Archive for January, 2009
January ’09: Best Search/Marketing Posts
Here’s my roundup of the best search/marketing posts I found and read during January. If you’re new to this blog, this is a monthly feature that began way back in 2007. You can find earlier “Best Of”s for each month in the archives: 2008 Best Posts and 2007 Best Posts. I never include my own [...]
SEMMY Finalists Announced – Time to Vote
We announced the finalists for the second annual SEMMY Awards on Wednesday morning, and that means public voting is now open in all 17 categories. To make it this far, an article had to be noticed and nominated for inclusion by one of eight search marketers on the nominating committee, then had to be chosen [...]
Hey Google: Not Having an XML Sitemap is Not an Error
This has been driving me crazy for a while now, and the only way to stop being driven crazy may be to write about it. Before I go further, you should know where I stand on XML Sitemaps: They’re not necessary for most web sites, especially for most simple, small business web sites. I wrote [...]
My SEO Trends for 2009
I think it was last April, when I first met Anita Campbell at the Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference in Houston, that I promised her a guest post on Small Biz Trends about SEO. Under the better late than never program, that guest post was published this morning: SEO Trends for 2009 I share six [...]
Keyword Discovery adds Question Phrases
At the suggestion of one of its customers, Keyword Discovery has added “Question Phrases” to its list of searchable databases. This means you can now enter a keyword and, rather than get back related keywords, you get a list of related questions that searchers have asked. Question Phrases appears as the last choice on the [...]
Case Study: Power of a Blog Comment
Follow along here, please: 1.) On February 23, 2008, Jesse Heap of Pink Cake Box left a comment on this blog. We had a short conversation in the comments of that post. About two weeks later, I sent Jesse an email telling him I wanted to profile his wife’s bakery and the way they were [...]
SBS Flashback: January 2008
For those of you who are new SBSM 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 to introduce new readers to old content that might be worth reading. Marketing Your Service-Based Small Business 6 Ways to [...]
2009 SEMMY Awards launching next week
All signs are “go” for the 2nd annual SEMMY Awards, which will launch on Monday. If you haven’t been following the site, here are a couple recent announcements: Introducing Our 2009 Judges – the list of 25 excellent judges who are volunteering their time to choose finalists 2009 SEMMYS: 200 authors nominated; January 19 launch [...]
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