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Social Media Invading Search Territory

Proactive Report

“Smart online marketers have also been using social search for other reasons including competitive research and opportunistic content marketing through social keyword trends,&# says Lee Odden on the TopRank Marketing blog. times more likely to search on that brand’s terms.

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Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity SMM

53% of employers now research candidates on social networks before hiring. • Researchers To Marketers: Go Social, Mobile by MediaPost Online Media Daily. Les Luchter looks at research showing that 10% of all website visits to the top 1,000 web properties come from social sharing, half as much as from search. hours to 6.3

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25 Compelling Reasons to Blog for Business Yesterday

Writtent Blog

From increased brand awareness to thought leadership to positive SEO, the reasons to blog are nearly endless. Organic search yields some of the most qualified leads of any form of marketing. In fact, the Roper Public Institute has found that 80% of B2B decision makers prefer product research through a series of branded articles.

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