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Whether it is in-person or through social networking sites, for the most part, people try to take advantage of networking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/09/23/networking-on-linkedin-why-you-better-be-doing-it/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;WATCH VIDEO NOW!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;However, because people often associate LinkedIn as a place to find jobs, they forget about how powerful it can be for networking. Nicole Williams, LinkedIn’s Connections Director, told us that the professional network could actually be a game changer in terms of a person’s career.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;As she explained, LinkedIn is a platform that is full of credentials and qualified referrals that people need to be utilizing. Through products such as LinkedIn Today, users can keep up with the latest developments and events in their related industries. Additionally, the company recently introduced Causes to allow users to get credit for their volunteer efforts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Williams said that both these areas, among others, create great networking outlets, which could lead to potential job opportunities. Are you taking advantage of them?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/09/23/networking-on-linkedin-why-you-better-be-doing-it/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;WATCH VIDEO NOW!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-6116199009479688128?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6116199009479688128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=6116199009479688128' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6116199009479688128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6116199009479688128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2011/10/networking-on-linkedin-why-you-better.html' title='Networking on LinkedIn &amp; Why You Better Be Doing It - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-8716070237374504246</id><published>2011-08-12T22:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T22:17:31.952-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google+ the Newest Social Network'/><title type='text'>Video: The Potential of Google+, the Newest Social Network - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/08/12/google-the-potential-of-the-newest-social-network/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Video: The Potential of Google+, the Newest Social Network&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Google+, the latest social development from the search giant, is continuing to gain extreme hype. WebProNews recently spoke with several search and social media leaders including Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing, Steve Rubel of Edelman, Li Evans of LiBeck Integrated Marketing, Barry Schwartz of RustyBrick, Loren Baker of BlueGlass, and speaker and author Mari Smith to see what they thought about Google+. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/08/12/google-the-potential-of-the-newest-social-network/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WATCH VIDEO NOW! &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;While they all believe that it is definitely Google’s best attempt at social, they equally agree that there is still a lot that needs to be done to it. For instance, they would like to see further integration of Google products, an improved mobile experience, and better sharing capabilities, to name a few. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/08/12/google-the-potential-of-the-newest-social-network/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;View Video at WebProNews&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-8716070237374504246?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/8716070237374504246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=8716070237374504246' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8716070237374504246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8716070237374504246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2011/08/video-potential-of-google-newest-social.html' title='Video: The Potential of Google+, the Newest Social Network - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-4741275755303384643</id><published>2011-07-13T11:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-13T11:25:54.416-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How to Create a Local Twitter Account - WebProNews</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/how-to-create-a-local-twitter-account-2011-07?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WebpronewsTopNewsRssFeed+%28Top+News+Items+-+WebProNews%29&amp;amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher"&gt;How to Create a Local Twitter Account from WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most of the the tutorials on the web dealing with growing your &lt;a href="http://www.wolf-howl.com/tag/twitter/"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;  followers, don’t pay any attention to location, and are more concerned   with raw numbers. I recently started a local travel website and wanted   to focus on gaining local followers from that city and surrounding   areas. While I can’t reveal the profile, this tutorial will walk you   through how I did it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First the background&lt;/strong&gt;: this was a travel related   website in one of the top 20 metros in the United States. The goal of   the account was to build brand recognition by being a curator and online   guide that answered people’s questions. The account extended some good   will by retweeting the tweets of other non competing hospitality  related  accounts or other local focused stories. The account would be  used once  every 1-2 weeks to push out a linkbait, social media, lead  gen, or  sales tweet.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Next I decided what sort of activity level I want for the account. In   this case I aimed for 3-6 informational or news based tweets per day   (non self serving tweets). These tweets would usually happen between   12-5pm in the prime timezone of the account. Using in account lists, I   aimed for 2-4 retweets per day. I started with a list of 12 terms that   would be checked 2-3 times per day to see if we could answer any   questions people had. The account had one tweet per day if there was a   new post, and the posting schedule was 2-3 posts per week. The account   also had an 18 hour archive tweet rotation (I use &lt;a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-old-post/"&gt;tweet old posts&lt;/a&gt;  to accomplish this). While this may seem pretty mechanical, I’m a big   fan of letting humans use tools and automation to be more efficient and   get more done (aka nap time by the pool on a sunny afternoon).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div&gt;… you still can’t get a good haircut over  the web, and it’s  unlikely people hundreds of miles away will ever come  to your hair  salon…&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;With my Twitter posting goals in place, I  started out tweeting at  about half of my desired rate, for the simple  reason that no one was  following me yet. I wanted new followers to see a  history when they  decided if I was worth following or not (I’ve been  doing this for too  long and am far too jaded to be objective about what  non marketers  really look at when deciding to follow you on Twitter or  not).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I started out with a list of social media gurus who were running   automated accounts that follow everyone who follows them. I knew I was   never going to get their attention, but I was interested in the social   proof of having some followers and not being seen as a spammer. Once you   have about 50 of these, you should have the basics covered.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Next I made 4 lists for hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, and other   travel/hospitality businesses and their web addresses. I sent this list   to &lt;a href="http://www.wolf-howl.com/go/odesk/"&gt;oDesk&lt;/a&gt; to have someone find the Twitter and &lt;a href="http://www.wolf-howl.com/tag/facebook/"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  profiles for each of the businesses. If you are bootstrapping, you   could do this yourself. You can use the information a second time down   the road for a who’s who in social media in the area ego link bait post.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;A few days later, when the work came back completed, I followed all   of the accounts and created separate lists on Twitter for each of the   categories (this made retweeting others easier).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;After the base accounts were followed, I started mining the followers (see &lt;a href="http://www.wolf-howl.com/socialmedia/get-twitter-followers/"&gt;How to get more followers on twitter&lt;/a&gt;).   This is where it becomes more an art than a science. Look for people   who are important in the space. You should follow them even though they   probably won’t follow you back. Second, look for conversationalists who   tweet back and forth about your niche topic often. Third, look for   people who are “promoters” or who have an “agenda” but are likely to   retweet you if you have retweeted them. Lastly, look for real people who   live in the area you are targeting. These are people who will probably   never retweet or link to you, but they will click your link, read your   page, fill out a lead gen form, or buy something from you.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Adding new followers is a bit of a game. You follow them, wait a few   days, and unfollow the people who didn’t follow you back. If you’re  used  to playing in a social media friendly space you can build up 2,000   followers in a matter of days. In the normal world, you’ll have to go a   lot slower. You can follow up to 2,000 more people than are following   you, but I recommend never getting that far ahead. I recommend never   following more than 200-300 more people than are following you because   it just makes you look spammy. I used &lt;a href="http://manageflitter.com/"&gt;managefilter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/check-all/"&gt;check all&lt;/a&gt; in Firefox to speed up the unfollow process.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;When you are adding followers, one of the things you want to look at   is the number of followers. You want to have an idea where the high bar   is and where the average is. In this particular case, most of the   accounts had between 500-1000 followers. Some of the accounts with a   high brand recognition factor had 2,000 followers. The account with the   highest number of followers was just over 6,000 followers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.webpronews.com/how-to-create-a-local-twitter-account-2011-07"&gt;CHECK OUT GRAPH!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-4741275755303384643?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/4741275755303384643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=4741275755303384643' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4741275755303384643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4741275755303384643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-create-local-twitter-account.html' title='How to Create a Local Twitter Account - WebProNews'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3283372572263474455</id><published>2011-03-22T20:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T20:40:37.522-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bing is Growing'/><title type='text'>How Bing Is Growing, Innovating, and Competing from WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/03/22/how-bing-is-growing-innovating-and-competing"&gt;How Bing Is Growing, Innovating, and Competing&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;In an effort to contend in the search race, &lt;a href="http://www.bing.com/"&gt;Bing&lt;/a&gt;  is continuously rolling out new products and initiatives. The search  engine’s efforts appear to be paying off since recent data from &lt;a href="http://www.hitwise.com/us/press-center/press-releases/experian-hitwise-reports-bing-search-increase/"&gt;Experian Hitwise&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/3/comScore_Releases_February_2011_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings"&gt;comScore&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://blog.compete.com/2011/03/16/february-2011-search-market-share-report/"&gt;Compete&lt;/a&gt; all show that Bing’s market share is growing. &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;, on the other hand, lost a small percentage of its market share.&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/03/22/how-bing-is-growing-innovating-and-competing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WATCH VIDEO!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At &lt;a href="http://sxsw.com/"&gt;SXSW&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt; spoke with Stefan Weitz, a director with Bing,&amp;nbsp;about  this growth and what the search engine was doing to leverage it.  According to him, the search industry is not a “zero-sum game.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"For us to win, somebody else doesn’t have to lose,” he said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other words, he believes that all the search engines can expand on  one idea and take it in new, and multiple, directions. Competition is  tight, but as a result, it produces more new concepts and experiences.  Bing, for example, has recently introduced several new projects. The  search engine &lt;a href="http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2011/03/03/bing-launches-deals.aspx"&gt;partnered&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href="http://www.thedealmap.com/"&gt;DealMap&lt;/a&gt; in order to bring great deals from popular sites such as &lt;a href="http://www.groupon.com/"&gt;Groupon&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://livingsocial.com/"&gt;LivingSocial&lt;/a&gt; to users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bing has also launched &lt;a href="http://www.projectemporia.com/#/topStories"&gt;Project Emporia&lt;/a&gt;  that puts a new approach on personalization. The project is powered by  its Matchbox technology and enables the engine to build profiles that  offer better recommendations to users. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weitz told us that Bing would continue to pursue these areas, along  with social search, mobile search, and more, in order to provide a  simpler and better user experience.&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/03/22/how-bing-is-growing-innovating-and-competing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WATCH VIDEO!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3283372572263474455?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3283372572263474455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3283372572263474455' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3283372572263474455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3283372572263474455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-bing-is-growing-innovating-and.html' title='How Bing Is Growing, Innovating, and Competing from WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-975595044115032753</id><published>2011-03-11T11:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-11T11:17:17.751-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Klout Score'/><title type='text'>What’s Your Klout Score Telling You? - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/03/10/whats-your-klout-score-telling-you/"&gt;What’s Your Klout Score Telling You?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;A new space is emerging that hopes to measure social influence  online. The concept is promising but is still very new. One player, in  particular, that is making progress in the arena is &lt;a href="http://klout.com/"&gt;Klout&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;As a service that measures how influential people are on the social  Web, Klout looks at the content that users create and analyzes what it  is they’re talking about. From there, it examines how people react to  that content, thus finding the influence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/03/10/whats-your-klout-score-telling-you/"&gt;WATCH VIDEO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;“For us, when we think about influence, it’s really about the ability to drive some sort of action,” explained &lt;a href="http://klout.com/about"&gt;Klout CEO Joe Fernandez&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;This new metric has been referred to as an equivalent to &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html"&gt;Google’s PageRank&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for the social Web. Because Google continues to tweak PageRank, we can  understand how a similar metric for the social Web would be an ongoing  challenge as well. For example, one person might be very influential to  another person but may not have a very high Klout Score, since Klout  measures data for efforts across the entire social Web.&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fernandez pointed out, specifically, that, according to their data,  Justin Beiber is more influential online than President Obama is. While  that is hard for some people to swallow, he said that a video of Justin  Bieber gets considerably more clicks and links than a video of President  Obama gets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We just kind of let the data speak for itself,” he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;In addition, &lt;a href="http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/"&gt;Jeremiah Owyang&lt;/a&gt; recently released a &lt;a href="http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2011/02/21/klout-for-business-a-sometimes-useful-metric-but-an-incomplete-view-of-customers/#comment-154250645"&gt;report&lt;/a&gt;  that found that, while Klout is a useful metric, it offers an  incomplete view of customers for brands. Fernandez said that, while  Klout is a critical data point that adds value to customer service and  targeting decisions, businesses should consider other data points as  well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Fernandez also acknowledges the challenge of spam and said that the company takes it very seriously.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;“It’s something that we’re going to have to continue to face, and honestly, we have to do a better job at it,” he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;For people and businesses that want to boost their Klout Score,  Fernandez recommends being consistent. Klout Score largely depends on  how much the person is involved in the conversation and whether or not  he is adding value.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Klout currently measures influence across &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/"&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt;, but it hopes to expand to other social platforms this year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/03/10/whats-your-klout-score-telling-you/"&gt;WATCH VIDEO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-975595044115032753?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/975595044115032753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=975595044115032753' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/975595044115032753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/975595044115032753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2011/03/whats-your-klout-score-telling-you.html' title='What’s Your Klout Score Telling You? - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-7789867948239995886</id><published>2011-02-15T10:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-15T10:40:55.799-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Video: How IntoNow Socializes the TV Experience - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/02/15/intonow-socializing-the-tv-experience/"&gt;Video: How IntoNow Socializes the TV Experience&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Numerous tools and applications are developed today in order to connect aspects of our lives. &lt;a href="http://www.intonow.com/ci"&gt;IntoNow&lt;/a&gt;  is a new iOS app that fits into this category. It hopes to socialize  the TV experience while answering the question, “What are you into now?”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/acahan"&gt;Adam Cahan&lt;/a&gt;, the company’s CEO, explained to &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;,  television programming takes up 62 percent of consumers’ leisure time,  which, besides sleeping and working, is the largest activity that people  partake in. In addition, studies have shown that around 60 percent of  people are also on the Internet while they are watching television.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/02/15/intonow-socializing-the-tv-experience/"&gt;WATCH VIDEO!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;For these reasons, the company wanted to create a way for users to be  able to easily connect with their friends around the content that they  are watching. The app does this by identifying television programs after  only hearing a few seconds of them. Cahan said that the app allows  users to look at their social connections, find out what they share in  common, and start conversations around those areas of interest.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“For us, what was really exciting was the ability to establish those  connections to say you and I both share the same show, and therefore,  start a conversation around it,” he added.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Although the app is fun and interesting (it was even named &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-iphone/app-of-the-week/"&gt;Apple’s App of the Week&lt;/a&gt;  last week), WebProNews asked Cahan why people would really be drawn to  it since many of them already talk about their TV experiences on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. In response, he emphasized that IntoNow is not trying to own the conversation.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;“It’s about getting recommendations and about getting a sense of your  tastes, your friends’ tastes, and then starting to come back to you  with ideas around things that we think you should like,” he said.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The technology that enables this experience is based on IntoNow’s &lt;a href="http://www.intonow.com/ci/soundprint"&gt;SoundPrint&lt;/a&gt;  platform. Cahan calls the process “fingerprinting,” since it takes the  audio signal layer from a snippet of content and translates it into an  algorithmic representation of the audio signal.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;SoundPrint records 130 channels of live television continuously and  is always adding to its catalog. It also has a “back catalog” that  includes about 5 years of television, which equates to roughly 2.6  million individual airings.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Cahan told us that IntoNow has several ideas for monetization and is  currently talking with one of the largest television manufacturers about  embedding the service into TVs. He also said that we could expect an  Android version and a Web application soon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/02/15/intonow-socializing-the-tv-experience/"&gt;WATCH VIDEO!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-7789867948239995886?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/7789867948239995886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=7789867948239995886' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7789867948239995886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7789867948239995886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2011/02/video-how-intonow-socializes-tv.html' title='Video: How IntoNow Socializes the TV Experience - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-178020461603713118</id><published>2011-02-04T15:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-04T15:18:02.569-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Quora'/><title type='text'>Video: What Quora Is and What It's Not - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/02/03/quora-what-it-is-and-what-it-is-not/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Video: What Quora Is and What It's Not&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Have you jumped on the &lt;a href="http://www.quora.com/"&gt;Quora&lt;/a&gt; bandwagon yet? A lot of people have and are calling it the next big social phenomenon. Others are relating it to &lt;a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/"&gt;Yahoo Answers&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. Some people are even saying that it will replace online forums. So, what is it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;According to &lt;a href="http://www.patrickokeefe.com/"&gt;Patrick O’Keefe&lt;/a&gt;, the author of &lt;a href="http://www.managingonlineforums.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Managing Online Forums&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,  “Quora is more or less a forum.” However, some people don’t agree with  him because they associate forums with things of the past. They,  instead, want to associate Quora with something like &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;“I think that sometimes people want to see evolution, or something  along those lines, in things that maybe don’t need it, or in a way  that’s not really fair,” he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;He compared forums to bread stating that, while many people think  bread hasn’t evolved, it really has. Today, there are many different  types of bread, and it is used in numerous ways. O’Keefe believes the  same principle applies to forums.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/02/03/quora-what-it-is-and-what-it-is-not/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WATCH VIDEO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;These online communities are, essentially, threaded text-based  conversations, and interestingly, he points out that this same type of  conversation is the backbone of Facebook. He believes that Quora not  only has this feature, but that it also has social features.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;“The reason Quora is good is because they have taken these features,  and they have put them together in a very attractive, very slick, very  good way that makes a lot of sense… and really the people aspects of  Quora are why it’s successful – the people contributing and the people  behind it,” said O’Keefe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;He went on to say that Quora was useful from a business perspective.  Although actual brands are not permitted on the service, individuals  from companies are allowed and could monitor certain keywords and also  answer questions. Companies could potentially receive extra search  engine favor since these questions are indexable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Just like any other service, people are always wondering where it  will go in the future. While O’Keefe is not sure, he did address a few  challenges that the company would face. First of all, there is the issue  of too many basic questions. Another challenge is the fact that people  will ask the same question over and over. Thirdly, Quora will have to  find a balance in its userbase since it has had the privilege of having  people such as &lt;a href="http://www.quora.com/Steve-Case-1"&gt;former AOL CEO Steve Case&lt;/a&gt; answer some questions. However Quora handles these challenges will likely determine its future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;So, what is your take on Quora?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2011/02/03/quora-what-it-is-and-what-it-is-not/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WATCH VIDEO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-178020461603713118?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/178020461603713118/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=178020461603713118' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/178020461603713118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/178020461603713118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2011/02/video-what-quora-is-and-what-its-not.html' title='Video: What Quora Is and What It&apos;s Not - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-4367763415498975172</id><published>2010-12-09T17:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-09T17:57:31.426-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blending Marketing Efforts'/><title type='text'>Blending Marketing Efforts for the Best Results from WebProNews Videos</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/12/09/blending-marketing-efforts-for-the-best-results/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Blending Marketing Efforts for the Best Results...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the search industry continues to grow and become more mature and  sophisticated, managing search programs becomes more challenging.  According to David Roth, the Director of SEM at &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/12/09/blending-marketing-efforts-for-the-best-results/As%20the%20search%20industry%20continues%20to%20grow%20and%20become%20more%20mature%20and%20sophisticated,%20managing%20search%20programs%20becomes%20more%20challenging.%20According%20to%20David%20Roth,%20the%20Director%20of%20SEM%20at%20Yahoo,%20this%20is%20especially%20true%20in%20regards%20to%20large%20paid%20search%20programs."&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt;, this is especially true in regards to large paid search programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“It just gets harder and harder every year to maintain your edge if you’re out there doing big paid search programs,” he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/12/09/blending-marketing-efforts-for-the-best-results/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WATCH VIDEO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To better manage these programs, he believes that marketers should  integrate their paid efforts into other campaigns such as organic,  display, affiliate, and social media. In other words, he recommends that  marketers view all the programs as one and optimize them as a whole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yahoo, for instance, had a #1 ranking for an organic listing for a  brand keyword. It then purchased a paid search ad on top of it, which  drove more traffic to the organic listing. Marketing efforts are,  essentially, more effective when they are blended together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incidentally, Roth also discusses the Yahoo/Microsoft transition. His job was to transfer all of Yahoo’s advertising over to &lt;a href="https://adcenter.microsoft.com/"&gt;adCenter&lt;/a&gt;  and use it to manage Yahoo. In addition, he was responsible for  monetizing search results all over Yahoo. He said that both companies  continuously evaluated the transition in order to ensure that the  highest level of quality was being maintained.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-4367763415498975172?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/4367763415498975172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=4367763415498975172' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4367763415498975172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4367763415498975172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/12/video-blending-marketing-efforts-for.html' title='Blending Marketing Efforts for the Best Results from WebProNews Videos'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-8775633237799557667</id><published>2010-11-14T11:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-14T11:51:43.585-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Simple Tips For Making Your Blog Better from WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/11/14/simple-tips-for-making-your-blog-better/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WebProNewsVideos+%28WebProNews+Videos%29&amp;amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher"&gt;Simple Tips For Making Your Blog Better&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; from WebProNews Video:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft, spoke to Abby Johnson about maintaining a quality blog. &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/"&gt;Hanselman&lt;/a&gt; says a lot of people “have low blog self-esteem,” meaning they think their blog sucks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/11/14/simple-tips-for-making-your-blog-better/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WebProNewsVideos+%28WebProNews+Videos%29&amp;amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher"&gt;WATCH THE VIDEO NOW!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Professional blogs have a sense of focus and bloggers who are not  professional need to ask themselves why they are blogging and who is  their audience.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Be passionate about the subject your are blogging about and have a focus. Hanselman says he blogs consciously and with focus.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Make your blog look tidy and protect it against comment spam. Also  make sure you have a tempo when you blog, it does not have to be  everyday, it can be three times a week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/11/14/simple-tips-for-making-your-blog-better/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WebProNewsVideos+%28WebProNews+Videos%29&amp;amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher"&gt;Read More...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-8775633237799557667?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/8775633237799557667/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=8775633237799557667' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8775633237799557667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8775633237799557667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/11/simple-tips-for-making-your-blog-better.html' title='Simple Tips For Making Your Blog Better from WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-4544409322750933547</id><published>2010-10-29T10:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-29T10:33:53.164-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Video: The Next Stage of Internet Video - WebProNews</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/10/29/the-next-stage-of-internet-video/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Next Stage of Internet Video&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you’re involved in social media and marketing, you know who Chris Brogan is. As the President of New Marketing Labs, he is very respected in the industry for both his knowledge and his personality. In this interview from the Inbound Marketing Summit, Brogan talks to WebProNews about his latest endeavor, The Pulse Network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As he explains, this network is about building “content, community, and marketplace” around various channels. For the Inbound Marketing Summit, The Pulse Network sent live broadcasts back to their studio and incorporated live studio hosts and bumpers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/10/29/the-next-stage-of-internet-video/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Watch the Video Now!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Online video has seen many changes since its early days and more are expected to come. It’s a new and exciting realm but still has many challenges. For starters, the combination of the popularity of mobile devices and the talk of multiple tablets coming to market create format issues that need to be addressed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another challenge is the bandwidth issue. However, Brogan believes a bandwidth overhaul will be sooner than later. He goes on to say that phones will actually do what they are advertised to do on commercials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brogan also points out that HD consumption of online video is on the rise and will continue to increase. This is something that he previously did not think would happen, but he has been proven wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the end, just like many other areas online, good quality content will rule with Internet video.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“There’s going to be a lot of bleeding edge fallout, but I think also we’re going to see that the iteration process of that will be a lot faster,” adds Brogan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, Brogan touches on some of the primary topics discussed at the Inbound Marketing Summit. According to him, marketers now want to know specific numbers and statistics. They are also very interested in getting conversions and determining what works in the sales funnel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/10/29/the-next-stage-of-internet-video/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Watch the Video!