Hope you had a wonderful Christmas. My inbox is getting pretty full so decided to share some of the better stuff with you.

The secret life of Black Hat SEO -
http://searchengineland.com/the-secret-life-of-the-black-hat-seo-59472

Ten search marketing trends for 2011 -
http://searchengineland.com/ten-search-marketing-hot-spots-to-watch-in-2011-59549

Net neutrality and what it means for you -
http://searchengineland.com/net-neutrality-what-do-the-new-rules-mean-and-whats-next-59500

Building links - 30 minutes a day -
http://searchenginewatch.com/3639752

Page load speed is one of the 'new' things to improve - here are some tips -
http://searchenginewatch.com/3636580

Social Signals and Google - http://searchengineland.com/google-webmaster-video-reconfirms-use-of-social-signals-59320


We'll resume posting next year... enjoy your celebrations.

Hope you had a wonderful weekend. I got to see the sun today... that was good.

Pay Per Click Help -

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1692945/seven-steps-building-new-ppc-campaign

A 10 day plan to improve your pay per clicks -

http://searchenginewatch.com/3641580

Improving your B2B link campaigns -

http://searchengineland.com/tips-to-improve-your-b2b-link-building-efforts-58328

This starts our holiday posting schedule so we hope you and your family have a wonderful time with your family and friends. We should be back to posting regularly around Jan. 3rd.

Good Weds. to you. We are supposed to get an ice storm this evening so posting may be sporadic ovImage by Zedzap(.2nd flickr birthday ) via Flickrer the next few days. I will be glad when winter is over, although it hasn't really started yet. We got almost a foot of snow over the weekend, and there has been snow on the ground every day during December. Maybe we'll make up for it in January and we'll have some 60 degree days, guess I can dream about that anyway.

SEO Planning for 2011
http://searchenginewatch.com/3641639

Location based search - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1932480/location-search-future-seo

Have a good one.

Using pictures and video on your site - http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/sexton-merchandising-pictures-videos.htm

Have a wonderful day.

Hope your day is going well - we got about 8 inches of snow last night.

Here is an excellent guide if you've never used Google Webmaster Tools -
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1931525/google-webmaster-tools-101

Have a wonderful Monday.

Some notes on the Yahoo / MSN pay per click merger.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3641616

Some rules for Google Adwords - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1931054/google-adwords-rules

If you are a noob at editing video - this url will help - one note we all start as noobs.
http://www.videomaker.com/article/14913/?utm_source=enews&utm_medium=email&utm_content=tip_enews_2010_12_1&utm_campaign=traffic

Have a wonderful weekend.

Optimizing your site for different browsers - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641611

Using your offline media to create buzz. - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1930319/offline-media-translates-online-buzz

Adding pay per click to your marketing mix - http://www.wilsonweb.com/paid-search/mackey-ppc-mix1.htm

Funneling your traffic into conversions - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641606

Have a wonderful day.

Good Monday morning to you.

From trendwatchers - 11 consumer trends for 2011.
http://www.trendwatching.com/briefing/

Some good first steps to improve your Google Rankings - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641583

Enjoy your Monday.

A great checklist for those using Webmaster Tools - http://searchengineland.com/9-step-seo-checkup-using-google-webmaster-tools-57061

Is Google Shooting itself in the foot? http://searchenginewatch.com/3641601

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Quite a bit of hub bub about the thing we mentioned earlier this week - you remember the bit about bad reviews helping your search results. Since that has to do with social marketing we'll include three different articles on it today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/technology/02ranking.html?src=me

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/101202-081129

http://searchengineland.com/google-now-using-online-merchant-reviews-as-ranking-signal-57445

Have a wonderful Thursday!!

Some planning for 2011

http://searchenginewatch.com/3641590

A great trendwatching briefing - http://trendwatching.com/briefing/

Tips for improving your SEO rank - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641583

Enjoy your day.

Very interesting article about can even bad publicity be good - http://searchengineland.com/googles-gold-standard-results-take-hit-new-york-times-57081

Tools you may actually be able to use - http://www.wdfm.com/publish/cool_tools/index.htm

We would also like to welcome Plummer Forest Products

Hope you have a wonderful day.

Hope you had a wonderful Black Friday / ThanksGiving and a good Cyber Monday so far.

Here are some good steps to get your pay per click account back on track. http://searchenginewatch.com/3641578

How do you measure your success - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1900524/success-metrics-101

Enjoy your day.

