15 Websites to Find Excellent Internet Marketing Whitepapers
Whitepapers have been a great marketing tool for gaining industry credibility, relevant leads, and more traffic to your website. Even though there are probably thousands of Internet Marketing Whitepapers out there, there are a select bunch that are know for creating industry-recognized, high-quality whitepapers.
Want More Subscribers? Facebook Optin App Lets You Create Invisible Squeeze Pages
What is one of the biggest challenges with trying to build a list? … trying to get them to enter their personal contact info. Most people are very guarded when it comes to giving their name and email address away, mainly out of fear of being spammed. So how...
How to Use Email to Reach Out to an Existing Customer Base
When it comes to promoting or growing your business online, mailing lists and email campaigns offer massive benefits. However, many business owners overlook one of the most powerful ways to utilize these tools. While building your mailing lists and capturing customer...
Formulating an Internet Marketing Strategy: Asking the Right Questions?
It doesn’t matter if you are building a new website, conducting search engine optimization, PPC advertising, or a social media strategy, there are always going to be important questions that need to be answered by the client. Having detailed answers to these...
Introducing the New Google Adwords Certification Program
Google has made some changes by officially retiring the Google Advertising Professionals program and changing it to the Google Adwords Certification Program. The new program provides agencies with comprehensive, strategy-focused training and certification on the...
Third Tribe Marketing Review
The Third Tribe is a private membership community offering to help business owners and entrepreneurs the chance to learn how to make money online through online marketing without becoming one of those “obnoxious” Internet marketing types. Who’s...
The Increasingly Popular Internet Marketing Degree: What do you Learn?
More than a billion and half people use the Internet, and this has created plenty of opportunities for savvy Internet marketers. There will be a growing need for Internet marketing specialists as more businesses seek to create an Internet presence. One way to acquire...Live From SMX Seattle: Closing The Loop: Are You Tracking Every Lead?
Moderator: Chris Sherman, Executive Editor of Search Engine Land Speakers: Adam Goldberg, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of ClearSaleing Alissa Ruehl, Manager of Paid Search Services at Apogee Search John Tawadros, COO of iProspect Lauren Vaccarello, Director...
Panda and the New Google
Google is a great example of how powerful the Internet really is. With more users than all the other search engines combined, and by a crazy wide margin, Google is a powerhouse the likes of which the business community hasn’t seen for a long while. No More...
Is Google Places Revolutionizing Organic Search for Local Businesses?
In 2011, in a world where online media dominates our culture, most business owners are aware of the impact that Google and other search engines have on their ability to attract customers. Through search engine optimization, search engine marketing and more,...
Tips for B2B Search Engine Marketing
Today, strong search engine marketing strategies are a survival necessity for any business, be it a small or big show. Even using this as just a general rule, the fact remains that B2B (business-to-business) marketers will have to think and act slightly different from...
Google Announces User-Generated Filters for Unwanted Search Results
Google may have finally discovered a way to rid the internet once and for all from undesirable search results. The answer: Let its users handle it. The Official Google Blog on March 10 announced the debut of a new feature that allows you to block all results from any...
How To Start A Google AdWords Campaign
Are you new to Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising? Have you determined that PPC Advertising may be profitable for your business? This post is for those who are new to PPC Advertising and would like to get off to a fast start buying keywords on Google! Here are some steps...
3 Key Steps to Starting an A/B Test
Ever wondered if your site would generate more sales/leads with a larger call to action (CTA)? Perhaps reducing the amount of text and using bullet lists instead? Even the experts will tell you “It depends…”, but with 3 easy steps you can let your...
Skills that Companies that Employ SEO’s are Looking For
There are a lot of different companies out there that are taking on full time SEO’s (people skilled in the SEO biz) and handing them enormous paychecks. As you can see from this infographic, there are a lot of SEO jobs out there, and a lot of them are paying...
List Eruption Launch Week: List Building Essentials – Tip #2
First off, if you didn’t have a chance to read the first tip I highly recommend that you do. Yesterday we discussed providing content for free and how perceived value and tangibility can significantly improve your subscriber rates. Today we are going to talk...
