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	<title>Best Online Marketing Blog - Joel Gross &#187; Marketing</title>
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		<title>Genius Marketing: Give Away AK-47 with Car Purchase</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The car dealer in the video below has a genius marketing sense&#8230; he hasn&#8217;t spent any money and got enormous web traffic &#038; foot traffic to his car dealership.  The YouTube video has 800,000+ views already.  Not only that, but he is supporting the 2nd Amendment!  

I love it!  Also, this [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The car dealer in the video below has a genius marketing sense&#8230; he hasn&#8217;t spent any money and got enormous web traffic &#038; foot traffic to his car dealership.  The YouTube video has 800,000+ views already.  Not only that, but he is supporting the 2nd Amendment!  </p>
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<p>I love it!  Also, this guy destroys the retarded reporter.  </p>
<p>&#8220;God, Guns, Guts and American Pick-up Trucks!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t have a problem with GOD do you? I&#8217;m just curious.&#8221;</p>


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		<title>Guest Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest blogging is an enormously powerful tool for both the guest blogger and for the blog host. Â I strongly recommend that all bloggers look for opportunities to write guest posts on other people&#8217;s blogs and invite other people to write guest posts for their own blogs.
Top 3 Benefits of Being a Guest Blogger:

Exposure to a [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Guest blogging is an enormously powerful tool for both the guest blogger and for the blog host. Â I strongly recommend that all bloggers look for opportunities to write guest posts on other people&#8217;s blogs and invite other people to write guest posts for their own blogs.</p>
<h2><strong>Top 3 Benefits of Being a Guest Blogger:</strong></h2>
<ol>
<li><strong>Exposure to a new audience.</strong> Writing a guest blog for another site gives you the opportunity to showcase your writing and knowledge, potentially gaining new readers for your own site.</li>
<li><strong>Gain a link to your site</strong>. Â As all SEO&#8217;s know, links are very important for ranking well in search engines and for gaining new traffic.</li>
<li><strong>Fresh motivation.</strong> Often when you write for your own blog for too long, you start to get stuck in a rut and keep going over the same topics. Â Writing for someone else helps you think about things from a new perspective.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Top 3 Benefits of Hosting a Guest Blogger:</h2>
<ol>
<li><strong>Different content. </strong> A guest blogger will have a different writing style than you and will have a fresh perspective.</li>
<li><strong>New readers.</strong> Guest bloggers will often direct their own readers over to your site to read their guest blogging post and the readers may stick around to check out posts that you have written.</li>
<li><strong>Break! </strong>Blogging can become a chore and having someone else write your post for you can give you a much needed break from the pitfalls of too much monotonous writing.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Readers Win Too:</h2>
<ol>
<li><strong>Perspective change</strong>. Â Instead of just reading the same point of view, readers are exposed to new writing styles, topics, and ways of thinking.</li>
<li><strong>New material. </strong> Your readers may end up subscribing to your guest bloggers site and continue to gain new information and ideas through them as well as you.</li>
</ol>
<p>Guest blogging helps to tie together the online community much tighter by crossing channels of content delivery. Â I encourage my clients to guest blog for other sites and to allow guest bloggers onto their own sites. Â Everyone benefits!</p>


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		<title>Winning Visitors With Meta Descriptions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meta descriptions are a forlorn and all too often forgotten part of web design. Â Originally developed for the first search engines to tell what the webpage was supposed to be about, meta descriptions were heavily abused by spammers and now are a much smaller factor in search engine rankings. Â However, meta descriptions still do serve [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Meta descriptions are a forlorn and all too often forgotten part of web design. Â Originally developed for the first search engines to tell what the webpage was supposed to be about, meta descriptions were heavily abused by spammers and now are a much smaller factor in search engine rankings. Â However, meta descriptions still do serve an important purpose: they are your advertisement in search results to tell searchers what your page is about and get them to click on your link. Â The title tag gets all the love from people since it is the anchor text for the link from the search engine and also is a strong ranking signal to Google, but your meta description will give people extra information if they want it before clicking your link. Â Below is where your meta description appears in search engine results:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3390" title="meta-description" src="http://www.blog.joelx.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/meta-description.gif" alt="meta-description" width="475" height="72" /></p>
<p>I circled the meta description in red in the above search result.</p>
<p>Your meta description will help your visitors better understand what your article is going to be about. Â You have about 150 characters to explain what your page is about. Â I would mention your targeted keywords in the meta description not just for SEO purposes, but so that when the searcher&#8217;s eye scans down the page it is more likely to catch on your article. Â Mentioning the keyword once or twice is okay, but don&#8217;t do it more than that or you will look like a spammer.</p>
<p>Meta descriptions are an important part of good web design, so don&#8217;t forget them!</p>