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-4544409322750933547?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/4544409322750933547/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=4544409322750933547' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4544409322750933547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4544409322750933547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/10/video-next-stage-of-internet-video.html' title='Video: The Next Stage of Internet Video - WebProNews'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-4445404805781660803</id><published>2010-10-14T18:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-14T18:59:49.057-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Survivor Creator: What Kind of Idiot Changes a Successful Format? - WebProNews</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/10/14/survivor-creator-what-kind-of-idiot-changes-a-successful-format#close=1"&gt;Survivor Creator: What Kind of Idiot Changes a Successful Format? from WebProNews...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mark Burnett, an executive television producer behind shows like  Survivor, The Apprentice, The Shark Tank, Are You Smarter Than a 5th  Grader, and many others (he was even behind the MTV Movie Awards where &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8hkEbA4UXQ"&gt;Bruno landed on Eminem&lt;/a&gt;),  took the time today here at the BlogWorld &amp;amp; New Media Expo in Vegas  to draw some parallels between his  experiences in television and  searching for success in new media. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frankly, he almost painted something of a doomy picture for those  aspiring to find such success, discussing how truly hard it is to  succeed. Success is unpredictable,  but "the unpredictable nature is the  creative driver" he said. He says shows like Survivor or American Idol  are so successful in part to their unpredictability. You  don't know  who's going to get eliminated from week to week, compared to a show like  CSI or House, where you generally know that the main characters will  probably not die. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interestingly enough, it's that same unpredictability that helps shows  like Survivor and American Idol thrive in the social media universe.  People get excited about who will win and who will lose, and they  frantically discuss every week, all week, before and after and during  the show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/10/14/survivor-creator-what-kind-of-idiot-changes-a-successful-format#close=1"&gt;Read Full Story!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-4445404805781660803?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/4445404805781660803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=4445404805781660803' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4445404805781660803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4445404805781660803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/10/survivor-creator-what-kind-of-idiot.html' title='Survivor Creator: What Kind of Idiot Changes a Successful Format? - WebProNews'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-1940727277242575535</id><published>2010-09-11T10:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-11T10:26:02.499-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TV and Web'/><title type='text'>Video: Battle Builds in Quest to Bridge TV and Web from WebProNews</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/09/10/battle-builds-in-quest-to-bridge-tv-and-web/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Video: Battle Builds in Quest to Bridge TV and Web&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the launch of &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/tv/" target="_blank"&gt;Google TV&lt;/a&gt; coming sometime this autumn, &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/" target="_blank"&gt;WebProNew&lt;/a&gt;s  looks at how the platform will change the living room viewing  experience and gets some thoughts from search industry expert Danny  Sullivan on the topic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/09/10/battle-builds-in-quest-to-bridge-tv-and-web/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;View Video Now!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sullivan says Google TV will maybe make more people adopt Android  tablets and phones in future because of the ability to run applications  on multiple platforms.  Sullivan thinks if people run apps on Google TV  they will want to be able to do the same on other Android devices.&lt;br /&gt;Some of the challenges Google TV faces are concerns over privacy and  how much control the company would have over online video advertising.  Hollywood, cable, and satellite companies worry users will drop their  paid subscriptions.&lt;br /&gt;Google has maintained its TV service advertising model would provide  revenue and would not have the same effect as other online services have  had on the music and newspaper industries.&lt;br /&gt;Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Reuters earlier this week that the  company is working with a variety of program makers and electronics  manufacturers to bring the TV service to consumers.&lt;br /&gt;“We will work with content providers, but it is very unlikely that we  will get into actual content production,” Schmidt told journalists  after a keynote speech to the IFA consumer electronics trade fair in  Berlin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/09/10/battle-builds-in-quest-to-bridge-tv-and-web/" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;View WebProNews Video Now!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-1940727277242575535?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1940727277242575535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=1940727277242575535' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1940727277242575535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1940727277242575535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/09/video-battle-builds-in-quest-to-bridge.html' title='Video: Battle Builds in Quest to Bridge TV and Web from WebProNews'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-2339529055215847369</id><published>2010-08-27T20:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-27T20:52:28.776-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Measuring Social Media Effectiveness May Have Just Gotten Easier - WebProNews</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/08/26/a-new-way-to-measure-clicks-for-shared-content"&gt;Measuring Social Media Effectiveness May Have Just Gotten Easier - WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone knows that social media provides some great opportunities  for marketing, but measurement issues continue to plague businesses. You  know content is being shared, but you don't know how people who its  being shared with are responding to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Are you content with your ability to measure social media effectiveness?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/08/26/a-new-way-to-measure-clicks-for-shared-content#comments"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Let us know&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.sharethis.com/"&gt;ShareThis&lt;/a&gt;, which reaches 400  million people a month through social media share buttons across content  all over the web, has released some new metrics for measuring social  media effectiveness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the metrics is its Audience Index, which lets publishers  understand and compare their social audiences against 850,000 other  sites (and soon against categories), find out what types of influencers  your site attracts, and find out how well you connect with influencers,  listeners, and engaged customers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/08/26/a-new-way-to-measure-clicks-for-shared-content"&gt;Read FULL Article at WebProNews!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-2339529055215847369?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/2339529055215847369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=2339529055215847369' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2339529055215847369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2339529055215847369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/08/measuring-social-media-effectiveness.html' title='Measuring Social Media Effectiveness May Have Just Gotten Easier - WebProNews'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-1608264450517592111</id><published>2010-08-27T18:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-27T18:05:59.684-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Video: How Retailers Can Leverage the Economic Comeback</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/08/24/how-retailers-can-leverage-the-economic-comeback/"&gt;Video: How Retailers Can Leverage the Economic Comeback&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately, online retailers are beginning to see the economy bounce back. According to &lt;a href="http://www.rimmkaufman.com/about-rkg/management-team/ryan-gibson/"&gt;Ryan Gibson&lt;/a&gt;, the Vice President of Marketing at &lt;a href="http://www.rimmkaufman.com/"&gt;The Rimm-Kaufman Group&lt;/a&gt;, online retailers are seeing improvements in conversion rates. &lt;p&gt;As the economy continues to turn around, there are some elements that  retailers should apply to better leverage the comeback. From a paid  search perspective, Gibson recommends that retailers update their  keywords based on incoming inventory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/08/24/how-retailers-can-leverage-the-economic-comeback/"&gt;WATCH VIDEO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;During the recession, many retailers cut back on their inventory. Now  that the economy is starting to improve, they are ordering more  products. Gibson says retailers need to make sure that their new  inventory is represented in paid search. He also adds that retailers  need to optimize pages to guarantee that they are found in the search  engines. Ultimately, no one will benefit if the new inventory cannot be  found.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Gibson also tells &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;  that The Rimm-Kaufman Group is adding products. In the past, the  company focused primarily on paid search. As Gibson explains, it is now  adding an &lt;a href="http://www.rimmkaufman.com/paid-search/attribution/"&gt;attribution management component&lt;/a&gt;  that will help its clients understand what is happening outside of paid  search. RKG will talk with clients about the data it collects and help  them build an attribution model.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-1608264450517592111?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/08/24/how-retailers-can-leverage-the-economic-comeback/' title='Video: How Retailers Can Leverage the Economic Comeback'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1608264450517592111/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=1608264450517592111' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1608264450517592111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1608264450517592111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/08/video-how-retailers-can-leverage.html' title='Video: How Retailers Can Leverage the Economic Comeback'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-4266544835682120816</id><published>2010-07-25T20:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-25T20:53:16.525-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='online offline marketing'/><title type='text'>Being an Effective Marketer, Both Online and Offline from WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/07/25/being-an-effective-marketer-both-online-and-offline/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WebProNewsVideos+%28WebProNews+Videos%29&amp;amp;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Being an Effective Marketer, Both Online and Offline&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The term “marketing” gets used a lot and, sometimes, it’s used rather loosely in search and social media circles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Not all, but a lot of the search industry tends to be kind of search geeks who are trying to figure out what marketing is,”&lt;/i&gt; says Bill Leake of &lt;a href="http://www.apogeeresults.com/index.php"&gt;Apogee Results&lt;/a&gt;, formerly Apogee Search.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make a long-term difference in customers, he believes &lt;i&gt;effective&lt;/i&gt;  marketing is key. Factors such as determining what the customer wants  to do, how you can make it happen, and how you can transfer business  objectives into strategies that can be implemented, are all instrumental  aspects of marketing. He goes on to say that search is just one area of  marketing that is important, but it works best when used with the other  aspects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people focus heavily on search, since it is easily measured.  Other challenges of marketing could result from all the departments in  companies and, particularly, within marketing itself. Due to the lack of  communication these departments create, many opportunities are missed. As online marketing increases in awareness, there is also the danger  of neglecting offline channels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Online marketing is very valuable for  businesses involved largely in the consumer space and B2B. On the other  hand, online isn’t as valuable when reaching enterprise level companies  and government agencies. Essentially, Leake says businesses need to  market wherever their customers are, whether it be online, offline, or  both.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Watch the Video Now at:&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/07/25/being-an-effective-marketer-both-online-and-offline/" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;http://videos.webpronews.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-4266544835682120816?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/4266544835682120816/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=4266544835682120816' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4266544835682120816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4266544835682120816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/07/being-effective-marketer-both-online.html' title='Being an Effective Marketer, Both Online and Offline from WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-6628007344213501905</id><published>2010-07-23T19:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-23T19:24:37.230-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Conversion Rate Optimization'/><title type='text'>Tips for Conversion Rate Optimization from WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>How do you approach conversion rate optimization? &lt;a href="http://www.invesp.com/about-us.html"&gt;Khalid Saleh&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.invesp.com/"&gt;Invesp&lt;/a&gt; tells &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;  that many people make the mistake of taking an approach that is too  simplistic. Although it’s easy to do with large sites, Saleh says it  could be problematic since &lt;i&gt;“[it] doesn’t mimic how visitors react or act on your website.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background: url(&amp;quot;http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif&amp;quot;) repeat-x scroll left top rgb(217, 217, 217); border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font: 14px 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; height: 208px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 326px;"&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsmxw10_saleh" height="188" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="right" href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=smxw10_saleh', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')"&gt;&lt;img align="right" border="0" src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alternatively, he suggests looking at analytics to find the primary  areas of focus. Once these areas are determined, think about the  customer and what he or she wants instead of simply making uncalculated  changes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although changes will vary from site to site, Saleh recommends taking  things such ad spend into account. In addition, he advises people to  look at their analytics to see the navigational path users take. This  not only helps site owners understand where the customers are going, but  it also could identify any areas that they themselves need to modify.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By taking these factors into consideration, Saleh says people could  see meaningful increases in conversion rates. Are you paying attention  to these areas?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-6628007344213501905?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6628007344213501905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=6628007344213501905' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6628007344213501905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6628007344213501905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/07/tips-for-conversion-rate-optimization.html' title='Tips for Conversion Rate Optimization from WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-8014621124030309542</id><published>2010-07-10T16:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-10T16:02:13.971-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Global Marketing'/><title type='text'>Global Marketing: What You Need to Know - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The Web has provided numerous opportunities for businesses including  the ability to have global reach. But with that opportunity comes many  challenges such as marketing on a global scale. To learn more about  global marketing, &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;  caught up with &lt;a href="http://www.beyondink.com/seo-team-anne-kennedy.php"&gt;Anne Kennedy&lt;/a&gt;  of &lt;a href="http://www.beyondink.com/"&gt;Beyond Ink&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://joblr.net/"&gt;Joblr&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.nordicemarketing.com/Employees/"&gt;Kristjan Mar Hauksson&lt;/a&gt;  of &lt;a href="http://www.nordicemarketing.com/"&gt;Nordic eMarketing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background: url(&amp;quot;http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif&amp;quot;) repeat-x scroll left top rgb(217, 217, 217); border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font: 14px 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; height: 208px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 326px;"&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsesny10_kennedy" height="188" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="right" href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=sesny10_kennedy', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')"&gt;&lt;img align="right" border="0" src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Kennedy points out, a big SEO challenge is language. However, she  believes the biggest challenge is enculturation in matters such as  finding the right keyword set for a different country. This could be a  problem since it may not translate directly. For instance, soccer cleats  in the U.S. are called football boots in the UK and something  completely different in France.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;It’s also important to think about these cultural matters in regards  to content, link building, graphic design, and more. Although  localization and enculturation are the most important areas, Kennedy  says understanding the language barrier is the first step in getting  these areas right.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Although Nordic eMarketing is based in Iceland, Mar Hauksson says it  has found ways to market its products in a multilingual environment. He  also points out that the company understands the impact of culture and  realizes that not everyone speaks and uses English.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;“When you understand that, you have a much bigger market that you  can market towards,”&lt;/i&gt; says Mar Hauksson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;At the time of the recording of this interview, &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; had recently made the move to  stop censoring its search results on &lt;a href="http://www.google.cn/"&gt;Google.cn&lt;/a&gt;  and was redirecting visitors to &lt;a href="http://www.google.com.hk/"&gt;Google.com.hk&lt;/a&gt;,  which it does not censor. While some developments have occurred since  that time, it is far from being over. Just last week, Google reported  that its operations in China were partially blocked and that Chinese  officials were allegedly reviewing its application to operate in the  country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Today, the company &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/update-on-china.html"&gt;released&lt;/a&gt;  this statement, &lt;i&gt;“We are very pleased that the government has  renewed our ICP license and we look forward to continuing to provide web  search and local products to our users in China.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Both Kennedy and Mar Hauksson believe it is important to pay  attention to the Google/China situation from both a SEO and marketing  standpoint.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Kennedy also offers some tips for doing social media globally. Just  as understanding culture is critical to SEO, it is also critical to  social media. She says marketers need to be aware of what social  networks are popular in each country and how the people use and interact  with them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Social media, by its very definition, depends on the nature of  the society where it’s doing business,” &lt;/i&gt;explains Kennedy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Are you embracing marketing on a global level?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-8014621124030309542?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/8014621124030309542/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=8014621124030309542' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8014621124030309542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8014621124030309542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/07/global-marketing-what-you-need-to-know.html' title='Global Marketing: What You Need to Know - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-4412780504980651762</id><published>2010-07-08T10:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-08T10:55:56.016-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ffective Social Media Strategy'/><title type='text'>Building an Effective Social Media Strategy - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;As marketers, what goals do you have with social media? Most  marketers use social for efforts such as branding, promotion, and  visibility. Interestingly, marketers do not usually consider the  benefits that search and social provide together...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background: url(&amp;quot;http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif&amp;quot;) repeat-x scroll left top rgb(217, 217, 217); border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font: 14px 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; height: 208px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 326px;"&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsesny10_lieb" height="188" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="right" href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=sesny10_lieb', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')"&gt;&lt;img align="right" border="0" src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;According to &lt;a href="http://www.rebeccalieb.com/"&gt;Rebecca Lieb&lt;/a&gt;  of &lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/"&gt;Econsultancy&lt;/a&gt;, most marketers  aren’t aware of how closely the two are tied. For instance, when a user  signs into &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; and searches for a  query, he can see real-time social search results in addition to the  other results. Specifically, he can see a live Twitter feed and anything  that people within his social circle are saying, related to his query.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;While still talking about social media, Lieb brings up two areas that  marketers have not fully grasped. They are: strategy and execution. So  many marketers are jumping on the social media bandwagon with a &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; account to simply keep up with  the times. However, this is not the way that people succeed in social  media.&lt;/span&gt; page or &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;As part of a social media strategy, marketers need to know what they  want to accomplish, who they are trying to reach, how they are going to  communicate with the target, and more. Many people perceive social as  something that is free, but as Lieb points out, nothing is free.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;To be truthful, social media takes lots of time and resources. If  marketers calculate these factors into their strategy, their chances for  social success will increase.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;On a different note, Lieb also tells &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt; that she is encouraged  by current developments taking place regarding net neutrality.&amp;nbsp; She  believes the U.S. is on the right track to improve the necessity of  high-speed and open Web access.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-4412780504980651762?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/4412780504980651762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=4412780504980651762' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4412780504980651762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4412780504980651762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/07/building-effective-social-media.html' title='Building an Effective Social Media Strategy - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-5774304668754301</id><published>2010-06-09T10:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-09T10:51:37.796-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How to Approach a Web Video Series as a Marketing Strategy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reelseo.com/approach-web-video-series-marketing-strategy/"&gt;How to Approach a Web Video Series as a Marketing Strategy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;What’s a proven but very overlooked social media business strategy  for professional minded individuals and small business operations, one  that’s well-suited for online video? According to successful author and  Chicago media personality &lt;a href="http://www.robynokrant.com/media.html" target="_blank"&gt;Robyn  Okrant&lt;/a&gt;, it’s &lt;strong&gt;doing “serialization” with your video content &lt;/strong&gt;­– i.e.,  knowing how to tell a story as a series of videos where your audience  stays tuned on a daily basis. Listen to my podcast interview to hear  about a how serialization can be a successful online video strategy that  builds an enthusiastic audience and great-word-of-mouth marketing  – even without having an actual marketing budget. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="powerpress_player" id="powerpress_player_3721"&gt;Every now and then we at ReelSEO like to cover media personalities  and their own takes on online video marketing, getting fresh  perspectives from people not embedded deep in our industry.  Robyn  Okrant is a Chicago-based author, artist, and media personality who I  would say certainly fits that billing. She’s the author of the book  Living Oprah: &lt;em&gt;My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen  of Talk, &lt;/em&gt;and the sister “&lt;a href="http://www.livingoprah.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Living Oprah” blog&lt;/a&gt; that generated over a million  monthly views featuring her personal project diary. Her online  popularity led to international television appearances (including the &lt;a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/27236488/" target="_blank"&gt;Today  show&lt;/a&gt;, CNBC, MSNBC) and national radio programs, more book deals, and  the lecture circuit on successful social networking with new media, but  a self-avowed non-tecchie drama arts major. &lt;p&gt;So how does someone with a performance background but no real techie  background manage to be a proven success with social media all by  herself? Well, aside from picking a subject that happens to be arguable  the biggest key influencer in modern history save for perhaps one or two  religious figures (I’m referring to Oprah Winfrey of course), she  touched on a concept that is pervasive in the traditional entertainment  world and high-priced video webisodes, but very rare with your regular  bloggers – that would be serialization.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reelseo.com/approach-web-video-series-marketing-strategy/"&gt;Read the full story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reelseo.com/approach-web-video-series-marketing-strategy/"&gt; at ReelSEO.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-5774304668754301?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/5774304668754301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=5774304668754301' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/5774304668754301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/5774304668754301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-approach-web-video-series-as.html' title='How to Approach a Web Video Series as a Marketing Strategy'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3822984659263113412</id><published>2010-06-08T19:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-08T19:49:16.783-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google Announcements'/><title type='text'>What Recent Google Announcements Mean for Google - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;It is always interesting to find out what search industry veteran &lt;a href="http://searchengineland.com/staff"&gt;Danny Sullivan&lt;/a&gt; has to say  about announcements pertaining to the Web. For this reason, &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt; spoke with Sullivan at &lt;a href="http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/"&gt;Google I/O&lt;/a&gt; to get his  opinion on HTML5, Android, and Google TV...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background: url(&amp;quot;http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif&amp;quot;) repeat-x scroll left top rgb(217, 217, 217); border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font: 14px 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; height: 208px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 326px;"&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dgoogleio_danny" height="188" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="right" href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=googleio_danny', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')"&gt;&lt;img align="right" border="0" src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/05/25/adobe-sees-future-in-both-flash-and-html5/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As  we have previously reported&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.adobe.com/"&gt;Adobe&lt;/a&gt;  announced an update pack to &lt;a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/"&gt;Dreamweaver CS5&lt;/a&gt;  for HTML5. Since the announcement was made at Google I/O, Sullivan  believes Google wants to publicly show that it embraces the idea of  openness that HTML5 is built upon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;“It plays well with Google’s thing, which is… if you can get to  everything on the Web, then Google thinks it’s going to win along the  way,”&lt;/i&gt; says Sullivan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;In regards to &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/tv/"&gt;Google TV&lt;/a&gt;,  Sullivan is excited about the innovation but is curious about pricing.  He specifically says, &lt;i&gt;“It puts them [Google] into a place where  people are spending hours of their day and not getting a chance to see  any of Google’s ads…”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;He points out that he would like to see Google TV integrated into  cable company services. Despite all the excitement about Google TV, what does it mean for the  &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/"&gt;iPad&lt;/a&gt;? Currently, many people  use the iPad to look up items as they are watching TV. Google TV,  however, could eliminate this need. In addition, Sullivan indicated that  Google TV could lead to a greater adoption of Android devices since it  runs Android apps.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;There have also been many questions since Google has&lt;/span&gt; two operating  systems: Chrome and Android. Sullivan tried to get Google to clarify the  two moving forward but did not receive a definite response. The company  hinted that it could unify Android and Chrome at some point in the  future, but did not make any commitments that it would.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3822984659263113412?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3822984659263113412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3822984659263113412' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3822984659263113412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3822984659263113412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-recent-google-announcements-mean.html' title='What Recent Google Announcements Mean for Google - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-1991565434826992264</id><published>2010-06-05T14:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-05T15:01:47.136-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Facebook'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mobile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Social'/><title type='text'>CEO's Marketers, Business Owners and Entrepreneurs Join Me on Facebook</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dear, CEO's, Marketers, Business Owners and &lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Entrepreneur&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;s...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Let me help you keep up with the latest &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/marciseoer"&gt;SEO&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/mewebsocial"&gt; Social&lt;/a&gt;, Mobile, Video, &lt;a href="http://www.websuccesstraffic.com/"&gt;Internet Marketing&lt;/a&gt; Scoop and Much More on my Facebook Fan  page: &lt;a href="http://artist.to/fan-page-marci-rosenblum/"&gt;http://artist.to/fan-page-marci-rosenblum.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="UIStory_Message" style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="UIStory_Message" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I am now posting all the good  Internet Marketing content on my &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marci-Rosenblum-Expert-SEO-Specialist-Web-Traffic-Social-Media-Marketer/70863093045"&gt;Fan Page&lt;/a&gt;. I hope you will find it  useful as the Internet world changes constantly!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;See you there!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Warm Regards,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marci-Rosenblum-Expert-SEO-Specialist-Web-Traffic-Social-Media-Marketer/70863093045"&gt;Marci Rosenblum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SEO Strategist, Web Traffic, Social Media Marketer &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-1991565434826992264?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1991565434826992264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=1991565434826992264' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1991565434826992264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1991565434826992264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/06/ceos-marketers-business-owners-and.html' title='CEO&apos;s Marketers, Business Owners and Entrepreneurs Join Me on Facebook'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-4872440178810831395</id><published>2010-05-23T15:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T15:01:35.263-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Innovative Marketing Video'/><title type='text'>Innovative Marketing In The Form Of Brand Fiction - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Compared to other forms of writing, fiction is quite popular; &lt;/b&gt;it’s  rare that you’ll see a person pick up some dead president’s biography  rather than the latest thriller, for example.  And fiction can also work  well in terms of promoting companies, with instances of brand fiction  achieving success...