What Will the Internet Be Like in 2025
It’s amazing how fast the Internet is moving! I remember like it was yesterday when I had to use my obnoxiously loud 56k modem to dial into America Online. A welcome message would popup that gave me access to my email, “Channels” and buddy list. ...
Live From SMX Seattle: Search Marketing & Surviving A Recession
Moderator: Jeffrey Rohrs, VP of Marketing at ExactTarget Speakers: Andrew Beckman, President of Location3 Media Dave Davies, CEO of Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning Russ Mann, CEO of Covario Jon Miller, VP of Marketing at Marketo This was a back and forth...
Wordstream’s Quality Score Management Tools Go Live
For any Google Adwords advertiser, you know that having a great Quality Score is the key to running effective, low cost ad campaigns. However many advertisers are always wondering how they can improve on their QS. Well now, Wordstream has made it much easier, with...
Back to the Basics: Getting Started with Keyword Research
Keyword Research is the foundation for any good search marketing campaign. Whether you are running a PPC campaign or optimizing your site for search engines, keyword research can make or break your search efforts. If you try to rank for keywords that are too broad you...
How To Use Photo Books For Business In 2013
What comes to your mind when you see, hear or read about photo books? The truth is we all tend to picture some personal mementos like books for weddings, birthday and other personal events. These are, of course, among the major matches for a photo book, but they are...
Using Web 2.0 & Social Media To Improve Customer Service
With all of the new communication tools and technology being introduced, the way that companies handle customer service has been transformed into a more effective and efficient manner. Users want to be able to receive real-time support and have multiple options to...
List Eruption Launch Week: List Building Essentials – Tip #1
I am extremely excited for next week, as it marks the date of my first REAL product launch. As many of you know, I have been working on a WordPress plugin called List Eruption that I anticipate will make a huge impact on the industry. This WordPress plugin has been...
Ultimate Roundup of Advertising Networks
PPC, PPV, Banner Ads, Media Buys, Text Link Ads, Video Sponsored Ads, Mobile Ads….the list goes on and on. I thought I would compile a HUGE list of all of the different advertising networks that are out there. Feel free to help ad to the list and leave a...
Google’s Ad Rank EcoSystem: How Does It Work?
In my last post, I discussed how to create a Google AdWords campaign. Before purchasing keywords on Google AdWords, you may be curious to know how Google in fact ranks advertisements. Have you ever wondered how Google ranks advertisements when you perform a search on...
Managing Agency and Client Responsibilities
Recently I wrote a post on how much knowledge a client should have, but along with knowledge also comes responsibility. For any internet marketing agency to work well with their clients, there must be a mutual understanding of the overall strategy, and most...
4 Tips on Running an International PPC Campaign
Running an international PPC campaign will have its challenges beyond the obstacles that you may run into when running a PPC campaign in just English. The importance of understanding the markets and customers outside of the US are only going to further help you see a...
Online Event Marketing: 6 Ways to Market Your Next Event Online
There are plenty of free event services out there on the web that you can use to create, manage, promote, and track local events. Here are a bunch of free services that will help you market your next event online. Eventful http://eventful.com/ Eventful will allow you...
5 Tones to Take in Ad Copy to Shake Things Up
CTR is flagging, conversion are lagging and you’re in a funk. So what do to wake up your ad groups? Take one of these 5 tones for a test drive! Get your creative juices flowing, get the wheels turning and hey- you might even have some fun while you’re at...
Understanding the PPC Advertising Editorial Guidelines
If you are just starting out with doing some paid search campaigns, it can be very frustrating when you keep seeing your ads get disapproved. That is why it is important to learn each of the advertising editorial guidelines, so you reduce the chance of getting your...
Your Internet Marketing Strategy: Less Talking and More Doing
I want to make a pretty bold statement (semi rant) to start this blog post…“Your Strategy is Only As Good As Your Execution!”. Too many times I have seen great concepts and strategies never materialize because the project was just in theory and...
Making the Most Out of Your YouTube Channel
I wanted to thank everyone who submitted their feedback on other “Making the Most Out of…” posts we should write about. Using your suggestions, I got a number of people requesting a post on how to better utilize your YouTube channel, so that’s...
