Dominator Search Engine Advertising Works! (SYS-CON Media) According to Dennis Gailbraith, senior director of online marketing solutions at J.D. Power & Associates, 67 percent of new-vehicle buyers are using the Internet to make car-buying decisions. Research demonstrates that today's buyers will invest considerable time online before they ever approach a dealership.
Search Engine Forums Spotlight (Search Engine Watch) Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Marshall Simmonds, the NYTimes & Acceptable Cloaking - What Are The 200 Signals Google Uses To Rank Pages? - CMS and seo - An Unhappy Relation - Strategy for Domains In Multiple Languages - Is There Really a Google Sandbox? and more.
Podcasting Included in Marketing Sherpa Blog Awards (WebProNews) Marketing Sherpa has extended their annual blog voting and awards to include podcasting this year. Anne Holland and her team are taking nominations for blogs in several categories with and without podcasting. Categories include: B-to-B marketing Search marketing Affiliate marketing Email marketing PR Advertising Marketing to a specific consumer demographic
Getting creative with SEO tactics (e-Consultancy) Increasingly it is common knowledge on how to do best practice search engine optimisation . That doesn't make it easy, but it does mean you'll need to start thinking more creatively to keep a competitive edge. So outside your standard seo best practice, what more creative tactics might you use?