Have you been keeping up with the upcoming sea changes in top-level domain (TLD) names? If you thought that we’d live with .com, .net, with a few .biz thrown in,…
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Interview with SCORE on search marketing
Many of you might be familiar with SCORE (originally the Service Corps of Retired Executives), which is a longstanding resource to U.S. small businesses, in partnership with the Small Business…
Read MoreSchemas, microformats, rich snippets, and SEO
If you don’t know what those words mean, you should, because these concepts are turning SEO on its ear. It is no longer enough to mark up your Web pages…
Read MoreDoes the Internet allow more differentiation?
If you are a marketer, you can’t ignore differentiation. Differentiation is not just about a difference from the competition–it’s a difference that your customers care about. Without some kind of…
Read MoreThis is not a post about Google+
You probably heard about the little announcement that Google made this week. Google finally has its social network. Again. If you don’t count Orkut or Google Wave or Google Buzz,…
Read MoreHow do you coordinate social media in a large organization?
In my presentation on Sunday to the IEEE Board of Directors on organizational social media, I got a great question from a member of the board, “Our organization is not…
Read MoreOrganizational Social Media
Sometimes an idea that seems simple is actually a lot more difficult. Social media is like that. You might tweet, you might blog, you might watch YouTube. You might use…
Read MoreDo searchers like your content?
Maybe you’ve never given a thought as to who might like your content. I mean, you’re not trying to win a beauty pageant here–you are in business. If they like…
Read MoreLocal internet marketing with Google Places
You probably know Frank Reed from his work as editor of Marketing Pilgrim and from his weekly Frank Friday posts on this blog. But did you know that he also…
Read MoreWhen good behavioral retargeting goes bad
Most of you probably are familiar with behavioral retargeting, a technique where marketers follow up with shoppers who haven’t completed purchases. It’s become a staple of e-Commerce, where it rescues…
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