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Posts Tagged 'Content Marketing'
31 Expert Guides to Maximizing Online Brand Visibility – WPOTuesday, April 29th, 2014
Given all of the changes Google has made affecting organic ranking factors (asking webmasters to disavow low-quality links, reducing the value of guest blogging, ignoring links in press releases, etc.), the practice of SEO—optimizing owned content for search—is no longer sufficient for maximizing a brand's online visibility.
This is not to say "SEO is dead" or that it no longer has value, only that it can no longer stand on its own. It needs to be part of a larger, coordinated strategy encompassing owned, earned and paid media: web presence optimization (WPO).
The original WPO model focused on content-sharing to maximize organic brand visibility; as the WPO framework evolved, it incorporated paid and industry (e.g., event sponsorships, community outreach, analyst coverage, trade association membership) components.
Today's WPO model emphasizes the importance of fusing a solid content strategy with a comprehensive online distribution strategy in order to maximize brand visibility and credibility.
Yet despite the analytical and strategic power of the model, WPO still largely remains the concept that everyone talks about, but no one names. It's as if sportswriters constantly wrote about "contests in which opposing teams of five players attempt to shoot a round orange ball through a hoop with a net attached" instead of simply saying "basketball." As indicated by the posts from Search Engine Watch and All Twitter highlighted below, that is starting to change, but only just.
How can social, PR, SEO, and online advertising efforts be coordinated to maximize brand visibility? How can paid, owned, and earned media be harmonized to achieve business goals? How can paid and organic content promotion channels be used together most effectively? What role does email play in extending online visibility?
Find the answers to those questions and many more here in 31 of the best blog posts and articles about WPO (even if they don't call it that) of the past year.
Beyond Search & Social: Online Marketing in 2014 by Search Engine Journal
Marcela De Vivo covers a great deal of ground in this thought-provoking and wide-ranging post, from the impact of social signals on organic ranking to earning (vs. building) links, measuring key performance indicators (KPIs) based on your goals (e.g., "If your goal is organic visibility, your KPI's will be based on increasing your rankings and organic traffic"), and the debate around paid, earned and owned media: all critical consideraations in a WPO strategy.
Convergence: Merging Disciplines Between PR and Marketing by InNetwork
Hessie Jones contends that while marketing and PR have traditionally been separate disciplines, due to social media, "these roles are converging in a big way," so today brands need "a combination of PR and Marketing to stay on top of the conversation, and be ready to develop compelling content to engage and build advocacy," and furthermore to pair "mainstream and digital media experts with creative specialists like copywriters, digital designers and video producers to uncover storytelling opportunities in real time, deliver critical business insights, engage influencers and customers and create the content that shapes news and conversations." Which is to day: they need to coordinate the efforts of everyone involved in maximizing a brand's online visibility and relevance.
How to build a robust content program by iMedia Connection
Writing that "Today, superb, consistent content best serves your customers and leads to increased loyalty and bottom-line results," Deborah Hanamura explores a baker's dozen considerations for content marketing strategy, including social, SEO, PPC ("Great Pay-Per-Click advertising requires great content. Create an impression versus multiple impressions"), and events—in other words, most of the key elements of WPO.
Integrated Marketing: The Magic Formula for Success by Blue Kite Marketing
Laura Click (correctly) asserts there is no "one singular tactic that will help you achieve results" in digital marketing, but rather that achieving the objective of being everywhere your prospect look online requires an integrated marketing approach coordinating efforts across:
- • content marketing;
- • media relations;
- • advertising;
- • search engine marketing (actually, a form of online advertising);
- • social media; and
- • email marketing.
Add SEO to the list above and you've got WPO.
Integrating POEM: The Rhyme and Reason of Harmonizing the New Media Mix by iMedia Connection
Aaron Dubois explores the strengths and weaknesses of paid, owned and earned media (POEM), and advises marketers, "Throughout the planning process, take a step back and look at your brand's overall marketing strategy. If the P, the O, and the E aren't working in conjunction with each other – with a consistent brand voice across all communications – then it's not likely you're going to get as much out of your campaign as you hope to." That's another way of saying: adopt WPO, which coordinates efforts across these these three types of exposure.
Creating a Multi-Channel Content Marketing Strategy by BlueGlass
Kevin Gibbons illustrates the POEM concept and recommends that marketers "have a fully integrated strategy, where everyone is involved towards having success across all of your owned, earned and paid media channels" in order to properly plan and execute to achieve online business goals (or in other words, adopt a WPO approach). He then provides further guidance regarding content creation, measurement, and audience targeting.
6 Reasons Social Media Is Critical To Your SEO by Convince with Convert
Jason Clegg offers "six reasons social media needs to be an important part of your website marketing and SEO strategy for years to come," such as that social media enables you to "crowd source" your link building; social links actually drive traffic to your website; and "Google hates link building." Though the post goes a bit over the top in spots ("link building as a direct SEO tactic is completely dead"—not quite true), Jason's overall points regarding the SEO value of social media are spot on.
The PR Strategies SEOs Haven't Learned by Siege Media
A helpful companion to the post above, Ross Hudgens here focuses on the value of PR for SEO: "Many PR companies still blast releases out to publishers that have no reason to receive them. Many SEO companies do the same with their outreach to bloggers. The best of both worlds will find the intersection, combine agility with empathy, and make for an extremely potent content marketing package."
Marketing Research Chart: Integrating email and search marketing tactics by MarketingSherpa
Daniel Burstein notes that the chart at right "highlights one of marketers' key challenges. They're doing a lot. Even the least used tactic — digital asset optimization — is being conducted by 45% of marketers." He then explains three ways that marketers can be more efficient by "SEO and email tasks to get more done in less time." This type of coordination between different types of content promotion efforts is also at the heart of WPO.
The Evolution of Content In A Big-Content World by MediaPost
Writing that "'big content' is the definition of what content marketing has become: unruly, amorphous, exponential and everywhere," Steve Kerho suggests that marketers should "think of big content as branded content that exists in multiple channels, across devices and…is no longer controlled solely by the brand." Indeed they should, and efforts should be coordinated across these different channels to optimize visibility and engagement while maintaining consistent brand messaging.
The Complete SMO / SEO Guide for Business & Brands in Social Media by REALSMO
Joshua Berg provides an indispensible and comprehensive guide to how social media and search work together; the principles of social media optimization, aka SMO ("Focus on the user and all elSEO will follow"–spot on); and the (possible) future of search.
The Aftermath Of SEO's Death This Summer by Forbes
Writing that Google's Penguin and Hummingbird algorithm updates "mean no more hat tricks, keyword stuffing, comment spamming, backlink image stuffing…Finally, Google uncovered the secret to blocking SEO tricks used to get customers on the infamous PAGE 1," Eris Poringer provides excellent guidance on implementing a "comprehensive plan" for maximizing online brand visibility, incorporating social media, email, content marketing, native advertising, and other tactics. This approach isn't SEM (paid search) though SEM is a key component of a wider WPO strategy.
Social Media Should Not Be A Stand Alone Brand Tactic by Brand Cottage
The smart and engaging Patricia Wilson lists seven reasons why social media should not be a stand-alone brand tactic (such as, "Social Media is very hard to scale on its own") and suggests that "social strategy works best as part of a larger integrated marketing and business plan." Couldn't agree more; it's a vital component of a WPO strategy.
The B2B Marketing Guide to Paid Content Distribution by B2B Digital Marketing
In this highly bookmark-worthy post, Eric Wittlake details almost two dozen options for paid content distribution, from advertising on the large social networks to content distribution services like Outbrain and Taboola to native advertising and sponsored posts on B2B publication sites. As long as you stick with reputable sites that keep up with Google's latest guidelines, these are great avenues for extending the reach of your content and increasing overall online brand visibility.
How to Amplify Your Content Strategy with Social Media Advertising by Content Marketing Institute
Observing that tweets have an average half-life of 18 minutes, Facebook posts have a half-life of 30 minutes, and keeping up with algorithmic changes in organic search is getting increasingly difficult, Dan Stasiewski recommends "creating an advertising flow to your content ecosystem." Excellent advice, though not either/or; successful content promotion requires coordinating all of the elements of WPO.