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background: url(&amp;quot;http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif&amp;quot;) repeat-x scroll left top rgb(217, 217, 217); border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font: 14px 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; height: 208px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 326px;"&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsxsw10_ross" height="188" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="right" href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=sxsw10_ross', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')"&gt;&lt;img align="right" border="0" src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helen Klein Ross, the founder of &lt;a href="http://www.brandfictionfactory.com/"&gt;Brand Fiction Factory&lt;/a&gt;,  spoke to Abby Johnson at SXSW about this concept.  She explained, “The  idea of brand fiction is not only to develop new, entertaining ways for  consumers to connect with the brand, but to take the message and the  story that brands are already telling and opening up to new ways.   Giving consumers new incentives to connect with the brand.  And  validating them.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Ross also said, “Consumers don’t want to sit back and listen to  stories just told by the gatekeepers.  It’s a whole new world.  So brand  fiction gives consumers a new way to connect with the brands and a new  incentive to do so.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Ross is a real pro in this respect, too.  She is in fact the person  behind the Twitter account of “Betty Draper” (a character on the AMC TV  show Mad Men), and Betty Draper/Ross won a Shorty Award for Innovation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Spicing up an advertising campaign with some innovative storytelling  looks like a great way to catch people’s attention and keep their  interest, then.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-4872440178810831395?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/4872440178810831395/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=4872440178810831395' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4872440178810831395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4872440178810831395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/05/innovative-marketing-in-form-of-brand.html' title='Innovative Marketing In The Form Of Brand Fiction - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3882434159916142715</id><published>2010-04-27T17:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-27T17:47:19.727-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Twilk Twitter background generator'/><title type='text'>Twilk: Create a Twitter Background of Your Friends - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;While at &lt;a href="http://sxsw.com/"&gt;SXSW&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt; caught up with &lt;a href="http://www.kylemulka.com/"&gt;Kyle Mulka&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.congolabs.com/"&gt;Congo Labs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/b&gt; Mulka is currently working on a &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; application called &lt;a href="http://twilk.com/"&gt;Twilk&lt;/a&gt; that is quickly gaining popularity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 208px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 326px;"&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsxsw10_mulka" height="188" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="right" href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=sxsw10_mulka', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')"&gt;&lt;img align="right" border="0" src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Twilk is a Twitter background generator &lt;/b&gt;that takes a user’s followers on Twitter to create a photo collage out of their icons. The application sorts followers based on how much the user tweets about them and gives prominent placement to the people tweeted about the most.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people are using Twilk as a way to reward their followers for following them. Others just like seeing their friends’ faces on their background. For businesses that use the application, Twilk allows them to exclude certain people such as competitors and other people that they do not want to show up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mulka told WPN that they would like to develop the background to the point that it is clickable. &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information on Twilk, visit their &lt;a href="http://twilk.com/"&gt;site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3882434159916142715?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3882434159916142715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3882434159916142715' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3882434159916142715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3882434159916142715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/04/twilk-create-twitter-background-of-your.html' title='Twilk: Create a Twitter Background of Your Friends - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-2372344006710561646</id><published>2010-04-23T14:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-23T14:11:42.447-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Viral Video Success'/><title type='text'>The Secret to Viral Videos - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Everyone wants their video to go viral, but is it really possible?&lt;/span&gt; According to Margaret Gould Stewart of &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/"&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;, people need to, first of all, understand what types of videos go viral.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsxsw10_youtube" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=sxsw10_youtube', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:100%;" &gt;As she explains, most viral videos happen by accident. There is, however, another category of content that could go viral. People producing this type of content create it on a regular basis in order to build a sustained audience.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;When it comes to actually creating viral content, Stewart says, &lt;em&gt;“It really is about great content. It’s really difficult to make content that is not interesting or exciting go viral.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Another factor in creating viral content is knowing your audience. Content producers need to understand who their audience is and build sustainable relationships with them. In addition, Stewart points out the importance of attaching metadata to the content.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Just as &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SEO&lt;/span&gt; is important for &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;, it is also important for the second largest search engine, YouTube. Ideally, the best content is at the top, but you can help it by making titles clear and direct and putting in the right tags. If you do this, searchers will be able to find your content easily when they search for it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Lastly, content producers need to make sure they are enabling the embedding capability on their video. Stewart says that as a video starts to go viral, the largest amount of traffic comes from other sources in the first 48 hours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;In the end, all viral videos do not receive one million viewers. For businesses especially, a video can be viral as long as it reaches its target audience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-2372344006710561646?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/2372344006710561646/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=2372344006710561646' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2372344006710561646'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2372344006710561646'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/04/secret-to-viral-videos-webpronews-video.html' title='The Secret to Viral Videos - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-6425304161498602048</id><published>2010-04-18T14:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T14:31:23.667-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='How Business Models Determine Success'/><title type='text'>How Business Models Determine Success - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Determining what it is that makes a business successful is difficult, especially in this economy.&lt;/b&gt; Is success measured in numbers or profitability? As &lt;a href="http://www.uship.com/about/executives.aspx"&gt;Matt Chasen&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.uship.com/"&gt;uShip&lt;/a&gt; explains, many businesses take a backward approach to finding success.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 208px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 326px;"&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dimplementing_seo_for_your_business" height="188" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="right" href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=implementing_seo_for_your_business', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')"&gt;&lt;img align="right" border="0" src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;When he started uShip 6 years ago, he says he was very focused on proving out their business model. Unfortunately, a lot of businesses in the Internet space tend to create a business around hype and users and consider the business model later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Chasen advises entrepreneurs to focus on small, niche industries that maybe aren’t very “sexy.” uShip, for example, is an online marketplace for transportation services. It combines a relatively “old school” industry with new technology. Entrepreneurs need to realize that there are vast amounts of opportunity in areas such as this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;In addition, Chasen suggests that if entrepreneurs are going to fail that they need to fail quickly. He says it is inexpensive and quick to prototype new businesses and business models, so it shouldn’t take too long to find something that works. According to Chasen, the quicker you figure out how you are going to make money, the better your chances are of being successful.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-6425304161498602048?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6425304161498602048/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=6425304161498602048' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6425304161498602048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6425304161498602048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-business-models-determine-success.html' title='How Business Models Determine Success - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-8590389449648214817</id><published>2010-04-04T14:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T14:43:56.394-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Is all Press Really Good Press'/><title type='text'>Is all Press Really Good Press? - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Traditionally, public relations agencies have considered any press good publicity. &lt;/b&gt;However, in this day and age of new media, that standard has changed. Sam Ford of &lt;a href="http://www.peppercom.com/"&gt;Peppercom&lt;/a&gt; calls the traditional viewpoint “a major mistake.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;In an interview with Abby Johnson at &lt;a href="http://sxsw.com/"&gt;SXSW&lt;/a&gt;, Ford explains that communicators should think qualitatively in terms of what people are saying, instead of quantitatively.&amp;nbsp; In addition, now as brands are getting more involved in social media, they need to realize that they might not like the feedback they receive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 208px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 326px;"&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsxsw10_samford" height="188" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="right" href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=sxsw10_samford', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')"&gt;&lt;img align="right" border="0" src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;If you are not ready to hear honest feedback, then maybe new media is not the place for you. Ford says, &lt;i&gt;“Engagement only works if you’re prepared to engage on your side as much as you’re expecting the audience to engage.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;He also points out the harm in a brand “over-promising” its ability to engage if it cannot. Unfortunately, many Web 2.0 business models are built off of strategies for engaging the audience, but if the brand is not providing anything in return, it is essentially asking for unpaid labor to build its business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Once a brand is involved and is ready to engage, Ford says it automatically thinks that the only way it can react to negativity is by responding. Instead of focusing on what to say next, Ford suggests that brands find solutions for the real problems. He said &lt;i&gt;hearing&lt;/i&gt; is not &lt;i&gt;listening&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;If a brand wants to produce positive press, a brand should send a message that is additional material for the conversation the audience is already having. In the end, this will make the message spreadable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Are you actively engaging your audience and truly listening?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-8590389449648214817?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/8590389449648214817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=8590389449648214817' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8590389449648214817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8590389449648214817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/04/is-all-press-really-good-press.html' title='Is all Press Really Good Press? - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3266948871326037286</id><published>2010-03-26T14:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-26T14:18:08.341-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='State Of SEM Discussed'/><title type='text'>State Of SEM Discussed (With Stats) - WebProNews Videos</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SEMPO’s State of Search Engine Marketing Report is a very important document in the search industry, providing a good look at its growth (or lack thereof). &lt;/b&gt;Fortunately, as SEMPO’s outgoing president explained in an interview with Abby Johnson, the news is pretty much all positive this year...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; height: 208px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 326px;"&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsesny10_holoubek" height="188" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="right" href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=sesny10_holoubek', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')"&gt;&lt;img align="right" border="0" src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At SES New York, &lt;a href="http://www.sempo.org/home/"&gt;SEMPO&lt;/a&gt;’s Sara Holoubek summarized the state of search marketing by saying, “Things are looking good for search.” She also said, “Folks should feel confident in their spending.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;In terms of some specifics, Holoubek then stated, “The data suggested that we will have 14 percent growth, and that means that the North American search engine marketing budget will be $16.6 billion in 2010.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Finally, here’s a rather stunning fact with regards to where most of that money is headed: “97 percent of the respondents are advertising on Google.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;It looks like the search marketing industry – along with Google’s bank account balance – is in great shape, then, regardless of the recent recession. Indeed, a record number of people (about 1,500 individuals in 16 countries) responded to SEMPO’s survey, making the results hard to dismiss.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3266948871326037286?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3266948871326037286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3266948871326037286' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3266948871326037286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3266948871326037286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/03/state-of-sem-discussed-with-stats.html' title='State Of SEM Discussed (With Stats) - WebProNews Videos'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3271670732408100690</id><published>2010-02-26T11:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-26T11:17:48.704-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Making Time for Marketing'/><title type='text'>Making Time for Marketing - WebProNews Videos</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Many small and medium-sized businesses tend to struggle since they typically have a lack of resources. &lt;/span&gt;Most of them are understaffed but still have to make time for social media, search engine rankings, leads, following up on leads, and more...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Doms10_albee" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=oms10_albee', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;While at the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.onlinemarketingsummit.com/"&gt;Online Marketing Summit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; in San Diego, Mike McDonald of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; spoke with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.genoo.com/about_us"&gt;Genoo’s CEO Kim Albee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; about these very issues. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.genoo.com/"&gt;Genoo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; provides tools that allow businesses to manage multiple aspects in one place. As a result, the business has more time to dedicate to leads, follow-ups, and conversions.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;These areas are very important to small businesses because, as Albee points out, &lt;em&gt;“…if you don’t follow up, then whatever you spent to get those leads lose their value every month that you don’t follow up.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;In addition, the company puts enterprise level information into SMB terms. Often times at industry events, the perspective is from a large brand. Genoo takes that information and makes it applicable to SMBs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3271670732408100690?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3271670732408100690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3271670732408100690' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3271670732408100690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3271670732408100690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/02/making-time-for-marketing-webpronews.html' title='Making Time for Marketing - WebProNews Videos'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-7891030446841822916</id><published>2010-02-12T10:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-12T10:55:27.226-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Samsung Impressive Products for 2010'/><title type='text'>Samsung Unveils Impressive Products for 2010 - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.samsung.com/us/"&gt;Samsung&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;’s display at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cesweb.org/"&gt;CES 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; was one of the most talked about exhibits at the entire show.&lt;/span&gt;  With its fascinating collection of TVs, 3D innovations, and a new category of e-readers, Samsung wowed everyone that walked by including &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; font-family: verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dces10_samsung" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=ces10_samsung', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First on the list was the full lineup of TVs consisting of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/tv-video/televisions/lcd-tv/index.idx?pagetype=subtype"&gt;LCDs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/tv-video/televisions/plasma-tv/index.idx?pagetype=subtype"&gt;Plasmas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/tv-video/televisions/led-tv/index.idx?pagetype=subtype"&gt;LEDs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;. Each of these product lines has a full range of 19-65-inch TVs.  Some of the models within each of these lineups will feature a new technology called AllShare. This innovation allows users to connect the television to other devices in the home such as digital cameras, computers, mobile devices, and more.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The company also introduced their own App store called &lt;a href="http://www.samsungapps.com/"&gt;Samsung Apps&lt;/a&gt;. Now users can download content for their TVs, just as they do for their mobile phones. The store includes a wide variety of apps such as informational apps, gaming apps, and movie-streaming apps.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;High-end versions of the 3 television lineups also have 3D capabilities. As Scott Cohen told WPN, users can watch anything in 3D with Samsung. Some TVs have a processor that allows users to render any 2D content into 3D.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;With Plasma specifically, Samsung’s product line has grown. The primary focus of this line is picture-quality enhancement, such as deeper blacks and better motion. Top-end Plasma models will have customizable features that allow users to adjust the picture to their preference.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The last but certainly not the least in the TV product lines is the LED. The advantages of this line are low power consumption, vibrant colors, and brightness. Also, the LEDs are all under 2-inches deep with the flagship model at only 0.3-inches, which is thinner than a pencil!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;In spite of all the hype around the fascinating TVs, Samsung’s category of e-readers also created a lot of buzz. The company will be bringing 4 e-readers to the market with screen sizes ranging from 5-10-inches. In addition, Samsung revealed a partnership with &lt;a href="http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=En&amp;amp;tab=wp"&gt;Google Books&lt;/a&gt; for this product.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;All these Samsung products will be available during the first half of 2010. To find out more, visit &lt;a href="http://www.samsung.com/us/"&gt;www.Samsung.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-7891030446841822916?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/7891030446841822916/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=7891030446841822916' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7891030446841822916'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7891030446841822916'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/02/samsung-unveils-impressive-products-for.html' title='Samsung Unveils Impressive Products for 2010 - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-261441739983637175</id><published>2010-02-09T09:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-09T09:10:29.849-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Polaroid Brings Back Instant Film'/><title type='text'>Polaroid Brings Back Instant Film - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Many of you probably remember when &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.polaroid.com/"&gt;Polaroid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; ended its line of Instant Film cameras back in 2008.&lt;/span&gt; Fortunately, the company has decided to bring back its legendary Polaroid OneStep camera but with a modern twist.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; font-family: verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dpolaroidinstant" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=polaroidinstant', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Jon Pollock, Polaroid’s Chief Marketing Officer, spoke with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cesweb.org/"&gt;CES 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; and explained how so many people expressed remorse for the Instant Film products. Specifically, artists and photographers reached out to Polaroid and asked them to bring it back.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;In November, the company made its official announcement that it was bringing back its classic film.  Polaroid will be offering a redesigned, modernized version of its OneStep camera that Pollock proudly showed off at CES.  He said this camera “really represents Polaroid.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The PIC 1000 will be available just in time for the holidays this year. Incidentally, Polaroid’s new Creative Director, &lt;a href="http://www.ladygaga.com/splash/"&gt;Lady Gaga&lt;/a&gt;, pointed out in this &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/01/29/lady-gaga-shares-her-creativity-with-polaroid/"&gt;WPN report&lt;/a&gt; that she was excited to help Polaroid take its Instant Film into the digital age.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"&gt;For the latest information on Polaroid’s products, visit their &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.polaroid.com/"&gt;site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="post-create.g?blogID=18650653#" id="show-labels-link" onclick="BLOG_showLabels(); return false"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-261441739983637175?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/261441739983637175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=261441739983637175' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/261441739983637175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/261441739983637175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/02/polaroid-brings-back-instant-film.html' title='Polaroid Brings Back Instant Film - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-2737607597935587569</id><published>2010-01-29T14:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T14:46:58.148-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ghost Tweeting Right or Wrong'/><title type='text'>Ghost Tweeting: Right or Wrong? - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Earlier this year at SES New York, &lt;a href="http://www.guykawasaki.com/"&gt;Guy Kawasaki&lt;/a&gt; raised quite a stir when he gave his keynote address regarding his use of &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; and specifically, his use of ghost tweeters. Although many SEOs disagree with the practice, &lt;a href="http://www.lianaevans.com/"&gt;Li Evans&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://serengeticommunications.com/"&gt;Serengeti Communications&lt;/a&gt; defends him on the grounds of marketing...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dseschi09_li" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=seschi09_li', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Kawasaki’s use of Twitter became a problem when some people discovered that he had ghost tweeters but didn’t disclose it. Although he does disclose now, Evans says people need to understand that Kawasaki is a marketer. With marketing, the message plays one of the most critical roles.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;In an &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2009/11/03/is-there-a-wrong-way-to-use-twitter/"&gt;interview&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt; at the &lt;a href="http://www.blogworldexpo.com/"&gt;BlogWorld Expo 2009&lt;/a&gt;, Kawasaki responded to the criticism of his ghost tweeters by saying: &lt;em&gt;“At the end of the day, the ultimate test is not who tweeted it, as much as, is it interesting.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;According to Evans, the core issue is the expectations of the audience. &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/APlusK"&gt;Ashton Kutcher&lt;/a&gt; is an avid tweeter and his followers know it. On the contrary, &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/50cent"&gt;50 Cent&lt;/a&gt; has other people tweet for him; although it doesn’t make everyone happy, his followers know that he is not tweeting on his own.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;In regards to business usage of Twitter, Evans recommends planning a strategy to determine the best way to meet the audience’s expectations. If the expectations involve more than the business can do on its own, make sure to disclose whoever is doing it. Otherwise, the business could lose its credibility.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-2737607597935587569?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/2737607597935587569/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=2737607597935587569' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2737607597935587569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2737607597935587569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2010/01/ghost-tweeting-right-or-wrong.html' title='Ghost Tweeting: Right or Wrong? - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-1154379183420238617</id><published>2009-12-11T12:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T12:13:49.782-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Real Time Search and Spam'/><title type='text'>With Real-Time Search, Comes Real-Time Spam - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Earlier this week, &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/12/07/showtime-for-real-time-with-google"&gt;Google announced&lt;/a&gt; that it has begun integrating real-time search into its regular search results. Incidentally, &lt;a href="http://outspokenmedia.com/about/rae-hoffman/"&gt;Rae Hoffman&lt;/a&gt;, CEO and Co-Founder of &lt;a href="http://outspokenmedia.com/"&gt;Outspoken Media&lt;/a&gt;, began playing with the new feature and &lt;a href="http://outspokenmedia.com/seo/google-real-time-spam/#more-4334"&gt;discovered some alarming results&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dseschi09_rae" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=seschi09_rae', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The first concern Hoffman noticed is a spam issue. Upon tweeting about Viagra, she found that her results were showing up in Google’s results. She was even able to drop links into her tweets that people could access directly from Google.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Secondly, Hoffman uncovered reputation management issues with Google’s new integration. An unhappy employee or competitor could easily damage a company’s reputation. During a session at &lt;a href="http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/chicago/"&gt;SES Chicago&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/"&gt;Dave Naylor&lt;/a&gt; even mentioned that he might have to clean up his Twitter stream over fear of losing business.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Thirdly and probably the most serious of the issues Hoffman revealed is the safety concerns for children online. Through a series of tests including the highest level of safe search, Hoffman was able to reach out to kids who searched for queries such as Sesame Street and Miley Cyrus. Unfortunately, sexual predators could easily do the same. Scary, huh?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;There were actually even more discoveries Hoffman was able to uncover that she did not disclose.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Many people believe Google rushed its real-time integration to respond to the recent real-time efforts &lt;a href="http://www.bing.com/"&gt;Bing&lt;/a&gt; has made. Hoffman predicts that Google will either have bad results for a while as they fix their problems, or admit they made a mistake and deal with a reputation management problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-1154379183420238617?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1154379183420238617/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=1154379183420238617' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1154379183420238617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1154379183420238617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/12/with-real-time-search-comes-real-time.html' title='With Real-Time Search, Comes Real-Time Spam - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-2140829839447227505</id><published>2009-11-22T13:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-22T13:45:59.207-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search and Social from Lee Odden'/><title type='text'>Search + Social = Better ROI - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Are you utilizing search and social media together? According to &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.toprankblog.com/lee-odden/"&gt;Lee Odden&lt;/a&gt;, CEO of &lt;a href="http://www.toprankmarketing.com/"&gt;TopRank Online Marketing&lt;/a&gt;, many people keep their search and social campaigns separate. However, if they combine their efforts, they would be more capable of reaching their goals and even expanding them.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dpubcon09_lodden" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=pubcon09_lodden', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Typically, people use social media for branding and customer engagement. With search, people want to increase sales and leads by being more visible. But a joint effort produces better results. Take, for example, the &lt;a href="http://checkoutblog.com/"&gt;Wal-Mart Check Out blog&lt;/a&gt;. It has 16,000 inbound links and is great for engagement, but it has a severe lack of SEO. The site ranks for phrases such as “checkout” but not for any of its content. &lt;p&gt;On the flip side, &lt;a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/"&gt;IKEA&lt;/a&gt; is actively involved with social media, but the company applies SEO to it as well. Odden says that people and companies that optimize their social content drive traffic, build relationships, and reach customers all at the same time.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In addition, many people falsely look at social media as a direct marketing tactic, although it is not at all. Odden said:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Measuring ROI as a direct result of social media is not the right question because social media is a platform, it’s not a tactic.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;He went on to say that making that comparison is similar to asking where the ROI is in email. The use of a platform determines the results, not the platform itself. If your goal is to increase your revenue, you must look at ROI. If not, you can find value in social media through relationships, branding, and visibility.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-2140829839447227505?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/2140829839447227505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=2140829839447227505' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2140829839447227505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2140829839447227505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/11/search-social-better-roi-webpronews.html' title='Search + Social = Better ROI - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-4268676087616424055</id><published>2009-11-07T16:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-07T16:42:32.676-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PubCon 2009 - Las Vegas Convention Center'/><title type='text'>PubCon 2009 - Las Vegas Convention Center: November 9th-13th.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;PubCon Vegas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt; - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;  November 10 - 13, 2009 Las Vegas Convention Center&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.pubcon.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 53px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mh1NcztvWaA/SvYQlCv0lZI/AAAAAAAAA94/Opei5Y0SUgg/s320/logo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401523031656142226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;When it comes to creating marketing buzz online, webmasters pretty much invented the concept.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pubcon.com/"&gt;PubCon&lt;/a&gt; is four days of leading edge education and networking in over 90 sessions featuring 200 expert speakers in Social Media, Affiliate Programs, Search, and SEO/SEM. In its 8th year, PubCon was founded out of the rich and diverse base of WebmasterWorld forums. These aren't people who just &lt;i&gt;talk&lt;/i&gt; about this stuff - these are people who &lt;b&gt;do&lt;/b&gt; this stuff.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The A-List alpha attendees to PubCon are among the most highly pursued demographic in the online marketing world.