The results of the vote on the best marketing blogs done by MarketingSherpa.com are in.
Somehow I didn’t make it. Now there’s a shocker!
Looks like I need to spend some time running though these seeing what’s good and not. I know many of them, but not all.

Mike Grehan has just started a new column with ClickZ as an expert search engine optimizer. He’s been an expert for a long time and now he’s being rewarded(?) with a column.
His first is entitled What Search Engines Know and You Don’t:
I’ve been involved in online marketing since I formed my first consultancy back […]

Jonathan at YourTotalSite.com has put together a nice comparison asking Which Image Format is Best for the web: GIF, JPEG, or PNG?
As you’d expect, he covers the pros and cons for each well. Worth checking out.

I’ve been saying for a while that every site has two audiences: people and search engines. And you have to plan for both. But if you design for people first, the search engines will follow (though you have to still keep the se’s in mind!)
Well, today I read a Q&A from Jill Whalen […]

NetMechanic.com has another great article about a principle I used to mention all the time but lately have forgotten. The article is called Design Tip: Contact Pages Keep Visitors In Touch and the tip is simple:
A certain amount of basic contact information should appear on every page - the usual location is a page […]

NetMechanic.com has a fun take on trying to explain Page Rank in their article Promotion Tip: Protect Your Page Rank:
Here’s an extremely simplified example of how the scoring process works. First, imagine you’re back in high school (horrors!) and running for the student council. Now, this is an unusual school because every student gets at […]

Interesting comparison. You may find some cool stuff tucked away in the Google or Yahoo arsenal.
Google vs. Yahoo! Interface Design
I know because Eric told me so.

MarketingProfs.com is at it again. Listen, if you don’t get their weekly email or RSS feed, why not?
Back on topic, Jonathan Kranz wrote a good article entitled Five Ways to Improve Your Web Copy Immediately, and he’s correct with his statements…mostly.
First, why have good copy?

It elevates your search engine rankings.
It attracts qualified traffic and […]

Great post today called Church Webmasters - Stop Working for Free. Great conversation in the comments about it too.
Both the Heal Your Church Web Site and Strategic Digital Outreach are blogging about it.

A nice article today from MarketingProfs.com called Marketing Challenge: Three Sure Ways to Reach Teens. The question posed was:
We’re working on plans to launch a Web site targeted to teens. Sounds cool, eh? We gotta get down with the program and figure out how to reach them—because like a nonprofit organization, they have a […]