It’s really started to hit home in recent weeks that what was first termed the ‘credit crunch’ has evolved into a ‘banking crisis’ that will very shortly become a recession. When we need to tighten our boot strings, we get smarter by necessity in making sure that every marketing pound spent gets better returns than ever.

To tap in to the stream of marketing-savvy collective wisdom online, Online Marketing Blog reached out to their network “with a top internet marketing tactics poll for the next 6 months. Over 400 business marketers responded. Readers were asked: What 3 internet marketing tactics will you emphasize most in the next 6 months?”

Here are the results:

• Search engine optimization
• Blogging
• Pay per click
• Email marketing
• Social networking (Facebook, LinkedIn)
• Blogger relations/blog PR
• Microblogging (Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku)
• Affiliate marketing
• Advertorial (NewsForce, AdFusion)
• Video marketing

Read the full report here.

We love Wordpress and we love SEO – blogging is a superb way of keeping your site fresh and enhancing your marketing efforts. Here’s an interesting SEO for WordPress Blogs White Paper, found on Blizzard Internet.

It’s a refreshing change to not go on about Search Engine marketing today. Th people at SEOmoz.org put together some snappy short videos and this one really uplifted me… (or is that lifted me up?!)