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		<title>5 Tips To Make Your Blog Unstoppable</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my journey to the top of the blogging world, I have occasionally found myself stuck on plateaus. Â If you are in a similar position follow these 5 tips and your blog will be kickstarted up the ladder of success! Â (Sorry about all the climbing metaphors, I&#8217;m going to be attempting Mt. Rainier this weekend [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In my journey to the top of the blogging world, I have occasionally found myself stuck on plateaus. Â If you are in a similar position follow these 5 tips and your blog will be kickstarted up the ladder of success! Â (Sorry about all the climbing metaphors, I&#8217;m going to be attempting Mt. Rainier this weekend lol)</p>
<ol>
<li>Comment on other people&#8217;s blogs and link back to your own. Â Spam will not work (comment no-follow is now ubiquitous), you need to write genuine comments related to other bloggers posts. Â If you can contribute to their site, they will be more open to beginning a relationship with you and will be more likely to send links &amp; traffic your way.</li>
<li>Use Wordpress software. Â Wordpress is the leader in blogging software and is extremely customizeable and offers thousands of themes &amp; plugins for easy use.</li>
<li>Use free tools such as Google Adwords, Trends, and Insights to help you find what people are searching for and write articles based on this information. Â Be sure to pick topics that you are passionate about though or your readers will easily see through you.</li>
<li>Be more open &amp; honest. Â Not only will being more open and honest make writing more fun for you, but it will also make your writing more interesting for other people to read and link to. Â If you use your personal &#8220;voice&#8221; people are far more likely to become engaged with your blog and keep coming back.</li>
<li>Hire a professional online marketer. Â There are many people who have a good understanding of how to drive traffic online and are able to help you analyze the technical details!</li>
</ol>


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		<title>Writing Better Title Tags</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title tags are frequently overlooked by web designers and other people who are unfamiliar with search engine optimization. Â A title tag is the text that appears at the top left of the blue bar on your browser and it is easy to ignore. Â If you do a search on Google using the query &#8220;site:yoursite.com&#8221;, you [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Title tags are frequently overlooked by web designers and other people who are unfamiliar with search engine optimization. Â A title tag is the text that appears at the top left of the blue bar on your browser and it is easy to ignore. Â If you do a search on Google using the query &#8220;site:yoursite.com&#8221;, you will quickly see how important title tags are. Â The blue link at the top of each search result is pulled directly from your title tag. Â You can see how it appears for my site below:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3387" title="google-joelx" src="http://www.blog.joelx.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/google-joelx.gif" alt="google-joelx" width="587" height="457" /></p>
<p>The links at the top of each search listing are my title tags, so for the top result I used a title tag of &#8220;Biggest <a href="http://www.blog.joelx.com/best-free-funny-cartoon-pictures/1826/"  class="alinks_links" onclick="return alinks_click(this);" title="free funny cartoon pictures"  rel="external">Funny</a> DeMotivational Posters Collection&#8221;. Â You will notice that each and every one of my title tags is unique- this is important because a title tag is a strong indicator to Google of what keywords the site is relevant for.</p>
<p>Your title tag functions as an &#8220;advertisement&#8221; in the Google search results for you to try to get people to click on your link and visit your website. Â As such, it is extremely important to think like your visitor. Â If you had just put in your keyword query on Google, what title tag would you be most likely to click on? Â In my case, for the first result I am targeting the keywords &#8220;demotivational poster&#8221;, &#8220;funny demotivational poster&#8221;, and &#8220;funny poster&#8221;. Â I wanted people who searched for those keywords to know that my site offered them what they wanted (and a lot of it), so I wrote that I had the Biggest Collection of demotivational posters. Â After ranking in the 2nd spot right after the originators of demotivational posters, Despair.com, for a long time I lost interest and stopped optimizing for &#8220;demotivational posters&#8221;. Â However, I am still in the 6th spot on Google and receive fairly heavy traffic to that page.</p>
<p><strong>The most important factors to remember when you write your title tags are:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Keep your title tag under 70 characters</li>
<li>Each page should have a unique title tag</li>
<li>The first couple of words in your title tag gets more weighting at this point with Google</li>
<li>Use your keywords in your title tag, but also make it interesting for people to click on. Â You can test different title tags using Google Website Optimizer.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you have any further questions on how to optimize your title tags, please feel free to ask in the comments!</p>