&lt;/span&gt; Highly   educated and computer savvy, they're early adopters of the latest web technologies and trends. These are the folks that any   forward thinking company wants to reach and network with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Where  &lt;/b&gt; Las Vegas Convention Center in fabulous Las Vegas Nevada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Format &lt;/b&gt; Seven Track Educational Conference with Exposition Hall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Topics &lt;/b&gt; Search, Web 2.0, Net Marketing, SEO/SEM, Affiliates, Domainers, Video, Multimedia : aka: Webmastery.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Levels &lt;/b&gt; PubCon is scaled mainly from professional to expert experience levels (heavy content). we start where other conferences finish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;One of the best ways to keep up with the latest news about   PubCon and other events is to visit the  &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&amp;amp;gid=1263117"&gt;PubCon LinkedIn   social networking site group&lt;/a&gt;, the  &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=189214800466"&gt;PubCon Facebook&lt;/a&gt;   group, and the &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/pubcon"&gt;PubCon Twitter feed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;This is one of my MOST Favorite Internet Marketing Events of the year&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;, hope to see YOU there:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.websuccesstraffic.com/"&gt;Marci Rosenblum/WebSuccessTraffic.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-4268676087616424055?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/4268676087616424055/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=4268676087616424055' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4268676087616424055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4268676087616424055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/11/pubcon-2009-las-vegas-convention-center.html' title='PubCon 2009 - Las Vegas Convention Center: November 9th-13th.'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mh1NcztvWaA/SvYQlCv0lZI/AAAAAAAAA94/Opei5Y0SUgg/s72-c/logo.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-1810885331021257613</id><published>2009-10-02T12:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-02T12:25:41.019-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Using Creativity to Grow Your Email List'/><title type='text'>Using Creativity to Grow Your Email List - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Although email marketing is one of the oldest forms of Internet marketing, it is still one of the most effective marketing strategies. Growing a valuable email list is a challenging process, but as Colby Cavanaugh of &lt;a href="http://email.exacttarget.com/"&gt;ExactTarget&lt;/a&gt; explains, marketers must be creative and integrate popular media into their email marketing campaigns to be successful...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dshop09_colbyc" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=shop09_colbyc', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;A lot of people’s initial impression of email marketing efforts is negative. However, Cavanaugh says that the market has evolved and become so sophisticated that many marketers are not even trying negative efforts due to the bad results they produce.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Instead, they are capitalizing on creative opportunities. One creative form of email marketing that has seen extensive growth recently is text messages. Marketers are using sporting events, billboards, magazine articles and more to start a conversation with consumers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The marketer urges users to send a text and opt-in. In return, the marketer is able to follow up with an email and send users to a “dynamic” landing page. Additionally, marketers can enable the content to be distributed through social media platforms such as Facebook.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Cavanaugh shares how ExactTarget offers many solutions to allow companies enhance communication and embrace email marketing opportunities. Most recently the company partnered with &lt;a href="http://email.exacttarget.com/Products/ExactTargetIntegrated/WebAnalytics/CoreMetrics/default.html"&gt;Coremetrics&lt;/a&gt; to help marketers produce very relevant and very targeted communication based on consumer behavior.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-1810885331021257613?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1810885331021257613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=1810885331021257613' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1810885331021257613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1810885331021257613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/10/using-creativity-to-grow-your-email.html' title='Using Creativity to Grow Your Email List - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3340087071189369876</id><published>2009-09-19T20:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-19T20:21:22.593-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fixing Broken Landing Pages Video'/><title type='text'>Video: Fixing Broken Landing Pages - WebProNewsVideo</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Does your landing page seem to be broken?&lt;/span&gt; Although it looks great, maybe it  isn’t producing many conversions. According to &lt;a href="http://sitetuners.com/management.html"&gt;Tim Ash&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://sitetuners.com/"&gt;SiteTuners&lt;/a&gt;, the best way to increase those conversions is to make sure the landing page is achieving its goals...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dses_tash" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=ses_tash', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;What if everything on the landing page appears to working properly, but it is &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;still&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; not bringing conversions? How do you know what’s broken? SiteTuners developed a tool called &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://attentionwizard.com/"&gt;Attention Wizard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; to help users answer that very question.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The tool uses artificial intelligence algorithms to replicate visual human behavior. It then reveals a heatmap over the landing page to show the areas that visitors are drawn to.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Attention Wizard is currently free in private beta. Users can register to test the tool &lt;a href="http://attentionwizard.com/register.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3340087071189369876?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3340087071189369876/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3340087071189369876' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3340087071189369876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3340087071189369876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/09/video-fixing-broken-landing-pages.html' title='Video: Fixing Broken Landing Pages - WebProNewsVideo'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-1124935602777861434</id><published>2009-08-24T19:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-24T19:48:22.254-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='10 Ways to Distribute Your Content'/><title type='text'>10 Ways to Distribute Your Content And Extend Your Brand</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://blog.brainstormbrand.com/higher-ed-marketing/2009/08/10-ways-to-distribute-your-contentand-extend-your-brand"&gt;10 Ways to Distribute Your Content And Extend Your Brand&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Source:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://blog.brainstormbrand.com/higher-ed-marketing/2009/08/10-ways-to-distribute-your-contentand-extend-your-brand"&gt;www.blog.brainstormbrand.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Share everything. Make it easy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;A positive experience with your brand lingers with those who encounter it. It can become part of their life experience, and people enjoy sharing life experiences. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Therefore, it’s important to provide opportunities and simple ways for people to embrace and share your brand content. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here are 10 ways to distribute your content and extend your brand:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Multi-Channel Distribution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use multi-channel distribution mediums like &lt;a href="http://posterous.com/"&gt;Posterous.com&lt;/a&gt;. Posterous allows you to assemble your content in, and send it via email. Simply send an email to Posterous with your formatted content attached. PDFs, text, images, even video are immediately forwarded to multiple social sites of your choice. Once distributed, users or fans can easily share your branded content with others.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Widgets&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use widgets like &lt;a href="http://sharethis.com/"&gt;Share This&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.addtoany.com/"&gt;Add to Any&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href="http://www.addthis.com/"&gt;Add This&lt;/a&gt; to enable single-click sharing on other web sites and social media pages. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Micro-blog&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Create an account and build a following of constituents, friends, like-minded individuals, clients and prospects on a micro-blogging site such as &lt;a href="http://www.tumblr.com/"&gt;Tumblr&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. Post short messages with information or links to your content and users can re-blog posts of interest. You can also feed your micro-blog to your web site, &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/"&gt;Facebook page&lt;/a&gt; or other online destinations for real-time updates.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;iPhone apps&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aggregate your content from multiple sources into a custom-branded &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/"&gt;iPhone app&lt;/a&gt; where fans and affinity groups can follow the content from your blog, web site, and social communities, all on one portable device.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Downloads&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give your content away in the form of portable &lt;a href="http://www.ebooks.com/"&gt;ebooks&lt;/a&gt;, white papers, digital audio and video downloads. Spread the word.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flash drive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hand a prospect or influential person your content on a portable device like a branded &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive"&gt;flash drive&lt;/a&gt;. Encourage them to share its content with others. They’ll remember you and your company when they use the drive for their own storage and file transport needs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Incentivize others to share&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Create a contest or sweepstakes to pull people to your content, then encourage and incentivize them to share it with others.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Think about the copyright  &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use &lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/"&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt; to manage the proper usage of your shared content on sites like &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;; it protects you, the author, and facilitates liberal sharing of your content.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Share the responsibility for content creation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Extend the reach of your content to different audiences and demographics by collaborating from the outset to make your content, “our content.” When people share in the process of content creation they become invested and far more apt to share the experience and results with people they know.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Branded Watermarks&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tastefully embed a logo or other watermark in the corner of your photos and encourage users to make them their own in device backgrounds or other digital applications.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-1124935602777861434?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://blog.brainstormbrand.com/higher-ed-marketing/2009/08/10-ways-to-distribute-your-contentand-extend-your-brand' title='10 Ways to Distribute Your Content And Extend Your Brand'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1124935602777861434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=1124935602777861434' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1124935602777861434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1124935602777861434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/08/10-ways-to-distribute-your-content-and.html' title='10 Ways to Distribute Your Content And Extend Your Brand'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-2173491424096989162</id><published>2009-08-12T15:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-12T15:11:40.429-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Banned by Facebook'/><title type='text'>A Very Special Thank You to the "Web Success Team" for getting my Facebook story out... Banned by Facebook! One Woman's Story.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Banned by Facebook! One Woman's Story.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Eric Pangburn, Contributor, &lt;a href="http://www.websuccessteam.com/"&gt;Web Success Team&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://websuccessteam.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 135px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mh1NcztvWaA/SoM8EFwJgnI/AAAAAAAAA9w/d_RvF9a0Zc0/s320/5380_120445121751_711376751_2794253_59408_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369201221717033586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;While the social media marketing site Facebook may be something you are intimately familiar with and use on a daily basis, the name “Marci Rosenblum” may not exactly ring a bell. So who is Marci Rosenblum and why should you know about her? As it turns out, Marci was banned from Facebook — a situation that we may all face at some point or another — and what she learned during her experience may have significant implications on your Facebook habits, as well as your overall online marketing experience.&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;We Depend on Facebook, Until…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Facebook is of course almost as ubiquitous on the Internet today as Google is. It is certainly more popular than the other large social networking site (which we won’t mention by name since the MySpace team may still be feeling a slight sting at having been overtaken just last January). Facebook marketing has simply captured the imagination of the collective cyberspace public in ways that few Internet phenomena have before and probably will for a while. It is a great way to build your business online and can therefore be potentially invaluable to your web success.&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most people start out by using Facebook as a means to keep in touch with friends and family. Facebook makes it easy to post pictures, chat with acquaintances, send them personal messages, join in on group discussions and quizzes…the list is virtually endless, and if there is some way that you can reach out to someone and be reached back in return, there is probably a way to do that in Facebook.&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many enterprising individuals have since used Facebook as a means to touch base with their customers. There is no Facebook rule that disallows this, and Facebook has proven to be quite a potent tool for any business. The same benefits that Facebook affords you for personal use can be wielded to great results for your business, online or otherwise.&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far so good. But just like any other privately owned web site, there are a number of rules and regulations implemented that may not always be clear to you, and in fact may seem downright unfair. This is where Marci comes in.&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Marci's Story&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; Marci Rosenblum is one of the many people on Facebook who has a hugely popular Facebook profile. Plenty of good content, a steady stream of regular visitors…it appeared that Marci was way ahead of the Facebook pack. Unfortunately, Marci was banned only a couple of weeks ago, for reasons that weren't quite clear to her. To the extent of Marci’s knowledge, she was in full compliance of all of Facebook’s terms regarding use. This included the clause that stated that users have the privilege of “unlimited posting.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; As someone who has relied on Facebook for many years and has spent a considerable amount of money on ad expenditures, this banning was quite distressing for Marci Rosenblum. The impact of all the lost contacts is quite significant as you may well imagine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lost in (Cyber)Space&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; For someone with that many contacts, Marci losing her Facebook account was akin to losing her cell phone, PDA, or personal directory of contact numbers. Put yourself in her position, and you can possibly understand the feeling of frustration at virtually being cut off from crucial contacts. Since so many people rely on Facebook for their web presence, losing an account is almost like losing your online identity!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; Apparently, the cause of all Marci's Facebook problems was her placement of links on her “fan” page as well as her “profile” page. Through some unwritten rule in the Facebook terms of agreement, this was apparently enough to warrant a ban. No matter what you may think of Facebook's policies, the loss of all those contacts for such a seemingly minor infraction appears to be excessive. Even more alarmingly, a look at Facebook's terms of use shows that they can ban an account for any reason whatsoever, which apparently covers Marci’s case.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; Things could have been easily avoided if Facebook maintains an air of approachability and openness with regard to their policies. Barring that, there certainly is no reason why they would have to be so hard to get a hold of, as Marci later found out for herself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; Like all people who have an issue with a company, Marci wrote a letter to the Facebook management asking why her account was banned and how she could be reinstated. If only it were that easy. Marci in fact had to write no less than five letters before she got a response, and even then it wasn't exactly the answer that she was hoping for. Her account was supposedly banned for “spamming”, a practice that Marci felt she wasn't guilty of. In fact, there are currently numerous other Facebook accounts that are clearly guilty of spamming, yet strangely remain allowed to carry on with their activities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;How to Avoid the Facebook Ban-Hammer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; Based on Marci’s Facebook experience, we have pinpointed a few things to keep in mind that will help you avoid the fate that befell her:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; * You could post as many links as you want on your “fan” pages, but posting links on your on your “profile” page is a definite no-no.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;     * Posting the same links on your “profile” page that you have on your “fan” page can get you banned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; * The Facebook site administrators can be extremely difficult to get a hold of. You will have to send them a lot of emails on five different email addresses, before you can expect to get a response, so persistence is key.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; * Keep a backup of all your Facebook contacts. As Marci found out so harshly, even getting your Facebook account reinstated will not get your contacts back. If your contacts are essential to your business — as they probably are! — back them up!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; * In spite of the apparent vagueness of the Facebook terms of use, you simply have to try and make sure that you conform to all terms regarding use. They can be very hard to reach as Marci has seen, so any thing you can do to avoid a banning would be for the best.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Making the Best of Facebook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; All this isn't meant to downplay all of Facebook’s benefits…and they are considerable. Nevertheless, a clear picture of what you can expect regarding your use would go a long way in helping you get the most out of your Facebook account. Make sure that you post links only on your “fan” pages, and you can continue to use Facebook for its many networking benefits.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Build Web Success!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; The Web Success Team (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.websuccessteam.com/" onmousedown="'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this)," target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span&gt;http://www.websuccessteam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;) specializes in building and marketing direct response websites that take full advantage of the latest developments on the Internet. The Team has an arsenal of effective web strategies, online tools and proven techniques to promote your products and services. Plus, we’ll show you ways to increase the amount of qualified traffic to your site through the expanding “social web” and how to convert visitors into buyers at a higher rate of return.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt; &gt; Find Marci Rosenblum at Web Success Traffic:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.websuccesstraffic.com/" onmousedown="'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this)," target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span&gt;http://www.websuccesstraff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;ic.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-2173491424096989162?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/2173491424096989162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=2173491424096989162' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2173491424096989162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2173491424096989162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/08/very-special-thank-you-to-web-success.html' title='A Very Special Thank You to the &quot;Web Success Team&quot; for getting my Facebook story out... Banned by Facebook! One Woman&apos;s Story.'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mh1NcztvWaA/SoM8EFwJgnI/AAAAAAAAA9w/d_RvF9a0Zc0/s72-c/5380_120445121751_711376751_2794253_59408_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-1693426815211867063</id><published>2009-07-31T21:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-31T21:42:09.981-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yahoo and Microsoft'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google'/><title type='text'>And Then There Were Two - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yahoo.com/"&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx"&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt; have finally partnered in a search agreement. A deal has been anticipated ever since Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo for 44.6 billion in early 2008. This current proposed deal however, looks nothing like that original offer. The companies have not disclosed all financial terms of the deal, but it does not appear that Yahoo received any upfront payment...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dwpn_microhoo" width="316" height="188"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=wpn_microhoo', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;In summary, Microsoft will power Yahoo Search and Yahoo will become the exclusive search advertising provider for Microsoft’s search engine, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.bing.com/"&gt;Bing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;. Microsoft’s AdCenter will operate self-service advertising for both companies, but each company will maintain its own separate display advertising business and sales force.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;In an interview with &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;, search industry leader &lt;a href="http://searchengineland.com/staff"&gt;Danny Sullivan&lt;/a&gt; summed up his thoughts by saying what the deal meant for each company. He said,&lt;em&gt; “[A] big win for Microsoft, a lot of questions for Yahoo.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The deal will likely face a close antitrust review from regulators especially regarding &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/"&gt;Steve Ballmer&lt;/a&gt;’s claim that the partnership would provide a stronger competitor for &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;It is still early, but nonetheless, there are &lt;em&gt;many&lt;/em&gt; unanswered questions associated with the deal. Could Yahoo have bargained a better deal? How will Google respond? Is the deal a good move for Yahoo? How will the partnership influence the future of online advertising? What are the impacts on the SEO industry?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Provided the deal is granted regulatory approval, Yahoo and Microsoft said they hope to have their partnership finalized by early next year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Source:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://videos.webpronews.com"&gt;WebProNewsVideo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-1693426815211867063?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1693426815211867063/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=1693426815211867063' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1693426815211867063'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1693426815211867063'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/07/and-then-there-were-two-webpronews.html' title='And Then There Were Two - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-17997267539131417</id><published>2009-07-25T15:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-25T15:32:53.459-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What the New Firefox Has to Offer'/><title type='text'>Checking Out What the New Firefox Has to Offer from WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Firefox 3.5 is here and loaded with a plethora of improvements and new features . Sometimes with all of the download upgrades and new features that we are bombarded with it is hard to keep track of what tools are really available to us. This week, our very own Mike McDonald sat down to give you a rundown of some of the top features, improvements, and a few things to look out for with &lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/#location-bar"&gt;Firefox 3.5&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dwpn_firefox" width="316" height="188"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=wpn_firefox', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Some of the most buzzworthy features of 3.5 are its &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/performance/"&gt;performance features&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;. It leaves a smaller footprint, which means that it uses less of your computer’s memory while it is running. Firefox has also improved their graphics engine with improved Color Profile Support which, depending on the quality of your monitor, will make your images more crisp and vibrant. On top of that, page load is faster and memory management has been improved by continuously cleaning up any unused memory, but the top performance feature Firefox has added is the Super Speed feature. With Super Speed the browser is 3 times faster than Firefox 3 and 10 times faster than Firefox 2.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The new browser is also fully &lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/customize/"&gt;customizable&lt;/a&gt;. It has over 6,000 add-ons, which is a tremendous improvement from previous versions. In addition to being able to mold Firefox to fit your personal style, you can add different search engines, edit toolbar preferences, form the navigation buttons to your liking, and a multitude of other customization features.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The location bar, referred to as the Awesome Bar, has also been drastically improved. It now allows quicker navigation to the sites you like to visit, you can simply type in a site you’re looking for and it delivers all matching results. This feature is particularly useful for those hard to remember URLs. The Awesome Bar also offers one-click bookmarking and improved tagging.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Firefox 3.5 has a lot of handy features, but beware that compatibility has been an issue for some people, so before you upgrade be sure it is compatible with everything you need to run. Here we have just touched on several of the newest improvements but there are still many many more. To here more about these features watch the &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2009/07/23/checking-out-what-the-new-firefox-has-to-offer/"&gt;video&lt;/a&gt; above, and you can download Firefox 3.5 for yourself &lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-17997267539131417?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/17997267539131417/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=17997267539131417' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/17997267539131417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/17997267539131417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/07/checking-out-what-new-firefox-has-to.html' title='Checking Out What the New Firefox Has to Offer from WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-6082287656061822381</id><published>2009-07-22T20:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T20:59:48.898-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='How Much Are You Willing to Pay for News'/><title type='text'>How Much Are You Willing to Pay for News? -  WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Recently the editor of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.ft.com/home/us" target="_blank"&gt;Financial Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;, Lionel Barber, made a statement that most newspaper websites will be charging for content within a year. It is no secret that the newspaper industry has been hurting lately. With so many people turning to the web for their news, newspaper sales are down and the newpaper organizations have been trying to figure out a way to earn revenue online...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dwpn_newssites" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=wpn_newssites', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;During his speech in London, Barber said that he is unsure of how newspaper organizations will be charging for content. He stated that charging on an article-by-article basis is an option, as well as charging a monthly subscription fee. Rupert Murdoch of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.newscorp.com/" target="_blank"&gt;News Corporation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; made a statement back in May proclaiming that his newspaper websites would likely be charging for content within a year as well, and a survey sent out recently by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/" target="_blank"&gt;New York Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; asked subscribers if they would be willing to pay a monthly subscription fee of $5 for access to their news content online.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: verdana;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Another aspect to take into consideration is what charging for content will do to bloggers. Countless bloggers rely on the free news provided by online news organizations for their content. Can bloggers afford to pay the monthly subscription fees? But, more importantly can they really afford not to pay the fees?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: verdana;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;A move like this will either make or break the newspaper industry. If a subscription fee is put in place news sites could charge more for online ads because the ads would be reaching a more targeted demographic of subscribers, but would the number of readers drop so significantly that it would not pay off for the newspaper organizations in the long run?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: verdana;"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;No matter which way you spin it, the newspapers have to do something to compete in the digital age, and maybe charging for content is just the ticket. We will just have to wait and see.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-6082287656061822381?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6082287656061822381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=6082287656061822381' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6082287656061822381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6082287656061822381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-much-are-you-willing-to-pay-for.html' title='How Much Are You Willing to Pay for News? -  WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-8331268177050422473</id><published>2009-07-09T20:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-09T20:29:07.650-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google and Microsoft'/><title type='text'>Google’s OS to Challenge Microsoft? - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Googlers Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson announced on Wednesday that the company was embarking on a new project: the &lt;a href="http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-chrome-os-faq.html"&gt;Google Chrome Operating System&lt;/a&gt;. After the Web browser launched last year, many people anticipated a Google OS as the company’s next move...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dchromeos" width="316" height="188"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=chromeos', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Google Chrome OS is open source and will initially be intended for netbooks; however, the system is said to be equipped to power large desktop systems as well. The three main aspects of the operating system are speed, simplicity, and security. Although &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.google.com/"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; will construct its own windowing system, the new OS will run on top of the kernel from the open source Linux OS.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;According to the &lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html"&gt;Google blog post&lt;/a&gt; making the announcement, the OS will not be available to consumers until the second half of 2010.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;As Google prepares to enter the operating system market, many questions come to mind. First of all, is this a direct attack against &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx"&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt; since &lt;a href="http://www.bing.com/"&gt;Bing&lt;/a&gt; appears to be making legitimate progress? Will Google’s OS exist as a serious contender to the alternative operating systems? How will consumers and computer manufacturers react? Will Google be hit with more antitrust investigations?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Although there are many unanswered questions associated with this news, one thing that is certain is that Google has just taken on a challenging mission.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-8331268177050422473?