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/

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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.

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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.

H

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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

H

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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

So

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me good information on ppc.

http://www.clickz.com/3639852

Enjoy your weekend.

Twitter is working on a twitter search utility - you can read an article about it here -
http://searchengineland.com/twitter-working-on-most-popular-tweets-search-project-38477

You can also check out the tool here - http://search.twitter.com/

Have a wonderful day.

Some good thoughts on managing negative comments.

Image by ` ³ok_qa³ ` via Flickr

http://www.clickz.com/3639822

Tips on monitoring your website

http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/follansbee-site-monitoring.htm

Internal link tactics
http://searchengineland.com/internal-linking-tactics-for-users-search-engines-38359

Enjoy your day.

Some good information on keywords and conversion.

http://searchengineland.com/valuing-keywords-based-on-their-role-in-conversion-37364

Google Analytics 101

http://www.clickz.com/3639858

Enjoy your Monday.

Yeaa it is Friday.

Image by mr • p via Flickr

Bing is creeping up in the search engine wars.
http://searchengineland.com/bing-hits-all-time-high-market-share-nielsen-38280

Boost your pay per click performance.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3639816

Some often overlooked on page SEO elements.
http://searchengineland.com/overlooked-but-beneficial-on-page-seo-elements-38286

Have a wonderful weekend.

Good Thursday to you.

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Maps and Local search, some good information you can use.
http://www.clickz.com/3639741

User Generated reviews and you.
http://www.clickz.com/3639717

Some good twitter folks to follow.
http://www.wdfm.com/publish/twitter_feeds_sales_lead_gen/index.htm

Have a good one.

Some good notes on linking -

http://www.wilsonweb.com/linking/enge-linking-intro.htm

Some good ideas for streamlining your link building campaign.

Image by rbglasson via Flickr

http://searchenginewatch.com/3639752

A very good reason to diversify your marketing.

http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/904/1/Why-you-must-diversify-your-traffic-sources/

Tips to prevent over-optimization - http://searchenginewatch.com/3639724

Some tips on social engagement -

http://searchengineland.com/social-engagement-making-content-interactive-37469

If you got a bad user review - what do you do to combat it.
http://www.clickz.com/3639717

Some twitter feeds you can learn from.
http://www.wdfm.com/publish/twitter_feeds_sales_lead_gen/index.htm

Enjoy your Thursday.

Hope you are having a great day.

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Some keyword research 101 -
http://www.clickz.com/3639707

Getting ready for the Yahoo / MSN merger. Some things you will want to make sure you do (and don't do).
http://searchenginewatch.com/3639671

When you write your web page, remember that it is never the completed product.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/usborne-final-draft.htm

Enjoy your day!

Good Morning, hope you had a wonderful weekend. A good article on marketing (especially if you're on a tight budget).

http://searchengineland.com/got-resource-constraints-7-tips-to-keep-you-off-the-ledge-37040

Lo

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ts of stuff going around about the Bing / Yahoo merger. Here are some good tips on how to make sure you're ready.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3639671

Finally we are supposed to have a nice weekend (no snow), that will be a wonderful change this weekend.

Hope you are enjoying your Thursday.

Some notes on measuring your social efforts.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3639614

Yahoo and Twitter are partnering -
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100224-031849

Social searches Algo
http://www.clickz.com/3639618

Enjoy your day!

Good Tuesday to you.

Some good advice on starting a pay per click campaign -
http://www.clickz.com/3636299

Part 3 in a series from Wilson Web on using images / photos on your website

http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/niehaus-choosing-images3.htm

Enjoy your day!

Some good info on getting some better links -

http://searchenginewatch.com/3636563

Some notes on optimizing your pages -

http://searchenginewatch.com/3636580

Have a wonderful weekend.

Some landing page tips to increase your conversions.

http://searchengineland.com/5-landing-page-tips-to-boost-your-conversion-rate-36395

Working on Image SEO

http://www.clickz.com/3636549

A comparison of short and long tail searches. This is nothing new if you think about it, the more sp

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ecific someone searches, the more apt they are to purchase it, this is a no brainer.

http://searchengineland.com/short-vs-long-tail-which-search-queries-perform-best-36762

Google launches Double Click for publishers.

