Here is how to view your view your Foursquare check-ins on Google Maps.

1. Visit your foursquare feeds page. Right click and copy the KML link  (no need to download it).
2. Visit Google Maps and paste your copied link into the search box. Hit enter.

You can also add “?count=100″ (or any number that you’d like to see) to the end of the URL (after .KML) to see a specific number of check-ins.  About Foursquare also has some cool tricks on tracking your check-ins with Google Calendar and Google Earth.

via About Foursquare

Display Your Foursquare Check-ins on Google Maps in 2 Steps is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Here’s a quick tip from PPCBlog. They suggest using 1st-person quotes in the title of your Google Adwords to distinguish your product from other bland ads.

You don’t want to go too over-the-top and keeping it believable and relevant could be something to consider, but I’d be interested to hear how a 1st-person text ad like the samples below perform against similar ads.

Using 1st-Person Quotes in Your Ad Text is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Mark Robertson of ReelSEO caught up with YouTube’s Matthew Liu to get some insight on best practices for optimizing your videos. Here’s what he had to say.

Content

• Creative should be engaging and compelling enough for users to comment, rate and ultimately share.
• Shorter videos (2-3 min) perform better than longer (~10 min) videos.
• Learn from your video Insights.  If your viewers are engaged better than other videos, you’re going to be rewarded in search rankings.

Community

• Clear and concise tags, description and title.  Use complete sentences when you can.  Tags should be relevant, don’t try to play off of popular terms if your video isn’t related to that particular subject.
• Keep embeds on, the more links or times your video is embedded on outside pages, the better ranking you’ll get.
• Videos with more ratings, comments and views typically get better rankings.
• Use annotations to link multiple videos together.  Don’t forget to add date and location to your video’s description.

Found a YouTube tip that’s helped you achieve better rankings? Share it in the comments below.

Get More Video Views With These Optimization Tips From YouTube is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

You know that blurb of text, usually at the top of your email message that reads usually like, “If you can’t view this email, click here.” Next time you send out an email blast to your customers, try to change it up and make it a little more enticing. Try something like “Save 25% on your next order, click here to view this email” or “Free shipping on us, click to view this message.”

Doing so helps get your offer in front of people who may have problems viewing your original message.

Inspiration via the Marketing Monster

EMail Marketing Tip is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

A nice collection of Google Wave tips, cheats and tutorials.

• Google Wave Cheat Sheet
• Tips & Tricks
• Embedding Google Wave into WordPress and Joomla
• Using Posterous with Google Wave
• List of Google Wave Embeds
• List of Google Wave Robots

Google Wave Cheat Sheet, Tips & Tricks and Tutorials is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Having an overall search engine optimization strategy is important, but sometimes you’re so far over your head that you just want a few quick wins to build a base and get you rolling.  Here are 6 quick SEO tweaks you can make today to improve your site and rankings.

1. Focus on a small set of related keywords – Find the best words that you want your site to be known for and add in the terms your customers (or potential customers) use to describe your service. Write content relating to and focusing on that small set of keywords.  5-10 words is probably the best recipe and Google’s keyword tool is a great place to get started.
2. Clean up your URL’s – Search engines like URL’s that are clear and concise.  If your page URL’s look like www.mywebsite.com/?p=123, tweak your content management system so that they display more like www.mywebsite.com/category/my-amazing-post-with-keywords-in-the-title. If you’re using WordPress, here’s a guide for permalink structure.
3. Use the H1 tag – H1 tags are used to define headlines.  In the eyes of a search engine, text with an H1 tag looks more important than regular plain text.
4. Link to other pages within your site – Use keywords in your links.  A link that looks like “Creative Online Marketing Campaigns” looks much better to a search engine than “click here for my favorite post.”
5. Make sure all pages have descriptive page titles – If you’re selling laptop memory, a page title that says “Laptop Memory | Computer Memory, DDR RAM, Memory Sticks and Computer Upgrades,”  is much better than “Memory.”  I would keep titles to about 60-80 characters
6. Build a site map and make sure it gets submitted to search engines.  Ensure that engines can index and find all your content. A good place to start is Google WebMaster Tools.

Bonus Tip: Write great content so other sites will link to you – inbound links are one of the most important aspects of optimizing for the web. Link bait is one thing, but truly unique and valuable content goes much further.  Shoot for the latter, it has more staying power.

Share your successes in the comments below.  What are those quick SEO wins that you would suggest?

Basic Search Engine Optimization Tweaks and Tips is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!