We would like to take a moment to wish all of you a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Good Tuesday to you -
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If you aren't optimizing for Bing you need to here are some tips - http://searchengineland.com/report-not-optimizing-for-bing-yahoo-means-loss-of-traffic-56727

Conversion Tips - http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/follansbee-user-experience-tools.htm

We have some tips for you to Save Money on Christmas.

HImage by Camera Slayer via Flickrey it's Friday - time for a celebration!!

FAQ for paid marketers - http://searchengineland.com/an-seo-faq-for-paid-search-marketers-56053

Some notes about those Google previews - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641560

Some notes on Google Places - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1895124/google-local-seo-google-boost-local-sem

Some excellent stuff from Marketing Experiments - Images vs. text - http://www.marketingexperiments.com/improving-website-conversion/images-vs-copy.html

Hope you have an awesome weekend.

Good Social Media Thursday to you - one note next week we'll be eating Turkey and watching fImage by fredcavazza via Flickrootball (and hopefully you'll be doing the same). On Friday we'll be recovering, you need to take some time to enjoy your family as well.

Marketing across your social media platforms - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641530

Facebook SEO 101 - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1896009/facebook-seo-101

Game based social media - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641547

How Facebook email works - http://searchengineland.com/how-facebook-messages-email-system-works-56004

Making your blog the nucleus for your social marketing efforts.

We hope you have a wonderful day.

Hope you enjoyed your weekend.

Some tips about Blekko - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/101112-131313

We hope you have a wonderful day.

Some good tidbits from Matt Cutts talk at Pub Con. http://searchengineland.com/key-takeaways-from-googles-matt-cutts-talk-at-pubcon-55457

If you're into video then you may want to check out some of the free training - http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/video/videon.do hope you have a wonderful weekend.

GImage via Wikipediaoogle unveils some visual search results - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/101109-094944

Your expected ROI on SEO - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1894792/spend-seo-whats

Happy Veterans Day.

Three ways to analyze your competition - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641536

Enjoy your Weds.

How to remove pages from Google - http://searchengineland.com/removing-pages-from-google-53086

Diversifying your SEO - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641531

Some excellent tips on improving your conversion - http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/ash-persuasion-principles.htm

Enjoy your Tuesday.

Hope you had a wonderful weekend.

Here is an excellent article on Google Webmaster Tools -
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1868150/google-webmaster-tools

Hope you have a wonderful Monday.

Some tips for user friendly design - http://searchengineland.com/4-tips-for-search-and-user-friendly-design-54304

SEM and the holidays - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641513

Good info on SEO audits - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641521

Have a wonderful weekend.

GooImage via Wikipediad Thursday to you - Twitter is now showing up on Google - http://searchengineland.com/twitter-promoted-tweets-come-to-google-54784

Optimizing You Tube - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1811575/secrets-youtube-search-engine-optimization

Some cool tools to monitor your social stuff - http://www.wdfm.com/publish/social_media_monitoring_tools/index.htm

Google Places and Local - http://searchengineland.com/what-googles-place-page-update-means-to-local-link-building-54643

Some tips for link building - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641511

Using adwords manager for your PPC - http://www.wilsonweb.com/paid-search/churchill-adwords-editor.htm

Enjoy your day.

Some tidbits you may be interested in - http://searchengineland.com/google-showing-total-links-yahoo-fixes-site-explorer-plus-more-seo-topics-54532

Localizing your content - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641506

Keywords and your competition - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1828523/keyword-competitive-intelligence-101

Enjoy your Tuesday and don't forget to Vote.

Hope your Friday is going well -

Five strategy ideas for five powerhouse marketing strategy - http://searchengineland.com/5-powerhouse-holiday-marketing-strategies-for-online-retailers-54273

Some Google Adword Quality tips - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1811574/google-adwords-quality-score-tips

Preparing your site for SEO if you're a small business - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641502

Some useful SEO metrics - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641400

Have a wonderful weekend.

Good Thursday to you - If you do testing on you website check out this presentation for some excImage by tychay via Flickrellent advice - http://www.marketingexperiments.com/improving-website-conversion/double-your-testing-value.html

Some tools to monitor all things social - http://www.wdfm.com/publish/social_media_monitoring_tools/index.htm

Social media and link building - http://www.wilsonweb.com/linking/enge-twitter-linkedin.htm

Have a wonderful day.

Good Weds. How much is a link worth?

http://searchenginewatch.com/3641486

Enjoy your day.

