TopRank Digital Marketing News

TopRank CEO To Help Award These To Top Search Engine Marketers

“Are you the next generation search engine marketing expert”

Do you contribute “excellence, as well as inspire innovation and encourage new ideas in search marketing?”

Have you helped develop “the world’s best direct marketing campaigns – campaigns that have raised the bar in terms of strategy, creativity and results?”

Perhaps the most important question of all is, how do you know?

That would be where the Marketing Pilgrim SEM Scholarship, Search Engine Watch Awards and Echo Awards come in.

Since being founded by Joe Pulizzi in mid-2007, Junta42 has existed as a premier destination helping marketers and publishers better understand content marketing.  Pulizzi himself posts on the subject of content marketing consistently, via his blog, The Content Marketing Revolution.

In a listing of the top 42 content marketing blogs released by Junta42 just last week, Online Marketing Blog was ranked #4 overall.

Online Marketing Blog, by TopRank, has been providing Internet marketing insights, resources and commentary since 2003.  Just a sampling of topics covered by Online Marketing Blog includes:

Achieve A Competitive Advantage With An Introduction To SEO This June

Inbound Marketing University
June 15-19 & June 22, Your Desk

Critical to the success of marketing professionals seeking a competitive edge in today’s workforce is a rich understanding of how online marketing tactics blend into a cohesive marketing mix.  Disciplines, including Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and social media marketing, must be both learned and balanced along with traditional styles of outreach.

Can your marketing message be disseminated in 140 characters or less?

Such is the question answered by Charlotte Woolard’s recent article in B2B Magazine, Twitter Nets Interaction, featuring a contribution by TopRank® Online Marketing CEO Lee Odden – who can be found on Twitter @leeodden.

In the article, Woolard introduces “Twitter Marketing” as a subset of event marketing to readers accustomed to discovering game-changing strategies and tactics in their monthly read.

When viewed strategically, social media is at its heart “opportunistic marketing”.

At last month’s SXSW Interactive conference, a component of the legendary music, film and interactive festival dedicated to the coolest new media technologies, Lee Odden, CEO of TopRank® Online Marketing, detailed the benefits of strategic social medial in a podcast with Susan Bratton, CEO of Personal Life Media.  You can listen to or read full transcribed interview with Susan here.

In the interview, Odden coupled his strategic social media recommendation to Bratton’s listeners with a warning to avoid jumping directly into social media tactics.

PRSA Workshop:  Search Engine Optimization in a Digital World
March 20, 2009 in New York City

Today’s public relations and communications professionals need to adapt and grow with the changing digital landscape just as publishers have moved to the web. Consumers and journalists alike use a variety for search tools to discover and share credible sources of news and information. Can your news be discovered where digital media are looking? Is your text, image, audio and video content optimized for search and the social web?

 
(Lee Odden – far right – at PRSA International conference)

Competition for visibility online, especially within the Affiliate Marketing world, has increased significantly making it even more important for publishers to monitor brand visibility as part of an online reputation management program.  TopRank Online Marketing CEO, Lee Odden will be presenting strategies for how companies and affiliates can monitor their brands along with tools and tactics at the Affiliate Summit West conference.

The Fifth Annual Affiliate Summit West conference is scheduled for January 11-13th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Session Details:
“Managing Your Brand”
Tuesday, January 13th, 3:15 – 4:15 (MST)
Session 9a
Location: Classroom A – Brasilia 1-3

On October 28th, TopRank Sr Account Manager Jolina Pettice will join a panel which aims to help digital publishers and advertisers better optimize and promote digital assets.

The panel, as part of the  Digital Publishing & Advertising Conference II, is entitled:
Publisher Track: SEO: Is Finding Your Inner DAO the Answer?

Digital Asset Optimization ensures that search engines pick up all of your content: videos, animation, podcasts, message boards, maps, images, and other non-text based files. Every search engine now offers media specific searching for users. So how can you apply Digital Asset Optimization to gain an increased presence and drive more traffic to your digital content? What do you need to know about getting the most from your DAO? If you want to channel your inner DAO, this session will help you find it.

One of the biggest traffic drivers for any corporate website can be a blog. Corporate blogs are a great way to engage prospective clients and customers in the inner-workings of the company, as well as to inform the public of your products and services and stand out as a thought leader in your industry.

However, in order to increase the effectiveness of your corporate blog, you need to keep these blogging best practices in mind:

Content – Your blog posts must be interesting and useful to your readers. Develop your unique voice and don’t be afraid to post things others will not agree to.

Blog marketing continues to be a hot topic in the online marketing industry. As more and more companies head down the road to a company blog, you may be asking:

How do I know if a blog is right for my business?

Having a company blog provides an interactive channel to communicate with your prospects and can help increase traffic to the corporate website.

If you are thinking about starting a company blog, first ask yourself the following questions:

1. Do I have something to say to my customers outside of regular marketing collateral?