Small Business SEM

Time for another “five questions” post, where I toss out a handful of items and call on the collective wisdom of SBS readers to provide answers for the benefit of all (but mainly me!).
For background purposes, you can read volume one and volume two in the archives.
Okay, here we go:
1. Very often, the AdSense block [...]

Couple quick notes to pass along about Gooruze:
Al Scillitani is this week’s winner of $500 in AdWords spending.
Dan London earned the same honor last week.
Congrats to both Al and Dan for great contributions to Gooruze. There’s still $8,500 in AdWords spending up for grabs, $500 per week, so if you haven’t tried Gooruze yet, why [...]

For those of you who are new SBS readers & subscribers, here’s a list of noteworthy posts you probably missed from one year ago. I try to put together a post like this each month. Scroll to the end to see previous Flashbacks.

MSN Small Biz Directory closed?
The Signals You Send
Five Days Alone with Yahoo!
The SBS [...]

This is pretty cool. The gang at Search Engine Guide, fresh off their re-launch of Small Business Brief a couple weeks ago, has just announced a new search/marketing conference just for small businesses. Sweet! It’s called … drum-roll, please:
Small Business Marketing Unleashed
Get it? “Unleashed”? The puppy mascot?
It’ll happen April 21-22 in Houston at [...]

s_jenkins, who I assume is a new SBS reader, left his/her first comment late last night and included a couple questions that I think deserve more attention than a reply in that 14-month-old thread.
The questions were in reference to my old post, Linkbaiting for Small Businesses (or, What I Learned Last Week), in which I [...]

Many of the best search marketers own or work for small businesses. They share great advice and articles about SEO, PPC, social media, local search, and more. But these folks also share a lot of great advice for small businesses indirectly — by the things they do in their own businesses. Here are eight pieces [...]

About three months ago, I shared some holiday SEO tips on Search Engine Land — and since SEO is not a quick-fix, immediate return kind of thing, August is when you need to be thinking about holiday SEO tactics.
On the PPC side, you don’t need such an early start. A great PPC campaign can bring [...]

I’m a bit behind the game on these, but want to make sure to get a couple links out there and add some content to my SEO Tools category. I wouldn’t classify either of these tools as earth-shattering, but they both provide helpful information — and, to me at least, they give me quicker and [...]