If you have fresh content that isn't being indexed as fast as it once was this may be the reason - http://searchengineland.com/is-google-broken-sites-big-small-seeing-indexing-problems-53701

Alternative search engines you should be paying attention to - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641484

Tweaking your tags to drive clicks - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641483

Some good info from SES Chicago - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1810090/horses-mouth

Have a wonderful Tuesday.

Latent Semantics - what is why you need to know.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3641479

Use customers for links - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641476

Enjoy your Monday.

Image by gothopotam via FlickrGood Thursday - below is some social marketing info you can use -

Using social media for your Christmas marketing
http://searchenginewatch.com/3641472

The five elements of social media -
http://searchengineland.com/the-five-elements-of-social-media-alchemy-53083

Social Intelligence and Facebook - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641462

5 social myths busted -
http://searchenginewatch.com/3641448

Some website changes that could hurt your SEO - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641466

Good Tuesday to you - some notes on links - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1741902/future-link-building-stop-calling-link-building

Site maps and how they help - http://www.wilsonweb.com/seo/basu-sitemaps.htm

Keyword research - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1745850/keyword-forensics-101

More on links - http://searchengineland.com/how-to-help-clients-through-link-building-confusion-52746

Need to work on your venn diagram - here's a free tool to do just that - http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/venn/

Good Monday morning to you - hope you had a wonderful weekend.

PPC / SEO and combining them - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641449 and some more about that subject - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1745824/google-tags-paid-search-meets-seo

Have a great day!

Good Thursday to you - here is some helpful articles for your social fun.
Image by fredcavazza via Flickr
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1741474/social-media-teach-seo - Social media and SEO

Some tips for social media measurement - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641438

Social search commands - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641431

Some notes on Facebooks new groups - http://searchengineland.com/irony-facebooks-new-groups-give-me-less-control-not-more-52495

We all know that Microsoft and Yahoos organic search results have moved, soon their pay per clicks will do the same. You can find some tips for optimizing your campaign at the following url -

http://searchenginewatch.com/3641437

Improve your conversions with these tips - http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/sexton-fixing-conversion-leaks.htm

Good Monday to you.

How to identify duplicate content - and manage it.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3641430

Testing Google Adwords - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1740981/simple-tests-try-google-adwords-campaign-experiments

Have a wonderful day.

Some social media blogs you should be following - http://www.wdfm.com/publish/social_media_marketing_blogs/index.htm

Taking care of your information on twitter - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641417

How your peers are using twitter etc - http://www.marketingexperiments.com/blog/research-topics/local-social-media.html

Hope your Weds. has gone well -

5 Ways to increase your websites revenue - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641420

Challenges in measuring SEO success - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641407

Enjoy your evening.

Some bad link building ideas - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641411

Notes on descriptions - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1735585/descriptions-didnt

Enjoy your Tuesday evening.

Social media ad buying on a budget - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641344

Business intelligence and Social Media - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641343

Link building and social media - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641386

Have a wonderful Thursday.

5 tips for blog content - http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/thomas-blog-content-tips.htm

More on writing content -http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1735556/writing-your-way-top-search-is-still-possible

Happy Birthday Google - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100927-180000

Enjoy your day.

Monday... here are some pay per click tips - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1734804/ppc-campaigns-small-markets-top-tips

Today it is a soggy Monday, but the good thing is that it isn't 90 degrees. Make your Monday a good one.

We all know that sometimes getting content can be a huge pain - here are some ideas for recycling your content.

http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/975/1/Converting-Affiliate-Articles-Into-YouTube-Traffic/

Have a wonderful weekend.

Good Thursday to you - hope your week is going well. Sept. here has been hot - this is the first day of Fall and highs are supposed to be in the 90's. The 90's started here in April and have lasted till now... I am really ready for some cool temps .. they say maybe next week but I will believe it when I see it.

If you're doing a search in Bing you will now be able to see twitters that you can follow - I think that is pretty cool. Some details of that can be found here - http://searchengineland.com/bing-social-search-now-recommends-people-on-twitter-51243

Social media and intelligence - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641343

Some more thoughts on Google Instant - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1733044/google-instant-the-third-half-of-your-brain

Some tips on video editing - click here

Enjoy your day!

Yesterday went by in a blurrr. Quality is better than Quantity when it comes to article writing - http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/usborne-quality-articles.htm

A good checklist for marketing - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1733403/the-bare-bones-checklist-online-marketing

B2B prospecting - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1733402/b2b-prospecting-small-budget

Have a wonderful day!

