http://twentysix2.com/blog Creating Online Dominance Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:28:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have a relatively new client that just bought a skin care products e-commerce company last spring.  He hired us this August to do web design and SEO, and we just finished re-designing and launching a new site for the skin care products company.  If I do say so myself, the new ... http://twentysix2.com/blog/buying-an-e-commerce-business/ According to Technorati, there are over 80+ million blogs and counting.  So how do you start marketing your blog so that it stands out in the clutter? Here are some basic blog marketing tactics: Post regularly (we've been slack lately - too busy) Claim your blog on Techorati Submit you blog to Google Blog ... http://twentysix2.com/blog/tips-for-marketing-your-blog/ Have you ever had a moment of narcissism and Googled yourself? You might be surprised at what you'll find. It's amazing how fast your words can get picked up, twisted and turned around and BAM...you've got bad press, leaving you to sit there, saying, "wait, I had press?" Because ... http://twentysix2.com/blog/brand-protection-in-the-form-of-a-simple-e-mail/ Forums are these wonderful little creations that open up all sorts of topics to anyone with a question or just gathering information. They are usually niche-oriented because a forum that catered to all the questions anyone needed answered would be called the "Chaos forum." SEO is one of ... http://twentysix2.com/blog/beginner-to-seo-try-a-forum/ Most everyone has a blog, or two. There are about 75 million bloggers out there and the one thing we all have in common is the desire to gain readers. We write to inform or entertain and we want our words to be read by others. But ... http://twentysix2.com/blog/5-ways-to-instill-reader-loyalty-on-your-blog/ Every now and then people in this industry, like most others, get together for a little shindig, an awards ceremony. I was poking around for local and national award shows and came across this little gem, appropriately named SEM Awards. http://twentysix2.com/blog/sem-awards-a-snake-in-the-midst/ A new Google Apps tool has been released that is designed for small- to medium-sized businesses, and now you can have a Google search box on your website that allows visitors to access search results from the website, or websites, that you choose. It is called Google Custom Search Business ... http://twentysix2.com/blog/googles-at-it-again/ Below is an article I wrote to be inserted into a newsletter of one of our business affiliates. I thought it would be a good way to explore, on a very basic level, what we do as internet marketers for those of you reading our blog but perhaps not ... http://twentysix2.com/blog/your-baby-is-u-g-l-y/ I was reading an article on Sphinn and thought it would be helpful to our readers. The article offers advice to any people or companies seeking to hire an SEO firm. The information contained is very valuable to anyone who's not so familiar with internet marketing and it ... http://twentysix2.com/blog/10-questions-to-ask-an-seo-firm/ During my daily reading of Search Engine Land I was reading Google Free Fridays and Danny Sullivan mentioned his new product, Sphinn. I took an initial look at Sphinn and all I have to say is wow, it's great. Digg is for the techies, Reddit is for random ... http://twentysix2.com/blog/oh-yeah-well-sphinn-this/