SEO And Other Web Marketing Techniques: Tools Or Tricks? by Forbes
Roger Kay comes down rather hard on content marketing and SEO ("a rather polite term for another way to game the system"), but writes that he likes "the concept of inbound marketing because it relies on product quality…at bottom, inbound will only work if the product is good. Effectively, the Internet is a fantastic channel to give an idea a chance to make it in the wild, but the virus only spreads if the content justifies the buzz." True, which is why content strategy forms the base of WPO. But as noted here previously, even the "most epic content will FAIL without content distribution," which is why coordinated sharing and promotion across channels is just as important as creating high-quality content to begin with.
When Keyword (not provided) is 100 Percent of Organic Referrals, What Should Marketers Do? – Whiteboard Tuesday by Moz
Rand Fishkin steps through a number of steps SEO practitioners can take to deal with the loss of organic keyword data from Google, such as using "keyword suggestion sources like Google Suggest, Ubersuggest, certainly AdWords's own volume data, SEMRush, etc. to see the keyword expansions related to your brand or the content that's very closely tied to your brand." Running AdWords ads and examining keyword performance is another option.
Time for a New Definition of SEO by Search Engine Watch
Writing that "digital marketing tactics such as email marketing, paid search and search retargeting have very clear, undisputed definitions. The definition of SEO, on the other hand, seems to be just as unclear as the practice itself," Krista LaRiviere suggests WPO (she actually uses the term) represents the evolution of SEO, and defines WPO as "an all-encompassing approach to optimizing an entire web presence for organic search including the website, social channels, blogs, articles and press releases." Her ideas clearly resonated, as the post garnered 50 comments.
The Web Presence Optimization Cycle [INFOGRAPHIC] by All Twitter
Allison Stadd showcases a helpful infographic designed to help marketers visualize "the steps to web presence optimization with the goal of helping you reach organic search success."
Getting less traffic from Google? Here's why it may not matter soon by Jim's Marketing Blog
Jim Connolly details three reasons marketers should diversify their efforts beyond just organic SEO, most importantly because "Google sends less traffic to sites than before…between August 2012 and March 2013, search traffic from Google nosedived an incredible 30%" to a collection of large publisher sites including The Huffington Post, The Daily Mail, Newsweek, Time, Sports Illustrated and Rolling Stone. It's not that search isn't still an important tactic, but that it's only one of several important elements in a brand's total online visibility (the focus of WPO).
Relying on organic SEO? You're losing customers! by Digital Growth
Building on the arguments in Jim Connolly's post above, Luke Chapman illustrates how ads and universal search elements continue to push organic listings further down on the typical search results page, making even a #1 organic ranking less valuable than it used to be. To combat this, he recommends using social media, email, PR, blogging and blog commenting, and industry/community marketing—pretty much the range of WPO elements. And investing in SEM also helps maintain search visibility.
Is SEO Dead — Or Decentralized? by MediaPost
Musing about the decline of traditional SEO and the rise of social media optimization and paid search, Ryan DeShazer concludes that "In today's marketing communications organization, everyone is an SEO…creative teams (now) include content discoverability and SEO into their work streams; technologists are building sites and apps compliant with known onsite SEO best practices; and UX specialists are including keyword research before developing user personas and journeys." Hmm, coordinating the efforts of multiple disciplines in order to optimize web visibility…sounds familiar.
The 4 SEO Trends Every Marketer Needs to Know by iMedia Connection
Tony Quin reveals what he believes are four key trends in SEO that marketers need to understand, the most relevant of which for WPO is number four, "Traditional marketing tactics will boost digital marketing initiatives…Press releases, for example, provide branded mentions and links that will increase the authority of your website while also increasing exposure. Despite what some might say, email is still extremely effective in creating opportunities for awareness and sharing." Creating compelling content is vital, but that content then needs to be shared using social media alongside "traditional marketing tactics."
Inbound Marketing: 15 tactics to help you earn attention organically by MarketingSherpa
Daniel Burstein (again) serves up a list of "quantitative metrics, case studies, how-to articles and other resources to help you improve your own inbound marketing efforts by learning more about how your peers are effectively using these tactics," including SEO, PPC, email, events, PR, blogging, content marketing, and other aspects of WPO.
How to optimize your emails for search by iMedia Connection
Noting "It might sound like a strange idea to optimize your emails for search engines, but SEO is a skill that email marketers better start working on," Michael Linthorst explores the ins and outs of Gmail Field Trial, an "experiment in which Google includes a user's Gmail inbox in his or her search results." Engagement, content, and relevancy are keys to "email SEO"—and a solid approach to email marketing regardless.
Social Search Engine Marketing Throws Search Experts A Lifeline by MediaPost
Laurie Sullivan reports on recent research showing that "Social signals continue to make their way into search results—making social search engine optimization the next major trend in organic listing. Enterprise SEO requires a search across traditional techniques and social media channels." This integration is, of course, at the heart of WPO.
Why Your Online Marketing Department Is All Screwed Up by ClickZ
Andrew Delamarter describes how marketing departments can, and must, sop operating in "silos" and coordinate efforts across paid, earned, and owned media: "Now is the time to stop thinking SEO, media, content marketing, web analytics, and Facebook posts and start thinking holistically about inbound marketing that brings it all together."
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If you build it, they will come — maybe by iMedia Connection
The brilliant and prolific Rebecca Lieb believes "The winners in content marketing will create not just quality content, but distribution strategies that will get that content 'out there'" (i.e., WPO). SEO, PR, advertising, and social all have their role to play, but so do media companies.
Six Ways Internet Marketing Meets PR Online by SteamFeed
Because "the online world of content marketing requires knowledge of Internet marketing which includes search marketing, key word designation, html coding, link building, and the other tools and tricks of the trade," Jayme Soulati outlines half a dozen ways for PR professionals to work with their Internet marketing counterparts to maximize online brand visibility and impact.
The New SEO: Search Marketing Integration by Search Engine Watch
Brad Miller writes that while SEO isn't dead, "the days of SEO as a distinct, independent discipline are certainly numbered. SEO is fast evolving into a more creative, diverse, and challenging profession." He uses the term "search marketing integration" to describe the coordination of activities across social search, branding, PR, SEM, and others areas in order to integrate all your marketing efforts into "into one single, agile, engaging strategy." That would be WPO.
2013 – Break the (Digital) Marketing Silos by The RKG Blog
As noted above in the introduction to this post, WPO is about coordinating the efforts of everyone on your team involved in content creation or digital marketing. As Todd McDonald writes here, "Imagine the insights available to those who successfully bring together PR, social, email, PPC, SEO, and other channels! Each one can feed the next, providing ever-deepening levels of data and connections that will drive data-driven strategic marketing decisions. SEO will be a cog in this machine and it will need the machine to work well in order to functional optimally." He challenges marketers to smash their internal silos—a vital step (as noted above) in WPO, even if he doesn't call it that.
Book Review: Content RulesMonday, June 24th, 2013
The phrase "content marketing" may well disappear at some point in the not-too-distant future. Not because the concept will fade away, but because it will be seen as redundant; there won't be any marketing without content.
According to recent research, nearly 80% of CMOs see custom content as the future of marketing. And it's not only marketing executives who are excited about content. The same study also showed that:
- • 90% of companies are already doing some form of content marketing.
- • 70% of customers said they "felt closer to a company as a result of content marketing."
- • 70% of buyers would rather learn about a company through articles than through an advertisement.
- • 60% of people say they have been "inspired to seek out a product" after reading content about it.
And so it is that Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business has arrived at at opportune time. Ann Handley and C.C. Chapman have written the definitive guide to creating nearly any type of content, as well as adding life to traditional formats like customer case studies and FAQ pages. Content Rules is a must-read for anyone who wants to create compelling, useful information for their target audiences.
