Web Strategy

Many of us actively use sites like Twitter and Facebook to promote our businesses. And those of us looking to connect with more business-related contacts may turn to sites like LinkedIn to develop relationships with people we have worked with or may want to work with. With the growing use of social networking by business professionals, there is a growing number of social networking sites focused on business users and meeting their needs. Here is a list of 20 social networking sites for entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals that are worth a look.

How do you use Twitter for business? This question has been answered manifold times. What tools do you use for business though? There aren't that many business tools for Twitter it seems. You rather should ask: Which tools enable professionals best to use Twitter for business? This way you may find more useful tools and apps. Nonetheless there are some valuable specialized Twitter tools for business you should try. I compiled a list of both, Twitter tools for business and professional Twitter tools. Most of them are free but some advanced ones, especially in the CRM arena are not.

How do you use Twitter for business? This question has been answered manifold times. What tools do you use for business though? There aren't that many business tools for Twitter it seems. You rather should ask: Which tools enable professionals best to use Twitter for business? This way you may find more useful tools and apps. Nonetheless there are some valuable specialized Twitter tools for business you should try. I compiled a list of both, Twitter tools for business and professional Twitter tools. Most of them are free but some advanced ones, especially in the CRM arena are not.

This is post with both text and video explaining the mousetrap-online conversion analogy.

Awesome Greasemonkey scripts to make you more productive with Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a fantastic tool as it is - and it's always improving, but there are a lot of people out there that have created tools to make it even better. In an effort to make everyone aware of these fantastic and easy-to-use tools, I've compiled a list of the ones we use everyday. If we missed one, or if you've got a great tool that we should add to the list, please let us know! We're always looking for ways to make Google Analytics easier to install and use. I hope you find them as useful as I do, and a big thank you goes out to each of the people responsible for these fantastic time-saving tools.

There are some great scripts on that page. I'll be checking out several of them for sure. Thanks for the link!

Advanced link building queries, for the link builders who use them extensively, remain a closely guarded secret. It's easy to understand why. For one, they want to protect a valued link source from getting flooded with link requests from the general link-seeking public. Secondly, there are some choice opportunities out there that would lose their value if the entire SEO community happened to learn about them. Another complication with discussing and sharing link building queries is that they're often tailored towards the linkable and shareable assets of a particular organization. Further, two businesses within the same vertical may have widely different linkable assets, and therefore will need to seek different link targets, which requires different queries.

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At the 2010 Inbound Marketing Summit in Boston, Bernie Borges was a panelist on the topic of "Driving More Qualified Leads into your Funnel." One of the questions from the audience was from a marketer who shifted his 2010 online marketing budget from paid to organic inbound marketing. He said that his lead performance had declined and asked for input on how to address it. He didn't give any other details, so Bernie gave his input from both a B2B and B2C perspective. Read more...

This webinar will show you how to leverage the web to run your existing business better and more efficiently. I'll run through a short presentation and will follow up with live Q&A.

Our goal is simple: to help people test their web sites/applications and share that knowledge with others, making everyone smarter in the process.

Analyze any text for keyword and keyword-phrase content

How your website is a communication tool

About web page content writing

Though written to solve this "duplicate content" issue specifically for Wordpress (including a plugin to do this automatically for you) the basic jist of using noindex tags in your CMS everywhere BUT the main article page to prevent duplicate content from diminishing your page rank and diluting your website is an excellent point.

Very basic techniques to learn how to choose keywords for your website and get higher ranking in search engine by using Google Adwords.

Here is advice from Bing's webmaster on how to best build links and improve your search engine performance - in a nutshell, treat your website like a brand. Excellent article and a good read.