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Accelerate Your SEO:

Learn Ways To Rank Higher in Search Like Today’s Top 100 Multi-Channel Marketers.

Thursday, May 20, 2010 by ON24

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From developing your video idea all the way to promoting it, find out how to use online video to reach your marketing goals. When done effectively, online video can help your business generate website traffic, build brand buzz, collect inbound links and extend social media reach.

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Social Media is a form of marketing that focuses on generating traffic and buzz by participation in various social media Web sites, including Facebook, Digg and YouTube.

Social networks allow you to build large lists of contacts and supporters that can help to spread the word about your business and Web site.

Below is a list of the most common sites. Click on the icon to navigate to the site.

	Facebook Connect and share with the people in your life.		WordPress Express yourself with a blog.
	Photobucket Manage and share your photos and videos online.		Flickr Share your photos and watch the world.
	Arto Share your world on Arto with your friends on Windows Live.		Bilddagboken Share a daily photo.
	Dailymotion Share and engage your world through the power of online video.		Daum Add a feed from your blog on Daum to your profile.
	Digg Discover and share content from anywhere on the web.		Flixster Watch, rate, and review your favorite movies.
	Fotolog What does your world look like today?		Hyves Always in touch with your friends.
	iLike Recommend music, share playlists, and stay up-to-date on concerts.		Last.fm The social music revolution.
	LiveJournal Express yourself, share your life, and connect with friends online.		MClub Play games and share the joy with your friends.
	Overblog Start a blog. Attract readers. Earn revenue.		Pandora Create radio stations that play the music you like.
	metroFLOG Share a daily photo.		MSN News, sports, weather, entertainment, and financial info all in one place.
	SmugMug The ultimate photo sharing site.		StumbleUpon Explore the web based on the things that you like.
	The Zune Social Share your taste in music with the Zune Social.		TripIt Organize all the details of your next trip in one place.
	Twitter Your answer to one simple question: What are you doing?		TypePad Blog about your passions.
	wow.ya.ru Store and share photos, blog, and keep up-to-date with your friends.		Yelp Real people posting real reviews.

If you have more suggestions please send me a comment.

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Social media optimization, or SMO, is a form of online marketing that focuses on participating on various social media Web sites to generate traffic, buzz, and links back to your Web site. Social media Web sites include social news Web sites such as Digg, Sphinn, and StumbleUpon; video sharing Web sites such as YouTube and Revver; and social network Web sites, including MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Various recognized SEO and SMO pundits have referred to SMO as “the new SEO” because SMO is often used as an effective and powerful method to quickly build large numbers of links back to your Web site, which can lead to improved organic search-engine rankings.

In fact, an increasing number of businesses are currently using MySpace and Facebook as a vehicle to manage reputation, build brand recognition, promote products, and generate buzz.

Getting your Web pages, videos, photos, and news articles submitted to StumbleUpon in an effective way to generate buzz, traffic, and build back links to your Web site.

MyBlogLog is a free social networking service that includes a popular widget that you can install on you blog that shows you visitors the most recent MyBlogLog members who have visited your Web site. MyBlogLog is a great way to get people to visit your Web site and learn more about your business or hobbies.

LinkedIn is a popular business-oriented social networking site that allows you to network with like-minded business professionals and build a list of contacts. LinkedIn is an effective network for sharing professional information and news about your business-related activities.

Video sharing Web sites such as YouTube and Revver allow users to upload, view, and share video clips.

Social news Web sites such as Digg and Sphinn allow users to submit news stories for other members to view and vote on.

If you want more information about SMO and SEM, I recommend reading my article about Business Networking Sites. You’ll find usefull tips, links and articles on how to market you business online.

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I get asked almost every day, about online marketing, search engine optimization and on how to improve web site rankings. Most website owners don’t even know what all those terms mean, but our society is so online driven that we hear new terms and words through friends and media daily.

More surprisingly website owners don’t realize, that if you want a professional to help you gain positions in your rankings and create incoming traffic to your website, that the cost can be up to triple the cost of your website.

In fact the cost of creating a website is only a fraction of the search engine optimization cost. A SEO professional will estimate you the cost of website optimization from $4000 to $5000 a month. Of course this cost depends on the size of your website.

There are companies that offer advice and recommendations starting from $200-$400 a month. This cost is very reasonable if you’re a small business and you’re depending on online sales. I’d say this is rather an indispensable service.

For smaller business owners who don’t want to invest in such services, but rather, as I call them, DIY (do it yourself) I collected a list of business networking sites.

This is if you’re serious about your business and about putting your name out there, than you’ll have to spend some major time networking.

I’m sure you’re then quickly realize why professionals are charging these amounts of money for their services.

Most of these sites offer more articles and links at the bottom to further information or related topics, so make sure to scroll to the end of the article.

Links:

List of social networking websites

Wikipedia the Free online Encyclopedia is offering a list of social networking websites.

Social networking sites dos and don’ts

CNN and careerbuilder.com wrote an article about dos and don’ts for social networking sites. They explain what potential employers are looking for.

50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs a Presence on

InsideCRM did a research about how websites help your company, advertise recruit and more…

There is a list about Social-Media/Social-Bookmarking Sites, Professional-Networking Sites, Niche Social-Media Sites, General Social-Media Sites, Job Sites.

A complete List of business Networking Websites for CEO’S and Entrepreneurs

You’ll find a list of the most famous Business-Media, Business Online Networking Sites.

The Top Websites to Find Freelance Work Online

Find Freelance Work

11 Business Networking Sites Suited for Online Reputation Management and SEO

This site includes links and some more information about SEO and online reputation.

Use Social Networking Sites to Find Jobs : Career Networking and Business Networking Sites

This site offers links divided by business category and what to do once you signed up plus tons of more links to tips and information.

10 Social Networks for Entrepreneurs

More links for entrepreneurs.

Articles:

Online Business Networking

About.com offers tons of articles and information. If you are a DIY (do it yourself) you should read this article.

How to use social networking sites to boost business

Social media marketing is a fast-growing innovation, tapping into the rising influence of user-generated communities such as blogs, wikis, networking, and bookmarking sites.

Are Social Networking Sites Useful for Business?

To get the most out of social networking sites, small companies should look past the hype, set concrete business goals, then start experimenting.

Nine Ways to Build Your Own Social Network

TechCrunch is offering an article about ways to build your own network.

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If creating large amounts of original, well-written content is considered King for search-engine-optimization purposes, building quality links back to your Web site might be considered the Holy Grail.

Search engines conclude that Web sites with more back links must be more popular and authoritative that Web sites with fewer back links.

If you are serious about search-engine-optimization, you should proactively and aggressively build links. However, the process of gaining and maintaining search-engine ranking is very competitive, and if you want to rank well in the search results you need to have not only great content, but also quality, relevant back links.

Focus on trying to build quality and relevant links.

Two of the main measures of popularity are Google’s PageRank and the Alexa ranking system. PageRank gives you a rough idea of how authoritative Google thinks the Web site is, and Alexa provides a measure to compare the traffic volume of potential linking partners. In general, you should look for quality and relevant linking partners that have PageRank scores and Alexa rankings as good as or better than your own.

One of the more time-consuming forms of link building includes requesting one-way or reciprocal links directly from other Web sites.

Sending out online press releases through companies such as PRWeb and PR Newswire is a great way to build links.

The most simple and easy way to build links is to buy them through link brokers and pay-per-post networks. However consider carefully before you use link brokers and pay-per-post networks because search engines such as Google have strict policies against the use of paid links as a way of increasing PageRank.

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