Creating relevant, quality, original content within a web presence optimization (WPO) strategy has become critical to marketing success because, as the authors note, "overwhelmingly, consumers depend on search engines to help them shop online." They cite research showing that "three out of five shoppers said they always or often use search engines when shopping online…more consumers use search engines than they do coupon sites, retailer emails, consumer reviews, or shopping comparison sites." The figure is even higher for b2b and high-value, considered-purchase consumer goods.
The book works well on several levels, and though it's most valuable to practitioners—those who actually envision, specify, create, repurpose, and promote business content— it's also helpful for senior executives charged with developing content strategy and coordinating creative efforts.
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Divided into four sections, the book opens with the case for content (though that's increasingly superfluous), the basic "rules" of content creation, and wisdom such as the importance of giving content both "roots" (ground it "solidly in your unique perspective, voice, and point of view") and "wings" (distributed, promoted and shared across the social web).
It proceeds through sections devoted to the "how to" of content creation, success stories ("with ideas you can steal"), and finally a brief closing section with next steps and a helpful checklist to help content creators follow the "rules."
Among the authors' insights:
- • The benefits of content marketing compound over time. Jay Baer uses the phrase "information annuity" while Marcus Sheridan of River Pools calls content "the ultimate gift that keeps on giving." This echoes the message that social media and content transform marketing from an expense to an investment.
- • "The more valuable the information you can give to others, the more you will become viewed as an expert and therefore gain their trust…the person with the abundance mentality wins."
- • Stuck for a subject to write about? "Know your customers…and what keeps them up at night. What are their concerns and objectives? What do they care about? How will your brand help them in their daily lives?"
- • Getting high-quality backlinks to your website is crucial to achieving high rankings in search. But traditional link building is all but dead; so how do you get those links? "By creating compelling content. Every time someone shares a link to your site in some fashion (by blogging about you or sharing a link on Twitter, for example), it boosts your search ranking. Make a video that everyone is raving about or write a blog post that people can't stop talking about, and you'll see your site start appearing much higher on the results page when search for…the things you sell." Which is pretty much what WPO is.
- • To differentiate their content, and companies, in a crowded market, content creators must "expand their traditional notions of corporate identity to include language, the words a company uses, and tone of voice. Branding, after all, is about differentiation. And describing a brand begins with words. Don't rely on…worn-to-the-bone words and phrases and bland corporate tone." Companies often struggle with this internally, particularly if the team has been in place for a while, but any decent consumer or b2b marketing agency should be able to assist in this effort.
- • A bit more on tone (love this): "In business, it's tempting (and easier) to use the same boring words everyone else uses. But you'll be far more approachable (and a whole lot more engaging) if you lighten up a little. I'd worry less about shocking customers than I would about boring them."
- • "Literally speak the language of your customers. You want to appeal to them, certainly, but you also want your content to appear in search results when your would-be customers are looking for what you have to offer. How do your customers describe your product or service? What words do they use?" This is vital. Do keyword research, ask your sales force, and talk to your customers.
There's much, much more on topics ranging from over-used buzzwords to avoid and methods for repurposing and re-using content to the six characteristics of great business storytelling and how to capitalize on events for content creation.
The authors provide such an effective and comprehensive overview of content development that it's difficult to find fault with the book. A couple of minor quibbles regarding metrics though:
- • In the section titled "Set Your Metrics: What Does Success Look Like?," the authors mention number of subscribers, inbound links, comments and "social validation" as key metrics, but don't mention two other key measures to track: number of blog visitors who then visit other key areas on your website (such as product pages) and the number who take some conversion action (e.g., registering for a webinar, downloading a white paper, or subscribing to your newsletter). (One of our clients was generating, on average, 10% of all leads via referral traffic from their blog within one year of launching it.)
- • Similarly, on metrics for Ebooks and white papers, the authors cite number of downloads as a key metric—which it certainly is—but I'd add sources of traffic leading to these downloads as another vital piece of data to track.
All in all, this is an outstanding guide to creating, optimizing and sharing compelling, customer-focused information. Even if you're an experienced content marketer, Content Rules will help you produce better content, produce content better, or both.
Where Google Moved Your Digital CheeseTuesday, May 28th, 2013
Anyone who's been in the corporate world within the past decade-and-a-half has likely been exposed at some point to Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, a slender allegory by Spencer Johnson about dealing with change, summarized by Wikipedia as a tale featuring:
"Four characters: two mice, 'Sniff' and 'Scurry,' and two littlepeople, miniature humans in essence, 'Hem' and 'Haw.' They live in a maze, a representation of one's environment, and look for cheese, representative of happiness and success. Initially without cheese, each group, the mice and humans, paired off and traveled the lengthy corridors searching for cheese. One day both groups happen upon a cheese-filled corridor at 'Cheese Station C.' Content with their find, the humans establish routines around their daily intake of cheese, slowly becoming arrogant in the process."
When the cheese eventually runs out, the mice and the miniature human characters deal with their new cheese-less situation in different ways. The mice, "Noticing the cheese supply dwindling… have mentally prepared beforehand for the arduous but inevitable task of finding more cheese." The humans struggle more with their reality: "Angered and annoyed, Hem demands, 'Who moved my cheese?'…Starting to realize the situation at hand, Haw thinks of a search for new cheese. But Hem is dead set in his victimized mindset and dismisses the proposal." The point of the tale is to promote productive approaches to dealing with change.
With its Panda and Penguin algorithm updates over the past couple of years, and most notably the recent Penguin 2.0 update, Google has been busy moving the cheese for many marketers, webmasters and SEO professionals.
SEO practitioners who cling to outmoded tactics like keyword stuffing and link buying are likely to react like Hem, feeling victimized by their loss of cheese. Same goes for those SEO software and service providers still tout their ability to help create thousands of links through link exchange partners.
On the other hand, SEO pros who've always practiced white hat tactics are like the mice in the story; though they may still have a lot of work to do, they are well prepared to find new cheese. For the many who have seen their rankings and traffic devoured by Penguin, here are three places to look for new cheese.
Content marketing. This is where Matt Cutts officially says you should look for new SEO cheese. Produce great content, it will attract "natural" links, and your site will end up on page one of Google. The problem, of course, is that in highly competitive search term markets—like marketing automation, real estate, auto repair, social media monitoring, or SEO services—no matter how compelling or unique your content is, it's unlikely to be seen (and therefore to attract links) if it doesn't rank on page one of Google, and it's unlikely to rank highly if it doesn't have a lot of relevant, high-quality inbound links. Call this Catch-22 cheese.
The point isn't that producing helpful content isn't a fantastic idea, only that content marketing is not enough. In this way, Penguin seems to favor the same publications, A-list blogs, and name-brand websites that already dominate most searches.
AdWords. This is where Google would really like you to go, because it's how the company makes money. There's no question AdWords can be an effective component of online strategy—it's controllable, immediate and finely measurable. But it's also expensive. Call this gourmet cheese.
Web presence optimization. A web presence optimization (WPO) approach may be the most effective way to tame Penguin and Panda. By incorporating owned, earned and paid media, WPO optimizes your overall web presence, not just your website (though that remains the ultimate target destination). Cross-channel marketing metrics in WPO help to optimally allocate marketing and PR resources.
This is akin to the way grocery stores usually sell cheese: standard cheese varieties in the dairy aisle, exotic cheeses in the deli, organic cheese in the all-natural foods section, etc. Call this a distributed cheese strategy. Grocers do it because they sell more cheese by offering different varieties in multiple locations throughout the store than they would by stacking all of it in one area. The same approach can be effective in optimizing your company's overall web visibility, regardless of Google's ongoing algorithmic attacks on traditional SEO.
11 Expert PPC Guides, Tips and Techniques (and One Rant)Monday, May 6th, 2013
With all of the hype surrounding inbound and content marketing, it's easy to underrate the continued importance of pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, a.k.a. search engine marketing. But as Rebecca Lieb recently noted, "Search, email, blogging, digital PR, and even (brace yourself) advertising have, and will continue to have a place at the table as content marketing grows in importance."
