TopRank Internet Marketing News

The future of public relations relies heavily on interacting with individuals and companies online.  Building awareness and  brand recognition is only the first step.   What are you doing to make your news content and brand story easily found and talked about online?  In order to reach journalists, analysts, bloggers and influentials on the web, it’s essential that Public Relations and Communications professionals understand the role search and social media play with influencing information discovery, consumption and sharing.

At the annual PRSA International Conference on October 17th, TopRank Online Marketing CEO Lee Odden will provide Public Relations and Corporate Communications professionals with an exciting new roadmap to help “Optimize and Socialize” news content for better discovery through search and social media.

The nature of customer engagement has changed forever. No longer will customers accept buying any product or service by just hoping it will meet their needs. It is a process of search, reviews, and social input all before a sale is made. Post-sale will likely include reviews and online sharing.

Make sure you don’t miss three chances to hear how to maximize the online content available about your company and deliver for customers. Learn from TopRank Online Marketing CEO Lee Odden, whose company walks the talk of online visibility with content marketing, social media, and SEO to drive an AdAge Top Ten blog  with over 25,000+ keywords sending traffic monthly and more than 600,000 links into the blog.

The first session titled, “Content Marketing & Optimisation” takes place on February 23 at 11 a.m. Attendees will get insight and practical tips on content optimisation strategy along with creating and promoting content for the social web.

So many business blogs suffer from tactical execution without understanding the power of search engine optimization and social media for attracting traffic and engaging customers. The following presentation outlines how TopRank Online Marketing worked with it’s own blog Online Marketing Blog and with a B2B marketing client to  achieve phenomenal increases in reach, traffic and a positive effect on the bottom line.

TopRank will be offering a new set of TopRank Guides specifically focused on B2B Social Media, B2B Blogging and B2B SEO. We’ll also be conducting several webinars to explain these guides and how best to use them.

The only way to hear about the guides being published is to be a recipient of TopRank’s Tips from the Top Marketing Newsletter. It’s free and you can subscribe here:  TopRank Online Marketing Newsletter.

To help existing and potential customers learn about the types of services TopRank Online Marketing offers and the impact we can have on your bottom line business growth, TopRank is featuring selected case studies of client digitial marketing programs. TopRank services include: SEO, Social Media Marketing, Digital Public Relations, Email Marketing and Blog Consulting. Not every client engages all services, but understanding unique situations, TopRank’s marketing recommendations and the results, will help our readers make better decisions about their own internet marketing investments.

Situation:

J&O Fabrics Store, one of the largest fabric stores in New Jersey, provides a variety of retro and novelty fabrics for quilting, tapestries, draperies, and upholstering. A traditional, family owned brick and mortar store, J&O Fabrics made the decision to launch a website and online store in 2004 to increase brand awareness and sales.

TopRank has been asked to program and moderate a session on Search Engine Optimization and New Media at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas.

TopRank CEO Lee Odden will be moderating audience questions and initiating topic discussion with a tier one panel of SEO and blogging experts including: Stephan Spencer of Netconcepts, Brian Clark of Copyblogger.com and Michael Gray aka graywolf of Atlas Web Services and wolf-howl.com.

Blog World Expo will be held in Las Vegas at the Las Vegas Convention Center September 20-21, 2008.

TopRank provides business blog consulting, optimization and marketing services to small and large corporations in the U.S. and Canada.

During the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose where TopRank Online Marketing recently presented,  OBS News reported on the popularity of online news and internet public relations via the “News SEO” session on Tuesday. Moderated by Dana Todd of NewsForce, the News SEO session included Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR, Lisa Buyer of the Buyer Group and TopRank’s Lee Odden.

OBS News interviewed Jarboe and Odden after the session:

“Jarboe praised Odden as an innovative SEO expert who promotes the idea of ‘digital asset optimization’ which suggests extending a search engine optimization approach to all aspects of digital media such as photographs, videos, audio clips, in addition to traditional webpage content.”

TopRank also presented on the “SEO Through Blogs and Feeds” session which was reported on by several industry blogs including Search Engine Roundtable and Search Engine Journal.

Read the full WSJ MarketWatch report here.

TopRank CEO Lee Odden has been tasked with presenting on two sessions at the 2008 Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, CA August 20, 2008.

• SEO Through Blogs & Feeds - Blogs are the “Swiss Army Knife of Internet Marketing” and Odden will be presenting several case studies and tips for successful blog marketing as part of a search engine optimization program.

• News SEO – Winning strategies for online marketing include a holistic approach including digital asset optimization. Odden will present strategies for combining the optimization and promotion of an organization’s digital assets for both SEO and public relations benefit.

Search Engine Strategies
San Jose Convention Center
San Jose, CA
Aug 18-22, 2008
Information and Registration

TopRank provides a holistic mix of search engine optimization, online public relations and business blog consulting services for Fortune 1000 companies.