Tag Archives: Social Media
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
How Twitter Hashtags Can Hurt Your SMO Strategy
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Hashtags are symbols that start with a pound sign, followed by a keyword that attempts to organize the topic into a thread or category (#SEO, #worldcup, #ladygaga). From the time the first hashtag appeared on Twitter in 2007, they have helped organize seemingly disparate posts into cohesive themes, aided followers in finding like-minded souls when using Twitter search, and become useful in promoting events.
Friday, 23 April 2010
SMO Strategy: How to Leverage Facebook’s New Developer Plugins
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Facebook’s new developer offerings are a boon to social media optimization strategies, enabling Web publishers to quickly turn ordinary Web content into distributable social objects. At the heart of the strategy is transforming the “Fan” button utilized by brand and organization Facebook pages into the “Like” button.
Posted in Industry News, Lead Generation, Public Relations (PR), Reputation Management, Reputation Monitoring, SEO & Marketing Tools, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Optimization (SMO) Also tagged Evidence Based Marketing, Facebook, Marketing, SMO, Social Media Optimization, social networking 1 Comment
Monday, 12 April 2010
How Social Search is Predicting the Future of the Box Office
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For years, search marketers have been utilizing search data trends to make predictions that help calculate the probability that certain marketing messages might connect with audiences. As one small example, you have no doubt noticed an increase in Fortune 500 companies using the term “Cloud Computing” as of late.
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
How to Create a Company Social Media Policy
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Despite the massive investment in social media underway by most consumer brands and service-based businesses, most are still struggling in regards to their own employees’ use of networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. The lack of comfort with employee use of social media is such that many companies completely ban use from the workplace. This is utterly foolish.
Monday, 15 March 2010
B2Bs To Increase Social Media Spend
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Reports on increased B2C spending in social media are nothing new, but according to a report compiled by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and American Marketing Association, social media spend by B2B services are on the rise.
Posted in B2B Lead Generation, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Industry News, SEO & Marketing Tools, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Optimization (SMO) Also tagged B2B, Evidence Based Marketing, Facebook, Marketing, SMO, Social Media Optimization, social networking, twitter Leave a comment
Wednesday, 03 March 2010
Social Media Optimization: Facebook Pages Now More Important than Ever in Google Search
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This week, Facebook Pages (typically created by businesses, organizations and artists) have started to appear in Google search results. With this highly anticipated move, it’s more important than ever to include Facebook as a vital part of your social media optimization (SMO) and SEO campaigns.
Saturday, 09 January 2010
Bing Sends Mixed Signals on Directory Indexation and NoFollow Rules
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In a Bing community forum for Web publishers this week, a community member asked what he should do to get Bing to index his site pages more quickly. Program Manager Brett Yount verified an answer that advised community members to create backlinks to the Web site from sites that are indexed daily.
Posted in Industry News, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Also tagged Bing, google, Marketing, search engine, SEO, Yahoo Leave a comment
Monday, 14 December 2009
DemandResults, Appirio Featured at Dreamforce
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The cloud computing revolution proved to be mightier than the poor economy once again this year, as the DemandResults team joined a record 19,000 Dreamforce attendees in San Francisco. The scale and production quality of the event was once again taken up a notch, with sessions sprawling to new areas of Moscone Center and overflow rooms at surrounding hotels. Luminaries joining Salesforce CEO Mark Benihoff onstage included General Colin Powell, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Black Crowes.




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