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100222-184558

Have a wonderful day!

Some good info on local SEO and the Yellow Pages
http://www.wilsonweb.com/local/basu-local-seo-intro.htm

Data / Numbers and some alternatives.

http://searchengineland.com/worthy-alternatives-to-the-useless-seo-data-provided-by-search-engines-36424

Enjoy your day.

A good explanation of some campaign settings that you want to make sure that you use correctly.
http://www.clickz.com/3636473

Good Thursday to you - are you having fun with winter yet... I can't wait till spring.

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The Buzz on Google Buzz

http://searchengineland.com/google-buzz-takes-on-twitter-facebook-foursquare-35673

Is Facebook becoming more important than Google -
http://searchengineland.com/is-facebook-becoming-more-important-than-google-36287

Some excellent information on bringing your bounce rates under control.

http://searchengineland.com/two-simple-rules-for-fixing-high-bounce-rate-pages-35125

Some time wasters of SEO - here is a good article on things not to focus on and some other things you should be focusing on.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/seo/reynolds-seo-timewasters.htm

Enjoy your day.

Good Friday to you.

Some good stuff here - on building your links.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3636452

Enjoy your weekend.

We talk some about Google Buzz at our toys, games and gear blog.

http://toysgamesgear.com/

Enjoy your day.

Some good info on managing your pay per clicks during a crisis (Toyota is used as an example).

http://searchengineland.com/what-toyotas-crisis-can-teach-us-about-managing-ppc-campaigns-35221

Three important factors with SEO.

http://www.clickz.com/3636405

Home page tips for your local business.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/thomas-homepage.htm

Good Weds.

Using the content network from Google for PPC ads.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/paid-search/churchill-content-network.htm

Have you picked the wrong horse for your business.
http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/892/1/Dont-Back-The-Wrong-Horse/

The third in a series on increasing conversions (good stuff).

http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/840/1/How-To-Increase-Sales-By-Tracking-Web-User-Behavior/

If you've been wondering about universal search - here's a bit of a primer.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3636341

Enjoy your day.

Good Monday morning to you. Hopefully you had a great weekend. Here are some excellent links if you're looking into digging up some information on your competitors.

http://www.clickz.com/3636295

Enjoy your day!

Some good info on Video SEO.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3636282

This topic comes around every few years. IS SEO dead?
http://searchenginewatch.com/3636265

Enjoy your weekend.

Good Thursday to you. Here are some social media tips for your viewing pleasure.

Five ways facebook can build your local business.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/newmedia/thomas-facebook.htm

Email and Social Bookmarking

http://www.wilsonweb.com/linking/wilson-email-addthis.htm

Welcome to Social Thursday.

Good info on how Google ranks tweets -
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100115-131443

Five ways you can use Facebook for your local business.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/newmedia/thomas-facebook.htm

Some good information on doing some SEO with your you tube videos.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/seo/reynolds-youtube-seo.htm

Good Friday to you.

An interesting article - if you can measure it, you can optimize it.

http://www.clickz.com/3636111

You've heard of the 80 20 rule - example 80% of your sales come from 20% of your inventory... or any variation of that. Here is a nice article applying that to SEO.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3636083

Enjoy your weekend.

Here are five ways you can use Facebook for your business.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/newmedia/thomas-facebook.htm

Some good guidance on marketing trends.

Image by opimentas via Flickr

http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-viewpoints/2010-trends.php

Some tips on article marketing

http://searchenginewatch.com/3636065

Another great clinic from marketing experiments - they test how that clarity triumphs persuasion.

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Check it out - http://www.marketingexperiments.com/improving-website-conversion/claritytrumpspersuasion.html

Five ways to improve your search in 2010 (paid search that is).

http://searchenginewatch.com/3636022

In our gas mileage blog we've covered a few topics that may be of interest to you.

