More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Linking

One of the simultaneously most important and most frustrating aspect of internet marketing is courting inbound links. Due to the emphasis that search engines place on in-linking, even the most basic SEO efforts should involve some sort of link building strategy. Yet, what’s the best way to go about it? How much are certain links…

What You Need to Know about Business Blogging

The Hall Marketing Basic Business Blogging Guide Everyone’s getting into blogs this day, and for good reason — how else can you so easily keep a website up to date, propagate content, and make connections with the rest of the universe? Most savvy businesses, from thebig guys to the mom and pop shops, are starting…

Digg vs. Wired – Does Integrity Exist in Social Media?

In case there was any doubt as to the growing importance of social community tools that rate popular web pages, there’s been a flurry of press this week that raises up some pretty interesting issues. First, I saw an article in the Wall Street Journal (thanks, Tom!) all about “The Wizard of Buzz,” all about…

Five Essentials for Web Success

Well, I’m going to change things up and instead of writing a lengthy, philosophical article on the direction of the web, I’m going to focus on a couple practical, concrete ideas to help build success now. In no particular order, and not to the exclusion of anything not mentioned, here they are: 1. Say something…