A couple of weeks ago I shared a handy WordPress plugin that helps to smartly interlink your blog content (best to naturally link to your categories and tags). The post was very well-received, so today I am following up with the overview of all WordPress plugins that help to (automatically) interlink your blog posts, pages and categories . Internal Link
We are all excited that the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit is less than a month away! With 52 tickets left, we are quickly approaching our capacity limit. With topics such as Doing Business on Twitter & Facebook and Outsourcing Secrets: Cut Costs & Spend More Time on the Beach, you really don’t want to miss it. We have 5 free tickets (valued at $525) to give away. One has been given to our Twitter contest winner, Ben Cook. Now, I am proud to announce our YouTube, Your Story and SEOtini contest winners. Drum roll please… 1) The YouTube contest winner goes to Ethan Stanislawski! Ethan posted a video response on YouTube about his first day on the job doing SEO. He tells of how the Paris Hilton DUI incident, CNN and the Daily Show made him realize that SEO is about marketing. 2) The Your Story contest winner is Joshua Titsworth! Joshua told his story about how he got into internet marketing. He went from working at a non-profit organization to being called “The Repair Man” to being hired by another company for his experience (where he gained from self-taught SEO). In 2007 I started working for a non-profit in downtown Kansas City, KS. I was hired with the directive to help raise funds, write press releases, and update the website. The more I got involved with the website the more I liked it and the more time I started to give it. After the website was looking better than it did before (I was stuck using Frontpage ‘98), a board member complained to me I was spending too much time with it. If they can’t find us what good are you? So I started looking for cheap ways to market NPOs online. I came across seomoz and few other sites. I was a little shocked at first, not at the material, but at how quickly I was able to read and understand it. In the past it has taken me hours of reading and homework to comprehend what was in front of me. With the information about SEO I could read it, process it, and use it right away. Pretty soon the website was doing well, patients were finding us easily, their mission teams were getting filled and all from the web. After that a board member (a different one from before) asked me to look at his site. I applied the same measures as I took to ours, and the same results took place a few months later. But with all non profits, what is written in the contract is not always what you will do. I was ordered to take a break from the web to focus on facility repair. Pretty soon I was known as the repair man, which I didn’t mind, but I really wanted to do more internet marketing. I ended up leaving that non-profit to get more involved in SEO so I could get a job one day. I applied for everything I could. I had two years of limited experience, but I never got a call back until I applied at Chemidex. They called me, and I made it down to the final interview. My boss told me on my first day the deciding factor was so much experience, as it was they wanted someone with a heart for SEO and someone young enough in his/her career that they could get their start with Chemidex. I’ll admit, I’m still pretty new in this field. But I love it, and I can’t imagine not working in this industry. 3) The winner of the SEOtini contest is Vivian Hoang! Vivian has given us an award-winning recipe for our signature drink, The SEOtini. Everyone who attend the Search & Social Spring Summit will get a complimentary round of this drink. 2 parts Grey Goose vodka 1 oz Blue Caracao 1 oz Cointreau 1 oz Champagne Mix the vodka and liqueurs in a mixing glass. Add ice, stir to chill, and then strain into a martini glass. Top with champagne, stir gently, and garnish with a lemon peel. Congratulations to Ethan, Joshua and Vivian for each winning a ticket to the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit. We have one last contest (THE GRAND PRIZE) to be announced on April 15 th , 2010. That’s exactly ONE WEEK from today! You can still enter here . For questions or more info about the conference, you can reach Thao Tran at thao@searchandsocial.com or (813) 932-4SEO. Please check out this video on the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit: Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . And the winners for the 2010 Search & Social Spring Summit
Say you followed an online ad from a paid Google search listing. But while on the landing page of that site, you can’t decide whether to finalize an ad conversion. So you decide to leave the page and continue browsing within Google’s content network. Woudn’t you be annoyed when another similar ad is displayed? If you’re an AdWords publisher running those ads, somehow you’re hoping that as your ads follow a potential consumer, that user will change his mind and finally do something that will lead to ad conversion for your campaign. That’s what Google AdWords’ Remarketing scheme is aiming to achieve. This new AdWords’ feature lets you embed a code in your website that will trigger your AdWords ad to show related ads to a potential customer after leaving your site without doing conversion action, provided that the user visits an0ther Google site after leaving your site. Confusing? Here’s the exampled given by Inside AdWords: Here’s an example of how it works. Let’s say you’re a basketball team with tickets that you want to sell. You can put a piece of code on the tickets page of your website, which will let you later show relevant ticket ads (such as last minute discounts) to everyone who has visited that page, as they subsequently browse sites in the Google Content Network. In addition to your own site, you can also remarket to users who visited your YouTube brand channel or clicked your YouTube homepage ad. Ad Remarketing is part of Google’s Interest-based ad targeting program. To set up a remarketing campaign on your AdWords account. Simply click on the “Audiences” tab on your AdWords account. More information about Ad Remarketing can be found here . Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Launches AdWords
