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During the past week, Mark Tewart shared so much great information with blog tour visitors, that I had to give people who missed him - another chance to catch up with his tour visits. If you are a sales person, a business person or if you want to learn how to relate better to other people - this is information that you should read. Mark also had a  More...
Naturally, this has led many individuals, sites and businesses seeking higher rankings to employee tactics that are plausibly removed from the direct exchange of capital for links, and while link brokers and link sales still thrive, they do so in an ever-increasingly paranoid & underground realm so as not to risk discovery and devaluation. In this  More...
A lot of the small business owners and marketing executives I've spoken with since I started at HubSpot are learning similar lessons. They know that creating content is the best way to do search engine optimization -- to attract inbound links to their site and to improve their positions in organic (free) search engine results -- but they're not  More...
Earlier this week HubSpot sponsored the 10th Boston Social Media Breakfast. About 100 people showed up to for a lively discussion with Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School, Matt Culter of Visible Measures and HubSpot CEO, Brian Halligan.  More...
How can your company start to increase its familiarity and trust online? As sales slow and employees have more idle time, utilize that time for online public relations. At the very least, it can help sustain sales over the coming months. Once the economy turns around, you'll have a competitive advantage with better links, better brand image, and  More...
It’s no secret that anchor text of your links help increase your prominence in Google’s rankings. The simple idea here is that instead of having your links say “click here” or “more info”, you should put your keywords in the the anchor text to increase your relevancy score for those keywords.  More...
Some facets of SEO continue to wax and wane in their importance. Ditto with the various aspects of content optimization .There have been times when "content might not exactly be the king". Like in the present scene, it is incoming links on your page that are of prime significance for SEO. That doesn't devalue the content on your page. For a sim  More...
Links come in many shapes and sizes, internal, one way, reciprocal, editorial or contextual, etc. Not that we are laying claim to specifics here, however, based on trial, error and observation, here are a few factors to consider when building links.  More...
There are lots of reasons websites tank. Typical non-performance issues include poor layout, disastrous design, ho-hum content, missing meta data and inbound links, confusing navigation, buried info (too many clicks required to find what the browser is looking for), Las Vegas theatrics (think way too much Flash), etc.  More...
Search is a very important part of online communication. I know you don’t normally think of it that way, but think about it for a moment. When you ask Google for something, it’s a query and a response. It’s a communications path. Think now like a marketer. Every communication is a chance to build a business relationship (or a nonprofit relationshi  More...
The two day Social Media Smarts workshop in conjunction with the DMA will offer more than enough basic social media tips to share. Here are the top 10 Online Marketing Blog posts according to visitors, post ratings and incoming links for October:  More...
Check out How to Get More Bookmarks and Better Links over at Garrett’s place and start creating some remarkable bookmarkable content.  More...
How do you measure your social media efforts? How should you? Most people in the industry talk generally about measuring engagement as a concept and cite examples such as time spent on a site or number of comments, or inbound links as ways to track this. Others talk about ad equivalency (ie how much you saved by avoiding paying for advertising to  More...
I can’t believe a new feature from Google isn’t getting more notice, because it converts already-existing links to your site into much higher quality links, for free. The Google webmaster blog just announced that you can find the pages that link to 404 pages on your site.  More...
Here are ten cool links to free stuff that will benefit both bloggers and copywriters.  More...