Good Monday to you -

Generating links through media relations - http://searchengineland.com/how-to-generate-links-through-media-relations-50357

If you haven't yet migrated from Yahoo to MSN - here are some tips that you can try - http://www.wilsonweb.com/paid-search/churchill-adcenter-hiccups.htm

Have a wonderful Monday!

SEO and your quality score - how does your optimization change (or not change) your quality score. Remember the higher your quality the 'cheaper' your pay per click campaign.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3641337

An excellent case study on persistence in your business - http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/971/1/Case-Study-Reducing-Debt-Makes-Money-for-Debt-Tipscom/

Have a WONDERFUL weekend.

Twitter releases a new interface -
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100915-130610

Search and Social media - are you missing out -
http://searchenginewatch.com/3641326

A plan to measure your social media -
http://searchengineland.com/the-perfect-social-media-measurement-plan-48999

Enjoy your Thursday

Ten things you should know about Google Instant -
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100910-050505

Some things you need to know about transitioning your pay per clicks from Yahoo to Microsoft.
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1731041/yahoo-bing-integration-the-transition-checklist

Notes from Google's head about personalized search - http://searchengineland.com/schmidt-great-stage-search-is-autonomous-personal-50014

Hope you had a wonderful weekend - check out this url for some keyword tools you may never have thought about using - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1731105/the-best-key-phrase-research-tool-you-dont-use

Guest posts and quality links - http://www.wilsonweb.com/linking/enge-guest-posts.htm

A good experiment with instant search - http://searchengineland.com/google-instant-and-the-power-of-suggestion-50298

Enjoy your day.

There has been a big hub bub about the instant search that Google unveiled yesterday. Here is a good article on what it could mean for you -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7993823/Google-Instant-Search-what-it-means-for-SEO.html

Optimizing your home page - http://www.marketingexperiments.com/blog/research-topics/homepage-ecommerce.html

Have a wonderful weekend.

Some excellent advice on growing your social presence -
http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/963/1/The-Affiliate-Marketers-Social-Media-Profit-System/

Good info about targetting the elderly - http://searchengineland.com/survey-older-americans-flocking-to-social-media-49466

Measuring your social media success (or the lack of it) - http://searchengineland.com/the-perfect-social-media-measurement-plan-48999

Enjoy your day!

A list of some paid marketing tools - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641287

Some metrics for managing your link building - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641286

Have a wonderful day.

Wonderful holiday weekend... it just didn't last long enough. Of course now I will be confused this week on exactly what day it is and hopefully Friday will be here before we know it.

Some good information on pagination -http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/022796.html

Enjoy your week.

Some good info on local optimization for your site - http://www.wilsonweb.com/local/basu-advanced-local-search.htm

Tools you can use for your pay per click - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641287

We hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday weekend. We'll resume posting on Tuesday.

Some do's and don't for Search engine marketing campaigns - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1721885/dos-donts-your-search-campaigns

The Bing (MSN) and Yahoo merger and what that can mean for you. http://searchengineland.com/why-bingyahoo-means-5-less-organic-traffic-49457

Enjoy your Tuesday.

Good morning to you - hopefully you had a wonderful weekend and get Monday off next week.
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If you're struggling to figure out how to write articles and can't afford for other people to write them here is an excellent resource.

http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/960/1/Article-Writing-Techniques-for-Affiliate-Marketers/

Keywords and aboutness - http://searchengineland.com/keywords-aboutness-seo-49210

A good slideshow on optimizing your landing pages from Marketing Experiments - http://www.marketingexperiments.com/marketing-optimization/four-key-tactics.html

Digg has a makeover - http://searchengineland.com/new-digg-v4-goes-live-49364

Also it appears you can now create an account - that feature had been on hold for a bit.

You can now make a phone call from Google - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100826-144944

Enjoy your weekend.

An explanation of Facebook places - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100819-122516

Social Search Optimization - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641261

SEO and integration with social media - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1729491/seo-integration-with-social-media

Bing is officially providing organic search results for Yahoo. http://searchengineland.com/yahoos-transition-to-bing-organic-results-complete-49228

Don't be afraid of url links - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641267

Enjoy your day.

Optimize your conversion rates - http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/ash-personas.htm

Enjoy your Tuesday.

