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Social Media and tradition

One of the primary reasons I *love* being in the social media arena is due to how technology is changing different industries that have existed for decades.
Due to that idea, one of the most basic questions is “what is social media?”
Social Media is a lot of things: For M&Ms candy, social media is about taking [...]

Did you know that your website is outdated? No matter who you are, your website is outdated!

This is because of the fact that, even if you have just finished your website, the coding standards and changes on the major search engines are happening so rapidly right now, that everything is constantly outdated.
That is why it is essential to have an ongoing system for updating, improving, adding to and promoting your business, [...]

Famous Marketer Seth Godin Gives Bad SEO advice

If you don’t know who Seth Godin is, you probably don’t read a lot of marketing blogs or marketing books. He’s authored about a half dozen, including my personal favorite entitled “All Marketers Are Liars.” He’s spoken at Google and his blog was recently listed as the number 1 marketing [...]

I like Starbuck’s Quotes, Disclaimer and All | Conversational Marketing

This seems like an almost trivial thing to write about, but lately it’s been discussed in one of the major search marketing blogs: SEO Book. If you’ve been to Starbucks lately you may have noticed that printed on each coffee cup are quotes from various people throughout history. On the bottom of the [...]

Beyond the Popularity Contest | Search Engine Marketing

In my last article I wrote about how search marketing is currently like a giant popularity contest. This begs the question of what’s going to come next as Google’s and the other engines’ algorithms keep evolving and take into account more and more data. [...]

The World’s Largest Popularity Contest | Search Engine Marketing

Currently, search engine marketing is best described by the phrase “popular.” This may change in the future, but right now, to rank in a competitive search term, you have to be popular; you know, like way back in high school where there was a division between [...]

Search Engine Wars | Domination of Google, decline of Yahoo and MSN

For those of you that aren’t addicted to search engine marketing blogs the results regarding the current search engine market share have been released from a number of different sources each one using separate metrics. They been complied and analyzed by Danny Sullivan of Searchengineland here (it’s a [...]

SEO strategy | Setting up Separate Blogs to Appeal to Niche Audiences

Need more traffic for very specific niche keywords. One way to appeal to a very niche audience is to set up a separate blog apart from your main company site or blog. If you go super niche and update the blog (or pay someone else to update it regularly) you can target very niche demographics and it [...]

Creating a Blog that Attracts the Right Links | Blog SEO Strategy

I setup A LOT of blogs (5 so far this week) and many times it’s difficult for customers to get or understand is that one of the key components in a successful blog search marketing campaign is shaping a blog so that it attracts links automatically from other [...]

Socialmediasystems.com put me on top of Google for my three word search almost overnight

Testimonial from TwoWayBattery.com
We were a bit skeptical at first. Our company had tried everything from PPC to organic SEO tactics in house solutions – and while we had moderate success – this success came at a very high cost by running PPC campaigns.
We decided to give Socialmediasystems.com a chance to help us optimize for a [...]

RANT | Don’t buy into the over simplification of success | Loren Feldman of 1938 Media is Wrong

I’m an optimist and I like to help companies and individuals be successful with their online marketing efforts. Occasionally though, I feel it’s important to look at what other people are saying about success online and off, look for deeper meaning, and warn customers of potential [...]

Most important blogging secrets: there is alot to be said for properly setup themes for search placement:

The readers here may want to visit my six months old website that I built myself (I am a hacker, not a designer) using our original SEO blog theme that Solomon (our CIO) created for maximum SEO. While it is not nearly as beautifull as this (our latest) theme, it is equally effective for [...]

Social Media Target Demographics

Social targeting is quickly becoming a benchmark with advertisers and publishers… not because it is a key to the golden gates of marketing 101, but because online consumers are adopting search behaviors to understand where they will find like-minded people. This adoption curve is creating thriving and multiplying

‘Mo Blogs, Mo Better’ A-listers Feel the Heat

One of the top search marketing bloggers “Michael Grey” recently made a video cast telling new SEO bloggers to “step away from the keyboard.” Going on to rant on about if you can’t add something unique or different to the conversation then why bother. Well for [...]

A good plan gone wrong | reaction to seomoz, an SEO firm

I recently posted a giant ranting comment on one of the most popular SEO blogs (seomoz). It was in a response to a post outlining a fictitious plan for how a catering company in Seattle could crush their competition in the Search Engine Results Pages. Their advice, although creative and well written, illustrates [...]

Scoreboard Media Group Doesn’t Get it | SEO is Marketing Online

Can you believe a professional search marketing company called the Scoreboard Media Group actually posted a claim that the first question you should ask an SEO consultant is:
" If you can rank a site in lucrative markets, why would you do it for clients instead of for yourself? "
And he’s not talking search marketing companies [...]

Search Marketing Advice | You Need to Be a Content Producer (Of Some Sort)

Authoring a blog and producing content is not just the flavor of the week. As the internet matures more and more people and companies are authoring extensive volumes of information and putting it online for free. All this great information is creating a powerful link and information structure. Google [...]

Web 2.0 Expo - Preview for 2007

The expo is at the Moscone West in San Francisco from April 15 - 18. Whatever your definition of Web 2.0 is, looking at some of the high profile exhibitors from Adobe and AOL to Zoho and everyone else in between, It is worth taking note of. The expo is co-sponsored by O’Reilly [...]

What is the Single Most Important Blog Marketing Secret?

This article is the first in a follow up series on a popular article I wrote last week making the case for the need to market your blog’s content and how I believe the reason good blogs often go unread is do to poor marketing.
I called it a secret for added sensationalism, but also to [...]

Internet Marketing | Advice From The Trenches

The world is changing at a faster rate then ever, and the computer is to blame. All forms of media have moved to the internet; TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, movies, photos; it’s overwhelming.

The way we conduct business today is different too. Everything is faster, smaller, and more complex. The learning curve is getting steeper and harder to climb; and most of us are scared. Scared of uncertainty; scared of change.