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/8331268177050422473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=8331268177050422473' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8331268177050422473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8331268177050422473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/07/googles-os-to-challenge-microsoft.html' title='Google’s OS to Challenge Microsoft? - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3915229929899663201</id><published>2009-06-25T17:54:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T17:57:03.442-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Michael Jackson Dies'/><title type='text'>Michael Jackson Dies: Twitter Tributes Now 30% of Tweets</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The death of one of the world’s greatest pop stars is having a global impact, but social media brings into sharp focus the scale of the world’s shock and sadness. Previously, we might have learned of a pop star’s passing via TV, or a friend or coworker: now knowledge is immediate, and mourning has become more public than private: a collective expression of loss... &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Read more:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://shar.es/v8dq"&gt;Michael Jackson Dies: Twitter Tributes Now 30% of Tweets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Posted using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://sharethis.com/"&gt;ShareThis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3915229929899663201?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3915229929899663201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3915229929899663201' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3915229929899663201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3915229929899663201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/06/michael-jackson-dies-twitter-tributes.html' title='Michael Jackson Dies: Twitter Tributes Now 30% of Tweets'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-175622245503588861</id><published>2009-06-25T17:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T17:59:22.406-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mobile Video'/><title type='text'>Mobile Video is at a Tipping Point</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Just this week, we’&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;ve&lt;/span&gt; already seen a number of apps rush to take advantage of the device’s video capabilities, with &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Kyte&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://mashable.com/2009/06/24/kyte-mobile-recorder"&gt;updating its app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; to support video recording, editing, and upload, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;" class="blippr-nobr"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Posterous&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="blippr-nobr"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blippr.com/apps/337125-Posterous" target="_blank" rel="http://www.blippr.com/apps/337125-Posterous.whtml" class="blippr-inline-smiley blippr-inline-smiley-07"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; creating a way to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://mashable.com/2009/06/23/posterous-iphone-video-upload/"&gt;instantly distribute&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; your mobile video across multiple social sites... &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Read More:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://shar.es/v8j6"&gt;Mobile Video is at a Tipping Point&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Posted using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://sharethis.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;ShareThis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-175622245503588861?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/175622245503588861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=175622245503588861' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/175622245503588861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/175622245503588861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/06/mobile-video-is-at-tipping-point.html' title='Mobile Video is at a Tipping Point'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-6240454495440018989</id><published>2009-06-22T13:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-22T13:54:59.260-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Up Close and Personal with Bing Team'/><title type='text'>Up Close and Personal with Bing Team - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The buzz around the announcement of &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx"&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt;’s new search brand &lt;a href="http://www.bing.com/"&gt;Bing&lt;/a&gt; is still going strong. Users are commenting on everything from Bing’s interface to the quality of the results. &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt; caught up with Bing team members &lt;a href="http://nathanbuggia.com/"&gt;Nathan Buggia&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.morethanhuman.org/"&gt;Ramez Naam&lt;/a&gt; to get some first-hand information on the engine.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsmxadv_bing" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=smxadv_bing', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The three main areas of focus for the new search product were:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1.    Best possible results&lt;br /&gt;2.    Organized experience&lt;br /&gt;3.    Key tools to help users decide&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Ramez says the quality of the search results have changed and the speed of the engine is better. Bing is continuing to work to cut down on the user’s time searching by simplifying tasks. To organize the search experience, Bing has a 3-column layout and a “table of contents” in the upper left-hand corner.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;With the table of contents, Bing looked at how searchers view results and refine their queries and created categories accordingly. For example, if you search for a Honda Accord, the categories could be reviews, recalls, repair, videos, and images. Bing also provides key tools to help users make decisions regarding specific tasks such as travel and product purchases.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;One of Nathan’s favorite features about Bing is the Best Match capability. With this feature, if it’s positive that a query is a navigational query, Bing will hide the regular algorithm results and showcase the “best match.” For example, for a query for &lt;a href="http://www.ups.com/"&gt;www.ups.com&lt;/a&gt;, Bing will highlight the UPS site and even include a search box directly on the results page to track packages. Bing is also doing Entity Extraction on pages to pull out user reviews and obtain a deeper knowledge of the content on the page. The purpose of this is to include more valuable content in the search result captions to better serve the users.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;What about Bing’s impact on SEO? Nathan says because the content publisher’s goals and Bing’s goals are the same, it leads to more targeted traffic. The categorized results show up to 20 results per page, which means everyone isn’t fighting over the top 10 blue links and the small businesses have a better chance of being seen.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Bing is doing some pretty cool things, and it has already been given some good reviews. But as users continue to test Bing out and see all that it can do, the big question remains: “Does Bing pose a threat to Google?”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-6240454495440018989?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6240454495440018989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=6240454495440018989' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6240454495440018989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6240454495440018989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/06/up-close-and-personal-with-bing-team.html' title='Up Close and Personal with Bing Team - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-1952865029233936519</id><published>2009-05-21T21:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-21T21:59:09.443-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Social Media'/><title type='text'>Proof That Social Media Efforts Pay Off - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington"&gt;Arianna Huffington&lt;/a&gt; launched the &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Huffington Post&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as a news content and blog site in 2005. The site quickly became a strong advocator of community engagement and involvement thus turning it into a social news site. &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/p/huffington-post.html"&gt;James Smith&lt;/a&gt;, the Chief Revenue Officer of &lt;em&gt;HuffPost&lt;/em&gt;, credits the success of the site to that social evolution, saying:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;“It’s [&lt;em&gt;Huffington Post&lt;/em&gt;] almost a social media site with news as the topic of conversation.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;The site logs over one million comments each month.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dadtech_huffington" width="316" height="188"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=adtech_looksmart', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;In the above interview, James encourages other content publishers to push for active communities as well. He explains how implementing polls, thumbnails, and popular statistics can all add extensive social value to content.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Publishers that use social media know that it requires close monitoring. Most of the time publishers closely monitor their social efforts in order to manage the negative response. But did you ever think about how you could also benefit from closely monitoring the positive response? James says publishers have the opportunity to take advantage of the positive surges by further promoting them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-1952865029233936519?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1952865029233936519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=1952865029233936519' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1952865029233936519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1952865029233936519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/05/webpronews-videos-twitter-page-proof.html' title='Proof That Social Media Efforts Pay Off - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-6702386510361753628</id><published>2009-05-12T14:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-12T14:35:09.808-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Social Media and Online Video Top Growth Charts'/><title type='text'>Social Media and Online Video Top Growth Charts - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.nielsen-online.com/"&gt;Nielsen Online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.ad-tech.com/"&gt;Ad:Tech&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; joined together to create a landscape report looking at the global online media. The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/nielsen-online-global-lanscapefinal1.pdf"&gt;report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; compiles Nielsen Online data in the areas of online video, social media, audience, mobile, and more. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Typically, the online space doesn’t change dramatically from month-to-month or even year-to-year.  But according to &lt;a href="http://www.nielsen-online.com/blog/category/charlie-buchwalter/"&gt;Charles Buchwalter&lt;/a&gt;, the Senior Vice President of Research Analytics at Nielsen Online, in the past 5-6 years, “this industry has transformed itself.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dadtech_neilsen" width="316" height="188"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:return%20false;" onclick="window.open('http://videos.webpronews.com/video/getcode.php?movie_name=adtech_looksmart', 'Code', 'scrollbars,height=450,width=500')" class="right"&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/video_embed.jpg" style="margin: 2px 5px 0px -55px; position: relative; z-index: 2;" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The growth is evident not so much in the number of users, but &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;where&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; users are spending their time and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;how much&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; time they are spending. Not surprisingly, the two biggest areas of growth over the last 2-3 years are online video and social networks. The significant growth of these two areas proves that innovation is still happening despite the current economic climate.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Additionally, there are other areas that are showing positive developments in the midst of the recession. Healthcare, packaged goods, and telecommunications were big spenders in traditional media and were slow to come online. However, those industries are now stepping up their efforts on the Web.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-6702386510361753628?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6702386510361753628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=6702386510361753628' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6702386510361753628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6702386510361753628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/05/social-media-and-online-video-top.html' title='Social Media and Online Video Top Growth Charts - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3285895252477192198</id><published>2009-04-26T18:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-26T18:11:11.019-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Video Optimization Tips'/><title type='text'>Video Optimization Tips From Ad:Tech San Francisco - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;"&gt;Making a good video can be difficult enough;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; you shouldn’t have to struggle to get it in front of individuals and search engines after wards.  So at Ad:Tech San Francisco, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;ct=res&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesearchagency.com%2F&amp;amp;ei=zEfvScPiAqWxtgedmM3ADw&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=the+search+agency&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFSvP6z6lpLHX41gLc8Pd3-cSyffQ"&gt;The Search Agency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;’s Drew Hubbard gave some tips on how to optimize video for search.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dadtech_drew" width="316" height="188"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;One key point is that “it’s all about the content on the page.”  For now, content producers should still assume that videos are invisible to search engines.  Be sure to come up with good titles, good tags, and good keywords.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Otherwise, if you’re trying to decide between hosting a video yourself or turning to a site like YouTube or Vimeo, there are a couple of things to take into consideration.  Going the DIY route will grant you a great deal of control over the clip.  At the same time, letting &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com"&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; handle things may save you money, and it can put also the video in front of a larger audience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Hubbard pointed out that, according to some statistics-tracking firms, YouTube is actually competing with Yahoo for the title of number two search engine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3285895252477192198?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3285895252477192198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3285895252477192198' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3285895252477192198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3285895252477192198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/04/video-optimization-tips-from-adtech-san.html' title='Video Optimization Tips From Ad:Tech San Francisco - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-2935800448537938683</id><published>2009-04-13T20:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-13T20:26:42.423-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Do your keywords support your site'/><title type='text'>Don’t Assume Anymore: Select Keywords That Work! - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Do your keywords support your site?&lt;/span&gt; Unfortunately, the answer is no for many people choosing keywords for search engine optimization purposes. According to &lt;a href="http://www.fathomseo.com/about-us/management-team.asp"&gt;Mike Murray&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.fathomseo.com/"&gt;Fathom SEO&lt;/a&gt;, people depend too much on tools such as &lt;a href="http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html"&gt;Keyword Discovery&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal"&gt;Google Keyword Tool&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.spyfu.com/"&gt;SpyFu&lt;/a&gt;. These tools can be helpful, but there is also a great amount of research on your part that needs to be done...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsesny_mikemurray" width="316" height="188"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;There must be a web page to support every keyword. Similar words do not count; they must be exact. Make sure your keywords are a good investment. If you choose the wrong keywords, you’re going to lose money and waste time.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Mike refers to people who do this as “people with their heads in the clouds.” He says people who dream up keywords are not going to have success in their efforts and need to come back to earth and be practical.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Mike suggests looking at the following factors when selecting a keyword list:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;-    Keywords in domain name&lt;br /&gt;-    Website analytics&lt;br /&gt;-    Competitors’ rankings&lt;br /&gt;-    Inbound links&lt;br /&gt;-    Where you ranked today, which page ranked, and on what search engine&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Also, look for value in your PPC campaign. If someone is paying for a keyword, then it should be taken under consideration for your SEO program as well. It is possible that the same keywords could work for both programs.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Lastly, don’t look at who is ranking number 1 or 2. Look where websites are ranking that are similar to your site. You could be comparing your website, which is operated by 3 people, to a website that is run by a large corporation. Mike recommends first looking at the website’s age, size, and other factors before taking action. You may need to address other issues on your website to compete effectively.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;SEO is a long process and the investment into keywords should not be taken lightly. After looking at the above factors, let’s again ask the question: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Do your keywords support your website?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-2935800448537938683?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/2935800448537938683/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=2935800448537938683' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2935800448537938683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2935800448537938683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/04/dont-assume-anymore-select-keywords.html' title='Don’t Assume Anymore: Select Keywords That Work! - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-6873913316536066966</id><published>2009-04-09T10:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T10:39:48.518-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marketing Strategies for Mobile'/><title type='text'>Marketing Strategies for Mobile - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;As mobile devices become more and more popular, the importance mobile marketing becomes greater as well. &lt;a href="http://www.rank-mobile.com/about/"&gt;Cindy Krum&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.rank-mobile.com/"&gt;Rank-Mobile&lt;/a&gt; always keeps us updated on what’s going on in the mobile market and this video from &lt;a href="http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/newyork/"&gt;SES New York&lt;/a&gt; is no exception.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsesny_krum" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Cindy actively promotes having only one website by making your existing website provide mobile capabilities too. The same goes with marketing strategies. Cindy suggests that businesses integrate their mobile marketing strategy into their existing marketing strategy to get the best results.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The mobile Web is not just the current trend; it’s here to stay. Not only Cindy, but also many others including &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2009/02/19/wpn-exclusive-vint-cerf-on-evolution-of-the-internet/"&gt;Dr. Vint Cerf&lt;/a&gt;, believe mobile will play a large role in the future. Based upon that information, Cindy believes if you embrace mobile now, you have the opportunity to pull ahead of your competitors.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;So how do you integrate mobile into your overall marketing strategy? Here are a few quick tips from Cindy:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;-    Follow all traditional and local SEO best practices&lt;br /&gt;-    Provide info relevant to mobile users&lt;br /&gt;-    Submit your site to mobile search engines and directions&lt;br /&gt;-    Don’t rely on: Embedded images, Objects, Scripts, Frames, Flash, Pop-up Windows, Mouse-over trends&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;There are many mobile applications for search, which are taking feeds from existing search engines and integrating results into their own. Determine where they are getting their data from and make sure you are ranking well there. For mobile SEO, Cindy suggests coding in XHTML, employing multiple style sheets, and using CSS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-6873913316536066966?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6873913316536066966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=6873913316536066966' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6873913316536066966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6873913316536066966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/04/marketing-strategies-for-mobile.html' title='Marketing Strategies for Mobile - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-7105116344056239662</id><published>2009-03-27T12:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-27T12:43:02.001-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Tip: Create Different Landing Pages for the Same Product'/><title type='text'>SEO Tip: Create Different Landing Pages for the Same Product - From Tubetorial.com</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Great SEO tip from &lt;a href="http://www.Tubetorial.com"&gt;Tubetorial.com&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you sell a small number of products, it’s a good idea to create different landing pages for each product. Each of these landing pages should be optimized for a different keyword.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are at least two benefits to doing this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Your search traffic will increase because you’re targeting more keywords.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Your conversion rates will increase because your landing pages have relevant content related to the keywords. Relevancy is one of keys to increasing conversion rates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Here’s a video that shows two sites that are using this SEO tactic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MK0DfujqbCM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MK0DfujqbCM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-7105116344056239662?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/7105116344056239662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=7105116344056239662' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7105116344056239662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7105116344056239662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/03/seo-tip-create-different-landing-pages.html' title='SEO Tip: Create Different Landing Pages for the Same Product - From Tubetorial.com'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-7281395739824401728</id><published>2009-03-20T16:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-20T16:02:34.645-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='What’s Happening with Social Media and Businesses?'/><title type='text'>What’s Happening with Social Media and Businesses? - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://newmarketinglabs.com/index.html"&gt;Chris Brogan&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.toprankmarketing.com/"&gt;Lee Odden&lt;/a&gt; have been teased about their striking resemblance to each other, so WebProNews decided to feed to the humor and interviewed them together. Both Lee and Chris are a lot of fun, and they are also very knowledgeable in the Internet marketing industry.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;In this video from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.pubcon.com/austin2009.htm"&gt;PubCon South&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;, the two discuss social media and where it fits into marketing. Chris says that we are seeing more and more larger companies embracing social media. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dpcs_chrisandlee" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;There are also many people using social sites because they think they can “get rich quick.” As companies determine how to effectively use social media, Chris predicts the number of  “get rich quick” people will rapidly decline.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Lee agrees with Chris’s outlook and points out that companies are now discovering exactly where they are getting the most return and capitalizing in those areas. He says social media has now become a natural part of marketing.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;There are however, risks involved in social marketing if companies don’t have a solid plan in place when they start their social efforts. Lee’s company, &lt;a href="http://www.toprankmarketing.com/"&gt;TopRank Marketing&lt;/a&gt;, suggests that companies construct a social media road map, which requires them to identify their audience, behaviors, and specific objectives.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;After these factors are determined, companies can decide on what their social strategy is, whether it be blogging or social networks. From there, companies need to choose what tools they are going to use and decide how they will track their success. When measuring progress, Lee says it is important to measure goals in actual conversions and not simply by the number of friends or followers the company acquires.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Chris follows up on that point by explaining the importance of putting the “&lt;a href="http://www.chrisbrogan.com/the-importance-of-the-physical-world/"&gt;physical connector&lt;/a&gt;” back into social media. The overall marketing plan should contain traditional marketing tactics, which includes a physical side, as well as Internet marketing strategies and social media.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-7281395739824401728?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/7281395739824401728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=7281395739824401728' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7281395739824401728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7281395739824401728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/03/whats-happening-with-social-media-and.html' title='What’s Happening with Social Media and Businesses? - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-405733841027783100</id><published>2009-03-18T08:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-18T08:49:42.364-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Older Americans are going online'/><title type='text'>More older Americans are going online than ever...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana;"&gt;The Internet Is Getting Gray...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;More older Americans are going online than ever.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Source: &lt;a href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006968"&gt;eMarketer.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;" face="verdana"&gt;According to the &lt;a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/" target="blank"&gt;Pew Internet and American Life Project&lt;/a&gt;, from 2005 to 2008, the largest jump in adoption of Internet usage was by users ages 70 and older. Internet penetration among people ages 70 to 74 increased by 19 percentage points from 2005 to 2008. For people 75 and older, the increase was 10 percentage points.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;" face="verdana"&gt;&lt;span id="lblBody" class="grey_text2"&gt;What sets older Americans apart is their online activities. Older Americans aren’t as likely as younger users to play games, watch movies, use social networking sites or read blogs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="lblBody" class="grey_text2"&gt;What sets older Americans apart is their online activities. Older Americans aren’t as likely as younger users to play games, watch movies, use social networking sites or read blogs. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span id="lblBody" class="grey_text2"&gt;The majority of Internet users are people under the age of 45, but growing numbers of older Americans are going online. That is an opportunity marketers can exploit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;" id="lblBody" class="grey_text2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Read more at:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006968"&gt;eMarketer.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-405733841027783100?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/405733841027783100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=405733841027783100' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/405733841027783100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/405733841027783100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-older-americans-are-going-online.html' title='More older Americans are going online than ever...'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-5108346973219228950</id><published>2009-03-17T16:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-17T16:17:28.911-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Making Twitter Work for You'/><title type='text'>Making Twitter Work for You - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Most people dwell too much on the “rules” or accepted expectations for sites like &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. In this video, &lt;a href="http://www.wolf-howl.com/"&gt;Michael Gray&lt;/a&gt; points out that there is no right way or wrong way to use Twitter. He says the only right way is when you are getting out of it what you want and what you’re putting into it...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dpubcon_michael_gray" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;What works for one person or business may not work for you. Therefore, it is important to determine your goals early and to do whatever you have to do to meet your goals. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Michael does give some basic tips that everyone could adopt and practice to build their reputation in the community. They are:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;-    Be polite&lt;br /&gt;-    Make friends&lt;br /&gt;-    Start conversations&lt;br /&gt;-    Ask questions&lt;br /&gt;-    Answer questions&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Most people prefer tweets that are not self-promoting. Michael says bigger brands have more flexibility in this regard, but even they should not take advantage of it. Twitter is about engagement and most self-promotions do not encourage it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The value you receive from Twitter is ultimately determined when you identify your goals and work to meet them. It’s not about how many followers you acquire. What really matters is how many of those followers actually know who you are and are helping you meet your goals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-5108346973219228950?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/5108346973219228950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=5108346973219228950' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/5108346973219228950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/5108346973219228950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/03/making-twitter-work-for-you-webpronews.html' title='Making Twitter Work for You - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-8586401590185135560</id><published>2009-03-12T16:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-12T16:09:27.260-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Search Marketing Evolution'/><title type='text'>Search Marketing Evolution - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;As search has developed, the end user has also undergone behavioral changes. Universal and blended search have played a lead role in the user’s changes. Many times, searchers don’t know what they want when they search and the blended results offer a number of different options for them to choose from. Mike Grehan of &lt;a href="http://www.acronym.com/"&gt;Acronym Media&lt;/a&gt; told WebProNews in this video that we must look at these developments when we think about search in the present as well as in the future...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dpcsouth_mikegrehan" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:100%;" &gt;Grehan and many others such as Bruce Clay have said that ranking is not as significant as it once was, especially after universal and blended search rolled out.  Universal and blended search have also opened up a whole new playing field for people who before didn’t have the opportunity to be noticed. These users are now able to be seen and heard through their clicks, their tags, their ratings and reviews, etc. Grehan says these “signals” the end users are sending are very powerful to the search engines.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;So what does all this mean to SEO? According to Grehan, it places a strong emphasis on “engagement” and “connectivity.” SEO will become more complicated because users will demand a much richer experience. Monitoring the results will become even more important than ever since users will be producing more of their own content and even interacting directly with brands.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;All this information and more is compiled into Mike Grehan’s new book which is set for release in August. His thought paper “New Signals to Search Engines: Future Proofing Your Search Marketing Strategy” can be downloaded at &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2009/03/11/pubcon-south-search-marketing-evolution/www.acronym.com/thoughtpaper"&gt;www.acronym.com/thoughtpaper&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-8586401590185135560?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/8586401590185135560/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=8586401590185135560' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8586401590185135560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8586401590185135560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/03/search-marketing-evolution-webpronews.html' title='Search Marketing Evolution - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-2782211916906943485</id><published>2009-03-08T15:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-08T15:18:52.682-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Metrics to Replace PageRank?'/><title type='text'>SEO Metrics to Replace PageRank? - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/team/randfish"&gt;Rand Fishkin&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/"&gt;SEOmoz&lt;/a&gt; introduced their tool &lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/linkscape"&gt;Linkscape&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://searchmarketingexpo.com/east"&gt;SMX East&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/10/16/linkscape-making-valuable-link-data-available/"&gt;WebProNews was there&lt;/a&gt; to get the story. We followed up with Rand at &lt;a href="http://searchmarketingexpo.com/west"&gt;SMX West&lt;/a&gt; to get an update on the tool.