As vital as natural optimization is, paid search offers three key advantages that make it complementary to organic search:
- • It's instant. Organic search experiments can take weeks to show results. SEM changes take effect in a matter of minutes.
- • It's flexible. You decide which keywords, and how many, you'd like to show up on page one for, including popular phrases for which it may be very difficult to rank organically. You can add and drop keywords on the fly.
- • It's controllable. You decide exactly which landing page to send traffic to for each keyword–without worrying that a minor edit to the page, or Google's next algorithm update, will annihilate your ranking. You choose exactly when and where your ads are seen.
Given that PPC advertising is likely to play an important role in your online marketing mix, how can you most effectively target your ads? Maximize the productivity of your ad spending? Design landing pages that most effectively convert? Properly test different creative components?
Find the answers to those questions and more, plus a rant from a PPC skeptic, here in (almost) a dozen of the best PPC guides of the past year.
ABC's of PPC – A Guide for the Basics! by PPC Hero
Kayla Kurtz presents a creative alphabetical guide to PPC basics, from A for Ad Goups ("Your ad groups should always start out tightly themed, with keywords included that are similar to one another) through Z for Zero Impressions ("How long has that account element been active while seeing no action? Do some due diligence and try your hardest to make it work, but if you have a portion of your account with no impressions…cut bait and move on).
The 8 Questions That Create Perfect Landing Page Copy by KISSmetrics
Michael Lykke Aagaard offers "8 simple questions will kick start your writing and guide you through the process of crafting high impact landing page copy that converts," starting with understanding the purpose of your landing page and creating a specific call to action and progressing through creating a design that supports the copy.
Display Advertising: Targeting Options 101 by RKG Blog
Michelle Ulizio explains the structure of display advertising, breaking down the options first into user targeting vs. site targeting; then defining three options for each targeting type (for example, Site Retargeting: "By placing special tracking tags on your website, you are able to show display ads across the web to users who visited your site, regardless of what site they are currently browsing"); and finally showing how the two high-level targeting methods can be used together.
How to Handle the AdWords Ad Rotation Changes by Search Engine Watch
Greg Habermann reports on Google's decision to change AdWords ad rotation settings from "indefinite" to just 30 days, explains how this will screw up head-to-head ad testing (particularly for smaller advertisers with low impression volume and agencies managing multiple accounts), and then suggests some alternatives and workarounds to try until Google comes "to its senses and change this back."
Top 5 ways to use AdWords' new Auction Insights tool by PPC Hero
Sam Owen presents five tips for getting the most out of Google's Auction Insights tool, from competitive research ("You can also start to try and learn a little about the strategy of your competitors. Perhaps someone is always showing in position 1, but only for 50% of the time—did you just discover a competitor who is day-parting?") to avoiding underbidding by analyzing lost impression share at the keyword level.
Paid Search: Top 10 Ways To Lower Cost per Conversion & Improve ROI by Fathom Blog
Joe Castro suggests ten ideas for improving the productivity of PPC campaigns, among them filtering to "Pause off active ad groups and keywords with high cost-per- conversion rates or high costs and no conversions," excluding geographic regions based on conversion rates, and segmenting ads by device type.
10 Quick Adwords Optimizations Tips for All PPC-ers by LunaMetrics
Noting that managing multiple paid search accounts involves substantial effort, but "if you tackle each optimization effort in stages, the work load won't seem as daunting," Sarah Peduzzi supplies 10 helpful tips including checking the Search Query Report weekly, continually testing ad copy, and using automated rules for bid adjustments.
5 Quick Ways to Increase Conversions in AdWords by Fathom Blog
Joe Castro (again) tosses out a handful of quick ways to bump up clicks and conversions, including loosening keyword match types, using sitelinks, and bidding on brand terms ("it's really a no-brainer that your company should be bidding on its name and different variations. Branded keywords are by far your top converting, and you're leaving money on the table if you're not bidding on them").
The Importance of A/B Testing: 24 Marketing Experts on Their Most Surprising A/B Test by The WordStream Blog
Elisa Gabbert shares the answers from 24 marketing experts to the question: "What is the most surprising or exciting result you've ever achieved in a multivariate A/B test?" Respondents included Aaron Levy, Brad Geddes, Brad Shorr, Megan Leap, Oli Gardner, and Todd Minz ("We decided to A B test using brand names in the headline [as variables in place of generic product names]…Overnight, this campaign generated so many conversions that I thought something broke in AdWords. It went from nearly zero to the highest performing campaign in the account by about 4-5x").
PPC Myth Busting! Myth 6: Quality Score is All About CTR by PPC Hero
Amanda West-Bookwalt busts a common myth about quality scores, writing that "CTR plays a part, but so does ad relevance and landing page experience…(aligning with) the campaign and account quality scores as well as any quality score limitations set on your industry, all of which also influence a particular keyword's quality score." She adds several ideas for boosting keyword quality scores.
Why Paid Search for B2B Companies is Dead (or Dying) by Search Engine Watch
As Mark Twain wrote that "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated," so pronouncements of the the death of PPC should be met with skepticism. Talk about a myth that needs busting; though Uri Bar-Joseph quotes an impressive array of statistics in his morbid predictions for the future of PPC, the channel is likely to remain a key component of b2b web presence optimization frameworks for some time to come. Unlike SEO, PPC results (as noted above) are immediate, controllable, and highly flexible. Firms willing to commit investment, testing and experimentation are likely to find PPC campaigns a productive, supportive and cost-effective component of their overall online marketing mix.
How To Leverage PPC To Discover High-Converting Keywords For SEO by Conductor Blog
As an example of how PPC can support other online marketing efforts, Nathan Safran notes that "Finding out a keyword converts poorly after spending the effort to work your way up the organic search rankings can be a time consuming and frustrating process, but there is a way to shortcut the process and discover high converting keywords: Paid Search (PPC) data," then explains how to use PPC data to help focus on the most productive keywords in SEO strategies.
33 Phenomenal Content Marketing and Copywriting Guides and TipsTuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Content marketing represents the most fundamental and widespread rethinking of marketing practices in decades. Unlike other modifiers attached to the discipline (consumer marketing, b2b marketing, trade show marketing, digital marketing), the term "content marketing" doesn't describe an audience, tactic, or channel, but rather a completely different approach to marketing.
Content marketing turns the dominant paradigm of the last half-century—interruption-based mass marketing—on its head. Rather than interrupting prospective customers with content they generally didn't want (product pitches) while they were consuming content they did (entertainment or news), content marketing entices targeted buyers with entertaining (consumer) or informative (b2b) content that also happens to reflect the company's brand messages or product/service strengths.
Disruptive as it is, this philosophical shift has spread widely and quickly: according to recent research, "86 percent of companies serving consumers and 92 percent of 'business to business' companies now use content marketing."
Since content marketing itself is no longer a differentiator, practitioners are asking questions like: how can I efficiently create a steady stream of fresh, relevant content? What types of content are most valuable to my sales prospects? How can content be optimized to support search engine optimization (SEO) efforts? What metrics are most helpful in measuring success and support continual improvement?
Discover the answers to these questions and many more here in more than 30 of the best content marketing articles and blog posts of the past year.
Content Marketing Guides, Tips and Tactics
5 Ways to Clone Great Social Media Content by SteamFeed
Helpfully pointing out that "You likely already have strong content on hand (either on-line somewhere or even stuck in a file cabinet in your office.) Instead of developing new stuff from scratch, riff on/reuse this stockpile of awesomesauce and use it more strategically," Jennifer Kane proposes a handful of techniques to get more mileage out of existing content, such as "Drill down or spiral off on your content themes…if a piece of your preexisting content has resonated with your audience, consider using it as source material for a more in-depth examination of the topic or to jump off on a sub-topic tangent that will enable you to expand the perception your audience has of your brand."
