• SEO Lessons From Email Spammers
• 10 Common Website Mistakes and How to Fix Them
• 7 Ways To Become A Leading-Edge Marketer
• The Ultimate List: 100+ Facebook Statistics [Infographics]
• Thank you, Come Again!: Best Practices for Thank You Pages
• The Ultimate Glossary: 101 Social Media Marketing Terms Explained
• Who Writes Amazon Product Reviews? [Data Analysis]
• Criticism In Real Life Vs. Online [cartoon]

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5 Fantastic Facebook Fan Page Ideas to Learn From – I frequently suggest for customers to review well established Facebook fan pages to become inspired and get a sense of what a well optimized social network site should be like. Here is a list of 5 such sites.

HOW TO: Build a Facebook Landing Page for Your Business – Curious how to make some of those fancy pages…Mashable lays out a helpful and detailed guide on how to build your own splash page…let’s be honest…most of these pages are not created with conversion in mind and probably should not be called landing pages…but I digress. It’s worth checking it out if you want to build one.

5 Ways We Could Improve Social Media Together – Great tips on how to put the social back into “Social media”…sometimes with the process of automating we become detached, Lisa Barone of OutSpoken Media presents five simple ways we can all contribute to making social media better.

A Beginner’s Guide to Made-for-Internet TV – TV is being transformed right in front of our eyes…every day new advertisements include ways to connect with the brand on Twitter or Facebook or follow their blog. There’s lots of technology coming out there with means to connect right through your TV…super cool. I myself have the Samsung Blue Ray and it let’s me not only connect directly to NetFlix but also Pandora and YouTube. Similarly Nielsen Company reports 82 percent increase in time spent on social networks.

It’s been a busy week, and finally the sun is out.

Excellent advice all around on Google Analytics – Site Architecture & Google Analytics. They also offer great insight into Google AdWords, especially as it applies to the new interface. Check’em out.

Another long time favorite, Hubspot offers some good advice about how to stop obsessing over the number of blog comments

More on PPC, using Geo Targeting to boost your campaign. The great thing about AdWords is that you can do exactly that, pick which part of the country you want to target. Sometimes going for those broad terms can be costly but not necessarily so if targeted right.

5 Things Small Businesses Can Learn From Big Business Social Media Campaigns – Do I need to say more about it…definitely worth a read.

Last but not least, Google introduced their new Chrome OS (operating system). Here’s why Michael Gray is looking forward to it and why Microsoft shouldn’t worry yet

Have a great weekend everyone!

Here is a little some’tin some’tin to send you off to a great weekend…

• Personal Branding Winners and Losers - I’ll give you a hint, “Miss California” did not make the cut *wink* 
• A modern day fairy tale about the value of loyal customers. If we only all thought this way. 
• Can You Save A Damaged Brand?
• A question that everyone (or most of us) is thinking about – What Matters in Local SEO in 2009
• Here’s an interesting take on 5 lessons from the recession
• Are Search Engines Getting Smarter…or is it the Searcher, or maybe a little bit of both?…you have to read it to find out

This week, like whiskers on kitten…these are a few of my favorite reads:

• My favorite topic of the week, Zemanta’s Blogging for a cause
• Setting Social Media Goals
• Link Building from A to Z (SeoMoz.com)
• Mapping Social Media Strategy to Metrics: Listen, Learn, Adapt (Beth Kanter)
• Top100 blogs in Social Media, list and RSS feeds to each
• 10 Steps to Personal Branding Success (junta42.com)