UPDATE – Bandwidth Blog has posted the download link

The Essential Guide to Online Marketing was released and licensed under the Creative Commons so that students, educators and practitioners in the corporate sector can use it and benefit from it.You can download the free full text book (12.6 MB pdf link) or buy it online or from one of the many book stores that are stocking it.

Just get to read it as fast as you can because it’s full of wisdom and great case studies. Let us know what you liked in it, and what you can add yourself.

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I’ve hired Ashley Shaw from Lightspeed Development to take care of optimizing some of the blogs in my network. He will be working closely with my in house code team to improve our search engine visibility and meet my SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) goals. In the following weeks I will be documenting our progress and hopefully reaping the awards of targeted organic traffic.

Here’s an extract from his blog post

Charl Norman, a friend and colleague has been working closely with his in-house WordPress Guru known as Foxinni are collaborating with us to develop network of blogs and websites that will benefit each other by create a strategic link strategy with original content on all sites/blogs. They have done an excellent job creating all of their different blogs. We have decided to try to rank these various blogs for various related keyword phrases in different social networks.

Infin8 – This company was started by young entreprenuer Charl Norman who is also the editor on numerous other related blogs and Chairman of Zoopedup Car Club. Infin8 provides custom web design and graphic design to all sizes of company’s, in many different industries throughout RSA and abroad.

Ashley will be working with some of our flagship blogs such as CarBlog, Bandwidthblog and Monkeysfist.

More after the jump