It’s March Madness! Sweet Sixteen Baby! Maryland and Georgetown are out, but the Tourney is still on! Office workers around the US are looking at their watches, waiting to get off work and head to the local sports bar or someone’s house to kick back, toss back a few cold ones, and see who makes it through the weekend to advance, and who gets sent home. The East Coast may be getting out in time to catch tonight’s games, but the West Coasters are going to have to find more inventive ways of catching today & tomorrow’s NCAA March Madness games. If you failed to reserve your seat, can’t get out of work on time, or are not in front of a TV, your best bet is to watch March Madness online. Here are some of the online sites where you can watch March Madness online. The Official NCAA March Madness Online Site – offers free live streaming of the NCAA Championship Finals, that is if you don’t mind the ads splattered all over the site. ESPN TV – Live coverage of ongoing March Madness games. The site says you need to refresh you browser if the video won’t load. I don’t have that much luck yet though. World Wide TV On PC – Subscription is need to watch live streaming of the NCAA March Madness games. Name and Email registration is required. CBS Sports is also offering live streaming video of March Madness, and offering it on Facebook, Myspace and other social media widgets. As for search, neither YouTube (Google), Bing or Yahoo Video have live streaming of the games, but you can catch all kins of highlights and action. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Watch NCAA March Madness Live Streaming Video
Hey everyone!! It’s that time of the year again for the Spring Summi t and we have some great contests going on! With the success of our Twitter #team contest (which is currently going on until midnight), we decided to roll out ANOTHER contest today. If you’re interested in winning a free ticket, then try your luck on this one! It’ll be fun. Our new Youtube channel with the contest can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/user/seotini. On this, you’ll have the chance to reply to the video that I’m putting up. I ask a very simple question- what funny/weird/strange/awesome experiences have you had thanks to social media? I’ll start the video off with one of my own. Simply send a response to our video and get your friends to rate you or leave comments. Whoever has the most votes wins a free Search & Social Spring Summit ticket! Now, I don’t want to get any comments about how ditzy I sound on this video- I swear I don’t sound like that in real life. Something about webcams just doesn’t flow well with me. I recorded many a video and, sadly, this was the best one. I happened to ramble alot on it but I hope you hang on through the whole video so you can post your video response! In addition to what I said in the video, it hit me after I recorded it that something else happened to me on social media that would have been far more fun to mention. My bosses are trying to pimp me out to fight a bear during the summit. Ahhh yes, you can probably find the multiple posts due to the magic of Twitter hash-tags (#SSSS) showcasing their eagerness to see me duke it out with a live (and heavily clawed) animal. It started out as a ping, which turned into a tweet, which turned into multiple re-tweets…. now, this might be a fly by night rumor, or it might be true… but either way, I guess you’ll have to upload your video response and try to win a free ticket to find out 
Here was my response- please visit the SEOtini channel on YouTube for the official instructions! Bear Wrestling for Contest #3 As you can tell from my video there are absolutely no standards for how you record it. Use whatever webcam yo have- or even your iPhone if you want. Be honest, don’t hold back. Did you meet your boyfriend through social media? Say it. Did you get stalked through social media? Do tell. But only if it’s not serious. I don’t like hearing about harm happening to people via the internet… I’m talking about maybe having someone who loved to read your website constantly and always left you comments but you didn’t know who they are. I guess I used the work “stalk” really loosely here. Did you win something or get randomly picked for a prize thanks to your social media account? Are you that girl that Conan O’Brien singled out to follow on Twitter and now you’re famous!? Remember- the way to get the most votes/ratings is to just have something completely unexpected. I want to hear EVERYTHING and ANYTHING! Make them fun. The contest ends April 1, 2010. This ticket will include access into the eight speaker sessions, networking with experts and businesses from across the country, admission to casino night and calypso night, and breakfast, lunch and dinner on both days of the conference. Good luck to you all, and I’ll see you at the Summit I’ll be congratulating our winner personally. Perhaps I’ll use the location finder on Twitter to find you so you have another story to tell 
PS: Check back to the SEOtini Youtube Channel as well as our SEOtini blog . They’ll be some fun updates coming up! Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Contest #3 Youtube Contest – Win a Free Ticket to Search & Social Spring