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Just a reminder for those searching for niche-related content and inspiration for such content - Google has very deep tools available to help. Google Alerts and Blog Search are fantastic, as are the Books searches, just as examples to get you fired up!

Chris Farrell has the best membership site teaching internet marketing that I know of. This is my affiliate sign-up page to get his free book and start receiving the 26 video free course he offers. The membership site is the only way anyone makes any money, though after watching his videos, it is likely you will want more! Honesty and integrity in a very pleasant package.

Sometimes organic search seems straight forward, type in a keyword and returned is a list of 10 recommended websites. Of course, getting to the top isn't so simple, but the notion that once you arrive at the top, traffic will ensue is a hypothesis hard to deny. Local search results don't play into this scheme. They have variables such as size of the map, and definition of a region's center that combine with trust, a citation, or sometimes what I call "sureness factors" to determine what businesses should be recommended.

I bought a local night club and needed some clever marketing to bring in the business. One of the best ways to invite new customers is to hold a special event and make it a big deal. The problem is the advertising cost that can choke out your profits from overspending or going the wrong direction. The YepText reviews offered a solution to get my lounge jamming almost every night of the week.

If you run an ecommerce site or have clients that do so, this is a great resource for analyzing and configuring your landing pages based on the motivation of the customer.

Today I want to look at motivation from a different angle. I want you to choose a landing page that is top priority for you to optimize. For example, your most profitable product with the highest abandonment rate. I want to get you thinking about which customer motivations are most likely to match your business, your products, your typical customer and your landing page presentation.

You typically have to create some number of social interactions to leave the trail of signals of quality to make Google want to trust a site enough to put it in front of a large traffic stream, especially if you are starting a brand new site and are trying to operate within Google's guidelines. As Bob Massa says "search engines follow people."

There are two points in this post that I want to emphasize... First off SEO is an ongoing process. There isn't a magic trick that pushes your site to the top of rankings. It takes work.. Rinse & Repeat. Analyze & Tweak. Secondly there is a great point that if you hire an SEO expert you will get your site in front of the thousand other relevant people in your niche. This is very hard and takes a lot of work. So, you should create Outposts. Creating outposts is part of a content marketing strategy where you distribute your content among various networks to build up multiple sources of traffic... Great quote from Bob Massa explains it perfect!

We are always talking about building a community. It's the first thing we recommend for many reasons... This is a good overview on how to find, build, and grow your online community

In social media, who you know - or who knows you - can certainly make all the difference. That's why figuring out who to connect with and taking the time to build relationships with these people is key to leveraging the power of social media.

A chapter by chapter blook report on Groundswell. Features video, presentation and a link to FriendFeed room

Jeremeiah once again gives us indispensible tips on web strategy. He is spot on with his sentiment that many corporate blogs are untrusted.. This is because many of these blogs are just tossed up there to have one online. Most are filled with stuffy corporate marketing copy with no human voice and no outbound linking... Read this for tips

Today, I'm going to play doctor, in fact, I'm a specialist: A corporate blog doctor. Most corporate blogs aren't trusted, and here's a very simple heuristic health check to gauge whether your corporate blog is going to be trusted by your readers.

1. Learn How to Adjust at Your Day Job 2. Understand How Social Media is a Risk and Opportunity 3. Use Online Networking Tools to Connect 4. Attend Real World Events 5. Always Be Looking For Opportunities

Good idea... One that I should practice more often, although I'd hope aWeber would take care of this for me :)

Always test your email delivery and design with outlook, because so many people use it. Here you can see Adobe never tested their email in Outlook.

A great guide on trying to get more user interaction with your blog or website. Comments are the first and easiest way to start a discussion... Discussions with your community are KEY to an effective web strategy.

But even when your blog software hands you all your commenting capabilities, there are other things you can and should do to get people to comment. So here it is: the 7 step guide to getting more comments.

This post will show exactly how one start-up improved their homepage conversion rate (visitor to sign-up flow) more than 20%, then 16% again, with a few simple changes and Google Website Optimizer.

This post will show exactly how one start-up improved their homepage conversion rate (visitor to sign-up flow) more than 20%, then 16% again, with a few simple changes and Google Website Optimizer.

Enter your prime target keywords for your site and it suggests URL domains, showing availability. Very useful!

Free Submissions Automation software and good information.

Great tips on Local SEO for niche and small biz. Good copy goes a long way for local SEO but so are inbound links...

I know this Local SEO guides have been written many times by others, so I'll try to cover it well enough so readers don't feel the need to read more Local SEO tips and waste more time.

Great list of terms dealing with Google Local search results and local SEO

A collection of terms and definitions from a number of Google's patent filings on Local Search (not everything discussed in these patent applications have been incorporated into Google Local search - but the interesting thing about many of these patent filings is exploring whether or not they may have been).

Chris Andersons book "Free" - some inspirational thoughts on business strategies.

Anderson's book gives you some inspirational thoughts on successful business strategies. In my case I preferred to listen to the audio book. Here it is available for free as ebook and audio book versions.

What does this say about SMB's and social media? This piece says, that SMB's are: "Still feeling their way into social media..." Interesting. What's your take?

This is probably a good reason why everyone displaced from a marketing or PR job is now a social media expert :) because they're trying to help SMB's learn how to make this work for themselves. We're seeing great results with businesses we work with but those all take a "long term approach" and realize that seeing results takes a "cultural shift" not a new set of tools.

Clickbank opportunities showing top ten per category. Seek gravity over 100 and low refund rate (earned per sale near or better than commission amount)