Quinstreet Valuation
Updated: 2010-01-30 05:25:59
~$800 million. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a_mQ2s5tiC_c&pos=6 My estimate in November was $1 billion, not too far off.
On Twitter, about how often do you find value in the links that other people tweet? Do you find that it’s usually worth your while, or is it more often a time waste?
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Hollis Thomases, CEO of Web Ad.vantage, is the author of the new book Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day. She’s always [...]
After reading Lee’s post earlier this week on how to source content on Twitter, I started to think about the homemade guacamole I made for the football playoff games last weekend. Stick with me here.
With my guacamole, I carefully strategize on the right mix of each ingredient to achieve the perfect flavor and consistency.
Not enough [...]
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Welcome to a new BIGLIST review of SEO blogs. While it’s by no means a requirement for blogs to post daily or even every week to provide useful content to readers, it does take at least 1 post every 2 weeks to be included in the BIGLIST. We’re seeing a shift with many blogs to posting [...]
As more companies, marketers and industry professionals flood the web with content, the value of those with a true understanding of content marketing keeps going up. More noise increases the value of signal. If your content marketing defines you as that source of signal, you’ll consistently be found, referenced and chosen ahead of [...]
With the increasing emphasis on content marketing for both SEO and Social Media, I thought I’d offer some specific tips on dealing with one of the most prevalent issues companies face in this area: long term sourcing of content. While we’ve written about content sourcing for corporate blogs in the past, but this post will emphasize how [...]
Recently I posted a series of informal poll questions about blog SEO on Twitter to gain insights and feedback which were leveraged to construct a more in-depth survey. I used the longer survey to collect information on how companies are using blogs for search engine optimization purposes and what kind of impact those efforts have. Essentially, [...]
If you haven’t already integrated Facebook into your online marketing mix by creating a fan page, consider the most recent staggering Facebook statistics:
More than 350 million users are active on Facebook
50% of active users log in on any given day
The average user spends 55 minutes a day on Facebook
More than 1.6 million active Facebook fan [...]
Did you realize that search engines have gone full circle on URLs in variables? It used to be considered something to avoid, now search engines are saying variables in URLs are good, as long as you use the canonical meta tag. Google is pushing them with FeedBurner and if webmasters aren’t careful, they could fall [...]
This week’s blog post is contributed by David Stansbury, Web Ad.vantage’s Search Marketing Specialist and IT superhero!
Can We Trust the Cloud?
Last week Google broke the story about a major cyber attack against their internal systems. Security leader McAfee explained in more detail how a highly-targeted phishing attack exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in Internet [...]
Last week Erik Qualmann posted a list of “All Star Social Media” players in his ClickZ column. Being included in such a list with the likes of Chris Brogan and Scott Monty was humbling to say the least. Erik qualified the list by saying they were mostly people he knew and he welcomed suggestions. I [...]
Vanessa Fox works as Entrepreneur-in-residence with Ignition Partners but is especially well known in the Search Marketing world because of her past work as Google’s search engine strategy spokesperson and creator of Google Webmaster Central. I’ve interviewed Vanessa several times on video in the past here, here, here and podcast here but nothing as substantial [...]
More than ever, it’s essential for hospitals and health providers to rethink their healthcare marketing mix to include social media.
The proof is in the numbers: 34% of consumers use social media to search for health information, according to research data from How America Searches: Health and Wellness.
While it’s easy to identify demand, many healthcare marketers [...]
SEO is the understanding of using the changing set of methodologies and technologies in combination
Time after time, when I discuss the search and social media based opportunities for companies to reach new customers and achieve other online communications goals, it comes down to content. Most companies understand the need to have a web presence and publish some kind of web site. For many, the creation of a web site [...]
WOW… things are heating up in the local advertising search space. In December, ReachLocal.com,
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As the use of cell phones and smart phones expands, so do the number of options for consumers to discover and interact with brands. From web browsing to email to social networking and even shopping, more people are using their cell phones as portable computers. However, most sites are not optimized for hand-held [...]
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Crafting unmissable headlines which resonate with social web users is something which appears deceptively simple. Yet it’s an art form requiring writers, bloggers and marketers to craft thousands of headlines to perfect.
As someone who has been successful with creating content that goes hot across social channels I’ve come to appreciate the art and challenge [...]
We may already be a week into 2010, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to starting making resolutions.
Resolve to give your online marketing efforts a boost this year by recognizing areas for improvement and putting in place a plan to make positive changes.
To help you get started, TopRank Online Marketing has come up with [...]
Welcome to the first BIGLIST review of SEM and SEO blogs for 2010! What a year it will be. We reviewed hundreds of marketing blogs in 2009 and well over a thousand since we started the original list. Today’s BIGLIST update focuses on a few local search marketing blogs we’ve recently discovered.
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Blogs have been touted as effective tools for companies to publish content and demonstrate the conversational side of their corporate personality. Blogs have also long been promoted as a SEO tool. Despite plenty of optimism about blogging, there’s still a lot of mis-information, mis-perceptions and lack of awareness about effective, productive blogging for business.
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If you’re “on Twitter”, no doubt you’ve noticed different Tweeple running polls from time to time. We ran our first poll on Twitter over 3 years ago which resulted in the post, “Guide to Twitter as a Tool for Marketing and PR“, offering insights from other marketing and PR professionals experienced with the Twitter [...]
Ready or not, 2010 is here. And according to eMarketer, 2010 is going to be a good year for email marketing. A December survey revealed that 69% of respondents plan to increase spending on email marketing efforts – more than any other marketing strategy.
To ring in the New Year, we’ve compiled 5 email marketing tactics [...]
You don’t have to look far to find social media roundup posts this time of year. But what about the most effective one-two marketing punch for building community AND delivering conversions and ROI? Social Media and Search Engine Optimization – or “Social SEO” as we like to call it.
Out of the 300 or so posts [...]
Our recent reader poll of 14 books either focused on, or with significant content dedicated to, Search Engine Optimization has concluded with 174 votes. And the winner by one vote and 27% of the total votes is….
Art of SEO (Theory in Practice) by Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin and Jessie C. Stricchiola.
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A post about using AdWords Geo Targeting to improve your quality score. By using searchers location below your AdWords ad you can increase CTR dramatically and by proxy, increase your quality score.
Today is December 4th, and that means there’s just one month to go until Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day hits stores! The upcoming book, authored by Web Ad.vantage CEO Hollis Thomases and published by Wiley, will be released on January 4th, 2010.
Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day is written for serious marketing professionals. The [...]
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With the holidays fast approaching, retailers are on the web in full force using social media to promote new products, drive sales, and alert customers to the hottest deals. The Black Friday/Cyber Monday shopping spree brought with it some aggressive social media tactics. Which retailers took an original approach? Were the big brands all doing [...]