Digital Natives: How They Are Changing the Content Marketing Game by Content Marketing Institute
Patricia Redsicker presents six strategies content marketers need to embrace in order to address the information needs and wants of digital natives–those born "between the mid-1970s and the late 1990s, (who) have grown up during our current golden age of digital technology. Now in their mid-teens to mid-thirties, people in this generation came of age knowing how to interact with technology and are comfortable using it to their advantage." Among her recommendations are focusing on content that builds trust, that efficiently answers simple questions quickly, and that makes content consumers feel valued.
Corporate Content Marketing for Best in Class Results by Creative Marketing Channel
Noting that "Best in class companies utilize content marketing for brand awareness, customer acquisition, lead generation, and customer retention" and that most companies plan to increase budgets in this area, Catherine Lockey answers six key questions about content marketing, such as "How do best in class companies create all of their great content?" The answer to that one is outsourcing; roughly half of all small companies and three-quarters of large firms outsource at least a portion of their content creation efforts.
Seeking Marketing Alpha by Propel Growth Blog
Though the panel discussion this post was written to promote is long past, the thoughts about content marketing shared here by Candyce Edelen are still well worth a read. "The Internet and email make it easier and cheaper to make noise, resulting in a virtual cacophony of marketing claims barraging customers every day – with everyone claiming to be 'the leading, number-one, unique, value-added, trusted provider' of 'robust, innovative, cutting-edge, high-performance, ultra low-latency technology….' Yawn. How can every vendor be the 'leading provider' anyway?"
Content Marketing in 6 Steps by Social Media Today
Steven Van Belleghem lays out "the 6 crucial steps to take in order to end up with a good content strategy," starting with topic selection (determining what's at the intersection of your company's unique internal expertise and the information needs/wants of your market) and proceeding through measuring marketing performance (based on the content marketing objectives you've established).
Long Live Content Marketing by Rebelations
Rebel Brown offers practical guidance on how to avoid self-promotion and salesy content that "will send your audiences running" and instead focus on providing value: "For example, let's say your audience is challenged by performance problems with their applications. Don't send them a piece of content all about your faster processor, database, system or whatever. That's obnoxious and pretty blatant self-promotion! Instead, share a piece of content about the key aspects of their infrastructure that they might want to check for problems. Share your expertise to guide them through the process to better understand their issues."
5 CEO-Worthy Metrics for Demonstrating Inbound Marketing Success by Marketo B2B Marketing Blog
Jon Miller outlines five key inbound marketing metrics to measure and continually improve content marketing success, such as lead generation by content and channel: "Beyond core organic traffic and leads, track lead generation by content asset and source. What sources are driving the most traffic? What kinds of content drive the most leads? The most revenue? It can also be insightful to track how these vary by product line or business unit."
Feeding The Content Marketing Beast – 7 Places to Find Cheap Content by Heidi Cohen
Noting that two of the biggest challenges content marketers face are "producing sufficient content" and "having enough budget to cover the cost of content," Heidi Cohen has compiled almost two dozen recommendations for developing content cost-effectively, from repurposing speeches delivered by company executives and soliciting employee contributions to reworking content from your distributors and suppliers.
What Tech Buyers Want From Content by Marketing Interactions
Ardath Albee reveals three key attributes that technology buyers value in marketing content, including freshness: "58% (of technology buyers in a UBM TechWeb survey) said they wanted content that was timely and current (while) only 11% said they'd consider content more than 18 moths old." If you've got older content that is still relevant to buyers, refresh it to keep it current with the state of your industry.
Don't Forget the 'Marketing' in Content Marketing by The Content Cocktail
Christina Pappas shares a seven-step checklist for making sure that your content contributes to company goals, without being too pushy or salesy, among them "Make sure there is an offer or connection to your product in every piece of content…every piece of content you publish should have some tie-back to your company and the solutions you provide to the market. This doesn't have to be obvious and it doesn't have to be smothered all over the thing, but it should be there somewhere," such as links to white papers or other related assets at the end of a blog post or report.
Exploring the Five Cs of Content Marketing at Cisco by IT Services Marketing Association
Sherri Liebo identifies the "5 Cs" that Cisco Services looks at to better listen to customers when creating and sharing marketing content, including Customers ("What are customers looking for?"), Competition ("What is the competition doing? How does Cisco Services compare?") and Collaborators ("What is happening with our channel and strategic partners?").
Research: B2B Buyers Want Content by Social Marketing Forum
J-P De Clerck summarizes findings from Base One's Buyersphere Survey regarding the content needs of business buyers. While the study focused on Europe, its findings are more broadly applicable, such as that "87% of…buyers look for advice before buying…The first source when doing so: Web searches. With 71% of respondents who look for information, searches are by far the main source of information." Among other findings:
- • Business buyers are most active in sharing content on forums, LinkedIn and blogs;
- • Younger members of the buying team are most likely to read white papers and blogs, and attend webinars; and
- • Buyers "who are working in IT were more likely to have downloaded whitepapers (36%) or read blogs (28%)" than those in other industries.
J-P has also launched a blog, Content Marketing Experience, focused exclusively on content marketing issues and guidance. His post Five Reasons No One Shares Your Content is spot on and well worth a read.
Content Marketing: 3 tips for how to get started by MarketingSherpa
Daniel Burstein dispels three myths than hold content marketers back or prevent them from getting the support they need within the organization, such as "'We don't want to give away our secrets.'
If you can't give potential customers enough information about how you do what you do (whether that is fixing plumbing leaks or improving marketing performance), then why should they trust you with their business?" And McDonald's "secret sauce" is (shhhh)…Thousand Island dressing.
4 secrets to successful content marketing by iMedia Connection
Writing that "the digital world allows us to measure just about anything, including three factors that help marketers gauge the success of their content: click-through rates, time spent on content, and shares via social media," Jacqueline McDermott Lisk outlines strategies for producing high-quality content that will both improve these statistics and drive business results.
Sweet talk your leads and move them through the sales funnel by Polaris B
Because not all "leads" are ready to turn immediately into buyers, Shelley Pringle outlines a four-step process for converting those leads into customers over time. The process starts with understanding your prospects' buying cycle and creating content for the top, middle and bottom of the sales funnel.
Sourcing B2B Content For Marketing Strategy! 11 Timeless Examples #FTW by aimClear Blog
Marty Weintraub presents "11 timeless content creation examples that have always worked," among them demystifying myths ("Nearly every sales process is up against some level of customers' misconceptions and other informational obstacles. Put yourself in the customer's shoes and address these sales impediments head on"), covering industry events in real time, excerpting white papers (a great content idea), and interviewing industry experts.
Content Marketing and SEO
10 Reasons Why You Need an Optimized Content Strategy Now by iMedia Connection
Krista LaRiviere, CEO of web presence optimization software vendor gShift Labs, explains how recent Google algorithm changes (including more emphasis on social signals, the clampdown on low-value backlinks, the Google +1 button, and freshness updates) now make optimized, user-focused content more important than ever for search rankings.
How to create search friendly content by Bing Blogs
This post explains how to create optimized content more efficiently by creating a template or repeatable process for content development, and presents seven tips for discovering tinely topics to write about, incorporating keywords, using hooks to capture readers' attention, and more.
Content Marketing – Think Campaigns Not Just Links, Your Guide to TOFU by SEOmoz
Noting that "From an SEO viewpoint, the interest in great content is to attract links, where as a lot of what Google is looking to eliminate are examples of where content is used to build links"—particularly in the wake of its Panda and Penguin updates—Kieran Flanagan steps through an approach that puts business objectives first, with links and shares tracked but not viewed as the primary goal.
Infographics, Images and Video
5 Content Marketing Ideas Worth Stealing by jeffbullas.com
Jeff Bullas recommends five content marketing techniques for obtaining and retaining the attention of your prospective buyers by going beyond text: "Sometimes you need some inspiration and you need to try some new ideas and different media that may provide a nudge to try something different and creative outside your comfort zone…Images and photos are much more likely to be shared than an article or a white paper. Videos or infographics will be shared at high velocity compared the the humble 'written word' that have been with us for millenia."