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Rand prefaces the discussion by boldly stating that they are “a few months away from reversing Google’s algorithm.” If that does happen, just know that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; broke the story. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="font-family: verdana;" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; As we all wait on that to occur, Rand tells of a different approach that SEOs can implement...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsmxwest_rand" width="316" height="188"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Traditionally, SEOs look at PageRank to determine how well they rank and how and why someone ranks above or below them. Rand says this methodology is not much better than random guessing. The actual correlation that SEOmoz found is that basing actions on PageRank is only about 3 percent better than guessing.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;He instead suggests acting upon data driven metrics. Take advantage of third-party data to estimate traffic competitively. For this, Rand recommends sites such as &lt;a href="http://compete.com/"&gt;Compete&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.alexa.com/"&gt;Alexa&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.quantcast.com/"&gt;Quantcast&lt;/a&gt;. There are also tools that Rand recommends for predicting search engine rankings. They are &lt;a href="http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/"&gt;Yahoo Site Explorer&lt;/a&gt;, PageRank, and &lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/linkscape"&gt;Linkscape&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Rand strongly advocates this idea of bringing mathematics and statistics into SEO. He does however, believe that not one single metric should be held as the key. Link popularity is still the most prominent factor by nearly 75 percent and is followed by keywords and content.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-2782211916906943485?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/2782211916906943485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=2782211916906943485' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2782211916906943485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2782211916906943485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/03/seo-metrics-to-replace-pagerank.html' title='SEO Metrics to Replace PageRank? - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-7464552357153747536</id><published>2009-03-06T10:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T10:12:00.179-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comScore Reports on Search Growth'/><title type='text'>comScore Reports on Search Growth - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;According to &lt;a href="http://ir.comscore.com/"&gt;comScore&lt;/a&gt; year over year data, the U.S. has a strong search market. (It’s great to read a sentence that has the words “market” and “strong” in it, huh?) In this video, &lt;a href="http://searchmarketingexpo.com/bio.php?id=660"&gt;Jenni Tafoy&lt;/a&gt; of comScore gives us a positive report based upon their data...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsmxwest_jenni" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;To be exact, comScore found total U.S. searches to be at 18.7 billion, which is up 38 percent year-over-year. These numbers are a result of more people (7.1 million specifically) being online, people searching more days out of the month, and people conducting more searches per day.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Consumers are becoming more and more reliant on search. Search engines have seen a 32 percent growth and interestingly enough, non-search engines have also seen tremendous growth. Jenni says this research shows how marketers can expand their campaigns outside of the traditional search engines and into search areas such as video, local, image, and social networking sites.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/"&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt; has shown 100 percent growth, which is massive. Local has grown 38 percent, and image has grown 32 percent. Social networks driven primarily by &lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/"&gt;MySpace&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; show 49 percent year-over-year growth.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Even with those statistics, Jenni still encourages marketers to continue their campaigns with traditional search engines. She advises marketers to utilize &lt;em&gt;both&lt;/em&gt; search areas. Video search, local search, image search, and social networks will only continue to grow, but traditional search engines are also holding their own especially with the increasing growth of universal and blended results.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-7464552357153747536?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/7464552357153747536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=7464552357153747536' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7464552357153747536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7464552357153747536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/03/comscore-reports-on-search-growth.html' title='comScore Reports on Search Growth - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-1152370479634477400</id><published>2009-03-03T20:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-03T20:51:11.137-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Make the Most of Your Online and Offline Marketing Campaigns'/><title type='text'>Make the Most of Your Online and Offline Marketing Campaigns - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;As a result of the economic crisis, retailers are more concerned than ever about the return their marketing dollars are generating. In this video from &lt;a href="http://searchmarketingexpo.com/west"&gt;SMX West&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.rimmkaufman.com/about-rkg/management-team/ryan-gibson/"&gt;Ryan Gibson&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.rimmkaufman.com/"&gt;The Rimm-Kaufman Group&lt;/a&gt; explains how retailers need to understand which online and offline programs are profiting them the most and capitalize on those areas...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsmxwest_ryangibson" width="316" height="188"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Offline marketing interactions with customers involve TV, radio, print, direct mail, or catalogs. Online marketing interactions include social media, content/display, search, and email. Offline conversions come by phone or by going into the store. Online conversions occur through a website or by email.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;In a perfect world, all customers would either react only to online marketing methods or only to offline marketing efforts. Unfortunately for marketers and retailers, it’s not a perfect world and customers mix it up. Customers may search online, place a call to the calling center, go to the website, or go into the store before they take action. Every customer behaves differently which makes if difficult for marketers to track their online and offline marketing programs.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Ryan says marketers and retailers have to understand their customers. Observe the customer and be aware when they’re talking about you. If they are talking about you on social media sites, listen to them first and maybe even connect with them.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Do not however, forget about offline marketing efforts. Understand the customers sequence of action and which programs they are using to find you. Once you realize where your value lies, maximize those programs to their fullest potential so that you do not miss out on any profit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-1152370479634477400?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1152370479634477400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=1152370479634477400' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1152370479634477400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1152370479634477400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/03/make-most-of-your-online-and-offline.html' title='Make the Most of Your Online and Offline Marketing Campaigns - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-1876303536804147552</id><published>2009-02-26T10:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-26T10:44:24.180-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SMX West: Solution to Marketer/Developer Relationship Barrier'/><title type='text'>SMX West: Solution to Marketer/Developer Relationship Barrier - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The relationship between developers and marketers has recently been a hot topic at industry events, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://searchmarketingexpo.com/west"&gt;SMX West&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; was no exception. An entire track was devoted to the topic at the recent show. In this video, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://searchmarketingexpo.com/west/2009/speakers"&gt;Nathan Buggia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.live.com/"&gt;Microsoft Live Search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; says the barrier between developers and marketers goes all the way back to the very definition of each.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsmxwest_nathan" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Marketers need data such as customer information. They need to have the ability to run experiments and update the text and content on their site. Developers also need data, but they need keyword and audience research. In addition to that, they need to be given all the details and structure of each project and then adequate time to complete them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;As business gets more competitive, especially online, Nathan emphasizes how the need is even stronger for developers and marketers to work together. He says that business success really depends on marketers and developers working together effectively.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The barrier between the two is more difficult for larger companies because there is usually a large marketing department and a large development department. Smaller companies are able to come together more often and be more open about the overall business strategy.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;So, what is the solution to breaking down the barrier? Nathan says communication is the answer, and ideally, it starts from the very beginning. He and &lt;a href="http://www.ninebyblue.com/about/"&gt;Vanessa Fox&lt;/a&gt; have created a conference based solely on this idea of building a strong and effective relationship between marketers and developers. Everyone is invited to attend the first &lt;a href="http://en.oreilly.com/found"&gt;O’Reilly Found Conference&lt;/a&gt; taking place June 9-11th in Burlingame, CA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-1876303536804147552?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1876303536804147552/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=1876303536804147552' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1876303536804147552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1876303536804147552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/02/smx-west-solution-to-marketerdeveloper.html' title='SMX West: Solution to Marketer/Developer Relationship Barrier - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-6011036278526376215</id><published>2009-02-24T15:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-24T15:10:18.989-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='John Battelle Predicts the 2009 Search Industry'/><title type='text'>John Battelle Predicts the 2009 Search Industry - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Predictions are exciting. They’re even better when they come from a credible source, someone such as &lt;a href="http://battellemedia.com/"&gt;John Battelle&lt;/a&gt;. He has been giving yearly predictions on the search, technology, and media industries since 2004 and has been quite accurate. &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt; caught up with Battelle at &lt;a href="http://searchmarketingexpo.com/west"&gt;SMX West&lt;/a&gt; and asked him about a few of his predictions for 2009.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsmxwest_battelle" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; has been the topic of a lot of people’s conversation this year, so it is really no surprise that the company made Battelle’s list of predictions. Specifically, the prediction reads:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Microsoft will gain at least five points of search share in 2009, perhaps as much as 10.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The giant company now stands in third place behind &lt;a href="http://www.yahoo.com/"&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; with a 6-10 percent holding. So how are they going to gain search share? Battelle says the company is very serious about winning the search game.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;He also points out the company has a lot of money and that the world is essentially driven by money. One way Microsoft could increase their search share is to buy Yahoo, &lt;a href="http://www.aol.com/main.adp?adp=1"&gt;AOL&lt;/a&gt;, or even &lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/"&gt;Firefox&lt;/a&gt;. Another option he discloses is that Microsoft could make a deal with a company such &lt;a href="http://www.dell.com/"&gt;Dell&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.hp.com/"&gt;HP&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Yahoo makes another one of Battelle’s predictions. Speaking on behalf of all the recent dire news about the Sunnyvale-based company, Battelle says:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;” I think Yahoo’s coming out of a long winter.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;He says Yahoo’s new CEO, &lt;a href="http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/management.cfm"&gt;Carol Bartz&lt;/a&gt;, is a very capable leader for the company and will help to revive its purpose. He still suspects Yahoo will make a search deal with AOL or Microsoft, but says:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I will not count them [Yahoo] out.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Although it’s not one of his direct predictions for 2009, Battelle talks about a new form of search that will become more and more prevalent with time. As he explains in this video, search is our interface to the Internet and the way we navigate. The new interface would allow Web users to search in forms other than text, in forms such as image, video, and sound.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;As stated earlier, John Battelle has been very accurate in his yearly predictions, so it will be interesting to see how 2009 plays out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-6011036278526376215?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6011036278526376215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=6011036278526376215' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6011036278526376215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6011036278526376215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/02/john-battelle-predicts-2009-search.html' title='John Battelle Predicts the 2009 Search Industry - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-1097556295888884117</id><published>2009-02-19T09:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-19T11:22:25.874-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Micro Campaigns'/><title type='text'>Micro Campaigns to Target Customers and Make the Telephone “Ring” - By WebSuccessTeam.com</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Is your website under performing? Not producing enough targeted traffic, leads or sales?&lt;/span&gt; Then it is time for a change of online marketing tactics. You should consider developing &lt;a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Find-Your-Niche---One-Page-Wonders-and-Microsites&amp;amp;id=1370333"&gt;niche micro-site campaigns&lt;/a&gt; to target customers and make the telephone or email “ring.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;First let’s define the problem. You may be a medium to small company with a number of products or services. The questions I ask my clients are: Do your products or services relate to each other? Is your customer base the same for each of them? Or do customers need to be marketed to differently? What are your unique selling points? Are your messages clear, concise and quickly understood?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;To address the above concerns, here are 8 strategies to get better results and boost sales:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;1. Look at the Big Picture: Keep it simple&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;The old adage, “less is more” holds true for the web. Visitors view a website in chunks, scanning to see what catches their eye and engages them. If there are multiple messages or conflicting ones, the viewer won’t take the time to sort them out. They’re gone in less than 10 seconds. It is counterproductive to jam everything into a website, all that does is make it cluttered and confusing. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Your micro campaign should be direct and to the point. They are single page or 2-3 page websites that target a specific product or service. If you need to have a lot of content to explain your products or services, consider a 1-2 minute video. Make your pitch concise and simple. Visitors will appreciate the clarity and you will project a professional image and instill confidence . They will react positively, recognize that you are not wasting their time because they can understand it quickly. Then they are more apt to respond to your message or call to action.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;2. Think Out of the Box: Be creative and innovative&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Never get too comfortable with what you are doing or how you are selling your company’s products or services. You need to reach those customers that aren’t responding to this method or approach.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;You can tailor a mini-campaign just to those potential new customers (i.e. a more youth oriented audience). This does two things: it won’t isolate your more traditional viewers and it won’t conflict with your current offers or messages. In marketing terms, we call this the low hanging fruit — ripe for the picking, providing you get there before the competition. Again, get creative, think out of the box, make an impact, and take a risk!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3. Make an Immediate Impression:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Campaigns should get their attention with a sense of urgency, a timely call to act now!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; Now that your message is clear and concise and you have their interest and attention, close the deal with a sense of urgency. If you are selling products, have time-dated specials with real value and savings; for a service, offer something value added and have the first 10 people to call will receive… Use of a flash element to draw their attention can be effective. Graphics should enhance the branding, never overpower it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;4. Target New Customers: Develop new markets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;People like to think of themselves as unique, individuals, and not part of the herd mentality. You can capitalize on their self-image by addressing new customers in ways that will appeal to them. Whether it is a lifestyle, the dream of a better quality of life, or as a means to an end — making their life easier. Remember, different markets will require alternative approaches. Tailor your branding and customize your message. Then of course test and track your sales approach. Get feedback from customers, new and old, how they use your products or services and then create a niche campaign directed to their specific needs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;&gt; Get the other 4 strategies at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://websuccessteam.blogspot.com/2009/02/micro-campaigns-to-target-customers-and.html"&gt;http://www.WebSuccessTeam.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-1097556295888884117?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1097556295888884117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=1097556295888884117' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1097556295888884117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1097556295888884117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/02/micro-campaigns-to-target-customers-and.html' title='Micro Campaigns to Target Customers and Make the Telephone “Ring” - By WebSuccessTeam.com'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-1979722585634379302</id><published>2009-02-15T20:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-16T08:27:28.840-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Matt Cutts Explains “Canonical Tag” from Google'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yahoo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Microsoft'/><title type='text'>Matt Cutts Explains “Canonical Tag” from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.yahoo.com/"&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx"&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt; announced today a joint effort to help reduce duplicate content. The three major search engines came together to allow users to point out their preferred version of a url. As &lt;a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/"&gt;Matt Cutts&lt;/a&gt; explains in this video, this format offers users more control.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Duplicate content has been a challenging issue for a long time. Websites containing a lot of content such as a retail site, could end up with several urls for each page making it difficult for search engines to crawl.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Google gives an example on the &lt;a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/"&gt;Webmaster Central blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;Watch this video of Matt Cutts at SMX:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Courier New';"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dsmxwest_mattcutts" width="316" height="188"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information, each of the search engines have explanations and examples in their own announcements: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;" href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;" href="http://ysearchblog.com/2009/02/12/fighting-duplication-adding-more-arrows-to-your-quiver/"&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/archive/2009/02/12/partnering-to-help-solve-duplicate-content-issues.aspx"&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-1979722585634379302?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1979722585634379302/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=1979722585634379302' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1979722585634379302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1979722585634379302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/02/matt-cutts-explains-canonical-tag-from.html' title='Matt Cutts Explains “Canonical Tag” from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-438104729464279102</id><published>2009-02-12T11:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-12T11:43:08.196-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Privacy and social networks'/><title type='text'>Privacy and social networks from BusinessWeek.com</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Bruce Nussbaum recounts a Davos discussion including Microsoft's Craig Mundie and Hamid Arkhavan of T-Mobile on how privacy concerns affect the adoption of social networks...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://feedroom.businessweek.com/linking/index.jsp?skin=twoclip&amp;amp;fr_story=02ef362799c3b7c25f97b5fa3628efc487d211d5&amp;amp;rf=ev&amp;amp;hl=true" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" height="262" scrolling="no" width="302"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;View more videos at BusinessWeek.com: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/mediacenter/video/direct.html"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:100%;" &gt;http://www.businessweek.com/mediacenter/video/direct.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-438104729464279102?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/438104729464279102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=438104729464279102' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/438104729464279102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/438104729464279102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/02/privacy-and-social-networks-from.html' title='Privacy and social networks from BusinessWeek.com'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3373760657813781117</id><published>2009-01-29T09:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T09:45:19.181-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Why Direct Response Websites?'/><title type='text'>Why Direct Response Websites? - Web Success Team</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;" class="text"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Why Direct Response Websites?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Content Source: &lt;a href="http://www.websuccessteam.com"&gt;http://www.websuccessteam.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.websuccessteam.com/whydirectresponse.htm"&gt;Direct Response Websites&lt;/a&gt; are simple and intuitive, have easy to follow navigation, and use proven interactive techniques. We develop websites that get results by creating a call to action to obtain a sale, and capture email addresses for future marketing outreach.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;       &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is how your website should work. &lt;/strong&gt;Since your prospective customers and clients are one click away from your direct competitors, your website needs to persuade them to stay and take the action that pays-off for YOU and your business.&lt;br /&gt;         &lt;br /&gt;          &lt;strong&gt;We build in the necessary techniques to generate a "Call to Action."&lt;/strong&gt; Direct response websites focus on a defined target audience, create the intended mood from the start, and result in accomplishing at least one of three things: obtain a sale, schedule an appointment or collect a name and email address to be used for future outreach and sales opportunities.&lt;br /&gt;         &lt;br /&gt;          &lt;strong&gt;Our interactive websites are designed to &lt;a href="http://www.websuccessteam.com/"&gt;drive traffic&lt;/a&gt; and generate sales!&lt;/strong&gt; If you don't develop a comprehensive strategy for marketing your website, you can't build a profitable online business. It's imperative to drive thousands of visitors to your site, then convert them to paying customers.&lt;br /&gt;         &lt;br /&gt;          &lt;strong&gt;With the right website design you can turn visitors into buyers&lt;/strong&gt;. You can change the way people think about your business. The interactive techniques we use will HUMANIZE your website, draw traffic, collect valuable marketing information and generate sales. The Internet is the most economical and effective way for businesses to communicate.&lt;br /&gt;         &lt;br /&gt;          &lt;strong&gt;You must have a website that works for your business! &lt;/strong&gt;Your smart, effective website design positions you ahead of your competition. Your prospective customers and clients immediately trust you because your website design focuses on them and their needs. They recognize you as someone who can help them solve a pressing problem. And they are willing to pay you for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;For More Info Visit:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.websuccessteam.com"&gt;WebSuccessTeam.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3373760657813781117?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3373760657813781117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3373760657813781117' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3373760657813781117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3373760657813781117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-direct-response-websites-web.html' title='Why Direct Response Websites? - Web Success Team'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3791241226130606164</id><published>2009-01-06T10:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-06T10:25:02.880-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Optimized Site Vs. Search Friendly Site'/><title type='text'>Video with Chris Boggs - Optimized Site Vs. Search Friendly Site - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;Video from SES Chicago: Optimized Site Vs. Search Friendly Site...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone wants both an optimized website and a search friendly website, but it seems that most sites lean either one way or the other. What comes first - optimization or search friendliness? In this video, Chris Boggs of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.rosetta.com/Pages/default.aspx"&gt;Rosetta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; (formerly Brulant) explains how realizing that there is a difference between optimizing a site and making it search friendly is the main problem behind the misunderstanding of this topic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“It’s easy to optimize the site, but you have to make it search friendly - big difference.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Making your website search friendly is actually the first step. Your url needs to be search friendly. If you are a marketer, you need to work closely with the IT department on joint goals and strategies...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;Watch the Video:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dseschi08_chrisboggs" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Read more at:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2009/01/05/ses-chicago-optimized-site-vs-search-friendly-site/"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3791241226130606164?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3791241226130606164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3791241226130606164' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3791241226130606164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3791241226130606164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/video-with-chris-boggs-optimized-site.html' title='Video with Chris Boggs - Optimized Site Vs. Search Friendly Site - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-5063202664966663601</id><published>2008-12-30T12:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-30T12:51:36.997-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ensuring Your Website Has a Clear Purpose'/><title type='text'>From SES Chicago: Ensuring Your Website Has a Clear Purpose - SiteProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ensuring Your Website Has a Clear Purpose...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Website usability is one of those things that most companies know is important but put it on the back burner when comparing it with creativity and web design. The fact is that a lot of companies want their site to look so impressive and so unique that they leave out checking to see if a potential consumer can actually use it. Matt Bailey of SiteLogic Marketing advises companies to always conduct a “Mom Test” to get a true usability answer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;"&gt;Watch the Video:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dseschi08_mattbailey" height="188" width="316"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Read more at: &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/12/29/ses-chicago-ensuring-your-website-has-a-clear-purpose/"&gt;http://videos.webpronews.com &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-5063202664966663601?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/5063202664966663601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=5063202664966663601' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/5063202664966663601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/5063202664966663601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/12/from-ses-chicago-ensuring-your-website.html' title='From SES Chicago: Ensuring Your Website Has a Clear Purpose - SiteProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-2892648460217961294</id><published>2008-12-28T16:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-28T16:49:16.289-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Customized 404 Error Page for Increased Traffic'/><title type='text'>Create Your Own Customized 404 Error Page for Increased Traffic  - SiteProNews.com Article by Ed Duvall</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;Create Your Own Customized 404 Error Page for Increased Traffic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;As Seen on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sitepronews.com/2008/12/15/create-your-own-customized-404-error-page-for-increased-traffic/"&gt;SiteProNews.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt; article by&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cashway.com/"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Ed Duvall&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;By design, the server that hosts’ your web site delivers a 404 Error / Page Not Found when a surfer clicks on a link that the server cannot find or something else unexpected happens. The most common error page is the HTTP 404 “Not found: The requested URL/whatever.html was not found on this server.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;This generally happens when a person clicks on a link for page that has been removed, renamed or otherwise changed.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;If you were to enter the link below into your browser and hit the enter button you would see my own custom 404 Error page: &lt;a href="http://cashway.com/aintnosuchpage.htm" target="_blank"&gt;cashway.com/aintnosuchpage.htm&lt;/a&gt; (This link is not active and will present you with my custom 404 Error page.) What happens to your web visitor who gets that error message on your site without a custom 404 Error page?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Generally speaking they’re off faster than a “speeding bullet” looking for the information they were seeking - probably to a different website. That’s something you really don’t want to have happen and it can be prevented with a custom 404 error page that gives them options on the error page that will tell them how to find what they were looking for.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;So the answer is? Create your own custom 404 Error page that suggests other resources on your site and then helps redirects that person to them.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;In essence you’re capturing traffic that you had, but lost and didn’t know it, and keeping that visitor by helping them find what they need and possible turn them into a buyer for your product or service later on.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;But “I don’t have the time or know how to make a custom 404 page”, you say.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Well good news - it’s not as hard as you think. If you have about 30 minutes and your server is a Apache or Unix web server then it’s virtually a snap to do&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;** Your Custom 404 Page Design **&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;In my opinion your custom 404 error page should provide at least these components:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt; A simple statement that the requested URL was not found on your site.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; A brief description of some of the most common mistakes that couldhave lead the visitor to the missing page.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; A “plug” for one of your Free products or services&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;You can of course add other components like simple java script code for date &amp;amp; time and IP address display, etc. if you really want to impress someone with your technical wizardry.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Your page also should carry the look and feel of your web site, so you should include your header or footer or both so it is clearly branded as yours. You may wish to include some other links for your site that lead visitors to other pages you may want them to visit.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sitepronews.com/2008/12/15/create-your-own-customized-404-error-page-for-increased-traffic/"&gt;Click this link NOW to read the FULL ARTICLE basic the steps!