Have you ever noticed that advertising targets a sight that you just visited. That's called remarketing and now anybody can do it.

http://searchengineland.com/remarketing-for-everyone-with-google-adwords-48584

Your first keyword report - http://searchengineland.com/step-by-step-your-first-keyword-report-48807

Have a wonderful weekend.

Getting wow'd on Facebook - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100812-063003

Content ideas for your website - http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/usborne-nontext-content.htm

15 Google apps for business - http://www.informationweek.com/news/galleries/smb/hardware_software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226700188&cid=nl_IW_SMB_2010-08-17_txt

Good link stuff - http://searchengineland.com/smart-links-can-make-your-seo-sing-48544

How to increase your conversion rate - http://searchengineland.com/how-to-rescue-poorly-converting-web-sites-48475

Some good notes on improving your blog - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641238

Web content ideas - http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/usborne-nontext-content.htm

Have a wonderful day.

Some good links to a lot of different information you can use - http://searchengineland.com/hot-on-sphinn-2-48525

Some SEO realities for small business - http://searchengineland.com/9-seo-realities-47300

Things to watch out for when your link building - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641205

Some good SEO when you're starting up. http://searchenginewatch.com/3641220

Enjoy your Monday.

Bad questions to ask a SEO firm - http://www.wilsonweb.com/seo/reynolds-4-worst-seo-questions.htm

Good hands on stuff - checking out page titles - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641191

Measuring SEO success - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641197

Enjoy your weekend.

Some great facebook marketing campaigns. http://www.wdfm.com/publish/facebook/index.htm

Social media is taking more time - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100803-025756

Enjoy your Thursday.

Image by caniswolfie via Flickr

Some writing tips - http://www.wordtracker.com/academy/content-writing-tips and don't we all need those. I've told my daughter that of all the things I learned in school the thing I do the most (besides reading) is writing... I should have paid more attention in school.

Small business and search - where is the return on your investment. http://searchenginewatch.com/3641189

Five ways to improve your local marketing - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641176

Advertising costs too much money? http://searchengineland.com/advertising-online-costs-too-much-money-47515

Enjoy your Tuesday.

Spotting SEO trends - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1725730/spotting-trends-seo-with-first-mover-intelligence

Change is always coming - http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1725743/change-is-always-coming

The

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twitter celebrities people are looking for most - http://searchengineland.com/twitter-celebrities-we-seek-the-most-according-to-google-47959

One thing that could doom facebook - http://searchengineland.com/one-thing-could-doom-facebook-questions-47945

A good gauge on what people are spending most of their time on.
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100803-025756

Some tips on building your list and why it's worth your time.

http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/951/1/List-building-is-a-complete-waste-of-time-for-affiliate-marketers/

Dispelling Buyer Anxiety - http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/sexton-buyer-anxiety.htm

Paid search - when More is Less - http://searchengineland.com/when-more-is-actually-less-in-paid-search-47221

Enjoy your Weds.

Seven rules for search copy - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641119

Good tips on building traffic using social bookmarking - http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/945/1/Traffic-Building---Part-2-Social-Bookmarking/

Enjoy your day.

Good Monday to you, hopefully you had an enjoyable weekend.

Some good tips on search marketing measurement -

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1725565/search-marketing-measurement

Get ready for some more spam and congestion on the web - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641148 - I'm not really a big fan of gambling. I think it is much to easy to get hooked and then you'll be broke... well pretty soon you won't have to go to a casino to bet, you'll be able to do it online. One note that bill hasn't passed yet (when I'm writing this).

Bing increased seven percent - http://www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/google-searches-jun-10/?utm_source=us_newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=feature_google_searches_jun_10

Enjoy your day.

An excellent video of Live Optimization - you can check it out here - http://www.marketingexperiments.com/marketing-optimization/increase-your-web-page-conversion.html

Using Content as linkbait - http://searchengineland.com/how-to-focus-on-content-to-create-great-linkbait-47112

Extracting more from your email lists - http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-tips/extract-value-list.php

Back to SEM basics - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641088

Using Google places - http://www.wilsonweb.com/local/churchill-adwords-map-line.htm

Enjoy your Tuesday.

Building a backlink profile of your competitors - http://www.wilsonweb.com/linking/enge-backlink-competitors.htm

Just for fun - make sure to check out our trip to the Mall of America.

Enjoy your Monday.

Some good notes on traffic building - http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/942/1/Traffic-Building--The-Affiliate-Marketers-Biggest-Challenge-Part-1/

Good Analytics stuff - http://searchengineland.com/3-faulty-assumptions-to-avoid-making-with-analytic-data-46853

Top ten pay per click mistakes - http://www.clickz.com/3639945

Have a wonderful weekend.

