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Why offline businesses need online marketing by @brandmeau
You have a local based brick and mortar business, so no reason to invest in online marketing, right? Location based businesses couldn't be more wrong. Do not miss out on sales and customers by ignoring or avoiding online marketing. One of the key principles of business is to be where your target audience is looking [...] Author information Eric Thomas Eric Thomas is blogger and Brand Manager for Brandme.com.au , a promotional gifts supplier in Australia."
5 must read writing links
This week on The Lede ' Why Rituals Work 90 Free Online Philosophy Courses 7 Steps to Finding Focus for Writing A Cheat Sheet of 24 Coffee Drinks We're All Media Companies Now Want to grab even more useful links (beyond those that make The Lede )? Follow @copyblogger on Twitter . // Why Rituals Work Writers, like baseball players, are some of the most superstitious people on earth. I'd list a few of my own pre-game rituals here,"
Youtube comedy week's very important personalities
What do you get when you combine world-famous comedians with the world's biggest video-sharing site? OK, you guessed it: YouTube Comedy Week. But Comedy Week is about a lot more than simply bringing together comedy's best and brightest for an online celebration of funny. This week we also connected with YouTube's biggest comedy fans. We decided to shine our spotlight on seven "Super Fans": Zach, Christine, Mavis, Lo, Jesse,"
Pro binging now available in french, german and portuguese
The number of Pro Bingers and aspiring Pro Bingers is exploding! In response to demand for our Bing Ads Accredited Professional Program , we are pleased to announce the launch of the program in three new languages: French , German , and Brazilian Portuguese . Whats included? New Sites You can now train and get accredited in French , German , and Portuguese on Bing Ads' respective Search Advertising sites. Each includes localized text training , help screenshots,"
Infographic shows people are two-timing on their tv sets
Memorial Day means the start of the summer blockbuster movie season. This weekend, we'll all be getting Fast and Furious again along with another Hangover . Next month, Superman returns to the big screen and in July the Lone Ranger rides again. But if you prefer not to fight the crowds, you can also stay home and watch some of the best movies (or the worst if that's your thing) on your PC or mobile device. In honor of this holiday weekend,"
Penguin 2.0/4 - were you jarred and/or jolted?
Posted by Dr. Pete The long-awaited Penguin 2.0 (also called "Penguin 4") rolled out on Wednesady, May 22nd. Rumor has been brewing for a while that the next Penguin update would be big , and include significant algorithm changes, and Matt Cutts has suggested more than once that major changes are in the works . We wanted to give the dust a day to settle, but this post will review data from our MozCast Google weather stations to see if Penguin 2.0 really lives up to the hype."
The inconvenient truth about seo
Matt Cutts published a video with a very interesting topic recently. He discussed the question, if a legitimate and customer appreciated business can compete in gaining high rankings in the search engines with companies that specialize in traffic acquisition. Can they? As stated in the video, the Internet leveled the chances of big and small [...] Author information Krystian WBodarczyk Krystian is an Internet Marketing Manager at Positionly ."
Ad of the week: paramount boldly goes to a billboard ad to promote new star trek flick on yahoo.com
Dramatic expandable billboard ad grabs viewers' attention with a rapid-fire preview and a movie ticket lookup Since 1966, the classic Star Trek saga has boldly gone into new intergalactic territories. To kick off the newest Star Trek movie, "Into Darkness," Paramount put a new spin on a classic digital ad format by splashing an attention-grabbing ."
What and when do social moms share
One of the great truths of social media is that moms like to share and they're powerful influencers when they get behind (or are annoyed by) a brand. We know it's true but we keep studying it to make sure the world hasn't slipped sideways. The latest fact checkers are ShareThis and Digitas. They surveyed 200,000 moms (that's a nice sampling, don't you think?) to find out how they interact with social."