&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Seen on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sitepronews.com/2008/12/15/create-your-own-customized-404-error-page-for-increased-traffic/"&gt;SiteProNews.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.cashway.com/"&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-2892648460217961294?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/2892648460217961294/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=2892648460217961294' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2892648460217961294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2892648460217961294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/12/create-your-own-customized-404-error.html' title='Create Your Own Customized 404 Error Page for Increased Traffic  - SiteProNews.com Article by Ed Duvall'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-2017290479143419833</id><published>2008-12-20T20:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-20T20:32:52.492-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Shopping Search Tactics for the Holiday Season'/><title type='text'>SES Chicago: Shopping Search Tactics for the Holiday Season - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:100%;" &gt;Although retailers are struggling this holiday season with the current economic issues, recent &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/12/12/ses-chicago-shopping-search-tactics-for-the-holiday-season/www.comscore.com"&gt;comScore&lt;/a&gt; data shows that shopping search engines are thriving and are performing better than last year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dseschi08_greghintz" width="316" height="188"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Cyber Monday saw significant visitor gains at most of the top retail resources, led by Shopzilla.com sites with nearly 2 million visitors (up 98 percent versus the November base period), followed by Yahoo! Shopping with 1.9 million visitors (up 81 percent) and Google Product Search with 1.1 million (up 59 percent).” &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;These numbers further prove that consumers are browsing around online comparing prices and searching for the best deal. In the above video &lt;a href="http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/chicago/greg-hintz.html"&gt;Greg Hintz&lt;/a&gt;, the General Manager of &lt;a href="http://shopping.yahoo.com/"&gt;Yahoo! Shopping&lt;/a&gt;, gives four tips retailers need to know as they optimize their campaign.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;1.    Optimize your data feed.&lt;br /&gt;2.    Make sure your data feed provides relevant, comprehensive, and fresh data.&lt;br /&gt;3.    Use factual language instead of “marketing” language.&lt;br /&gt;4.    Include all product specifics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/12/12/ses-chicago-shopping-search-tactics-for-the-holiday-season/"&gt;Read more at WebProNews Video... &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-2017290479143419833?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/2017290479143419833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=2017290479143419833' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2017290479143419833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2017290479143419833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/12/ses-chicago-shopping-search-tactics-for.html' title='SES Chicago: Shopping Search Tactics for the Holiday Season - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3682516239265426742</id><published>2008-12-09T21:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T21:22:05.429-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Getting Your Viral Campaign Going'/><title type='text'>SES Chicago: Getting Your Viral Campaign Going - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Viral campaigns are a current trend that everyone wants to take part in, but launching a campaign is not something that people should take lightly. Not to give off the impression that viral campaigns are difficult, but they do require skillful planning and should not be conducted halfheartedly...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fjwplayer%2Fconfig.xml&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dseschicagoviral" width="316" height="188"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;tt&gt; &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.10e20.com/about-us/"&gt;Chris Winfield&lt;/a&gt;, the President of &lt;a href="http://www.10e20.com/"&gt;10e20&lt;/a&gt;, gives a few recommendations when getting started with a viral campaign:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;1. Have clear goals and objectives&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;2. Promote great content&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;3. Contribute to the communities&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;4. Make sites work together&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;5. Have good hosting&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In the above video from &lt;a href="http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/chicago/"&gt;SES Chicago&lt;/a&gt;, Chris also adds that a viral campaign is not simply about a great idea. It also takes great execution and promotion which can be done through blogs, social media sites, forums and groups.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;There is not a specific time table to know if your viral campaign is working, but all experts advise never giving up.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3682516239265426742?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3682516239265426742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3682516239265426742' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3682516239265426742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3682516239265426742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/12/ses-chicago-getting-your-viral-campaign.html' title='SES Chicago: Getting Your Viral Campaign Going - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-2214263595566626406</id><published>2008-11-30T14:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T16:06:24.886-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Webmasters PubCon 2008 -Las Vegas Convention Center'/><title type='text'>PubCon 2008 Exceeds Expectations - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Brett Tabke, the CEO of &lt;a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/"&gt;Webmasterworld&lt;/a&gt;, is the man behind the PubConference series. He is responsible for how good or how bad the show turns out. This year’s event has done nothing but receive raving reviews and was the #1 search term on Twitter for several days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pubcon.com/"&gt;PubCon&lt;/a&gt; has something for everyone. It doesn’t just feature SEO, marketing, IT, or social media - it’s a combination of all those and more. In the above video, Brett says how they tried to focus on quality sessions at this year’s show...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Watch Video:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; background: rgb(217, 217, 217) url(http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/video/embed-bg.gif) repeat-x scroll left top; width: 326px; height: 208px; text-align: center; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/jwplayer/player.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="bufferlength=5&amp;amp;linktarget=_self&amp;amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dpubcon_tabke&amp;amp;plugins=yourlytics-1&amp;amp;yourlytics.callback=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fanalytics.php" width="316" height="188"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;More WebProNews Videos&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Read more at: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/11/26/pubcon-2008-exceeds-expectations/"&gt;WebProNews.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" &gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-2214263595566626406?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/2214263595566626406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=2214263595566626406' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2214263595566626406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2214263595566626406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/pubcon-2008-exceeds-expectations.html' title='PubCon 2008 Exceeds Expectations - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-1323430760307614938</id><published>2008-11-21T21:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-21T21:27:46.710-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Social Media Marketing'/><title type='text'>Social Media 1, 2, 3… go from Web Success Team</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Really Good Article from Janette Speyer VP, WebSuccessTeam.com on Social Media Time Management... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time, time, yes I know you don’t have any. Or at least that is what all my clients are telling me when I suggest a Social Media plan to build their reputation and to connect online.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;So I thought I would take you through a typical day in the life of a social media user and also a very busy person with a heavy workload. Yes! That would be me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Janette_Speyer/718377266"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; –&lt;/span&gt; Daily avg time: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;15-20 minutes&lt;/span&gt;. Check out new contacts, read some of the posts, answer an email inquiry and post something myself = The time it take to call one person for business and to answer a couple of emails.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/websuccess"&gt;Linkedin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; –&lt;/span&gt; Daily avg time: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;30-40 minutes&lt;/span&gt;. Keep up with connections, answer industry related questions, make new connections = meeting vendors and clients in person, minus the time it takes to drive in LA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitter.com/websuccess"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; –&lt;/span&gt; Daily avg time: &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;20-30 minutes&lt;/span&gt;. 3 posts a day with necessary research. Priceless! I can’t begin to tell you the power Twitter has for business and social relations. If you are on Twitter, follow Starbucks, Jet Blue and see how other corporations are jumping on the SMM bandwagon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was that so terrible? Once at work you still have a number of social / networking tasks you have to do to get your work done: phone calls, emails, meetings. How different is Social Media for all this? It is just a point of view.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;Learn more about the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" href="http://www.websuccessteam.com/"&gt;WebSuccessTeam.com &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-1323430760307614938?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1323430760307614938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=1323430760307614938' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1323430760307614938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/1323430760307614938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/social-media-1-2-3go-from-web-success.html' title='Social Media 1, 2, 3… go from Web Success Team'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-4041797868070030939</id><published>2008-11-18T18:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-18T18:17:03.014-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Matt Cutts on Changes at Google'/><title type='text'>Matt Cutts on Changes at Google - WebProNews Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;As Seen On: &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/11/18/matt-cutts-on-changes-at-google/"&gt;WebProNews Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;We previously brought you a &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/11/17/pubcon-bruce-clay-ranking-is-dead/"&gt;video report&lt;/a&gt; in which &lt;a href="http://www.bruceclay.com/bruceclayauthors.htm"&gt;Bruce Clay&lt;/a&gt; made a claim that “ranking is dead.” In the &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/11/18/matt-cutts-on-changes-at-google/"&gt;above WPN video&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/"&gt;Matt Cutts&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; responds to that assertion. Matt does not completely agree with Bruce that “ranking is dead” but does announce that it is not as important as it once was.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;There’s a lot more to SEO than just ranking number one in Google for a key phrase. Since searches based on personalization and localization are becoming more and more prevalent, Matt echoes Bruce’s words that the central focus for SEO’s should be traffic and conversions.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;With all these innovations, the game is changing for SEO’s. Matt says they are now marketers and need to embrace universal search by integrating video, images, books, etc. As far as Google trends go for 2009, they will affect SEO’s as well. Matt reports how black hat SEO is “getting more malicious” and shamelessly illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Watch Video:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/frame2.php?movie_name=pubconmattcutts" frameborder="0" height="251" scrolling="no" width="336"&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-4041797868070030939?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/4041797868070030939/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=4041797868070030939' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4041797868070030939'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4041797868070030939'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/matt-cutts-on-changes-at-google.html' title='Matt Cutts on Changes at Google - WebProNews Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3864788584044332778</id><published>2008-11-16T16:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T16:18:37.032-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Webmasters PubCon 2008 -Las Vegas Convention Center'/><title type='text'>FREE SEO Tool I Came Upon at Pubcon 2008 in Las Vegas - Worth Sharing!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"&gt;I came across this tool while attending &lt;a href="http://www.pubcon.com"&gt;Pubcon&lt;/a&gt; 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada last week and wanted to share it on my blog...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SEOAutomatic.com&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.seoautomatic.com/" onmousedown="'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this)," target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span&gt;http://www.seoautomatic.co&lt;/span&gt;&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;m&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;) This tool tells you where you stand on each of these things, then it tells you what I think about each of them, and then it provides some recommendations, with a couple of other things thrown in for good measure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; No matter their skill level, anyone familiar with &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.websuccessteam.com"&gt;SEO&lt;/a&gt; would probably look at a few basic elements of your webpage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;These elements are nearly always the same no matter how big or small the website, and include the following:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;    1. Title tag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;    2. Description tag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;    3. Keyword tag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;    4. Header Tags&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;    5. Alt Tags&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Beyond those basics, they’re going to look at even more…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;    1. Your sitemap&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;    2. Your robots file&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;    3. Internal links on your pages&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;    4. External links on your pages&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;    5. Page &amp;amp; Image sizes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;    6. Design / styling issues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;    7. Server Issues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&gt;&gt; Here's the link:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.seoautomatic.com/" onmousedown="'UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this)," target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;span&gt;http://www.seoautomatic.co&lt;/span&gt;&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;m/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Hope you find it as useful as I do!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; Marci :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.marcidesign.com"&gt;www.marcidesign.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3864788584044332778?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3864788584044332778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3864788584044332778' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3864788584044332778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3864788584044332778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/free-seo-tool-i-came-upon-at-pubcon.html' title='FREE SEO Tool I Came Upon at Pubcon 2008 in Las Vegas - Worth Sharing!'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-857026355520994740</id><published>2008-10-15T21:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-15T21:36:17.790-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Web Success Team Glossary'/><title type='text'>20 Terms from the Web Success Team's Website Glossary...</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thanks to the &lt;a href="http://www.websuccessteam.com/meetourteam.htm"&gt;WebSuccessTeam.com&lt;/a&gt; I get to provide you a taste from their Website glossary:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. &lt;a href="http://www.websuccessteam.com/"&gt;Search Engine Optimization&lt;/a&gt; (SEO)&lt;/strong&gt; – A method of maximizing a website’s visibility on  any given search engine for targeted keywords.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Aggregator&lt;/strong&gt; – Also known as feed reader or news reader, aggregators are software programs that syndicates content such as blogs, vlogs, headlines, news updates and podcasts. FeedBurner is one example.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Alexa Ranking &lt;/strong&gt;– Alexa is a web information company that creates tools for web developers and ranks websites based on traffic internationally.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Alt Tags&lt;/strong&gt; – Words  or phrases used as an explanation for links or a pictures that appear when a  cursor hovers over either.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Analytics&lt;/strong&gt; – Web software that indicates user activity on a site such as how many users visited the site, how they got there, how long they stayed, when they left, what keywords they used to search for the site and what links were clicked.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. Anchor&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Links&lt;/strong&gt; – Links that direct a viewer to another part of the  same page. Anchor links are often used for One Page Wonder sites.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. API&lt;/strong&gt; – Stands for application program interface. An API is tools and protocols used to build software applications to make it easier to develop a program. Social applications also access information and update feeds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. Atom&lt;/strong&gt; – XML  language used in RSS and other web feeds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9. Backlink &lt;/strong&gt;– A hyperlink that links from one website to another, also known as inbound links. Backlinks are used in SEO because some search engines use them to determine ranking on SERPs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10. Blog&lt;/strong&gt; – An online  catalogue of content. There are many forms of blogs such as video, journal,  article content, etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11. Bots&lt;/strong&gt; – Search  engine robots that search through a website’s content. They determine which  websites go under which keywords.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.websuccessteam.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Branding&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; – A  method of positioning a company and its products and services to create  awareness in the market.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;13. Brand&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Image&lt;/strong&gt; – A marketing tactic that gives consumers a specific image or impression of how the brand’s products and services are positioned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;14. Brand Loyalty&lt;/strong&gt; – Consumer purchase and repurchase of a product or service under a brand name because they feel it is the best despite competition.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;15. Campaign Site&lt;/strong&gt; – A  minisite that is targeted for a specific audience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;16. Click Fraud &lt;/strong&gt;– When individuals continuously click on banner ads or program software to do so in order to increase revenue from a pay-per-click program. Click fraud is illegal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;17. Content&lt;/strong&gt; – Information supplied on the web about a company’s products, services or related industry topics to help consumers make educated decisions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                     &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;18. CSS&lt;/strong&gt; – Cascading Style Sheets is a new feature of HTML that allows users and web developers to control how web pages are displayed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;              &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;19. CTR &lt;/strong&gt;– Stands for  click through rate. It is the amount of times surfers click through to a  website&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="text"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;20. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.websuccessteam.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Direct&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Response&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Marketing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; – A type of marketing that elicits a call to action from consumers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="text"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Based in Los Angeles, California, The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Web Success Team&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;’s&lt;/span&gt;  innovative&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.websuccessteam.com/seosem.htm"&gt;direct response web marketing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.websuccessteam.com/webservices.htm"&gt;web development strategies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt; entice viewers to stay longer on each web page, guide them through your website, and turn visitors into online buyers or motivated viewers at a higher rate than traditional sites.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="text"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;&gt; View the Full Glossary at:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.websuccessteam.com/web-success-glossary.html"&gt;WebSuccessTeam.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-857026355520994740?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/857026355520994740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=857026355520994740' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/857026355520994740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/857026355520994740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/20-terms-from-web-success-teams-website.html' title='20 Terms from the Web Success Team&apos;s Website Glossary...'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-5401956658570611179</id><published>2008-10-15T11:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-15T11:57:59.362-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='List of business Networking Websites'/><title type='text'>List of business Networking Websites for CEO’S and Entrepreneurs from ceoworld.Biz</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;"&gt;I was excited to see this list posted from CEOWorld:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The Internet provides dominant networking opportunities that let users to efficiently target their addressees by logging on to social sites like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.linkedin.com/" target="_blank"&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.ceoworld.biz/corporate/" target="_blank"&gt;ceoworld&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; and more. Take benefit of these tools by asserting your company’s charisma online and reaching more prospective customers, business partners and employees. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;To Get the List... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/2008/10/02/a-complete-list-of-business-networking-websites-for-ceo-and-entrepreneurs/"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/2008/10/02/a-complete-list-of-business-networking-websites-for-ceo-and-entrepreneurs/"&gt; for the list of most famous Business-Media, Business Online Networking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-5401956658570611179?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/5401956658570611179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=5401956658570611179' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/5401956658570611179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/5401956658570611179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/list-of-business-networking-websites.html' title='List of business Networking Websites for CEO’S and Entrepreneurs from ceoworld.Biz'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-7643777050602832458</id><published>2008-05-19T21:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-19T21:53:29.597-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yahoo and Microsoft'/><title type='text'>Microsoft: New Talks for Alternative Yahoo Deal - APNews on LiveVideo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/8C75E3B8E68E4AA591DD5DED37F22AC2/microsoft-new-talks-for-alter.aspx"&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt; is trying again to team up with &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/8C75E3B8E68E4AA591DD5DED37F22AC2/microsoft-new-talks-for-alter.aspx"&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt; to challenge Internet search and advertising leader &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="divVideoDesc_short" style="display: none;"&gt;  &lt;a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="ToggleDesc('divVideoDesc_full', 'divVideoDesc_short')"&gt;more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="divVideoDesc_full" style="display: inline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/8C75E3B8E68E4AA591DD5DED37F22AC2/microsoft-new-talks-for-alter.aspx"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;, although the renewed talks have not escalated to another attempt to take over Yahoo...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/8C75E3B8E68E4AA591DD5DED37F22AC2" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" wmode="transparent" height="369" width="445"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/8C75E3B8E68E4AA591DD5DED37F22AC2/635488/microsoft-new-talks-for-alter.aspx"&gt;Microsoft: New talks for alternative Yahoo deal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-7643777050602832458?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/7643777050602832458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=7643777050602832458' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7643777050602832458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7643777050602832458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-new-talks-for-alternative.html' title='Microsoft: New Talks for Alternative Yahoo Deal - APNews on LiveVideo'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-6228209291633860865</id><published>2008-05-15T15:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-15T16:01:54.402-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='CBS is buying CNet Networks'/><title type='text'>CBS in $1.8B Deal for News Info Site CNet - APNews on liveVideo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;On video Media and entertainment company &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/3820E9BE2F0E4361A15E7BD93F5C9B9A/cbs-in-1-8b-deal-for-news-in.aspx"&gt;CBS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; is buying &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/3820E9BE2F0E4361A15E7BD93F5C9B9A/cbs-in-1-8b-deal-for-news-in.aspx"&gt;CNet Networks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; for $1.8 Billion in cash...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/3820E9BE2F0E4361A15E7BD93F5C9B9A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" wmode="transparent" height="369" width="445"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/3820E9BE2F0E4361A15E7BD93F5C9B9A/630176/cbs-in-1-8b-deal-for-news-in.aspx"&gt;CBS in $1.8B deal for news, info site CNet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-6228209291633860865?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6228209291633860865/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=6228209291633860865' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6228209291633860865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6228209291633860865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/cbs-in-18b-deal-for-news-info-site-cnet.html' title='CBS in $1.8B Deal for News Info Site CNet - APNews on liveVideo'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-6715111826499199379</id><published>2008-05-14T23:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-14T23:34:00.348-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='100 Most Influential People in The World'/><title type='text'>Time's 100 Most Influential People in The World - APNews on LiveVideo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;On video &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/HollywoodLive/734C13F117BC4544A178C6CDF7C7B69C/time-s-100-most-influential-pe.aspx"&gt;Time Magazine&lt;/a&gt; honored a slew of individuals for its &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/HollywoodLive/734C13F117BC4544A178C6CDF7C7B69C/time-s-100-most-influential-pe.aspx"&gt;100 Most Influential People&lt;/a&gt; in the World issue...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/734C13F117BC4544A178C6CDF7C7B69C" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" width="445" height="369" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/734C13F117BC4544A178C6CDF7C7B69C/626074/time-s-100-most-influential-pe.aspx"&gt;Time's 100 Most Influential People in The World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-6715111826499199379?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6715111826499199379/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=6715111826499199379' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6715111826499199379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6715111826499199379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/times-100-most-influential-people-in.html' title='Time&apos;s 100 Most Influential People in The World - APNews on LiveVideo'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-6749950558467447216</id><published>2008-05-09T14:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-09T14:50:38.641-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Reputation Management Made Easy'/><title type='text'>Reputation Management Made Easy -  WebProNews</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Mike McDonald explains reputation management for your Web site. Reputation management is important to track and it’s really not that hard of a task. Mike shows how to use &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" href="http://technorati.com/"&gt;Technorati&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" href="http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&amp;amp;tab=wn"&gt;Google News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; and how to apply to their RSS feeds. Check out all the details in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" href="http://videos.webpronews.com"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; Tip of the Day with Mike McDonald.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt; &lt;iframe width="336" height="251" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/frame2.php?movie_name=reputation"&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-6749950558467447216?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6749950558467447216/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=6749950558467447216' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6749950558467447216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6749950558467447216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/reputation-management-made-easy.html' title='Reputation Management Made Easy -  WebProNews'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-899446974220678776</id><published>2008-05-07T11:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-07T11:45:50.057-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Clearwire'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sprint Nextel to Form WiMAX Network'/><title type='text'>Clearwire, Sprint Nextel to Form WiMAX Network - APNews on LiveVideo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/4C3492FD015A4D5A83016113ADF151E0/clearwire-sprint-nextel-to-fo.aspx"&gt;Clearwire and Sprint Nextel&lt;/a&gt; will combine their wireless broadband units to create a $14.55 billion communications company...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/4C3492FD015A4D5A83016113ADF151E0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" wmode="transparent" height="369" width="445"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/4C3492FD015A4D5A83016113ADF151E0/619821/clearwire-sprint-nextel-to-fo.aspx"&gt;Clearwire, Sprint Nextel to form WiMAX network&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-899446974220678776?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/899446974220678776/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=899446974220678776' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/899446974220678776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/899446974220678776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/clearwire-sprint-nextel-to-form-wimax.html' title='Clearwire, Sprint Nextel to Form WiMAX Network - APNews on LiveVideo'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-745643805356107990</id><published>2008-05-05T17:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-05T17:15:21.172-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yahoo and Microsoft'/><title type='text'>What's Next for Yahoo and Microsoft? - APNews on LiveVideo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;After &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/6DA3928BDF924B96B6F732276A7F79F5/what-s-next-for-yahoo-and-micr.aspx"&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt; withdrew its $42.3 billion bid to buy &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/6DA3928BDF924B96B6F732276A7F79F5/what-s-next-for-yahoo-and-micr.aspx"&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt; in hopes of toppling online search and advertising leader Google, analysts discuss the future of the companies involved...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/6DA3928BDF924B96B6F732276A7F79F5" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" wmode="transparent" height="369" width="445"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/6DA3928BDF924B96B6F732276A7F79F5/617933/what-s-next-for-yahoo-and-micr.aspx"&gt;What's Next for Yahoo and Microsoft?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-745643805356107990?