Virtuosa is currently looking for an Online Marketing Manager to join our amazing team to help drive business and revenue strategy for our clients.

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longtail has started to expand exponentially into all the social networking channels. One of the main areas we are focusing on is YouTube. At the beginning of the year YouTube had almost 80 million videos online with almost 200 000 videos published every day!! These statistics cant be ignored and as a result of this longtail started designing and implemented branded YouTube channels.

One of the most recent channels set up on YouTube is the “Gil- it works beautifully channel“. This channel was established to increase brand awareness as well as drive visitors to the Gill Hygiene web site where people can enter a competition to win Tri-Nations rugby tickets.

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In a recent blog How the Internet is affecting (y)our world?, I made mention of how the “Interent has shaken up the US Elections”. Another article on this topic caught my eye this morning which made for further interesting reading.

The article, written by Greg Jarboe, asks the question whether the more seasoned Hillary Clinton was out-Googled by the more search savvy Barack Obama for the 2008 US Presidential Campaign.

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So SMX (Search Marketing Expo) is upon us. Its like the Oscars of the search marketing world, well Oscars without the red carpet, wardrobe malfunctions and certain speakers over-extending their stay in the spotlight…oh wait, this happens at SMX too.

There were several interesting tidbits that has come out of SMX in its few first days, below is a list of items I found interesting (this probably means it won’t interest you in the least

Buying Sites For SEO – instead of buying links buy entire sites

How Google defines IP delivery, geolocation, and cloaking – Pretty self explanatory

Latest post on Matt Cutts blog – this covers a lot of new/refined Google definitions announced at SMX

Creating Value In Your SEM Businesses

Money For What? Search Marketing Payment Models

Blow Your Mind Link Building Techniques

Will keep you up to date regarding the conference and if anything noteworthy happens (Google and Microsoft Executive mass brawls, public nudity or anything of the like) I will update you immediately.