Some tips for your social media success.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3640956

How social are your customers?
http://searchenginewatch.com/3641019

Social media and getting a return on your investment - http://searchenginewatch.com/3641041

Specials and Facebook - http://searchengineland.com/how-to-use-creative-specials-to-boost-your-facebook-presence-46713

Have a wonderful day.

SEO Accessibility and you - http://www.clickz.com/3641009

Have a wonderful day.

Some good notes about link bait - http://searchengineland.com/of-linkbait-and-seo-bank-shots-46238

Turning news stories into traffic - http://www.clickz.com/3640984

Enjoy your day.

How to buy traffic on a budget - http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/939/1/How-to-successfully-buy-traffic-on-a-budget/

Hopefully you had a wonderful weekend.

The eight legs of online marketing - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640953

Easy SEO - http://www.clickz.com/3640886

I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Some good research and a case study on facebook - http://www.marketingexperiments.com/blog/research-topics/facebook-interview.html

Some content ideas for your social media - http://searchengineland.com/how-to-prep-content-for-social-media-45195

Facebook and video - some interesting information - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100616-090920

Enjoy your Thursday.

Promoting your local business listing -

http://www.wilsonweb.com/local/basu-promote-local-listings.htm

Interesting report on how big pages are on the web (from Google) -
http://searchengineland.com/google-web-report-average-page-size-320-kb-46316

Challenges in measuring SEO success.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3640926

Good stuff from marketing experiments on compounding your ROI.
http://www.marketingexperiments.com/marketing-optimization/compounding-roi-sequential-conversion-increases.html

The only constant is change - http://searchengineland.com/the-only-constant-is-change-45447

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Some good information about analytics - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640880

Why no one is linking to you - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640854

The debate between hosting your own blog or using one of the free blog services - this article gives some good advice on both the pros and cons.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/thomas-blog-options.htm

This week has been odd we got back from our vacation to the Mall of America. On Monday I thought it was Sunday, yesterday I thought it was Friday. Hopefully we'll get back in synch with things next week.

An excellent SEO checklist - http://searchengineland.com/seo-checklist-part-2-best-practices-44075

A study about how people search and how many keywords they are using to search to find the product they're looking for.

http://searchengineland.com/study-three-word-queries-drive-most-seo-traffic-45222

Google webmaster tools update

http://searchengineland.com/google-shows-webmasters-more-links-in-webmaster-tools-45579

Enjoy your weekend.

Facebook is a major video ad player -

Image by Igi's TV Network via Flickr

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100616-090920

Measuring your social media engagement - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640785

Optimizing your videos for SEO - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640725

A good list of do's and don'ts for your SEO and pay per clicks.
http://www.clickz.com/3640683

The art of building links - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640686

The science of bidding on your pay per click ads - http://searchengineland.com/the-subtle-science-of-bidding-part-1-the-real-story-44514

Have a great day.

Excellent article on making sure that your link structure is working well on your website - http://searchengineland.com/8-canonicalization-best-practices-in-plain-english-44475

Some tips on one to one marketing - http://www.marketingexperiments.com/marketing-optimization/one-to-one-marketing-at-four-levels.html

Have a wonderful weekend.

What social media can do for your business.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3640613

Using crowd sourcing in your marketing - http://www.clickz.com/3640617

If you ignore your customers questions then you may be throwing money away - http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/sexton-customer-questions.htm

Have a great day.

Some notes on a patent from Google - http://searchengineland.com/seo-implications-of-googles-reasonable-surfer-patent-44222

Optimize your landing pages - http://www.clickz.com/3640616

Improve your adwords quality score - http://www.clickz.com/3640606

Good Monday morning to you. Hopefully you had a wonderful weekend.

Some tips on landing page optimization - http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-viewpoints/ash-landing-page.php

Some tips on ranking well with the local search engines.
http://searchengineland.com/local-search-marketers-share-ranking-factors-43874

SEO vs. SEF - http://www.clickz.com/3640587

We skipped our social updates yesterday so we'll catch up today.

