Internet Marketing Strategy

Hey guys, welcome to another installment of Monday’s Marketing Mashup, where DaftSEO brings you the latest by the greatest in search engine strategies and marketing tactics!

10 Way to Launch a New Blog With a Bang
Web Designer Depot shows us what it is to truly be prepared to take on a new blog, and what it takes to truly make a new endeavor successful.

Link Building is Faster with BuzzStream
Colin LaHay takes a look into the new Link Building CRM software, BuzzStream, and shows us how to manage our backlink campaigns.

7 Rules for Link Building in 2009
Eduard Blacquiere, also known as EdWords, gives us a couple tips for having a really solid link building strategy, maximizing the points of inbound traffic and link juice.

Well, that’s all for now, stay tuned for the next Marketing Mashup!

It’s that time again! What time, you ask? Why, Blog Comic Friday, of course!

Have print mediums really become archaic, and a thing of the past, or have they only become outdated for certain types of queries?

If you liked this comic, check out Ranked Hard for more!

Markup Heirarchy - Advantages in SEO
Soh Tanaka explains how to keep your unique, content rich content at the top of your markup, and display it to your users however you want.

16 Useful .htaccess Tricks and Hacks for Web Develoeprs
SEO friendly redirects and SEO friendly URL’s aren’t the only thing .htaccess is good for!

Live Domain Drops and Daily Domain Catching
GoDrops.com has daily domain name giveaways, as well as a constantly updated dropped domain list on the right side of their site! Be sure to follow GoDrops on Twitter to keep up with thier special freebies!

That’s all for now, stay tuned for the next SEO Strategy Round Up!

I set up so many Wordpress blogs, for myself and others, so its really easy to overlook a step or two during the setup process once in a while. Let this post be a reminder to you, readers, and myself, to add these five nifty plugins. We do want our websites to be the best that they can be, no?

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade
I definitely try to remember to install this on all of my Wordpress blogs, it saves so much time when you have twenty or more blogs to upgrade when a new version comes around. Wordpress Automatic Upgrade does exactly what the name details, automatically (well, you click a button in your control panel after it alerts you a new version is available) downloads the newest stable release of Wordpress, and installs it. Perhaps we’ll see this plugin included like Akismet someday?

Live Comment Preview
Shows your readers exactly how their reply to your post will appear, in real time. Pretty neat feature that really increases the interaction between the user and your website.

WP Auto Tagger
WP Auto Tagger makes great use of the Yahoo! API to match search results against your current post’s content and provides relevant, popularly searched tags automatically. It doesn’t override any tags you suggest, either.

Nicer Trackbacks
The way Wordpress displays trackbacks to your posts from other websites is kind of ugly, and kind of not that SEO friendly. Well, don’t forget to change all that to suit your needs with this Wordpress plugin.

Most Commented Posts
Show your hottest topics with this plugin, which displays these posts in your sidebar much like the “Most Popular Posts” or “Recent Comments” sidebar items.

Don’t forget to bookmark the Five Most Overlooked Wordpress Plugins, so you don’t forget next time!

Let’s just set this in stone once and for all now and squash all the arguments surrounding the origins of the term Web 2.0, shall we?

Contrary to popular belief, the term “Web 2.0″, which is widely thought to have been originated in 2005 during a conference between O’Reilly and MediaLive International, in reference to the dot com crash and the resurgence of e-commerce and e-services thereafter, was actually coined three years earlier by a Dermot McCormack, titled Web 2.0: 2003-’08 AC (After Crash) The Resurgence of the Internet & E-Commerce.

[excerpt] The first phase of the Internet economy has come to an end with the dramatic fall in the markets, however phase two (Web 2.0) is just getting started and will take shape much more cautiously over the next couple of years. In this book, Dermot McCormack clearly outlines the specific trends, challenges and opportunities for companies, consumers, the stock market and entrepreneurs …

O’Reilly, sorry, but I’m not going to give you this one. It’s a no contest victory for Mr. McCormack, with the three year jump on the gun and all.

So, here’s the deal.

We’re having a random drawing with a jackpot of 2000 entrecard credits going to the winner. When we reach 50 entries, I will pick a random winner.

This promotion is for a new social networking service, called neighbr.

What you have to do is create your own neighbr account, and share your favorite zombie, pirate, or outer space themed desktop wallpaper.

Creating an account is simple, so don’t worry, just go to neighbr.net, click register, and enter a username, password, and email.

Sharing your wallpaper is just as easy! Just click on Share, then Image, browse to your file, give it a description, and then click Share It!

After you’ve submitted your wallpaper, head on over to my neighbr post for the drawing and reply, saying that you have submitted your entry for the contest.

So, let’s get the ball rolling, then, shall we?

Our first ten entrees will receive 50 entrecard credits, and the next fifteen will receive 10 entrecard credits. Just reply here (link to your post if you didn’t use your entrecard name/link to reply) and I will send you your free credits!

Neighbr is a social networking service that takes microblogging to the next level. Never before has it been this easy to share any type of media with your friends and colleagues.

Want to share a note or image with a friend? Upload it right to the neighbrood and give them the link.

Perhaps a YouTube video, or your own FLV? It’s stupid simple to do that, too!

What, you need to help a colleague with a little programming trouble? Post that snippet and have it syntax highlighted in some pretty colors.

Every note you share, be it text, image, video, file, or code, is blended into the website seamlessly for the easiest of browsing.

So, with all that, won’t you be my neighbr?

Please note, neighbr is currently in its beta stage and not all of its features are fully operational, but you should definitely check it out

Closing out the week with the first Blog Comic Friday of 2009!

Sometimes tweaking your site and checking your SERP’s can be a little rough.

If you liked this comic, check out Ranked Hard for more!

Au contrair to my previous post dissing on Google’s weird favicon … Google made me feel all warm and tingly with this one!

Google’s new favicon features a white g overlaid on a multicolored background representing the Google colors, which was inspired by the submission of André Resende a CSCI undergrad in Brazil. (Background remind anyone else of the Microsoft flag? Looks cool, but I’m just sayin’ …)

Anyways I’m sure you’ve all noticed it already just had to put in my two bits about it. I’m really happy they changed it, because the old one was starting to be a real drag!

You can check out the official new Google favicon announcement for the runners up in the submissions that inspired the new icon.

It finally here, the booster kit every SEO newbie has been waiting for, handed down to man by the Gods themselves … Okay so maybe I was being a little facetious, who cares?

Due to the repeated questions of many anxious webmasters yearning to climb the ranks of the Google results pages to that #1 spot, that gold mine of traffic, Google released a simple document that overviews what you need to know about search engine optimization, the basics anyway. Google’s Official SEO Starter Guide goes over proper title creation, good practices for title and meta tags, ideal URL structures, website navigation from a search engine spider’s perspective, proper user of anchor and header tags, image optimization, robots.txt, and more!

If you don’t know much about optimizing your site for Google (or any other search engine, for that matter) you should definitely give the PDF a read. Hell, if you feel like brushing up on your SEO fundamentals, you should definitely give the PDF a read.

Check out the post over at Google Webmaster Central or just download the Official Google SEO Starter Guide!