- Interview by Geoff Livingston on Diary of an Ad Man
- Interview on One Blog a Day
- Faceoff interview with Rand on Daily Blog Tips
- Interview on RSS Ray (podcast)
- WebProNews Interview - SEO for Your Business (video/audio feed)
- Interview by ViperChill
- Interview by Mike McDonald of WebProNews SES Chicago (video)
- Interview by Michael Gray on Local Search Marketing
- Interview by Matt McGee Small Business SEM
- WebProNews interview with Rand, Lee and Todd (video)
- WebProNews WebmasterWorld Pubcon (video)
- eMarketing Talkshow (podcast)
- Interview by Neil Patel of Pronet Advertising
- Interview by Ernie Landante of Novita Issue Communications (podcast)
- Interview on Web Certain Secrets
- Interview Recap - SEO with Lee Odden Biz Tips Blog
- Interiew by Patsi Krakoff and Denise Wakeman of Next Level Partnership (podcast)
- Interview on E-consultancy
- Interview by Heather Lloyd-Martin
- Interview by Chris Pirillo (podcast)
- Interview on Jobs in Search
- Interview by Aaron Wall
- Interview on KCCO Radio (mp3)
- Interview on SEO BuzzBox
- Interview on MarketingStudies.net (podcast)
TopRank contributes periodically to leading industry blogs and news sites including:
- AllBusiness.com Search Engine Smarts
- Business Blog Consulting
- ISEDB
- Search Engine Guide
- Search Engine Journal
- WebproNews
- And is a past contributor to Search Engine Roundtable during Search Engine Strategies conferences.
TopRank speaking experience on the topics of online PR, search and blog marketing at industry conferences and events includes:
- PRSA International Conference
- MediaPost’s Search Insider Summit
- Media Relations Summit
- High Rankings Search Marketing Seminar
- Search Engine Room
- DMA 07 Conference
- DMA 06 Conference
- Search Engine Strategies
- WebmasterWorld Pubcon
- DM Days
- Bulldog Reporter PR University
- eComXpo
- ACCM - Catalog Conference
- Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association
- Minnesota IABC
TopRank is also available to speak or provide training to your organization on topics related to search marketing, online public relations and marketing with social media. Make inquiries here.
Organizations and Affiliations:
- Direct Marketing Association - DMA07 ECHO Awards Judge for Search Marketing Category.
- SEMPO.org - Development Committee
- Web Analytics Association
- SEO Consultants
If you’re looking for the next level of online marketing, we would love to learn more about your business, marketing and public relations objectives. Call us at 1-877-872-6628.