7 Steps to Make Your Infographic a Success by SEOmoz
Infographics can be great for generating re-posts and inbound linke—if done properly. Slavik Volinsky explains what works (e.g., start with a great idea and great distribution plan: "To create a great distribution plan, approach your industry's 'big minds' and ask for their feedback with full intention of listening & improving the infographic") and what doesn't.
The History of Content Marketing [Infographic] – Corporate Storytelling is Not New by Content Marketing Institute
Content marketing guru Joe Pulizzi presents a fascinating history of content marketing, from cave paintings and 19th-century "customer magazines" through the emergence of corporate blogs, business video, microsites, and the proliferation of content marketing sites, books and resources.
Content Marketing and SEO: The world doesn't need another blog post by MarketingSherpa
Advising marketers to "focus on the message, not the medium" Daniel Burstein (again) offers half a dozen suggestions for taking content beyond blog posts and white papers, like creating a mobile app or a useful online tool "Like the ESPinator from ClickMail Marketing, which helps email marketers choose an ESP that helps them best fit their needs."
The future of content marketing by iMedia Connection
Rebecca Lieb reports on research showing that larger, more sophisticated content marketers are gradually "lessening their dependence on text-based channels" and focusing more on video and images. Interestingly, she also notes that "Search, email, blogging, digital PR, and even (brace yourself) advertising have, and will continue to have a place at the table as content marketing grows in importance," or in other words, that web presence optimization will get more attention.
7 Rules For Writing Awesome Content by Small Business Trends
Lisa Barone presents seven writing rules to help in crafting content that will inspire customers to act, including telling stories ("If you want to improve your writing, stop lecturing to people and to start telling them stories"); experimenting ("Improve your writing by experimenting with new mediums [videos, infographics, contests, polls, Twitter chats] instead of getting caught in the same pattern of content"); and to avoid generic messages, "write as if you're writing to one reader."
Is Content Marketing The New Advertising? by Forbes
Michael Brenner shares a highly bookmark-worthy infographic that positions 16 different content formats along the dimensions of attention required from the audience and ease of implementation. For example, social media generally requires little attention from the audience (being very short form), and also little effort, while something like an app, telecast or interactive game is at the other end of the spectrum on both dimensions.
How You Can Use Infographics to Tell a Story by Social Media Club
Mireille Massue offers six steps for creating a compelling infographic (such as making it sharable by submitting it to Infographic Directories); nine resources to learn more about infographics; and (of course), an infographic outlining eight steps to create an infographic.
The 6 Best Slideshare Decks on Content Marketing by B2B Marketing Insider
Michel Brenner (again) passes along half a dozen noteworthy slide decks about content marketing, from experts like Rand Fishkin, Joe Pulizzi, and Rebecca Lieb and Charlene Li, whose Winning Content Strategies presentation notes that "77% of Internet users do not engage with online advertising. A shift from 'push' to 'pull' marketing is imperative to brand survival."
Expert Copywriting Tips
Harvard Lesson: Verbs Beat Adjectives by Neuromarketing
Roger Dooley, commenting on one of the toughest sales jobs of all—"selling" yourself to Harvard Business School, where nine out of 10 applicants are rejected—concludes that verbs sell more powerfully than adjectives. Verbs persuade more effectively because they "require actual examples of the behaviors or characteristics in question…These specifics will increase the credibility of the copy, in addition to providing more information than when the adjective-driven shortcut is taken."
Using Great Storytelling To Grow Your Business by Fast Company
Former McKinsey consultant Kaihan Krippendorff outlines two approaches for producing more compelling content (or presentations): using LOTS ("language of the senses…When telling a story, share with us what you see, smell, feel, taste, and hear. When you trigger a sense in someone, you bring them into the story with you") and building on your story spine–a structured approach to use in opening a presentation or throughout a longer document.
25-point Web copy checklist: How to write for Google by Success Works
Heather Lloyd-Martin provides a remarkable checklist for creating content that will appeal to human readers and search engines alike, from starting with a customer persona and keyword/topic research to crafting a compelling title and meta description to effectively "sell the click" to searchers.
Copywriting: How to improve headlines on landing pages and blog posts by MarketingSherpa
Adam T. Sutton, noting that "people are busy. You need to write a headline that convinces them to ignore distractions and pay attention," outlines four attributes of value to consider when crafting headlines along with five tips for writing attention-grabbing headlines, such as front-loading (start with the most valuable phrase, e.g. "Get Paid to Take Online Surveys" is a much better headline than "We Can Help You Get Paid to Take Online Surveys").
Write the Best Titles for Content Marketing: A 10-Point Checklist by Content Marketing Institute
Roger C. Parker recommends 10 questions to ask when writing headlines, such as "Does your title clearly promise a desired benefit?," "Did you emphasize your intended readers in your title?" (for example, "C. J. Hayden's 'Get Clients Now: A 28-day Marketing Program for Professionals, Coaches, & Consultants' targets readers by occupation"), and "Does your title include the keywords readers use searching for information online?."


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Veal Chops with Sherry Gastrique and Roasted Peperonata
Published: December 2010 Servings: 6 prep: 55 minutes total: 55 minutes
Sherry Gastrique
- 2 cups cream Sherry
- 1 1/2 cups low-salt chicken broth
- 2/3 cup Sherry wine vinegar
- 1/4 cup (packed) dark brown sugar
Veal Chops
- 6 1- to 1 1/4-inch-thick veal chops
- Coarse kosher salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground allspice
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme
- All purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons chicken fat or olive oil, divided
- 1/3 cup low-salt chicken broth
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
- Roasted Peperonata (click for recipe)
Nutritional Information
One serving contains:
- Calories (kcal) 459.5
- %Calories from Fat 45.9
- Fat (g) 23.5
- Saturated Fat (g) 7.7
- Cholesterol (mg) 162.8
- Carbohydrates (g) 21.4
- Dietary Fiber (g) 1.8
- Total Sugars (g) 17.8
- Net Carbs (g) 19.6
- Protein (g) 39.0
- Sodium (mg) 221.8
PREPARATIONView Step-by-Step Directions
Sherry Gastrique
Boil all ingredients in large saucepan until reduced to generous 2/3 cup, about 30 minutes. DO AHEAD Can be made 3 days ahead. Cool, cover, and chill.
Veal Chops
Preheat oven to 425°F. Sprinkle veal on each side with coarse salt, pepper, 1/8 teaspoon allspice, 1/2 teaspoon thyme; dust generously with flour. Heat 1 tablespoon chicken fat in heavy large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add 3 chops. Sear until brown, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Transfer to rimmed baking sheet. Repeat with remaining veal chops.
Place chops in oven and roast until cooked to desired doneness, about 5 minutes for medium-rare (135°F). Transfer chops to plates. Reserve baking sheet.
Meanwhile, stir broth and cornstarch in small bowl to dissolve. Pour off all but 1 tablespoon drippings from skillet. Add broth mixture, gastrique, and any juices from baking sheet to skillet. Bring to boil, scraping up browned bits. Boil until sauce thickens to desired consistency.
Spoon gastrique over each chop. Serve with peperonata and remaining gastrique.
WHAT TO DRINK This dish needs a red wine with good acidity, like a Pinot Noir.
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With japnese trains touching 500 kmph, wen will we be there?
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near the Ritz Carlton, Dana Point [Moved from California board]
We'll be attending meetings and staying at the Ritz Carlton at Dana Point in January. Are there interesting (but not too expensive) places to eat nearby?
There's a WONDERFUL place called Dizz's As Is right down the street from there. My sister always gets the rack of lamb there but I think everything I've ordered there is good. It is an eclectic decor and if you blink, you may miss it when you drive by but the locals all know about it...just ask the concierge.
I had the filet mignon and it just melted in my mouth - it was wonderful! I don't think they take reservations unless you have a large party - so go there knowing you may wait a little while. I may be wrong though...