Five Ways to Quickly Increase Email Response Rates
A higher percentage of people go online just for sake of checking their emails. And there’s no doubt that email marketing can prove to be an extremely powerful tool for reaching out to new customers. However, the success of an email marketing campaign depends on the...
Understanding the Different Types of Content Creation
A few weeks ago I got an email from a reader asking me about content creation specific to all the different types of content for the web. Since that is more of an involved question than replying with a simple e-mail, I told him that I would answer his question in an...
AdWords Bid Management: How to Lower Minimum Bid Costs
The day has come to take your website live! You researched the market, spent money on designing a killer website specifically for your industry, and are ready to jump in with both feet. The excitement grows steadily until you decide to sign up for Google AdWords, and...
Investing Your Internet Marketing Dollars Wisely
Like any company, you have a budget. So how do you know if you are putting your internet marketing dollars to good use? Unfortunately there is no secret formulate to follow that tells you what percentage of your budget you should be spending on each marketing...
How to Use Ad Extensions to Improve PPC Campaigns
You may believe it or not but the pay per click ads have already captured majority of the properties found in the results pages of search engines. If you are in doubt about this, then spend a minute to do a search in Google for something that you wish to purchase over...
How I Found More Internet Marketing Jobs – Free Resource Inside
Are you an Internet Marketing company looking for new clients? Are you an Internet Marketing freelancer or consultant looking for new clients or agencies to partner with? Are you an Internet Marketer looking for full-time employment? If you are one of these people,...
Opt-In Placement for Maximizing Subscribers
You have probably noticed that many bloggers are adding opt-in forms throughout their entire blog to help increase subscribers. Gaining new RSS and E-mail subscribers to your blog allows you to not have to depend on Google or other traffic sources to get your readers...
Guide to Decrypting Google’s Ad Quality Score
Have you ever wondered how Google determines where to rank your pay-per-click (PPC) ads in the sponsored search results? Google has come up with what they call an Ad Quality Score that will help explain how they go about ranking ads. Google defines Ad Quality Score a...
How Pay Per Click Management Can Be Effectively Used In Ecommerce
On certain occasions, handling a PPC or pay per click campaign for an e-commerce website might turn out to be difficult. E-commerce advertisement companies often face plenty of hardship in the paid search domain when they are trying to maintain everything in order....
Why Affiliate Marketers are The BEST Marketers
Hopefully just by reading the blog post title, it got your attention! It may seem like a bit of a bold statement and I’m sure many of you disagree with this statement. However let me try to explain my point of why I think affiliate marketers are the best...
What Makes a Dynamic Internet Marketer?
What does it mean to be a dynamic marketer? To me, a dynamic marketer has a balanced, long-term marketing approach that involves all aspects of Internet Marketing. They need to be able to adapt, move fast, be willing to fail, and understand what their target market...
Online Marketing Crossing The Conventional Conception of SEO
The connotations associated with the word online marketing include the processes of SEO and PPC. To most of the businesses in the market, the online marketing is either search engine optimization or Pay per click. Businesses are either oblivious of the rest of online...
How to Use PPC to Complement SEO
Recently I wrote a blog post on How SEO and Social Media Are Joining Forces, so I thought it would be beneficial to show how PPC can help to compliment SEO. Now that Pay-Per-Click (at least in Google) is becoming so saturated with advertisers, compared to 5-7 years...
5 Brilliantly Simple Ways to Keep Your Newsletter Away from the Spam Folders
We all hate spam but some guys and gals are making a living out of sending emails of the legitimate variety. Even if you don’t belong to this group because you send newsletters only occasionally, the tips in this article will be of great use to you. 1. Never...
What to Do If You Have Been Taken Advantage of By a SEM Company
No matter what the industry, the bad apples often get more publicity than the folks that do business by the book which can give any industry a bad name. The search engine marketing industry is no different. Over my 11 years in the business, I have encountered...
The First 5 Things You Should Do in a New PPC Campaign
In Google AdWords, whenever you start a new campaign, there are a myriad of options available at the campaign level ranging from networks, bidding, budgets, ad serving, dates, times, location, language, experiments, ad position and devices to name a few. But what are...