LinkedIn yesterday announced a new service that enables market researchers and investors to conduct market intelligence research using LinkedIn’s network of over 30 million professionals worldwide, approximately half of whom are IT and business decision makers.The news was quickly picked up by numerous bloggers including Doug Caverly, Bill Holmes and Layne Salter (an indication of [...]

Fishermen (fisherpeople?) choose their bait based on the type and quantity of fish they hope to catch. On the lakes of Minnesota, worms and small leeches are great for catching sunfish, and if find a good spot, you can catch a lot of them in a short time. However, it’s likely that you’ll also end [...]

In an ideal world, SEO would be taken into consideration from the earliest stages of a new website design process, and “baked in” to the site from the start. (Okay, I take that back; in an ideal world we’d all have movie star looks, be in Olympic athlete condition, and have the net worth of [...]

How can you use pay-per-click (PPC) advertising intelligence to improve organic SEO? Where should you apply direct marketing methods to your website? What challenges lie ahead for PPC marketers? How can “conquesting” be applied as an SEM tactic? What critical intelligence can be gained from PPC analytics? Get the answers to these inquiries and more [...]

One way to think about designing a B2B technology web marketing plan is as a series of layers, like an onion. At the core is SEO—simply making your website “findable” through organic search to buyers who are looking for what you offer. Working out from the center are concentric layers of additional investment and sophistication. [...]

Channel executives at IT hardware and software companies are being asked to sell more through their reseller channels, and both they and their channel partners know what kinds of programs can help make resellers more successful. Yet new research indicates that, despite knowing what to do, technology vendor channel chiefs don’t always act on this [...]

In the Disney movie Smart House, “Pat” (for Personal Applied Technology) turns from a helpful cyber-maid who makes life more efficient and convenient into an intrusive, abusive and overbearing omnipresence who attempts to take complete control over what her charges are able to see and do. Is Google turning into Pat? I hope not; I [...]

Looking for creative ways to go beyond “standard” link building practices? Want to figure out which linking strategies your competitors are using? What’s the proper balance between link acquisition and link baiting activities? How can you get links from high-authority sites? Need to build up some external links quickly for a new or redesigned website? [...]

Despite the fact that several smart PR bloggers, including Cece Lee, Laura Moncur and Elge Premeau have written about what works in blogger outreach for PR, there are still a lot of agencies and PR people who just don’t get it. Their efforts at appealing to bloggers are awkward at best, counterproductive at worst.Want bloggers [...]

Why do some websites fail to achieve objectives? How can you whip an underperforming website into shape? Which elements are the most critical when initiating a website redesign project? How can small businesses cost-effectively add sophisticated capabilities like custom search and social networking features to their sites? What separates effective navigation from poor design? Learn [...]