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12 April 2010

Determining the value of Facebook for your business– mistakes you’re probably making

A Rice University study last week claims that Facebook is an effective marketing tool because of these stats, comparing the Facebook fans versus their general customer base:

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20 March 2010

Ranking in Google News is easy– even for competitive terms

What’s the secret?  Just submit to about 20 free press release sites.  If you want to pay for PR Wire or PR Web, that’s fine.  Might save you some time. While it’s great to be able to rank for…

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27 February 2010

How to use Google Conversion Optimizer in just 3 minutes

New to Conversion Optimizer or perhaps puzzled on how to use it properly?  Give me 3 minutes right now I’ll tell you what you need to know– this should save you a ton of time with bid optimization and, more…

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24 January 2010

4 steps to make a KILLER Infographic and drive natural inbound links


Gather some interesting statistics and then make a chart out of it– and you’ve got yourself an Infographic.  Examples are showing a map of the world and income for each country displayed by green bars.  Or perhaps it’s…

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25 December 2009

Google’s fabulous Christmas Gift to BlitzLocal

Sure, people are complaining about how Google gave $20MM to charities on our behalf, instead of giving us trinkets this year– whether they be a photo viewer, Flip video, or whatever.  But Google gave us some stuff that

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21 December 2009

Google AdWords Bid Simulator– observations

 The new Bid Simulator, which you’ll see in the keywords tab, forecasts how many clicks and impressions you’ll see at different bid levels.  It only shows the simulator for some of the keywords– not sure what logic is used to…

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25 November 2009

Have You Seen Sitelinks in Google AdWords Premium Ad Positions?

We were doing a PPC audit for a home security reseller and noticed that the #1 paid spot has 4 sitelinks below the ad.

We’ve always known that you can get up to 8 sitelinks if you’re

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30 September 2009

$100 million for Yahoo’s new ad campaign– it’s about YOU!

3 months ago Microsoft spent $100 million to launch BING search.  And now Yahoo! has followed suit, spending another $100 million for their own branding campaign.  All the while Google and Facebook are laughing at the big company…

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