Month: June 2009

  • Visitor Tracking 101

    Visitor Tracking 101

    If you’re learning about Search Engine Marketing, understanding how analytics and tracking works is an important part of it. All the decisions you make should be based on the site’s analytics, but in order to understand it you need to know the terminology. Here we’ll try to explain what they mean. Page Views shows you…

  • Short Explanation of a Social Network

    Did you ever try to find an analogy you can use to explain to people what the concept of social network really is? I for one have tried plenty of times. A lot of people are asking me to explain what Twitter is. The irony here is that Twitter can’t really be explained in under…

  • Mistakes Made in Social Media Marketing

    Mistakes Made in Social Media Marketing

    If you’re the owner of a business, you probably know that it’s very important to use regular PR (radio, print and TV exposure) to make sure your name is heard by customers all the time. The latest outlet for your PR efforts is Social Media Marketing and when you combine it with regular PR campaigns,…

  • Is Email Marketing Still Effective?

    Is Email Marketing Still Effective?

    There was a lot of talk in the last few years about email delivery and email marketing in general. Unsolicited emails (spam) are a major problem right now. A lot of ISP’s are using powerful filters, trying to fight against the problem. The problem is that these powerful filters also block good emails in some…

  • Commiting Yourself to Blog Marketing

    Some marketers believe that manipulating the social media is what social media optimization and marketing really means. What they don’t realize is that gaming a social media site like a blog has short terms benefits. The better method of approaching these sites is to remember that people are behind all successful blogs. It’s better to…