Blogs

on 04.04.2009

ForRent.com Engages Social Media Contest

ForRent.com is engaging social media marketing and holding a video content to win $10,000. Users are invited to submit a homemade video of why they want to move. This is the site's second time using viral media to promote their site. ForRent.com used a similar campaign last year in hopes of building site traffic as well as the company's brand. Last Year the site saw a 57% increase in site traffic attributed to the contest. Contestants can submit thier videos through most of the social media channels such as Youtube, Facebook and MySpace.

on 02.04.2009

Agencies Struggle with Social Media Marketing

A Recent study featured in "Ad Week" has shown that the majority of traditional advertising agencies "dont get it" when is comes to social media marketing and optimization. This is no fault of traditional ad shops at all.

on 26.03.2009

Social Media Marketing Dominates 2009 SES Expo In NYC

Video and Social Media Marketing Dominate SES 2009!

on 12.03.2009

No Free Ride For New Sites, Even SEO Sites!

The Website for WebTalent is a new site on a new domain. After being uploaded and made fully live, I submitted it two a couple social bookmarking sites that get crawled regularly (like Digg and Propeller). Knowing that Google most likely visits these sites multiple times a day it would stand to reason that Google and other search engines would be able to crawl my site faster than finding it on their own. This proved true, as when I woke up the next morning all of my pages in my site had been indexed (not bad for one shot deal).

on 03.03.2009

Corporate Blogging and Social Media

One of the easiest ways to incorporate social media marketing into our workplace is to establish a blog on your company's corporate web site. It is important to have a well designed blog that is hosted on your site. Conversely, it is not important to use corporate blogging software as the same goal can be accomplished with free sources like WordPress and Joomla. Once the blog is up it is important to populate the blog with engaging relevant content. The blog is a great way is position your company as an authority on the subject, not only to your customers but to the search egines as well.

on 03.03.2009

The Importantance of Good Keyword Research

Effective keyword research by an experienced internet marketer can make all the difference in your internet marketing campaign. Researching and choosing the right keywords ultimately determine things like popularity, competitiveness and seasonal anomalies. It is important not the think that just because you know your market that you know your customer's search habits. Specific searches yield a large difference the number of people searching for it. For example, they keyword Tax filing" has an average of 18,000 searches last month where "tax return" had over 110,000.