Tweeting with video -
http://www.videomaker.com/article/14568/?utm_source=enews&utm_medium=email&utm_content=tip_enews_2010_06_2&utm_campaign=traffic

Social sites and their impact on purchasing decisions -
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100608-115006

Is online video the 'next big thing" - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100603-134534

A facebook case study - http://www.marketingexperiments.com/blog/research-topics/facebook.html

Some good Ipad apps for your small business.
http://smb.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224600024&cid=nl_IW_SMB_2010-06-08_txt

An excellent article and overview on how to optimize your local business listing - http://www.wilsonweb.com/local/basu-local-optimization.htm

Have a wonderful day!

Tips for making your website faster - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640536

How is your SEO really doing - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640519

Start at the beginning - http://www.clickz.com/3640465

Enjoy the rest of your Friday and your weekend.

Facebook and traffic - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640379

Seven things about Facebook - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640475

A place to ping your blog - http://pingthatblog.com/

Lot's of people are watching videos - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100601-155022

A case study from 517 fans to 33,000 fans - http://www.marketingexperiments.com/blog/research-topics/facebook.html

Enjoy your day/

Internal search and SEO - http://www.clickz.com/3640513

Some SEO tips to drive more traffic - http://www.wilsonweb.com/seo/reynolds-advanced-seo-techniques.htm

Enjoy your day.

Some recent webmaster changes from Google - http://searchengineland.com/webmaster-related-changes-at-google-43143

We hope you have a great memorial day, but we also hope you take some time to thank a vet.

An excellent presentation by Marketing Experiments on Technology Blind Spots -
http://www.marketingexperiments.com/ppc-seo-optimization/technology-blind-spots.html

Why some B2B blogs aren't achieving much success -
http://searchengineland.com/why-b2b-blogs-aren%E2%80%99t-achieving-seo-success-42898

Enjoy your day.

Some good comments on measuring social media - http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-viewpoints/measuring-social-media.php

If your social media is messed up... this tips may help you get back on track.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3640380

Enjoy your Thursday.

How much is the #1 position worth - this article may give you some insight.

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100525-160427

Enjoy your day.

Some good tips on getting more people to watch your video.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/follansbee-video-views.htm

Enjoy your Tuesday.

Some takeaways from the latest SEO conference -

http://www.wordtracker.com/academy/smx-advanced-london-2010?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=917479b7b0-Newsletter_48_111_Takeaways_5_21_2010&utm_medium=email

Paying for your ads with your profits - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640408

Link building and business development. http://searchenginewatch.com/3640368

Google TV? http://searchengineland.com/what-we-know-so-far-about-google-tv-42450

SEO and breadth of coverage - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640397

Enjoy your weekend.

Social conversation and the future of polls - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100517-122507

Twitter is improving their trending topics - http://chris.pirillo.com/twitter-improves-trending-topics/

Enjoy your day.

Some good notes on the psychology of linking -
http://www.wilsonweb.com/linking/enge-psychology-of-linking.htm

Quality score optimization - http://www.clickz.com/3640331

Comments on Google's new serps - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100514-150029

Enjoy your Weds.

Hope you enjoyed your weekend. Today we have a couple of nice links about links.

Building links quickly.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3640304

Creating link bait with how to articles.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3640320

Enjoy your day.

Some good notes on having a framework for your SEO.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3640295

If you're thinking about redesigning your website then you'll want to make sure you follow this advice.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/seo/steif-8-seo-redesign-mistakes.htm

Enjoy your day!

Hope you enjoyed your weekend and gave your Mom a big hug.

Some good information on Google analytics
http://searchenginewatch.com/3640262

Some thoughts on conversions and paid ads.
http://www.clickz.com/3640266

A good explanation of using Google's new keyword tool -

http://www.superlever.com/hidden-profits-google-keyword-tool/

Some good notes on conversion tracking

http://searchenginewatch.com/3640262

Enjoy your weekend.

Trendwatching offers a new briefing - some good stuff - http://trendwatching.com/briefing/

Image via CrunchBase

Some good advice on integrating your marketing - http://www.marketingexperiments.com/improving-website-conversion/integrate-your-marketing.html

Engaging with social influencers - http://www.clickz.com/3640229

Formatting for YouTube - http://www.videomaker.com/article/14561/

Getting links faster - here are some tips -
http://searchengineland.com/build-links-faster-5-tips-for-faster-link-qualification-41061

Google Webmaster Tools and Search Queries -
http://www.clickz.com/3640187

Have a wonderful weekend.

