Online Sales Success

Word of mouth is on steroids, amplified by social networking and new media tools. How do you as a business take advantage. Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV has the answer: PHCC –>>

Patience
Hustle
Content
Community

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Aaron Wall discusses why new internet marketers are best off starting marketing by creating a blog.
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Darren Rowse has some good tips on how to use social media sites:

Be an Active Participant
Have a Consistent Presence on Different Social Media Sites
Add Value to the Wider Community
Let Others Sell You

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Google wants to promote a better web experience for readers. With the growth of spam site and other SEO gaming techniques the majority of more recent sites are not high quality. Therefore, Google is weighting older sites more heavily in their algorithm, under the supposition that older sites are more likely to have quality content. [...]

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SEOMoz.com has a funny post about unusual long tail terms that have resulted in hits to their site.
My favorites are:
How to read minds – as if Google could tell the answers to that.
Better than google – as if Google would tell the answers to that.
How does google see my site – [...]

Luckily my clients are not members of this union so I expect them all to post more actively to take up the slack caused by these slacker bloggers. We must keep the blogosphere growing.  Long live the blogosphere.
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Finally some clarity on Google “sandbox” filter at Suntdubl
So what is search engine trust?
For the purpose of keeping things simple, I would identify a site’s trust by 3 different simple criteria:

Website Age – (most importantly the first time it was indexed)
Total # of backlinks and the overall age of those links
Total “trustscore” of other backlinks [...]

This past weekend was PodCamp Philly at Drexel University. Even though I only attended Saturday I made some amazing contacts and learned a few tidbits of useful information.

I had the opportunity to hear CC Chapman expound on audio recording devices and pod-casting techniques. He is one of the first pod-casters I followed with [...]

Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion listed the Four P’s of Blog Marketing:
Passionate – Write about issues that are near and dear to your heart
Purposeful – Make sure you keep the end in mind; why are you blogging?
Present – Keep an eye on what’s topical today
Positional – Take a stand on an issue [...]