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The competition is heating up as companies awaken to a universe of marketing opportunities - providing their customers can find them, that is!

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• Where consumers gather and messages propagate: personal emails, discussion forums, chat rooms, blogs, RSS feeds, wikis and search engines.
• How to harness “word of mouse” to enhance existing relationship marketing programmes and your brand.
• Tips for facilitating the spread of viral messages about your brand.
• Who are the “sneezers” who will spread your viral message?
• Handling input and feedback from your consumers, the public, the media and analysts.
• Success stories and flops: what’s worked and what hasn’t.
• How can Internet word of mouth enhance existing relationship marketing programmes and your brand?

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Think what audio books on tape did for the road warrior—turning our cars and airplane seats into mobile universities. Podcasting has the same capacity to change the way we learn and take in new information.

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The once neutral territory of the blogosphere is enticing corporates who have awoken to the fact that business blogging entails relatively low startup costs. It’s potential for ROI hasn’t been ignored either.

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With Microsoft throwing its hat into the ring alongside Google and Yahoo!, consumers as well as search marketers have more choices. This side-by-side comparison of the top three search engines looks at essential stats, tolerance levels for “worst practices” and more…

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1. The benefit of the internet to your circulation/audience development efforts, and how important it is to your company
2. How to use email to renew or acquire new subscribers
3. E-mail tests - what’s working, what’s not working
4. Search engine marketing - what are you using and how is it working
5. Banner ads - are they working, what have you changed, where do you have them
6. How has can spam effected your subscription efforts? How has it effected your list rental activities? How has it effected your use of outside lists for subscription promotion?
7. Web agents - are they still working?
8. Blogs - are they a source of names? How can we get subscription information onto a blog?
9. Email files - do you have separate files for circulation, web casts, eNL, or a combined database for all? Advantages and disadvantages for each.

Gloria Adams, Pennwell - Moderator
Laura Wilson, NEJM - Panelist
Sean Fulton, GCN Publishing - Panelist
Brian Klais, Netconcepts - Panelist

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A lot is at stake here for Web marketers. Whether you are knowledgeable about search engine marketing or just an observer at this point, you need to follow this development. Your search rankings - free and paid - in all the major search engines are important marketing assets.

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Microsoft’s new MSN Search is poised to take some of Google’s market share. That’s good news for marketers, if you know how to optimize for MSN Search. Happily, it doesn’t appear to be difficult. The tried-and-true optimization tactics appear to work quite well.

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A couple months ago I shared one of my Google secrets, since that secret no longer worked. Specifically, it was how to obtain a list of the most important web sites according to Google.

Now, surprisingly, this little trick appears to work again (it stopped working in 2003), thanks to a bug introduced into Google’s algorithm. Two months ago, a search for http would have revealed results like HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Overview and Welcome! - The Apache HTTP Server Project. Today, these sites appear nowhere near the top of the results. Instead, the top results are occupied by a “who’s who” list of highly important web sites — sites that don’t include the word http anywhere in the text of the page.

As already noted by blogger Nathan Weinberg, this same phenonemon occurs when you search for www.

One thing I found curious is that http and www Google queries return different results. Now these results are NOT in order of PageRank score, at least not the PageRank scores as revealed by the Google Toolbar. You can verify this to be the case yourself simply by using SEO Chat’s PageRank Search tool. Indeed, it’s a well-known fact within the SEO community that the PageRank scores served up by the Google Toolbar servers are not the actual PageRanks used by Google in the ranking algorithm. PageRank debate aside, perhaps this list offers us a (now) rare glimpse at some of Google’s Chosen Ones — the most important sites on the Internet according to Google.

What makes me say this is due to a bug in Google? For one thing, these results are NOT relevant to the search query. Secondly, I’ve uncovered another bug newly introduced into Google’s algorithm, namely that the inurl: query operator does not work properly, and I think these two bugs might be related. For an example of this second bug in action, search Google for site:blogs.msdn.com scoble inurl:msnsearch and the top search result is currently blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2004/11/10/255417.aspx. Note there’s no msnsearch in that URL!

I’ve compiled a list the top 1000 results for each of the two queries for your convenience. You’ll see, they do vary quite dramatically:

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Most companies don’t even realize their competitors are “eating their lunch” online - ranking higher in the search engines, getting more traffic, converting more visitors into buyers and enjoying better returns on their website investment. They simply don’t know how well their website is performing. And they are missing out on valuable e-business opportunities.

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