A nice day yesterday (without rain) and going to be a nice day today, so that's good and will give the flood waters a chance to go down a bit. We had some minor flooding in our area but the folks in and around Nashville got slammed pretty hard. Some of the videos can be found here - http://kyweathercenter.com/2010/05/04/warm-and-dry-for-a-few-days.aspx

Mobile marketing 101

http://www.clickz.com/3640212

Some tools for you when you're building your website - http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/wilson-programs-cms2.htm have a wonderful Tuesday.

The Value of SEO -
http://www.clickz.com/3640171

Enjoy your weekend.

Apparently Matt Cutts and other Google engineers have decided to close their facebook accounts.... could it be because of privacy concerns... who knows but here's the info.
http://searchengineland.com/matt-cutts-deactivates-facebook-account-40543

Facebook and search
http://searchenginewatch.com/3640162

Enjoy your day!

Programs you may want to use when designing and building your website.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/wilson-programs1.htm

Some paid search copy writing tips -

http://www.clickz.com/3640148

Enjoy your day.

Some notes on how often the algorithm changes within Google - http://searchengineland.com/google-makes-one-change-per-day-to-search-algorithm-40508

A good review of link strategies and how they benefit (or not).

http://searchenginewatch.com/3640146

Enjoy your weekend.

Measuring social analytics - http://searchenginewatch.com/3639988

Why social commerce must be relavent - http://www.clickz.com/3639985

Some articles about You Tube -

Video Analytics - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640113

Video the next marketing frontier - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640021

A guide to creating SEO friendly content - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640123

Building your email list - http://www.wilsonweb.com/email/wilson-double-optin.htm

An interesting article on call to action buttons - irregular shapes do better. You can find out more at the link below.

http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-viewpoints/cta-buttons.php

A good discussion on Real Time Search -

http://www.clickz.com/3640099

Hope you had a wonderful weekend.

Image by jurvetson via Flickr

Some pretty cool search engines - http://searchengineland.com/8-crazy-cool-search-engines-40156

How a newsletter can make you money - http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-tips/profitable-publishing.php

Notice more competition in your SERPs - you're not alone. http://www.clickz.com/3640032

Enjoy your day.

Webmaster tools have changed a little. Details can be found at the following url -
http://searchengineland.com/google-webmaster-tools-expands-top-query-reports-40004

Big SEO ideas and results
http://searchenginewatch.com/3640060

An SEO education
http://www.clickz.com/3636185

Local Listings
http://www.wilsonweb.com/local/basu-claim-local-listings.htm

Enjoy your weekend.

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Image via CrunchBase

ere is an excellent presentation to watch about Social media.

http://www.marketingexperiments.com/improving-website-conversion/social-media-marketing-in-four-steps.html

Gaining traffic using Twitter and You Tube

http://searchenginewatch.com/3640049

Becoming findable on Social Media

http://searchenginewatch.com/3639969

Measuring social media with Analytics part 2.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3639988

How a newsletter can make you money -

Image by Martin LaBar (going on hiatus) via Flickr

http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-tips/profitable-publishing.php

Working on product feeds - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640044

Figuring out the true value of your search traffic - http://searchengineland.com/do-you-know-the-true-value-of-your-paid-search-traffic-39830

We've been talking a bit lately on our savings blog about saving money on your wedding. You're welcome to join us if you are interested in that.

Hope you had a wonderful weekend and will have an even better week.

Hope that everyone has had an enjoyable week.

Some good notes on video marketing - http://searchenginewatch.com/3640021

Using Google search results for your keyword research. http://searchengineland.com/3-ways-to-use-googles-search-results-for-keyword-research-39474

Backlink analysis - http://searchengineland.com/backlink-analysis-20-uses-beyond-link-building-part-3-of-3-39141

Enjoy your weekend.

Good Tuesday morning,

What if your visitors aren't buying...
http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/steif-fivesecondtest.htm

and what if no one likes your products
http://www.clickz.com/3639947

Image search optimization
http://www.clickz.com/3639984

Using Gmail on your ipad -
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/gmail-on-ipad.html

Enjoy your day.

How Twitter can Improve real time search... have a wonderful Thursday.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3639895

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Image by Ben Amstutz via Flickr

ope your week is going well - I can't believe that March is almost history.

Some things never change - and one of those is SEO fundamentals.
http://www.clickz.com/3639930

Seven deadly link sins...
http://searchengineland.com/seven-deadly-link-sins-38905

Don't stuff your homepage... here are some hints to make sure that you don't.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/ash-overloaded-homepage.htm

Should you worry about real time search?
http://searchenginewatch.com/3639891