In Part 1 of the Top 5 Web Marketing Stories of Summer 2009, we touched on the Twitter vs Facebook battle for real-time search, as well as Facebook seeming to try to be more and more like Twitter.
Here are the top three Web Marketing stories of the Summer of 2009:
3. Bing emerges as a major [...]
I would like to take the time to urge everyone to regularly check out the Google Webmaster blog where Matt Cutts and others at Google share SEO and webmaster tips that range from beginner to advanced. The blog is well organized and very informative.
Matt just posted his video responses to last month’s Q&A. They can [...]
Special thanks to my good friend Rem Jackson for bringing this awesome new tool to our attention.
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t spend as much time on social bookmarking sites as I should. Building your reputation on sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, and others can usually provide a great ROI later in the [...]
We’ve heard all of the hype surrounding Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. Some sites are announcing that the new search engine is already competing with Yahoo! for second place in the SE battle, and the reviews of Bing (”But it’s not Google”) seem to be pretty good so far. So, the question is: what can [...]
Offering an incentive for someone to Tweet about your product is a great idea if done correctly (and with some sort of creativity), but the tactic seems to be used more and more lately.
In the most recent Tweet incentive, Squarespace is giving away 30 iPhones in 30 days for anyone that tweets something about #squarespace, [...]
You’re probably hearing more and more about Twitter as the days go by, either on television when they announce the newest celebrity who is “tweeting”, or from your friends and colleagues who already seem to be up on the Twitter lingo.
Well, just because you’re left scratching your head whenever they bring up words like “tweet” [...]
There is a lot of advice directing companies to not cut their marketing budgets during these tough economic times. That is very true, but the secret is to not only refrain from cutting your efforts, but also to reorganize your resources. Keep spending marketing dollars, but spend them wisely.
So what are some smarter decisions?
The second [...]
Sometimes, when we start getting caught up in advanced Internet marketing techniques like social media marketing and blogging, we start to forget some of the basics of search engine optimization SEO is, despite what a lot of people have been saying lately (probably because they’re mad about not ranking well for their keywords or because [...]
Twitter is one of the most effective tools for instant information sharing with your “Twitter associates” (the term used as opposed to followers and coined with credit to @jimconolly) and the entire Twitterverse. It is a tool that, when used effectively, should be updated frequently and provides a sense of “there is someone behind that [...]