How to get a Free Credit Report - and How to Read your Credit report - enjoy.

If you have an SEO team, here is some good information and some goals for 2010.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3636009

You've heard that duplicate content is bad - here is some information on why it is bad.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3636001

Enjoy your day.

Happy New Year. One tip I have for you is to write 2010 on your checks now, otherwise you'll be l

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ike me and forget. Usually by the end of the summer I start to remember.

10 business ideas for the new year from Springwise.

http://www.springwise.com/businessideas2010/

Tweaking your hyperlinks to increase conversions.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/follansbee-hyperlinks.htm

2010 Planning by looking back -

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100104-103556

Enjoy your day.

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Happy New Year - may your business grow with leaps and bounds!

Good day - here is some good information on tweaking your conversion rates.

Image by Vlastula via Flickr

http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/usborne-sales-techniques.htm

Like it or hated it, 2009 is about over... here are some thoughts about last year.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635968

We'll be taking a few days off as we enjoy some football and family - you have a wonderful day / weekend.

Some good information on Google Webmaster Tools -

http://www.clickz.com/3634476

Hopefully you and your family had a wonderful Christmas... I know that we did.

Last Tuesday set some sales records on the internet -

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/091221-022502

There are some neat graphs comparing certain days between this year and last year. One thing interesting would be to compare regions, like this past weekend during the snowstorm in the east and if / how much internet sales went up.

Are you writing your site for skimmers - if not this article will give you some tips.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/usborne-skimmers-scanners.htm

Enjoy your day.

Some good info on building links.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635894

As we move into the holidays we'll be posting a bit more sporadically as we spend time with our friends and family (hopefully you will too).

Some thoughts on Social Media privacy.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635871

Have a wonderful day.

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Happy Weds... just think this time next week you'll be dreaming of reindeer and eggnog.

Some great information on moving your website (from an SEO) point of view.

http://www.clickz.com/3635887

We've talked quite a bit about what to measure / how to measure things, here is some additional info on that.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635889

Have a wonderful day.

Good Tuesday. Hope things are going well for you.

An excellent tutorial on using images for your website.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/niehaus-choosing-images2.htm

Includes some hands on tips for creating the images that you want.

Some internet marketing sites that you will want to visit.

http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-tips/internet-marketing-sites-2009.php

My favorites are - Mashable - the most up to date resource for all things social.

Find what information people are looking for now with Aardvark - http://vark.com/

Enjoy your Tuesday.

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

Here is some good advice on rethinking your link campaigns.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635855

Here is a ten point checklist for optimizing your pay per click campaigns.

http://www.clickz.com/3635865

Have a wonderful Monday.

Good Weds. to you - it has been wild and windy here. But just rain so at least we don't have to worry about a blizzard.

I've spoken before about the new FTC regulations - here is an excellent interview with an official who goes over some things you need to know. You can find that interview here.

http://www.igottatellyou.com/blog/ftc-change-interview/

Some good free reading about press releases, free to download in a variety of formats (or you can read it online).

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/5921

Good advice on making your pay per click ads 'fresh'.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/paid-search/churchill-ad-refinement.htm

We also continuing our Cheap Stocking Stuffers series (enjoy).

Been pretty busy so this is late :o)....

Some social media faqs.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635775

Four new signals in search (although not really new).

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635752

Some thoughts if you're considering redesigning your site.

http://www.clickz.com/3635782

Tweaks for your pay per click campaign landing pages.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/ash-silver-bullets.htm

Enjoy your day.

Here are some good details on the 2009 shopping season so far.

http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-viewpoints/2009-holiday-trends.php

Some good ideas on measuring your success

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635763

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, Black Friday and CyberMonday so far.

We had a great time, my shopping is 95% finished (done at home in a warm robe, with a cup of coffee at about 3 am on Friday), had turkey and are still eating caseroles for it, and an awesome time goofing off with my daughter. We did work some but that in itself is a blessing and we're thankful for that.

