Todd Heim

Build Links Using Content Thiefs

February 25, 2011

One of the reasons I stopped blogging a year ago was the realization that our “Weekly Search & Social Wrap Up” was one of 100 or so blogs that covered the same exact areas. Even the “lighter side of social media” bit seemed like a blatant rip-off of Virginia Nussey’s “what I learned from Boing [...]

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Search & Social Weekly Wrap-Up 12/11

December 11, 2009

Only 2 weeks till Christmas!  Snow is on the ground in the northeast, and the wind is keeping people indoors.  Here’s an update on the goings on in Search & Social this week to keep you warm. Yahoo and Google add real-time search to SERPS All this talk about real-time search and it’s taken till [...]

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Search & Social (Bi)Weekly Wrap-Up 12/4/09

December 4, 2009

Hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving!  (I know I did!!)  December is here, the Christmas season is upon us, and search marketing professionals certainly know it.  Here’s what you might have missed: Google Updates this week: too many At least I’m not the only one who was overwhelmed by the many changes Google made this [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!!!

November 27, 2009

We’ve decided to skip the weekly wrap-up this week as too much turkey has put us in a food coma.  We’ll do a full 2 week wrap-up next week to catch up on the big news in search and social media. Have a great holiday weekend! – Essential Internet Marketing team

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Search & Social Weekly Wrap-Up 11/20

November 20, 2009
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It’s Friday already!  You know what that means: it’s time to catch up on the search and social media news from this past week.  Let’s get to it: Twitter adds Retweet function to web interface, tweeple revolt Retweets, normally seen as “RT:” are simply a repitition of someone else’s tweet.  It’s been widely used by [...]

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Search & Social Weekly Wrap-Up 11/13

November 13, 2009
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Pubcon Vegas 2009 is under way this week, but if you’re like me and couldn’t make it, don’t worry.  You can either check out Lisa’s Live blogging of the event or just settle for these 50 SEO tips so far…  Either way, the world of Search & Social moves on without us.  Here’s what happened [...]

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Search & Social Weekly Wrap-Up 11/6

November 6, 2009

It’s Friday again!  (Wow that week went quick)  It’s also already November, the cold is setting in, and Search & Social is starting to blend into one mashup of an industry.  Here’s what happened this past week: Google Updates this week (a small sample): Let me take this time to apologize for featuring so much [...]

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A Marketing Role in Product Development – Creating Buzz… & Links!

October 28, 2009

A Marketing Role in Product Development – Creating Buzz… & Links! What makes your product or service different from your competitors’?  What about your product makes it better?  Most importantly, why should people buy your product over your competitors’? These may all seem like the same question but they’re not.  Not only that, they’re questions [...]

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Search & Social Weekly Wrap-up 10/23

October 23, 2009

Search & Social Officially Collide Earlier this month, reports had surfaced that Twitter was in the talks with Microsoft and Google for deals that would integrate twitter results into the two search giants.  On Tuesday, the deal was finalized for Microsoft Bing and reports had begun to surface that Microsoft was also close to also [...]

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Search and Social Weekly Wrap-up 10/16

October 16, 2009

StumbleUpon Version 4 StumbleUpon launched their new site changes this week and their claim is that it make the site’s interface “more simple, searchable and social”.  From the stumbleupon.com blog: We have completely updated the interface, geared to be more simple, searchable and social.  The new StumbleUpon preserves the functionality of the previous interface while [...]

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