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.

Image by Smaku via Flickr

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.

Image by tricky ™ via Flickr

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.

Image by babasteve via Flickr

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

Some excellent info on improving your conversion rate.

http://www.marketingexperiments.com/improving-website-conversion/beyond-landing-pages.html

Enjoy your Monday.

Some Good tidbits on Social media and a web without walls.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635029

Getting your website ready for the holidays.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3635040

Hope you had an enjoyable weekend.

why paid search matters.

http://www.clickz.com/3634983

If you're redesigning your site - don't neglect the SEO.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634964

Site analysis facts.

http://www.clickz.com/3634967

Have a wonderful Monday!

Here is a good article on Twitter and SEO.

http://www.clickz.com/3634089

Some good info on shopping for a merchant account.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/ecommerce/wilson-merchant-account.htm

Some good info on profitable niches.

http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/847/1/New-insights-into-profitable-niches/

Enjoy your weekend.

Some good ideas for Facebook marketing campaigns.

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

Enjoy your Thursday.

Some good notes about building a FAQ page -

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

We hope you have a wonderful week and had a great holiday weekend.

Hope your week has been going well.

Some more help for Google Webmaster Tools.

http://www.clickz.com/3634856

Collecting Data is important when optimizing your landing page.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634866

A couple of good articles and guidance for testimonials.

http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/839/1/How-To-Get-Testimonials-That-Sell/

http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/838/1/Are-Your-Testimonials-Costing-You-Sales/

PPC and SEO and how they can work together.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634874

Have a wonderful holiday weekend and we'll see you on Tuesday (or Weds).

Can Social be measured - here is a discussion.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634843

Hope you have a wonderful day and holiday weekend. We'll resume posting next week on Tuesday.

Some tips on integrating your marketing elements.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634854

Some more thoughts on Shopping Carts

http://www.wilsonweb.com/transactions/wilson-shopping-carts2.htm

Have a great Weds.

Good Monday to you.

Some common SEO mistakes with your ecommerce site.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3634829

Some reasons you may be paying more for your pay per clicks soon.
http://www.clickz.com/3634821

Enjoy your Monday.

Good Friday to You!!

Ten things not to do with SEO.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634797

Some notes on increasing your adsense revenue... one note I don't like the language used in the post, but they do make some good points.

http://www.createmarketprofit.com/how-i-increased-adsense-revenue-from-1000-to-10000-per-month/

Losing control in your marketing.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634820

Enjoy your weekend.

Good Thursday to you.

Social, Search and Branding.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3634798

What if you need multiple listings for Google Maps.

http://www.clickz.com/3634678

Some good ideas for improving your customer service using social marketing.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634290

Have a wonderful day!

Using site search to find out what people are looking for.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/analytics/churchill-site-search.htm

Have a great Wed.

Does using Google (only) make your lazy? Check out this url to find out.
http://searchenginewatch.com/3634758

Have a wonderful day!

Some good ideas you can use to increase your conversion rates.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634726

A good introduction to shopping carts.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/ecommerce/wilson-shopping-carts1.htm

Part 3 of a guide for google webmaster tools.

http://www.clickz.com/3634728

Have a wonderful weekend.

Some good notes on adding value in your social media endeavors. I really like the ideas for promotions.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634710

Investing time in Twitter for the long - term rewards.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634536

International Social Media Strategies

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634522

Have a wonderful Thursday.

A good interview about mobile marketing.

http://www.wdfm.com/marketing-viewpoints/noah-elkin-interview.php

Details on the Microsoft / Yahoo agreement -

http://www.clickz.com/3634654

Enjoy your Tuesday.

Some notes from the SES conference in San Jose -

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634703

How will Google's Caffeine affect your PPC?

http://www.clickz.com/3634694

Enjoy your day!

Google has unveiled an upgrade to their search engine - caffeine - so is caffeine faster? Here are some notes.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634684

Enjoy your day!

Good Thursday everyone. Hopefully your week is going well.

Is blogging missing from some social media? You decide.

http://www.clickz.com/3634662

Is social media a fad?

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634651

Some good social media blogs.

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

Understanding Communities

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634590

Some good notes on Google Webmaster Tools

http://www.clickz.com/3634605

A good 60 minute SEO check up -

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634671

Some good comments on having PayPal as your sole source for accepting credit cards.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/ecommerce/wilson-paypal3.htm

Some good ideas for researching PPC keywords

http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/831/1/15-Keyword-research-tips-for-PPC-Marketing/

Thoughts on testing things.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634593

Enjoy your weekend.

Apparently twitter had a major outage this morning.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10304633-36.html?tag=mncol;txt

It started around 6am or so. Facebook seemed to have been hit as well, but I had no problems logging on.

Here is some good general advice on keeping your computer safe.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10304823-238.html

Enjoy your Thursday.

Good info on increasing your conversions.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/ash-writing-for-conversion2.htm

Some notes on Yahoo / Microsoft striking a deal -

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/090729-074504

Enjoy your day!

Some good comments on combining PPC and SEO -

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634537

If you've heard about the government cash for clunkers program, we detail it in our cash for clunkers guide. Make sure to check it out.

Some good tips on using Paypal for your business.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/ecommerce/wilson-paypal2.htm

Enjoy your day!

An excellent presentation on how to test things on your site.

http://www.marketingexperiments.com/improving-website-conversion/overcoming-barriers-to-better-tests-and-gains.html

Enjoy your Monday.

Hope you are enjoying your week.

Here is an excellent guide to get you started using Google Webmaster Tools.

http://www.clickz.com/3634476

Enjoy your day!

Some URLS you can use to actually promote your business -

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

Getting rid of keywords that don't work -

http://www.wilsonweb.com/paid-search/churchill-poor-performance.htm

Enjoy your day!

Tips on Helping with Local Search Results -

http://www.clickz.com/3634413

Enjoy your day.

Some good notes on boosting your response rates.

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

Enjoy your weekend.

Some twitter tips today on finding a good Avatar -

http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/twitter-avatars-choosing/

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/100-extremely-creative-twitter-avatars/

Enjoy your Thursday.

Should you use nofollow links.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634387

Enjoy your weds.

Good info if you're building a network of sites -

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634330

Preparing your paid search for Google OS

http://www.clickz.com/3634345

The E-Commerce starter kit

http://www.wilsonweb.com/ecommerce/wilson-paypal1.htm

Enjoy your day.

Good Monday morning.

Some good info on Bing.

http://www.clickz.com/3634202

Notes on navigation -

http://www.wilsonweb.com/design/follansbee-nav-other.htm

A good checklist of things to have on your site.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634307

Enjoy your Monday.

Just a quick update - my daughter had her wisdom teeth out on Tuesday so I've been taking care of her. We'll resume our 'normal' posting schedule next week. Have a great weekend.

Happy almost 4th of July -

If you run several different twitter accounts - you want to check out this - http://splitweet.com/

A good introduction to twitter - http://searchenginewatch.com/3633223

Ideas for using twitter in your business - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/50-ideas-on-using-twitter-for-business/

Have a wonderful weekend.

Today is Social Thursday - Enjoy the info.

Links between SEO and Social -

http://www.clickz.com/3633920

Some social media tools and resources -

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

Good info on tracking your tweets -

http://www.clickz.com/3633391

Is anyone listening to your twittering.

http://www.clickz.com/3633391

We have an inbox full of social stuff so we'll post more on Friday.

Some good info on improving conversions.

http://www.wilsonweb.com/conversion/ash-writing-for-conversion1.htm

Some strategies for writing PPC Ad copy.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634162

Enjoy your Weds.