Oops, just noticed you said not too expensive. I would have to rate this an expensive restaurant but hey, if you're staying at the Ritz...you can afford this place.
re: LisaSD
thanks for the advice - my husband will be having his meals at the conference - I'm on my own
I'd recommend driving up to Laguna Beach if you get a chance - it's a little nicer area for walking around, etc. than Dana Point. I like Cafe Zinc and the Zinc Market, and for a real meal 230 Forest is especially good.
In Dana Point, I used to like the Harbor House Cafe for breakfast when I lived up there, but I have no idea what it's like now - it was sort of a funky coffee shop. There's not much within walking distance of the Ritz - I think there are a couple of smallish strip malls near the highway there, but all I recall seeing there is a Starbucks. The St. Regis resort is just down the street, might be fun to check out. '
Here is a link that talks about some other options in Dana Point - http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant...
Continuing with the Laguna theme, Eva's Caribbean, 230 Forest, Sun Dried Tomato Cafe, for the sheer spectacular view, the Cliffside Restaurant. The Orange Inn, Penguin Cafe, Mosun on special nights, Shaleen upstairs at Mozambique, Sapphire!!! Tons of stuff in Laguna - just get a ride there & you'll be just fine and not bored for a moment!
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Sorry, just realized this all should be on the LA Board - you'll get more ideas there. Although, add Taco Loco, La Serena, Javier's (if still open at that location...)
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thank you - I'm looking forward to Laguna and I will check out the L.A. board
re: shellybe
If you need a place for very early or late breakfast, lunch or dinner then you might want to drop by the Harbor House Cafe right in Dana Point. Huge portions and open 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year.
Dana Point Harbor has many offers for restaurants. There is a really good deli, sorry, can't recall the name, and a fish place that looked good when I was last down there (in Nov.). Then you could walk around and shop a bit. BTW...there is also an aquarium and tall ships on the west end of the harbor area.
I'm surprised that no one thus far has mentioned the Tabu Grill, in South Laguna, about a block south of Dizz's, on the mountain side of Pacific Coast Highway. It's our favorite place by far, and one of the highest-rated of all restaurants in Orange County. Very small, outstanding food (their maple brined pork is to die for!). Enjoy!
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I second Tabu Grill! I took my SO there for his birthday and had the most amazing dinner with some excellent wine. Very small and very intimate setting. There is a prep bar where many people were dining alone and chatting with the chefs.
Dana Point has a great Sushi place called Gen-Kai, long wait but very good. I second Harbor House for comfort food. Down in the harbor you can try RJ's cafe, nice americana breakfast and lunch stuff, and I think he's open for dinner some nights now. A little further down PCH and you can try Olamendi's. Dave's Mexican Food (Sounds weird, but trust me) is really good in San Clemente. Also try Bonjour Café in Dana Point, on Del Prado. Tasty breakfast there.


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SYDNEY – Investigators believe the missing Malaysia Airlines plane flew on autopilot for hours before crashing into a remote part of the Indian Ocean, Australian officials said Thursday as they announced another shift in the search area for the jet.
After analyzing data exchanged between the plane and a satellite, officials believe Flight 370 was on autopilot the entire time it was flying across a vast expanse of the southern Indian Ocean, based on the straight path it took, Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief commissioner Martin Dolan said.
Asked whether the autopilot would have to be manually switched on, or whether it could have been activated automatically under a default setting, Dolan replied, The basic assumption would be that if the autopilot is operational it's because it's been switched on.
But exactly why the autopilot would have been set on a flight path so far off course from the jet's destination of Beijing, and exactly when it was switched on remain unknown.
The latest nugget of information from the investigation into Flight 370 came as officials announced yet another change in the search area for the plane that vanished March 8 after taking off from Kuala Lumpur with 239 passengers and crew on board.
The transport safety bureau said it made the assumption in defining the new search area that the crew was unresponsive, possibly suffering from oxygen deprivation, as the plane flew under autopilot. It said this was indicated by the loss of radio communications and the long period without any maneuvering of the plane. It said, though, that this was only a working theory and did not mean that investigators led by Malaysia would reach a similar conclusion.
A loss of cabin air pressure could cause oxygen deprivation, or hypoxia, which could make pilots unable to perform even basic tasks.
The new search area is several hundred miles southwest of the most recent suspected crash site, about 1,100 miles off Australia's west coast. Powerful sonar equipment will scour the seabed for wreckage in the new search zone, which officials calculated by reanalyzing the existing satellite data.
The new 23,000-square-mile search area falls within a vast expanse of ocean that air crews have already scoured for floating debris, to no avail. Officials have since called off the air search, since any debris would likely have sunk long ago.
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At this hour, Environment Colorado is issuing "America's Dirtiest Power Plants," an eye-opening report (see it below) that includes the organization's picks for the one-hundred most-polluting facilities in the country -- and two from Colorado make the less-than-proud cut. An Environment Colorado rep ... More >>
In 2011, Boulderites voted to take care of their own power needs, giving Xcel Energy the boot. Now, New Era Colorado, a pro-municipal-energy outfit, says Question 310, an Xcel-linked measure on the November ballot, may undo the entire project. To fight back, New Era created a video casting the battl ... More >>
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Denver blog posts mean business. Denver Egotist shows off the giant shovel that makes the new Xcel Energy billboard on the downtown Marriott three-dimensional. Your and My True Stories asks: Did Bob Enyart fib about being a delegate on the radio? The Redheaded Slut wonders if everything has an ex ... More >>
About 40 percent of the nation's electrical grid depends on coal for fuel. But facing increasing state and federal regulations that are shutting down many coal plants, a battery of pesky scientists moaning about climate change, increasing competition from ever-cheaper natural gas and renewables, and ... More >>
April Fool's Day jokes often seem funnier to those pulling them than they do to their targets. That was undoubtedly the case for bogus letters claiming that Xcel Energy would be cutting off anyone who voted to end Boulder's relationship with the power supplier.
Ken Salazar.Yesterday, after three years, more than 80,000 public comments, and countless hours reviewing ponderous economic and environmental issues -- in other words, pretty speedy for government work -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar unveiled the Obama administration's slimmed-down ... More >>
Doug Lamborn.Call it a big fat coincidence, but days after Rep. Doug Lamborn backed off his efforts to cut funding for renewable energy research, Golden's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has unveiled a colorful online magazine promoting the practical applications of its work. Now Lamb ... More >>
This morning, Peter Boyles spent part of his KHOW morning show wondering if we should be taking potassium iodide to protect ourselves against radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. And at this writing, the main story on the CBS4 home page asks, "Could Japan's Radi ... More >>
Timing is everything. With gas prices going up, up, up due to the chaos in North Africa last month, suddenly a nuclear power plant started looking good to Pueblo County, where the commissioners are considering a proposal to make that county one of the spots in the country vying for a new nuke ... More >>
Trinidad's City Council voted unanimously last week to file a lawsuit against the Arkansas River Power Authority, claiming that the co-op has bungled the construction of a coal-fired power plant in Lamar that was supposed to provide electricity to southeast Colorado. It's the latest in a seri ... More >>
Are you ready for your closeup, Xcel employees?This month, Xcel Energy has launched an internal contest called "Why I Love Xcel Energy," with a hand-held video camera being awarded to the employee who makes the best clip of him or her saying why Xcel is a nifty place to work -- footage that c ... More >>
In October 2007, five employees of RPI Coating Inc. were killed by carbon monoxide generated by a fire at the Cabin Creek Hydro Plant outside Georgetown that's operated by Xcel Energy and Public Service Company of Colorado. Now, a federal grand jury has issued indictments against RPI, Xcel, P ... More >>
Tim Taylor.Just over an hour ago, we told you about a federal grand jury indictment leveled against Xcel Energy, Public Service Company of Colorado, RPI Coating and two individuals over an October 2007 incident at Cabin Creek Hydro Plant near Georgetown in which five workers died. Since then, ... More >>
Photo by BodokleckselDenver's burgeoning alternative-energy industry will get a boost this September when formerly Portland, Orgeon-based wind energy company REpower USA Corp. moves its headquarters to Denver. The Denver Business Journal reports that the company, the U.S. subsidiary of Germa ... More >>
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was back in Colorado today, August 4, touring a Longmont solar panel company as a way of pushing the Obama administration's vision of a clean energy economy. But that vision, which involves collecting abundant solar power from a procession of solar farms ... More >>
This Hip Tip was originally published in the February 17-23, 1988 issue of Westword. Now, twenty years later, a look at the bright side means hoping that the environment (and its new energy economy) will be great for (ending) the recession.