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		<title>The Joy of Marketing BS</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.joelx.com/the-joy-of-marketing-bs/3394/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the marketing industry is full of BS. Â One example is this &#8220;study&#8221; undertaken by the Arnell Group for Pepsi. Â Pepsi purportedly spent an enormous amount of money on this project that is eminently cheesy. Quote: &#8220;Breathtaking is a strategy based on the evolution of 5000+ years of shared ideas in design philosophy&#8221;. Â Arnell goes [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately, the marketing industry is full of BS. Â One example is this &#8220;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/12112331/Pepsi-Breathtaking-Design-Strategy">study</a>&#8221; undertaken by the Arnell Group for Pepsi. Â Pepsi purportedly spent an enormous amount of money on this project that is eminently cheesy. Quote: &#8220;Breathtaking is a strategy based on the evolution of 5000+ years of shared ideas in design philosophy&#8221;. Â Arnell goes on to compare his new design for Pepsi to Leonardo Da Vinci, the Parthenon and other historical works of art. Â As I plodded through his 27 pages of absolute nonsense, I began to lose hope in the traditional marketing industry. Â Performance-based marketers like myself shudder when we see old-school marketers resorting to sophistry to cheat their clients out of money and brand equity. Â There is absolutely no empirical research in this study. Â Nowhere does he actually test people&#8217;s reactions to his re-branding in the marketplace.</p>
<p>However, marketing as a field is very young and eventually the hacks and cheats like Arnell will be washed out. Â Clients will go to marketers who can show proven success, metrics and data for their ideas.</p>


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		<title>TruReputationScore.com Official Launch</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.joelx.com/trureputationscorecom-official-launch/3324/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visible Technologies has officially launched the &#8220;credit score for brand reputation&#8221;. Visit trureputationscore.com and register for a free account to try it out. Â  TruReputation Score is a fast and very accurate measurement of how people are viewing you in the search engines. Â I am rolling out the next version that will enable tracking of [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Visible Technologies has officially launched the &#8220;credit score for brand reputation&#8221;. Visit <a href="trureputationscore.com">trureputationscore.com</a> and register for a free account to try it out. Â  TruReputation Score is a fast and very accurate measurement of how people are viewing you in the search engines. Â I am rolling out the next version that will enable tracking of multiple keywords over time, graphing and lots of other cool functionality in a month. Â I am a happy camper today, since this was an idea I came up with shortly after beginning working here and pushed through a lot of red tape to finally take live. Â If you spot any errors or issues, please post them in the comments here and I will work to resolve it as soon as possible. Â Happy scoring!</p>


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		<title>Apple 1984 Commercial for Mac</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most well-made television commercials ever: the launching of the original Mac in 1984.



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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most well-made television commercials ever: the launching of the original Mac in 1984.</p>
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		<title>Latisse Eyelash Growth Enhancement</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.joelx.com/latise-grow-longer-eyelashe/3315/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A series of interesting websites with information for people suffering from thin or narrow eyelashes have cropped up recently. ?For information on the new product?latise eyelashes  click on the link. ?If you wish to?grow longer eyelashes  you should consider how to?buy latisse for eyelashes . ?Many people have had success?developing longer eyelashes with [...]


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		<title>Bing.com: Great Search Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&#8217;s new search engine Bing.com offers a great search experience.  As a professional SEO, I look at tons of search results from many different types of queries.  I have been amazed by the quality of the search results that Bing.com returns.  One of the coolest features is that videos autoplay when you [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Microsoft&#8217;s new search engine Bing.com offers a great search experience.  As a professional SEO, I look at tons of search results from many different types of queries.  I have been amazed by the quality of the search results that Bing.com returns.  One of the coolest features is that videos autoplay when you hover over them with your mouse&#8230;. what this means is that Bing.com just became the ultimate search engine for looking at porn.  Porn keywords are some of the most searched words on the internet and if a search engine can win the pervs, the rest of us will inevitably follow.</p>
<p>Bing.com also has other features I found fascinating.  When you visit just their homepage, they show high quality images with little interesting factoids that you can mouse over.  It&#8217;s an interesting cross between Google&#8217;s frugality and Yahoo&#8217;s &#8220;internet portal&#8221; strategy.  Bing.com&#8217;s shopping experience is not as good as Google&#8217;s though they do offer &#8220;cashback&#8221; on purchases.</p>
<p>What do you think about Bing.com?</p>


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