Marketing Stimulus

Favorite Internet Marketing Resources

These are some of my Favorite resources that I subscribe to, monitor, or recommend to folks looking for more information. You can also subscribe to my blog Marketing Stimulus

Find me on twitter: @ericjfullerton or @marketingstim

Social Media:

One of my favorites:

http://www.insocialmedia.com/

Webinars:

These guys are a marketing company and do a great job with free webinars:

http://www.hubspot.com/marketing-webinars/social-media-crm/

I also joined several groups on linkedin related to marketing that update me on all kinds of things

This guys is the gospel when it comes to Google:

http://www.mattcutts.com

I subscribe to this blog which is some of the most trusted information in the Field of SEO.

http://blog.seorevolution.com/

Neil Patel writes about a lot of great practices and advice about working online.

General Web marketing and SEO information:

http://searchengineland.com

While I don’t always agree with all of his techniques there are a bunch of free tools and information on this site: (like the search engine relationship chart…)

http://www.bruceclay.com

Lastly I use Google alerts quite a bit to get news, information, and trends emailed to me…

Hope that helps…let me know if you come across anything.

-Eric

Google Dominates Search, Overall Use of Search Engines Waning

It is interesting to follow the trends of search engines. I used to spend a lot of time watching Google’s share of the Billions of Searches on the internet climb versus Yahoo and MSN, but now I have found it more interesting to see that the total volume of searches continues to decline month over month…my guess for this phenomena is due to more active users of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to interact. As well, I think the ability to use RSS feeds to get information has gotten easier. All of these ways we interact with the internet continues to change and evolve. I also think the economy is a reflection of weaker shopping cycles for consumers and thus less incentive to research and purchase products since consumer spending is still soft.

In any case, I am glad we started and continue to optimize websites for Google and focus on how to drive traffic from many sources as opposed to tweaking for several search engines…

I will also be interested to see how much the twitter search engine evolves and grows…

More information from Comscore:

http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2750