The last time this state's economy went bust, Colorado fought its way back by constructing Denver International Airport. That's not going to be an option this time, Governor Bill Ritter said as he walked along DIA's Concourse B Thursday, off on a fast (less than 24-hour) trip to the East Coast to br ... More >>
CU's entry in the U.S. Solar Decathalon. The mood was bittersweet when I left the U.S. Solar Decathlon in Washington D.C. a year ago. The University of Colorado team I'd been following didn't get the three-peat – a third consecutive first place victory – they'd been hoping for in the int ... More >>
Forward into the past. As reported in this week's cover story, University of Denver employees Jeff Corbin and Robert Amme are using the online game Second Life to train workers for a new wave of nuclear power plants expected to be built around the country. If any of these plants, spurred by rene ... More >>
Ah, let the season of petty politics begin. Statehouse Republicans have their boxers in a bunch because Governor Bill "Greenjeans" Ritter has nominated Matt Baker (pictured) to serve on the Public Utilities Commission. And everyone knows that Baker is…well, he's…he's an unregenerate tree ... More >>
For residents of southwest Denver who oppose the plan by Xcel Energy to replace electrical lines with taller towers, the issue is as much about the marring of Ruby Hill Park's scenic view as what they perceive as a double standard in policy. Neighborhood groups want the new lines buried or relocat ... More >>
Ruby Hill-area residents want to protect their views from eleven-story utility poles, but Xcel thinks it has the juice.
Catching errant wildlife with the web.
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From the week of November 3, 2005
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Xcel�s solution to rising energy prices includes a lot of coal. Is that a bad thing?
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Xcel Energy faces tough financial scrutiny as power companies nationwide feel the heat.
The price of natural gas has been on a cycle for years.
Telluride Tech Festival
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Public Service's juiced-up power lines to Park Meadows spark a lawsuit.
If Colorado deregulates electricity, Californians will be first in line for the state's cheap power--and Coloradans may get fried.
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Feed The Worms Lyrics - Necrodemon
In the dead of night
Crawling towards your coffin
Hideous Nemathalminthes
Burrowing, burrowing
Always refuse the light in
Thou could not be saved
Inanimately lying
Below the hallowed earth
Nothing but human feed
For the worms to eat
Without the mark of the Beast
You'll be part of the feast
This is not a fucking dream
Your body will feed us for weeks
Rising up from beneath
Nemathalminthes unleashed
Those who put themselves
In the Christian belief
Worms satisfying hunger
Fucking six feet under
Feed the Worms!
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Feed the Worms!
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Authorities said 40-year-old Vernon Dale Putnam Jr. was shot at the family's home on Thursday during a family dispute. Vastbinder said Putnam pointed a rifle at his son, then pointed it at his wife, Polly Putnam, and pulled the trigger. The gun misfired and his wife fled the home.
Putnam then walked outside and fired several rounds into a car. The sheriff said that when Putnam came back inside, his son shot him twice.
The Union City Messenger reported criminal charges would require the boy's case to be transfered to adult court.
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Daylight Lyrics - Brave Saint Saturn
did you hear the news today
i'm not coming home,
and i wished it all away
i felt so alone
and the darkness crept it's way
like stars we know will die too soon
there is never any sunrise here in the shadows of eclipsing moons
crawling on a tightrope
the bravest thing i have is hope
daylight, save me
daylight, save me
tonight, tonight
halogen, the lights will flicker
incadescent burning lies
and the silence stands for nothing
desperate i search the skies aching for a spark
trembling in pitchest dark
Mission Control: U.S.S. Gloria, this is mission control, do you copy?
we have lost contact with the U.S.S. Gloria
U.S.S. Gloria: Mission Control, this is the U.S.S. Gloria, do you read me?
Mayday, we have lost primary guidance functions
News Reporter: The crew is now out of radio contact.
presently there is no way for us to know whether they
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our hopes and prayers go out with you all.
Mission Control: U.S.S. Gloria, this is mission control, do you copy?
U.S.S. Gloria: Houston this is the U.S.S. Gloria.
good to hear your voice
we are coming out of the eclipse now.
i see the sunlight. it's beautiful
the sunlight is beautiful.
Jesus Christ, Light of the World
You never did forget me
and when i bled in darkness, You held
still held me
when desparate nights i cursed You
You loved me, still loved me
Jesus Christ, You dry the tears
You break my heart of stone
Your words are life
cut marrow through
the darkness, to the bone
a heart of flesh You gave me
only You can save me
I am coming home
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Wow.... Shocked by the negative reviews. This shampoo and the matching conditioner are fantastic. I have used all of the expensive luxury brands (kerastase, phyto, pureology, etc) and my hair looks the best after using this. Shiny, bouncy, soft. And it doesn't build up any more than any other product. I just use a clarifying product and I'm good to go. I will keep buying this.
This shampoo smells fantastic and works great. The bottle is huge- it will last for quite some time. The formula is thick, spreads through hair easily, and lathers well. The scent is wonderful- it's kind of fruity and kind of grassy, and smells very much like watermelon. I have very thick, dry, wavy hair, and this left my hair clean and soft. I would definitely seek out the matching conditioner, as I'm pleased with what this does for my hair.
There is nothing moisturizing about this shampoo at all. It is very drying to my hair. Most of the Pantene products I have tried ended up being a waste of my money. Their products simply are not moisturizing enough, for my naturally dry hair.
There are much better shampoos thsn this one on the market. Pantene does alot of msrketjng of their profucts on T.V.and within magazines, but the quality of most of the products i have tried from them is quite poor to say the least.
It gave my hair dandruff. Did nothing to my hair.
I've been using this for years with great results. My hair is shiny, generally healthy and I receive frequent compliments on how great it looks. Of course having a good cut helps but I credit Pantene for keeping it shiny and soft. My hair tends to be on the oily side, just for reference. I definitely recommend it.
I'm surprised so manny people said this was a bad shampoo. I have been using this for, like, all my life and have never experienced any problems with drying hair or silicone problems.
Helped mantain a nice hair texture
Cleaned all the sweat/oils/dirt etc. out of my hair
Had no scent (which for me is good, because I've tried some shampoos with nasty smells)
Lathered easily (yay)
The version I bought had a pump, which is always a bonus :D
Just so so and since I'm a person who cares about the smell of products a lot I have to mention this doesn't smells good.
Just no. It has silicone (in the form of dimethicone) combined with chloride compounds. It makes the silicone layer on your hair relentlessly. In the end, it sucks up the moisture of the hair shaft causing extreme dryness. How this works for anyone is mind boggling. It will give a very nice sleek feel to the hair when wet, but it lets all the water to evaporate leaving nothing behind. The hair ends up feeling like straw/plastic-y.
This made my hair SO DRY! Waste of money.
I, too, am surprised by so many negative reviews. I've used Pantene products in the past without experiencing this seemingly common buildup around the roots. I had a coupon/caught a sale (can't remember which) offering a buy one get one free on Pantene shampoo and conditioners. As my hair is long, thick, and kind of coarse, I chose the Moisture Renewal shampoo and conditioner. It smells nice and lathers up well. It may dry out my hair more than other shampoos do, but the conditioner balances it out so much that I don't notice. All in all, I'd say this is a great product. My hair is shiny, bouncy, and silky when it dries after using this shampoo and its accompanying conditioner, but again, I don't know how much of the after effects are because of the shampoo alone, the conditioner alone, or the two together.


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