Link Building A to Z

At long last I get a chance to post an article from my favorite SEO site on the internet, SEOmoz. Enjoy the article. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-from-a-to-z

Tweeting from the Tractor - 7 Secrets to Successful Social Media Farming

Cornfields and social media marketing, what could these two things possibly have in common? Jason Baer from Convince and Convert explains the analogy in his fantastic article Tweeting From The Tractor - 7 Secrets to Successful Social Media Farming. Read and enjoy!

101 Link Building Tips

I found this great list of 101 link building tips over at SEObook. If there's one thing to learn from the list it's that the best links are from sites with content related to yours. Think about that before submitting a site to every directory and forum you can find.

5 Tips For Avoiding Deceptive SEO Companies

Today's fantastic bit of advice comes to us courtesy of Janet Meiners Thaeler over at Small Business Trends. The article is an excellent run down of the most common things Google penalizes sites for. Google doesn't like spammers.

Twitter

Despite the fact that I have a Twitter account, I find the whole thing to be little more than a multi-million person fad. It's plagued by spammers and marketeers. At this point Twitter is just a spot for me to post links to new articles and little more. This cartoon from Hubspot sums up my feelings on it.

People Love Free Stuff

Just take a look at Burger King's Whopper Sacrifice Facebook marketing campaign. The concept of a promotion where you must give up people as friends to gain a free Whopper is really cool. The fact that people who were de-friended got a message saying that they were worth less than a tenth of a Whopper is even more hilarious. It amazes me what people will to do to get something for free. Here's a link to CNET's article on the campaign.

Seth Godin at Google

This is a talk one of my marketing heroes, Seth Godin, gave at Google. This one video alone really helped me to better understand the mentality needed to work in internet marketing.