TopRank Polls Archive
Pick your top 3 measures of success for business blogging
- Engagement: comments, links (36%, 65 Votes)
- Improved brand recognition (31%, 56 Votes)
- Build thought leadership (31%, 55 Votes)
- Search engine rankings (31%, 55 Votes)
- Better communicate with customers (30%, 53 Votes)
- Traffic to the blog (27%, 49 Votes)
- Coverage by media and other blogs (18%, 32 Votes)
- Traffic to the corporate web site (16%, 28 Votes)
- Sales leads (16%, 28 Votes)
- Industry Recognition (13%, 23 Votes)
- Sell products (12%, 22 Votes)
- Improved customer satisfaction (11%, 20 Votes)
- Page views (9%, 16 Votes)
- Time on Site (6%, 10 Votes)
- Ad revenue on the blog (5%, 9 Votes)
Total Voters: 179
Start Date: April 28, 2009 @ 10:07 pm
End Date: No Expiry
Do your online marketing efforts include SEO and social media working together?
- Yes (77%, 226 Votes)
- No (11%, 32 Votes)
- We don't do Social Media (5%, 14 Votes)
- We don't do SEO (5%, 14 Votes)
- We don't do SEO or Social Media (2%, 7 Votes)
Total Voters: 293
Start Date: March 23, 2009 @ 9:11 am
End Date: No Expiry
Which do you listen to more often, downloaded podcasts or live streaming audio?
- Downloaded Podcasts (50%, 44 Votes)
- Live Streaming Audio (41%, 36 Votes)
- I don't listen to either (9%, 8 Votes)
Total Voters: 88
Start Date: March 16, 2009 @ 6:02 am
End Date: No Expiry
What 3 digital marketing channels & tactics will you emphasize in 2009?
- Blogging (34%, 183 Votes)
- Microblogging (Twitter) (29%, 155 Votes)
- Search engine optimization (28%, 151 Votes)
- Social network participation (Facebook, LinkedIn) (26%, 137 Votes)
- Email marketing (17%, 90 Votes)
- Social media monitoring & outreach (17%, 88 Votes)
- Pay per click (14%, 73 Votes)
- Blogger relations (12%, 64 Votes)
- Video marketing (10%, 51 Votes)
- Social media advertising (7%, 39 Votes)
- Online/digital public relations (7%, 38 Votes)
- Affiliate marketing (7%, 37 Votes)
- Corporate web site (7%, 36 Votes)
- Viral marketing (6%, 34 Votes)
- Free content (eBooks, white papers) (6%, 33 Votes)
- Online communities/forums (6%, 33 Votes)
- Branded microsites (6%, 30 Votes)
- User generated content (5%, 26 Votes)
- Widgets (4%, 23 Votes)
- Link bait content (4%, 21 Votes)
- Podcasts (4%, 20 Votes)
- Webinars (4%, 20 Votes)
- Article marketing (3%, 18 Votes)
- Behavioral targeting/re-targeting (3%, 18 Votes)
- IM/Mobile SMS (2%, 13 Votes)
- Online contests, giveaways (2%, 12 Votes)
- Online display ads (2%, 12 Votes)
- Social news / Bookmarking (2%, 12 Votes)
- Contextual advertising (2%, 11 Votes)
- Sponsorships / Cross branding (2%, 11 Votes)
- Mobile ads (2%, 9 Votes)
- Rich media apps/demos (Flash) (2%, 9 Votes)
- Blog advertising (2%, 8 Votes)
- Freemium services/tools (2%, 8 Votes)
- Advertorial (AdFusion) (1%, 6 Votes)
- eCommerce feeds & Comparison shopping (1%, 6 Votes)
- Teleconferences (1%, 5 Votes)
- Buy web sites and retool (1%, 4 Votes)
- Advergames (1%, 4 Votes)
- RSS advertising (1%, 3 Votes)
- Virtual worlds (Second Life) (1%, 3 Votes)
- Virtual tradeshows (0%, 2 Votes)
- Paid reviews (0%, 1 Votes)
- Rich media avatars (0%, 1 Votes)
- No holds barred spam (0%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 532
Start Date: February 18, 2009 @ 11:39 am
End Date: No Expiry
What is your favorite URL shortening service?
- cli.gs (26%, 88 Votes)
- budurl.com (20%, 70 Votes)
- tinyurl.com (18%, 62 Votes)
- zi.ma (12%, 42 Votes)
- bit.ly (6%, 22 Votes)
- is.gd (6%, 21 Votes)
- adjix.com (4%, 13 Votes)
- tr.im (3%, 9 Votes)
- tweetburner (2%, 8 Votes)
- snipurl.com (1%, 5 Votes)
- poprl.com (2%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 343
Start Date: January 8, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
End Date: No Expiry
