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I am a day behind on getting this out for the day 2 of Small Business Marketing: Unleashed, but better late than never.

Day 2: Workshops

The day was kicked off with a presentation by one of the sponsors ideablob.com, and then we were released to go to workshops. (Sage Lewis, of SageRock.com tends to refer to each session / workshop as a class, which truly describes what the conference was like.) There were three time blocks with four workshops running in each block - Each block running an hour and a half. With that amount of time, we really were given in depth lessons on each topic. The hot topics were repeated, so you didn’t miss out on anything.

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Day 1: Sessions

WOW. What a great day. The day gave us four sessions / two tracks of indepth introductions to all aspects of Search Marketing for small businesses. Each speaker had a full hour to go into more depth on their subject than any conference you’ve ever attended.

Rather than have a keynote speaker, Unleashed opened with a general overview of what Online Search Marketing is all about. Jennifer Laycock introduced three incredible presenters,
Matt McGee of Marchex and Small Business SEM (who happens to hate Twitter I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I am.), Wendy Piersall of sparkplugging.com and Matt Bailey of SiteLogic.com.

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I’m just now getting around to checking my stats after posting Link Building Secrets Revealed on our site early last month. I thought I’d share a few stats:

The main page linked above was viewed just over 7,500 times. That’s not bad traffic. But who’s secret was most popular?

Here’s the breakdown on page views for each contributor’s page:

1. Peter van der Graaf: 4,461
2. Maurizio Petrone: 2,536
3. Patrick Altoft: 1,828
4. Hamlet Batista: 1,782
5. Rand Fiskin: 1,566
6. Eric Ward: 1,419
7. Jim Boykin: 1,228
8. Michael Gray: 1,063
9. Debra Mastaler: 1,043
10. Bob Gladstein: 931
11. Peter da Vanzo: 801

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Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz asked his readers to present their three best link building techniques. Instead of posting mine in the comments of his blog I thought I’d post mine here for the benefit of all my readers:

1. Steal an idea from someone else
2. Create a contest out of it
3. Hoard the incoming links by not linking to your source of inspiration

Yep, that should do the trick.

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Getting links is great, but as search marketers we should be looking far beyond that. We should not be so much as trying to get other websites to link to us (that’s certainly a welcome result) but we should instead be working on getting exposure, in whatever format that comes in.

Why? Because exposure is far better than a link.

If you had to choose between getting a link from a decent, industry related website, or a mention in a high-powered publication such as Time Magazine, which would you choose?

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Over the past ten years the mindset of SEO has evolved significantly. In the early years, website optimization was considered more of an IT expense handled by computer geeks. But over the years, businesses (and SEOs) began to change their frame of mind, realizing that search engine optimization was much closer to traditional marketing than they had thought.

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What happens when you ask some of the world’s foremost link building experts to dish out one of their most guarded secrets to the world in a single collaborative effort? They respond!

I found 11 of the world’s top link building experts and got them to give away a single never-before-revealed link building tip, trick or strategy. The result The result is 24-pages of linky goodness! Click the link below to find out more.

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