Our email box is jammed with receipts :o) , but I did manage to find this article for you and hopefully we'll be able to clean it out a bit.

Some tips for indexing your site fast (er).

http://www.clickz.com/3635739

Have a wonderful day.

We would like to wish you and your family a wonderful thanksgiving full of family and fun.

Don't forget to check out our other site for Black Friday Deals (and beyond).

Good Tuesday - How your bounce rate can Pinpoint site problems.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/analytics/steif-bounce-rate.htm

Enjoy your day.

Hopefully you had a wonderful weekend.

If you're looking for some helping shopping for Black Friday deals - that link will take you to our savings site. We'll be posting there quite a bit thru Christmas so make sure to bookmark it.

Useful SEO tools - http://searchenginewatch.com/3635712

Sometimes you can overdo the tweaking - http://searchenginewatch.com/3635670

Have a wonderful Monday.

Good Social thursday to you.

Using Flickr for local sites.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/seo/doerr-flickr.htm

Some social media success stories -

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635665

An excellent article - 21 ways to post to your blog

http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/868/1/How-To-Post-In-21-Different-Ways-on-Your-Blog/

SEO and twitter

http://www.clickz.com/3635565

Steps to social media success -

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635372

Enjoy your Thursday.

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

Link building with a small budget.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635630

Working on your landing pages.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635621

Enjoy your Monday.

Improving your pay per click conversions.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/paid-search/churchill-ppc-landing-pages.htm

Enjoy your Tuesday.

Sitepoint had an excellent newsletter this week.

http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=2&issue=470&format=html

Have a wonderful weekend.

If you aren't using You Tube - you should be.

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/091031-110343

Using Photos and images on your website.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/niehaus-choosing-images1.htm

Driving repeat traffic to your site.

http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-tips/driving-repeat-traffic.php

Have a wonderful Tuesday.

Some PPC pitfalls you can avoid.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635508

Have a wonderful weekend - and don't forget to turn your clocks back and hour on Sat night / Sun morning.

Five Facebook Tips

http://www.wilsonweb.com/newmedia/watlington-facebook-5-tips.htm

Earning 'respect' with your social media.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635449

Four Steps to Social Success.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635372

Have a wonderful day.

Are alternatives to Adwords worth your time. This article has some good advice.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635459

Enjoy your Weds.

Some I phone apps for Internet Marketers.

http://www.wdfm.com/publish/iphone_apps/index.htm

Good Monday - some last minute SEO tips for the holidays.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635439

Have a wonderful day.

Some tips on link building using Delicious.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/linking/delicious-link-building.htm

Some good links on researching your competition.

http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-tips/competitive-intelligence-gathering.php

Organizing your landing page -

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635299

Always interesting - the latest issue of trendwatching.

http://www.trendwatching.com/briefing/

Saturating your message.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635282

Enjoy your weekend.

Good Thursday to you.

Combining Social Media and Local Search
http://www.clickz.com/3635057

A Twitter promotion experiment
http://searchenginewatch.com/3635087

Optimizing You Tube
http://www.clickz.com/3635044

Figuring out your ROI.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3635113

A good review on people to follow on Twitter.

http://www.wdfm.com/publish/twitter_picks/index.htm

Some good information on shopping carts for your business.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/ecommerce/3_payment_gateways.htm

Good Monday.

Some information about linking / paid links.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635229

Good Thursday to you.

A couple of articles on how you can use social media for your local business.

Twitter for Local Search
http://www.clickz.com/3635232

How Linked in can help you locally.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/local/thomas-linkedin.htm

Social Media and Local Search

http://www.clickz.com/3635057

Enjoy your day.

The FTC made some new 'rules' lately especially related to blogs (advertising and testimonials especially). You can find some good information related to it can be found here.

http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?p=59

A holiday playbook for you and your business.

http://www.marketingexperiments.com/improving-website-conversion/holiday-ecommerce-opt.html

Have a wonderful day!

Some tips on designing your site.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/niehaus-button-balance.htm

Some tools to help your SEM.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635125