New ad land cartoon: the weirdest part of being an agency creative
Sometimes your best work can be a little embarrassing Ah, the life of an advertising creative. Our David T. Jones knows it well. The best part of the job? When you're doing your most important work (dreaming up new ideas), everyone else thinks you're just goofing off. The worst part? That nagging feeling that the ."
This week in search: penguin 2.0 video update by @johnrampton
This week in search we talk about everything to deal with Penguin 2.0. We cover everything you need to know to keep you and your site up to date. If you missed, last week we talked about Bing Search. Penguin 2.0, here is everything you need to know. Our goal with these videos is to help our [...] Author information John Rampton Managing Editor John Rampton is an entrepreneur, full-time computer nerd, PPC guru at Maple North and founder at PPC.org ."
Plugging the link leaks, part 2 - site canonicalisation
A couple of months ago we took a look at how you can reclaim links that you are simply throwing away . For the second look at how to fix common link leaks, we're going to look at issues around site canonicalisation, and how easy it is to lose link authority through simple duplicate URLs. As before, this is a simple way many sites lose valuable links without even realising. By plugging these leaks, we've helped clients gain an instant boost in link authority,"
8 great tools to use with google analytics
We hear so much about great SEO tools that we should be using, but we rarely see much written about tools to help you with your Google Analytics data. Over the past year I have been using more and more tools to help with Google Analytics data, from API extraction to data visualisation, and I wanted to share them with you. Below are just 8 tools that I used for Google Analytics on a regular basis that save me a lot of time."
Policy refresher: family-safe content
For our next installment of our policy refresher series, we're talking about a topic we're frequently asked about...adult content and keeping AdSense family-safe. We've made a commitment to our users, advertisers and publishers to keep the AdSense network family-safe. A general rule of thumb when it comes to the adult content policy is: if you wouldn't want to share this content at a family dinner or view it in your boss's office,"
Bing ads academy - using device targeting on your accounts
To ensure your account receives as much traffic as possible, Bing Ads will automatically show your accounts ads on all three device types Desktops and Laptops Smartphones and other mobile devices with full browsers Tablets With the targeting options available in Bing Ads, as well as your ads showing on all of these devices, you also have the option to target each of the devices separately. We have found that CPCs on smartphones and tablets tend to be considerably lower than."
Ecommerce title tags: top 5 ways to increase clicks
The first steps of commerce take place within the search results. Give consumers a better sense of offers and pricing with your title tags. By exposing more information up front, sites can better align with the right consumer and get more clicks."
Informations élémentaires sur le ppc - partie 1 : pourquoi le ppc est-il crucial ?
Pendant plusieurs années, j'ai aidé des grands groupes à promouvoir leurs produits dans nos résultats de recherche sponsorisée. Etant personnellement cliente de nombreuses PME, je ne peux m'empêcher de penser combien ces liens sponsorisés seraient tout aussi parfaits pour ceux ou celles qui gèrent une société plus petite qu'un magasin d'une chaîne nationale. Je ne suis peut-être pas une conseillère tout à fait impartiale, puisque je travaille pour Bing,"
The best free seo tools for competitive intelligence by @marcpurtell
Knowing what your competitors are doing and how they perform is key to developing a strategy to surpass them in organic search. By doing a bit of digging, one can uncover a great deal of learning from competitors who have already tested different elements of their SEO campaigns. In previous posts in this series, I ."
Guest blogging vs. guest posting - imagine a world without links
For months, debate has raged about the merits of guest posting, the relationship between content and links, backlinks, publishers and signature links, guest posting, and comments. It's time to shed a little clarity on the subject in a simple format."
Here's how austin kleon writes
Steve Jobs famously misquoted Picasso when he said, "Good artists copy; great artists steal." What Picasso really said was, "Art is theft." T.S. Eliot said something far closer, "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." I learned all of this from Austin Kleon, bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist , a guide I recommend to all writers seeking insights for tapping into your endless reserves of creativity and innovation. As a noted speaker ,"