Tag Archives: Social Media

Derrick’s Rants: +1 Your Way To The Top With Google+

Posted by jimmoscater on August 10, 2012 in Search Engine Marketing

Photo via Simon Owen Design

Have you Facebooked lately? Perhaps you’ve Tweeted out that link back to your site to self promote yourself or your services so as to grow your brand/personal brand/etc… Yeah, I know. You’re a social maniac, great- but so is everyone in the SEO game. However, by focusing all your attention  to the major social channels, you are guilty of not play nicely with the still-relatively new kid on the block G+.

What? You’re not using Google Plus? You’re missing out! Your website could be ranking in the top 10 already.

Did you know there are currently 250 million users on Google+ and 150 million active users (according to Google June 28, 2012). Google had predicted in January, it would have 450 million users by the end of 2012. Well, they’re more than half way there right now. The question remains, however, are people actually using … Read the rest

Actionable Social Analytics [Infographic]

Posted by GeraudStaton on April 26, 2012 in Search Engine Marketing

How do you use social analytics? You could spend days combing through all of the analytics information that we track and record about how our sites and blogs are doing. And once we’re done we may have no idea what to do with all that information.

Awareness Social Marketing has taken some of the pain and confusion out of the purpose of social analytics with this helpful infographic. In addition, you can get a free whitepaper download relate tot his topic by signing up at Awareness’s website.
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5 Traits of Great SEOs

Posted by GeraudStaton on April 3, 2012 in Search Engine Marketing

If you think that SEO is just a matter of searching for keywords and phrases, stuffing them into the content of your website and looking at google searches all day, you are terribly mistaken! There is a great deal to search engine optimization and the people who do it, either exclusively or as part of their role at your company, have a lot of skills that they need to master.  Here are 6 of them.

1. Know the Professional Side of SEO
This is one that can overlooked regularly. There is a lot to being a good SEO, but professionalism is, arguably, of the highest priority. With today’s competitive market sometimes it’s the only thing that differentiates you from others. It isn’t just about having a good bed-side manner. It’s about being a good problem solver, able to handle the different issues that may come up. It’s about being good … Read the rest

SEOWH Weekly Digest March 26-30

Posted by McKinneyBrown on March 30, 2012 in Search Engine Marketing

Hey readers! It’s Friday again, and time for the SEO Web Hosting Weekly Digest. Check out this week’s blog posts and social links below.

 

This Week’s SEO Hosting Blog Posts

5 Great Analytics Tools Part 2
7 Tips for Safe Social Networking
Using Rich Snippets to Make you Pop in Search Results
Google’s Venice Update: What’s The Hype? 


SEO Social Links From The Week

How Sitelinks are Quietly Costing You Conversions
SEO MOZ

Illustrated Guide to Web Experiments
SEO MOZ

40+ SEO Tools of the Trade
SEARCH ENGINE WATCH

Adding Negatives: How to Filter Out Bad Paid Search Clicks & Prospects
SEARCH ENGINE WATCH

 

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Weekly Spot of Hilarity

 

Have a great weekend!

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