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Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know

Right along with Facebook, YouTube and blogging, Twitter is one of the most often written about social media communication tools. (Follow me @leeodden) We’ve run polls about how people use Twitter as well as aggregated tips from the Twitter community on how to get the most productivity out of it. This post shares a few [...]

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Update: Top SEO Blogs by RSS Subscribers

Online Marketing Blog manages a list of over 500 search marketing blogs called the BIGLIST, but it’s not ordered other than alphabetically. A year ago I took a sample of SEO and SEM blogs that were publishing Feedburner counts and posted a list ranked by the number of RSS subscribers. Below is a re-ordered list [...]

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Video Fake Steve Jobs Keynote - Web 2.0 Expo

One of the most entertaining keynote presentations at the Web 2.0 Expo by far was delivered by Forbes journalist, Dan Lyons. It’s a 15 minute long story of how Dan came to start the Fake Steve Jobs blog, it’s success and lessons learned. He also makes fun of EVERYONE. Enjoy: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3550977413365196450 BTW, if you want to [...]

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Getting the Most Out of Your Corporate Blog

This session at Media Relations Summit includes Tac Anderson from HP, Jennifer Cisney from Kodak and Robert Scoble from Fast Company. First up is Tac Anderson from HP, who shares a specific example of a tactical execution of a blog. HP has had bloggers for 3 years. 60+ blogs. Example of using a business blog as a [...]

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SEO News Aggregators

With the TopRank BIGLIST at over 450 blogs, it can be a more than a challenge to read so many RSS feeds to stay current on SEM industry news. SEO blogs and news feed aggregators can make it much easier to track what’s going on whether its news, tips or events. This post [...]

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SMX Sesion: 8 Tips to More Effective Blogging

The Wonder Twins Track at SMX West: SEO and Blogging, provided the audience with information on how to best launch and promote a blog. Here are 8 tips, from Aaron Wall of SEOBook, on how to gain traction for your blog. Own a Niche Owning a smaller niche is an easy way to starting building personal brand #1 player [...]

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WordPress.com and SEO Blogs - Love or Hate?

While doing some research for a presentation, I was checking out the WordPress.com site on “types of blogs” looking for creative ways to categorize them. And what did I come upon, but this page which separates blogs types into two overall categories of “popular” and “banned”. Guess where SEO blogs fall? Sigh. Even our dear WordPress [...]

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BIGLIST SEM Blogs Update 011808

Another freezing week here in Minnesota means less time outside and more time checking out new search marketing blogs. I present to you dear readers, this week’s additions to the BIGLIST of SEO and Search Marketing Blogs. B(abble)log - A.C. (Anne Charlotte) Riley is a tenured online marketer and copywriter that blogs about all manner [...]

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Recession Proof Search Engine Optimization Tips

In this month’s Target Marketing Magazine, a TopRank authored article on how small businesses can gain a competitive marketing advantage by leveraging content promotion, blogs, social media and universal search was featured. Recently there has been some dialog and commentary on certain SEM channels about upcoming harder economic times calling for SEO to be taken [...]

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20 Analytics Tools For Blogs

There are a lot of data points that can be meaningful for tracking blog effectiveness. That is, tracking what happens when visitors arrive at and engage with your blog content. It really comes down to the purpose of your blog. Metrics for a blog that’s focused on making a web site more search engine friendly [...]

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SEMMYS - What Were the Best Social and Viral Marketing Blog Posts of 2007?

Matt McGee recently reached out to a number of industry bloggers to be involved with a blog content award he’s calling “The SEMMYs“. Even though the SEJ SEM Blog Awards just happened, I thought I could at least be a judge - Matt being a good guy and all. If you read [...]

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New Media and Blogging for Influence with Journalists

In a recent study by Omnicom Group’s Brodeur and Marketwire about how journalists use blogs, it was found that blogs are are a regular source for journalists for improving the speed of reporting news as well as guiding tone, but not for improving quality: Over three quarters of reporters see blogs as helpful in giving them [...]

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Search Marketing Blog Awards Announced

Updated! See Below: Search Engine Journal began announcing the winners of it’s 3rd Annual Search Engine Marketing Blog Awards today. Voting covered 19 different categories ranging from best conference coverage to best SEO blog. With that many categories, I’d be surprised if Loren posted them all in one day. It’s great link bait with [...]

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Social Bookmarking Submission Tools

TopRank started using social bookmarking as an active/passive content promotion method several years ago. In fact, here is a podcast interview I did with Rok Hrastnik in March 2005 discussing SEO, tagging and bookmarking. We’ve also been fairly successful at promoting a social bookmarking tool for blogs over the past 18 months or so, [...]

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Voting Begins - Search Marketing Blog Awards

Loren Baker’s Search Engine Journal has recently taken nominations for best search marketing blogs in a variety of categories. I am happy to say TopRank’s blog, aka “Online Marketing Blog” has been nominated in 4 of the 19 categories. Thank you to friends and readers of Online Marketing Blog for nominating us! You can now [...]

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TopRank Tips: Conference Live Blogging

Anyone that reads Online Marketing Blog from time to time knows we do a bit of conference blogging. In fact, during 2007 OMB covered 14 conferences involving nearly 100 blog posts, over 1500 photos and 20 videos. Besides the conference sessions and after hours coverage, we also typically conduct interviews before the events, as [...]

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AdAge Power 150 and Bloglines Reporting Issue

Readers of Online Marketing Blog may have noticed the “ranking” for our blog reported by the AdAge Power 150 widget has dropped from #12 to #43 or so the past week. I just wanted to assure new readers this is not because of any change in subscribers, links or traffic but due to Bloglines not [...]

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Pubcon Session: Blogger Reporter Panel

If someone has a better photo, please link in the comments On day three, the last day of sessions at WebmasterWorld Pubcon here in Vegas, I participated on a panel called, “Search and Blogging Reporters Forum” with Rand Fishkin and Andy Beal. Moderation duties handled by Mike McDonald. Basically, it was a round table-style discussion about [...]

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Online Marketing Blog » Blogging

Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know

Update: Top SEO Blogs by RSS Subscribers

Video Fake Steve Jobs Keynote - Web 2.0 Expo

Getting the Most Out of Your Corporate Blog

SEO News Aggregators

SMX Sesion: 8 Tips to More Effective Blogging

WordPress.com and SEO Blogs - Love or Hate?

BIGLIST SEM Blogs Update 011808

Recession Proof Search Engine Optimization Tips

20 Analytics Tools For Blogs

SEMMYS - What Were the Best Social and Viral Marketing Blog Posts of 2007?

New Media and Blogging for Influence with Journalists

Search Marketing Blog Awards Announced

Social Bookmarking Submission Tools

Voting Begins - Search Marketing Blog Awards

Top Online Marketing Blog Posts 2007

TopRank Tips: Conference Live Blogging

AdAge Power 150 and Bloglines Reporting Issue

Pubcon Session: Blogger Reporter Panel

Top SEO Blogs on Google Reader