1. Brick Marketing Blog Weekly Roundup – July 15, 2011<br />The following Brick Marketing Blog posts provide valuable SEO, search engine marketing, and social media marketing tips and advice for the week of July 11 – July 15, 2011. <br />The Pros and Cons of Paid Blog Reviews<br />One way for a blogger to make money is to write a review of a product or a service and post it on their blog for a fee. Is paying for a blog review a good marketing strategy? Let’s take a look at the pros and cons. <br />CLICK HERE TO READ THE ORIGINAL POST<br />How to Get More Quality Twitter Followers<br />You understand that social media plays a large role in internet marketing and have a Twitter strategy in place. But what if you have the best intentions, and only a few followers? How valuable is your message if nobody sees it? If a tree joins Twitter, but has no followers, does it make a noise?<br />CLICK HERE TO READ THE ORIGINAL POST<br />Social Media: To Outsource or Not to Outsource<br />Once a company has accepted that they need to be involved in social media, the next step is to decide on how that presence will be created and maintained. Will the social media be carried out by an in-house staff or should it be outsourced? As with anything, there are pros and cons to either strategy.<br />CLICK HERE TO READ THE ORIGINAL POST<br />Don’t Be an SEO Cookie Monster<br />As Cookie Monster shoved all of those cookies down his (non-existent) throat so quickly without even offering to share with Big Bird, he proved that he was one greedy dude. In SEO, you don’t want to be a Cookie Monster.<br />CLICK HERE TO READ THE ORIGINAL POST<br />SEO Content Topic Idea Generation Tips<br />Online content is really anything that you create and share on the web. It consists of everything from articles, white papers and eBooks, to Facebook posts and Twitter tweets. In order for content marketing to be effective, content needs to be distributed on a regular basis. One of the biggest challenges faced by content marketers is what topics the content should address.<br />CLICK HERE TO READ THE ORIGINAL POST<br />