Here are several excerpts from an article in thewisemarketer.com (free subscription required), Social Media Marketing to Grow in 2010:
Most marketers are planning to invest more in social media during 2010, but are struggling to find the time and resources to manage their activity, according to a research report published by  E-Consultancy and BigMouth Media.

Small businesses are often seen fumbling around in the dark when it comes to figuring out which SEO strategies really work and which don’t. There is an onslaught of information freely available online, much of it contradictory or confusing. Small business owners who attempt to perform SEO for themselves don’t often know which strategies are [...]

Sysomos recently released a study which takes a look inside online video engagement specifically how videos are used within online sharing sites such as blogs. This study, exploring the use of online video services by bloggers, is based on a collection of more than 100 million blog posts collected from July to September 2009.
Here are [...]

Google Sidewiki launched last month and opinion online is wide and varied. Much of that opinion suggests a brewing crisis for companies, their brands and other things of interest to them if people can comment at will on anything on the web, positive or negative, with no control at all, just with their browser.
I don’t [...]

I’ve been doing a series of posts on topics that came up at X Change but today’s topic is even more timely than it was just one month ago. With Adobe’s acquisition of Omniture, the goal of increasing the measurability of web applications has really come to the forefront. It seems to be the core [...]

Where should effort go to be highly visible in keyword searches with Google? A precise answer probably demands an evaluation of all the Google Search Engine Ranking Factors like that done by SEOmoz. However the Google search debate normally seems to revolve around Content or Links.
Mark Jackson stated quite categorically The Golden Rule [...]

Here are some factors that can help increase your local search results on Google, Msn, and Yahoo.  If you just joined us, this is an ongoing series on “Local Search”.  Local search has gotten really important for local businesses in 2009 due to customers search behaviors online.

During the last 12 months at least, some SEO clients have apparently been paying sizeable fees for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) work that was completely ineffective.  That really is the bottom line on a development that Danny Sullivan describes in a post entitled, PageRank Sculpting Is Dead! Long Live PageRank Sculpting!

The new Google Analytics Data Export  API which Google announced on Friday makes it easy to share some of your Google Analytics data on a WordPress blog thanks to a nifty plugin created by Spiral Web Consulting.

With the announcement of the winners of the Irish Blog Awards this weekend I am sure that business blogging will be discussed by many businesses large and small. But I’m concerned that they are getting bad advice.