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/745643805356107990/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=745643805356107990' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/745643805356107990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/745643805356107990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/whats-next-for-yahoo-and-microsoft.html' title='What&apos;s Next for Yahoo and Microsoft? - APNews on LiveVideo'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3577285940738067209</id><published>2008-05-02T12:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-02T12:29:43.248-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tech Test Video'/><title type='text'>Tech Test: Touring the World From your Desk -  APNews on LiveVideo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/B2C231250E734C87A0A3C95E9EE49DFD/tech-test-touring-the-world-f.aspx"&gt;Tech Test:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; When it comes to chronicling a trip with digital photos, getting everything organized for presentation &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="divVideoDesc_short" style="display: none;"&gt;  &lt;a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="ToggleDesc('divVideoDesc_full', 'divVideoDesc_short')"&gt;more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="divVideoDesc_full" style="display: inline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;can be somewhat of a challenge. AP's Nick Jesdanun put &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/B2C231250E734C87A0A3C95E9EE49DFD/tech-test-touring-the-world-f.aspx"&gt;Google Earth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; to the test to see how well it handles organizing and viewing...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/B2C231250E734C87A0A3C95E9EE49DFD" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" wmode="transparent" height="369" width="445"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/B2C231250E734C87A0A3C95E9EE49DFD/612828/tech-test-touring-the-world-f.aspx"&gt;Tech Test: Touring the world from your desk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3577285940738067209?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3577285940738067209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3577285940738067209' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3577285940738067209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3577285940738067209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/tech-test-touring-world-from-your-desk.html' title='Tech Test: Touring the World From your Desk -  APNews on LiveVideo'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-7228936733390319306</id><published>2008-04-30T10:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-30T10:33:06.581-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Future of Web Video'/><title type='text'>Web 2.0 Conference Explores Future of Web - APNews on LiveVideo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;This week marks the 15th anniversary of the launch of the World Wide Web. Industry insiders at the &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/086D84B552AD443BA77C22C44C1B6515/web-2-0-conference-explores-fu.aspx"&gt;Web &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="divVideoDesc_short" style="display: none;"&gt;  &lt;a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="ToggleDesc('divVideoDesc_full', 'divVideoDesc_short')"&gt;more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="divVideoDesc_full" style="display: inline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/086D84B552AD443BA77C22C44C1B6515/web-2-0-conference-explores-fu.aspx"&gt;2.0 Expo in San Francisco&lt;/a&gt; discuss what Internet users can expect over the next 15 years...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/086D84B552AD443BA77C22C44C1B6515" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" wmode="transparent" height="369" width="445"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/086D84B552AD443BA77C22C44C1B6515/611253/web-2-0-conference-explores-fu.aspx"&gt;Web 2.0 conference explores future of Web&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-7228936733390319306?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/7228936733390319306/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=7228936733390319306' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7228936733390319306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7228936733390319306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/04/web-20-conference-explores-future-of.html' title='Web 2.0 Conference Explores Future of Web - APNews on LiveVideo'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-6177953499916835217</id><published>2008-04-25T13:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-25T13:09:13.966-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google&apos;s Book Search Video'/><title type='text'>Google's Book Search Not Without Issue - APNews on LiveVideo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-family:verdana;" &gt;On LiveVideo &lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/CA7EDBE7A18C4C7FA1B95672B3823A34/google-s-book-search-not-witho.aspx"&gt;Google's Book Search&lt;/a&gt; Not Without Issue....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the proliferation of the Internet, the printed page may one day go the way of the stone tablet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="divVideoDesc_short" style="display: none;"&gt;  &lt;a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="ToggleDesc('divVideoDesc_full', 'divVideoDesc_short')"&gt;more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="divVideoDesc_full" style="display: inline;font-family:verdana;" &gt; But with an estimated 50 to 100 million books already in print, getting those works in digital format is a monumental task...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/CA7EDBE7A18C4C7FA1B95672B3823A34" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" wmode="transparent" height="369" width="445"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/CA7EDBE7A18C4C7FA1B95672B3823A34/605135/google-s-book-search-not-witho.aspx"&gt;Google's Book Search not without issue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-6177953499916835217?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/CA7EDBE7A18C4C7FA1B95672B3823A34/google-s-book-search-not-witho.aspx' title='Google&apos;s Book Search Not Without Issue - APNews on LiveVideo'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6177953499916835217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=6177953499916835217' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6177953499916835217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/6177953499916835217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/04/googles-book-search-not-without-issue.html' title='Google&apos;s Book Search Not Without Issue - APNews on LiveVideo'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-650702607684029095</id><published>2008-04-24T11:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-24T12:01:38.960-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yahoo 1Q profit rises'/><title type='text'>Yahoo 1Q Profit Rises, Microsoft Lurks - APNews on LiveVideo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Yahoo's solid first-quarter performance has prolonged the battle with &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/B5E06FF1EE57410AA616D1D945F1F2A5/yahoo-1"&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt; and its bid to take &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;" class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Internet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; search pioneer &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/B5E06FF1EE57410AA616D1D945F1F2A5/yahoo-1"&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/B5E06FF1EE57410AA616D1D945F1F2A5" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" width="445" height="369" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/B5E06FF1EE57410AA616D1D945F1F2A5/602744/yahoo-1q-profit-rises-microso.aspx"&gt;Yahoo 1Q profit rises, Microsoft lurks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-650702607684029095?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/B5E06FF1EE57410AA616D1D945F1F2A5/yahoo-1q-profit-rises-microso.aspx' title='Yahoo 1Q Profit Rises, Microsoft Lurks - APNews on LiveVideo'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/650702607684029095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=650702607684029095' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/650702607684029095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/650702607684029095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/04/yahoo-1q-profit-rises-microsoft-lurks.html' title='Yahoo 1Q Profit Rises, Microsoft Lurks - APNews on LiveVideo'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-7250707983261304485</id><published>2008-04-10T11:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-10T11:23:58.210-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yahoo-Microsoft Drama'/><title type='text'>Plot Thickens in Yahoo-Microsoft Drama - APNews on LiveVideo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/35BE826DAB3945DBAE782F537744817A/plot-thickens-in-yahoo-microso.aspx"&gt;Yahoo&lt;/a&gt;'s last-ditch efforts to avoid a takeover by &lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/APnews/35BE826DAB3945DBAE782F537744817A/plot-thickens-in-yahoo-microso.aspx"&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt; 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Learn what search engine optimization experts really do in terms of SEO in this informative search marketing video on SEO best practices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.sharkle.com/externalPlayer/158282/indn41i2y/3/" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="310" width="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-4151240925574718091?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/4151240925574718091/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=4151240925574718091' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4151240925574718091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/4151240925574718091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/search-engine-optimization-seo-best.html' title='Search Engine Optimization - SEO Best Practices - Sharkle.com'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-2195587830248905051</id><published>2008-02-11T12:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-11T12:10:22.474-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Web Video'/><title type='text'>Web 2.0: Is Video Choking the Web? - LiveVideo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The growing popularity of &lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com"&gt;online video&lt;/a&gt; has driven a traffic increase that's putting strains on service providers. To deal with it, they have had to make subtle and secret changes to the way they convey Internet traffic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed style="font-family: verdana;" src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/6D66F00CE31D43CEA7B0039C4D659262" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" wmode="transparent" height="369" width="445"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/6D66F00CE31D43CEA7B0039C4D659262/527382/web-2-0-is-video-choking-the-.aspx"&gt;Web 2.0: Is video choking the Web?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-2195587830248905051?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/2195587830248905051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=2195587830248905051' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2195587830248905051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/2195587830248905051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/web-20-is-video-choking-web-livevideo.html' title='Web 2.0: Is Video Choking the Web? - LiveVideo'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-5790459104365828751</id><published>2008-01-31T15:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-31T15:15:34.290-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Social Bookmarking and Tagging'/><title type='text'>Social Bookmarking and Tagging - LiveVideo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="text_black"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;PR Newswire's Director of Emerging Media Michael Pranikoff narrates this &lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/"&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt; tutorial on social bookmarking and tagging. Learn how to navigate through&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="divVidDesc_short" style="display: none;"&gt;  &lt;a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="ToggleDesc('divVidDesc_full', 'divVidDesc_short')"&gt;more...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="divVidDesc_full" style="display: inline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; social bookmarking sites like Del.ico.us which enable you to share information among your peers, learn how others are tagging your information and more... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/BCB148068B6E49ED802D5FB8A71F307E" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" wmode="transparent" height="369" width="445"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/BCB148068B6E49ED802D5FB8A71F307E/470541/social-bookmarking-tagging.aspx"&gt;Social Bookmarking  &amp;amp; Tagging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-5790459104365828751?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/5790459104365828751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=5790459104365828751' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/5790459104365828751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/5790459104365828751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/social-bookmarking-and-tagging.html' title='Social Bookmarking and Tagging - LiveVideo'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-671815701767014317</id><published>2008-01-25T21:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-25T21:16:09.381-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Add Favicons To Websites'/><title type='text'>How To Add Favicons To Websites - from LiveVideo.com</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Watch  the following &lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/"&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text_black"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;discover just how easy it is to add a Favicon to your Website or Blog..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/0920D74E7DB44E7DB1AAED76F3D79C6B" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" wmode="transparent" height="369" width="445"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/0920D74E7DB44E7DB1AAED76F3D79C6B/507037/how-to-add-favicons-to-website.aspx"&gt;How To Add Favicons To Websites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-671815701767014317?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/671815701767014317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=671815701767014317' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/671815701767014317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/671815701767014317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-add-favicons-to-websites-from.html' title='How To Add Favicons To Websites - from LiveVideo.com'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-3261697602321449184</id><published>2008-01-25T21:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-25T21:15:38.585-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Making a Favicon'/><title type='text'>Making a Favicon - Watch Video from LiveVideo.com</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Watch the following &lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/"&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt; on how to make your own Favicon for your Website or blog using free graphics software...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.livevideo.com/flvplayer/embed/78DDEDB82CD34EF081ADE7DFF58E3969" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" wmode="transparent" height="369" width="445"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/78DDEDB82CD34EF081ADE7DFF58E3969/507870/making-a-favicon.aspx"&gt;Making a Favicon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-3261697602321449184?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3261697602321449184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=3261697602321449184' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3261697602321449184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/3261697602321449184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/making-favicon-watch-video-from.html' title='Making a Favicon - Watch Video from LiveVideo.com'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-8356982924558239044</id><published>2008-01-14T21:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-14T21:31:35.525-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Create a Podcast'/><title type='text'>How to Create a Podcast - Video from WebProNews</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;At the beginning of the millennium, Podcasting started to hit the masses. But now it seems almost necessary to have a Podcast for your marketing plan. Well at least that’s what Creator and Podcaster of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://podchick.com/"&gt;podchick.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://skydivergirls.com/"&gt;skydivergirls.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;, Kayeffcie Blanchette said to us in an interview. WebProNews takes a look into how to start a Podcast. Besides Kayeffcie, we talked with Owner of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://neo1seo.com/"&gt;NeO1SeO.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.neo1seo.com/about-neo1-seo.htm"&gt; David Brown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;, Chief Technology Officer for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.toolbarn.com/"&gt;ToolBarn.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;, Brian Mark, and President of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://podfactory.net/"&gt;Podfactory.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; and Podcaster of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://yogamazing.com/"&gt;YogAmazing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;, Chaz Rough. If you would like to learn several helpful tips from Kara Ratliff on how to start a podcast, keep watching &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2008/01/07/how-to-create-a-podcast?click=1"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;tt&gt; &lt;iframe width="336" height="251" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/frame2.php?movie_name=podcasting"&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-8356982924558239044?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/8356982924558239044/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=8356982924558239044' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8356982924558239044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8356982924558239044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-create-podcast-video-from.html' title='How to Create a Podcast - Video from WebProNews'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-8444179462378848203</id><published>2008-01-06T13:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-06T13:29:39.007-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Website Checklist'/><title type='text'>Website Checklist with Jill Whalen - WebProNews Watch Video</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Founder and CEO of &lt;a href="http://highrankings.com/"&gt;High Rankings&lt;/a&gt; and Co-Founder of &lt;a href="http://www.semne.org/"&gt;SEMNE&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://highrankings.com/moreinfo.htm"&gt;Jill Whalen&lt;/a&gt; talks with WebProNews about site navigation and menu’s. She gives us tips and a checklist of what you should incorporate into your website. For example, make sure to do keyword research to figure out the key phrases that you want to implement on your page. Whalen also gives us some insight as to what not to do to your website. For other tips from Whalen as reported by Kara Ratliff, keep watching &lt;a href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2007/12/20/website-checklist-with-jill-whalen?click=1"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;iframe width="336" height="251" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/frame2.php?movie_name=sitelist_whalen"&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;!--     --&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-8444179462378848203?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/8444179462378848203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=8444179462378848203' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8444179462378848203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8444179462378848203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/01/website-checklist-with-jill-whalen.html' title='Website Checklist with Jill Whalen - WebProNews Watch Video'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-8255405806580423016</id><published>2007-12-19T21:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-19T22:04:10.080-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='30 Video Sharing Search Engines'/><title type='text'>SEO Video Tip: 30 Video Sharing Search Engines</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;Here are 30 SEO Valuable Video Sharing Search Engines...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/" title="YouTube"&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YouTube is the king of the video sharing sites, it has more users and videos than the others. Any video you can think of it probably already on YouTube.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://video.google.com/" title="Google Video"&gt;Google Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since Google bought YouTube, Google’s Video player is mainly used for for-pay content like TV shows. Also there is a search here that indexes all of the video sharing sites on the internet (well, most of them).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blip.tv/" title="Blip.tv"&gt;Blip.tv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blip.tv is the perfect video sharing site for video podcast makers. It’s designed to let them easily upload all types and qualities of media and then send them to their feed for the users. They also let you add ads to you video so you can make some money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ourmedia.org/" title="Ourmedia"&gt;Ourmedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A great site where you can upload audio, video, images, and text and share them with the world. The OurMedia community contains over 100,000 members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.veoh.com/" title="Veoh"&gt;Veoh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch long form, television quality content and publish your own videos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailymotion.com/" title="DailyMotion"&gt;DailyMotion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video sharing platform with multiple video search options. You can join groups of people who publish videos based on a common interest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.metacafe.com/" title="Metacafe"&gt;Metacafe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A site that helps you discover the best videos through a community that filters, reviews and rates new videos every day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://uncutvideo.aol.com/" title="UnCut"&gt;UnCut&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video uploading and sharing community by AOL. Embed all the videos you want in your blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.clipshack.com/" title="ClipShack"&gt;ClipShack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;video sharing community that allows you to upload video clips, make friends, keep a collection of your favorite videos and comment on clips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.5min.com/" title="5min"&gt;5min&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video sharing site with a particular vision: collecting videos that can visually explain anything in 5 minutes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.brightcove.com/" title="Brightcove"&gt;Brightcove&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Search, click and watch. Music videos, news, travel, recipes, adventure. Thousands of channels, including the best in online video.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.viddler.com/" title="Viddler"&gt;Viddler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Viddler lets add tags and comments to video that will show up at specific times. It also has unique features like flickr and twitter integration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.revver.com/" title="Revver"&gt;Revver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first video sharing site that provides users with the possibility to earn money from the videos they upload.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.vimeo.com/" title="Vimeo"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vimeo is a video sharing site that has an emphasis on it’s users. The video’s you find there are more likely to be home movies or shorts by aspiring film makers, and also a lot of lip dubs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://video.yahoo.com/" title="Yahoo Video"&gt;Yahoo Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yahoo’s version of online video.  Similar to Google video, but done the Yahoo way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://helpfulvideo.com/" title="HelpfulVideo"&gt;HelpfulVideo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Share your knowledge and skills with others for free or little charge via video clips.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.broadbandsports.com/" title="BroadbandSports"&gt;BroadbandSports&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A video sharing site specifically for sharing sports related videos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.travelistic.com/" title="Travelistic"&gt;Travelistic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A video sharing site that allows users to post video content specific to travel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livevideo.com/" title="Livevideo"&gt;Livevideo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video sharing site that lets you create personal channels. Upload your own videos and share them with the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.kewego.com/" title="Kewego"&gt;Kewego&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A video sharing network where you can upload your own videos and view videos by others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://godtube.com/" title="Godtube"&gt;Godtube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s a Christian version of YouTube.  All things Christian welcomed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.coull.tv/" title="Coull.tv"&gt;Coull.tv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An interactive twist to video, this site allows you to view video and add interactive elements to it by using your mouse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mediabum.com/" title="Mediabum"&gt;Mediabum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video sharing site focusing on funny videos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.vmix.com/" title="VMIX"&gt;VMIX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another video sharing website; All content is screened, so be sure everything you upload is legit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.grouper.com/" title="Grouper"&gt;Grouper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Video sharing site with a big selection of content; enables you to create playlists and easily upload videos to MySpace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.break.com/" title="Break"&gt;Break&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Break is a video site and more for comedic based content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.videosift.com/" title="Videosift"&gt;Videosift&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a Digg-like site which lets you submit, vote, and comment on videos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.geevee.com/" title="GeeVee"&gt;GeeVee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GeeVee is a video sharing site specifically for sharing videos of game play in video games.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.stage6.com/" title="Stage6"&gt;Stage6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A video site that uses the Divx player so you can upload High Definition video, of course this also means longer upload times, and you need DivX support (usually a browser plugin).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tubebattle.com/"&gt;Tube Battle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;vote for the best videos, organized by category.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;Happy Viral Video Marketing!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-8255405806580423016?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/8255405806580423016/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=8255405806580423016' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8255405806580423016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/8255405806580423016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/seo-video-tip-30-video-sharing-search.html' title='SEO Video Tip: 30 Video Sharing Search Engines'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-894895492203814265</id><published>2007-12-13T21:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T22:16:10.737-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Resources'/><title type='text'>Success Tip: Top 12 SEO Resources and Tools...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;Here are 12 VERY Useful SEO Resources and Tools...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;1. Beginner's Guide to SEO: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/beginners.php"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;http://www.seomoz.org/beginners.php &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;2. Search Engine Ranking Factors: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/articles/search-ranking-factors.php"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/articles/search-ranking-factors.php"&gt;http://www.seomoz.org/articles/search-ranking-factors.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;3. Page Strength Tool: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php"&gt;http://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;4. Social Media Marketing: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/social-media-marketing-eh-lets-see-whats-in-our-bag-o-goodies"&gt;http://www.seomoz.org/blog/social-media-marketing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;5. Best Practices for URLs:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls"&gt;http://www.seomoz.org/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;6. Google Algorithm Analysis:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-little-piece-of-the-google-algorithm-revealed"&gt;http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-little-piece-of-the-google-algorithm-revealed&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;7. Increase Blog Traffic:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic"&gt;http://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;8. SEO/SEM Glossary: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seobook.com/glossary/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seobook.com/glossary/"&gt;http://www.seobook.com/glossary/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;9. Search Engine Algorithm Comparison: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seobook.com/relevancy/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seobook.com/relevancy/"&gt;http://www.seobook.com/relevancy/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;10. Link Popularity:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;11. Yahoo Site Explorer: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;12. Google Webmaster Guidelines:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/guidelines.html"&gt;http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/guidelines.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;" &gt;Good Luck!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-894895492203814265?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/894895492203814265/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=894895492203814265' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/894895492203814265'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/894895492203814265'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/success-tip-top-12-seo-resources-and.html' title='Success Tip: Top 12 SEO Resources and Tools...'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-529887177552342911</id><published>2007-11-06T15:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T15:14:06.919-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Organic SEO vs. PPC'/><title type='text'>Watch The Video from WebProNews: Organic SEO vs. PPC?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WebProNews looks into the issue of what type of optimization is best, organic search engine optimization or pay-per-click advertising.&lt;/span&gt; We talked with Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.did-it.com/"&gt;Didit.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.did-it.com/kevin_lee.html"&gt;Kevin Lee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;, owner of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.shoemoney.com/"&gt;Shoemoney&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt; Media Group Inc., Jeremy Schoemaker and Executive Vice President from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sitelab.com/index.html"&gt;SiteLab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.sitelab.com/Interactive_Web_Agency/sli_team_web_development.html"&gt;Dana Todd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;. Find out which works better for your site and what to look at before making the decision to use organic or PPC. For more information on what organic search is or what PPC is, keep watching &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://videos.webpronews.com/2007/11/06/organic-seo-vs-ppc#"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="336" height="251" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/frame2.php?movie_name=seo_vs_ppc"&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-529887177552342911?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/529887177552342911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=529887177552342911' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/529887177552342911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/529887177552342911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/11/watch-video-from-webpronews-organic-seo.html' title='Watch The Video from WebProNews: Organic SEO vs. PPC?'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18650653.post-7205752726545540422</id><published>2007-11-01T11:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-11-01T11:35:29.664-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SEO Experts Talk Strategy'/><title type='text'>Watch Video: SEO Experts Talk Strategy as Seen on WebProNews</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-family: verdana;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WebProNews takes a look at what you need to do to begin optimizing your Web site for the search engines.&lt;/span&gt; We talked to several experts in the SEO market including &lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/team/randfish"&gt;Rand Fishkin&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.seomoz.org/"&gt;seomoz.org&lt;/a&gt;, Brian Mark of &lt;a href="http://www.toolbarn.com/"&gt;toolbarn.com&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.neo1seo.com/about-neo1-seo.htm"&gt;David Brown&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.neo1seo.com/"&gt;Top SEO Consultants&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.stonetemple.com/STC_Background.shtml#EricEnge"&gt;Eric Enge&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.stonetemple.com/"&gt;Stone Temple Consulting&lt;/a&gt;. All the experts give tips on what to do and what not to do in SEO. Find out what they have to say, only on &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/11/01/expert-strategies-for-seo"&gt;WebProNews&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;iframe width="336" height="251" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://videos.webpronews.com/video/frame2.php?movie_name=newsseo110107"&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18650653-7205752726545540422?l=websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/7205752726545540422/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18650653&amp;postID=7205752726545540422' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7205752726545540422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18650653/posts/default/7205752726545540422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://websuccessmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/11/watch-video-seo-experts-talk-strategy.html' title='Watch Video: SEO Experts Talk Strategy as Seen on WebProNews'/><author><name>The Blog Poster</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
