Blog Posts To Read Week of November 11, 2010

Writing by Nick Stamoulis Tweet

Below you will find our favorite blog posts that are related to SEO, search engine marketing and social media marketing from this past week. Please feel free to visit each, we hope you find them as helpful as we do!

Search Engine Marketing Guide for Entrepreneurs
This is a great post that outlines some tips for entrepreneurs looking to get into SEM, it gives a good idea of the basics for those new to Search Engine Marketing.

Leadership by Amputation
This is a clever post about what makes a great leader. Takes a good spin on the Randy Moss football debacle, and calling the Vikings head office great leaders for looking out for the greater good, and ridding the team of what they felt was not a good fit regardless of the potential brought to the team.

Google Is Still a One Trick Search Marketing Pony
This post is simply one that you have to see to get the full effect. Pictures are worth a thousand words, in this case, this graph shows that Google is the search engine to be reckoned with, if any other search engines are trying to compete, it’s going to take some serious gusto to make an impact.

Restaurants, Listen Up! You Have Work to Do!
This post emphasizes the importance for restaurants these days to keep up with search engine marketing efforts, because in the competitive industry they are in, if an owner doesn’t put effort into differentiating themselves from the next guy, they’ll just fade away.

Why Google Place Pages Are Critical for Business Success
This is a great post that talks about the importance of Google Place pages, with mobile users relying on such things to influence their decisions on anything from dining to shopping, it’s important for a business to have a local presence in order to keep themselves in the eyes of possible consumers.

How Marketing is Like a Well Built Home
Another clever post, likening marketing to home building. Good marketing needs a plan and good structure just like a house, without the structure and plan you won’t have a good leg to stand on.

College Grad Uses Social Media to Market Himself
This post talks about a recent college grad and how he used social media to market himself and differentiate himself in a clever fashion to get employers to notice him. Standing out in the crowd is a positive thing, and social media marketing is an avenue to accomplish this.

These were the our favorite blog posts this week. Check back next week for more!