Getting started on Twitter and learning to use the network successfully poses a multitude of unique problems to most newbies, despite the miles of column inches of how-tos and tips that the ubiquitous site has claimed over the last 12 months. The Basics If you’re logging on to Twitter for the first time for your business, the usual hard-and-fast social media rules still apply. If netiquette is new to you, then brush up on the...
Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
What Do You Do Now That LinkedIn Is All A-Twitter?
With Twitter and LinkedIn announcing this past week that LinkedIn users can now synch their status with Twitter updates, LinkedIn has stepped up to the plate with something that is bound to cement its position even more securely among business users. Early results show a strong uptick in LinkedIn status updates. So, if you’ve been letting your LinkedIn account languish, it may be time to revisit and revamp, especially with their much-awaited redesign making its...
TAGS: Editor's Picks, LinkedIn, Social Media, Twitter
Editor's Picks, October 26-30, 2009
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- by Frances Mary Krug in General SEM
The search engine wars intensified this week as further details on developments involving Twitter, Bing, and Google’s new Social Search feature became clear. To help you make sense of what these developments mean for those involved in search and SEO, this week’s picks include a number of posts that bring clarity to the issues involved and the actual processes impacted. Is relevance more important than timeliness of results? What about privacy issues? Is anything real-time?...
TAGS: Bing, Editor's Picks, Google, Real-Time, Social Search, Twitter
Micro Media Alternatives To Twitter
If you’re a fan of social media marketing (or even an avid celebrity watcher), the Twitter tidal wave is unlikely to have passed you by. With everyone from Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore to CNN and Al Gore getting in on the act, the micro-blogging site has made it easy to win friends and influence people online. If you or your business is already successfully Tweeting, you may like to spread your wings and try...
TAGS: Micro-Blogging, Social Media, Twitter
Editor’s Picks: July 20-24, 2009
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- by Andrey Milyan in General SEM
Marketing on Twitter. There has been a lot of talk about Twitter and how to promote your business there. There are also a ton of books already on the market, but I still enjoy a good post on the topic, especially if it has been written by Lee Odden and his Twitter followers. This one lists 50 ways to fail on Twitter. Measuring the impact of SEO. If you thought measuring SEO was easy, think...
TAGS: content strategy, Link Building, linking, Social Media Marketing, Twitter, Web Analytics
The Social Etiquette Of Social Networking
We live in a twenty-four-hour, seven-days-a-week, 365-days-of-the-year culture. With instant access to anything from a hamburger at 4 am to banking facilities from a PDA on the morning commute to work, is it any surprise that some social media marketers forget the basic rules of social etiquette? If you’re guilty of being overtaken by enthusiasm and forgetting the manners that your mom drilled into you when you were in kindergarten, your participation in social media...
TAGS: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Social Media, social networking, Twitter
Editor’s Picks: April 20-24, 2009
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- by Andrey Milyan in General SEM
Promoting content on Twitter. With the popularity of Twitter growing by the hour, it is important to start considering some of the ways to push your content on Twitter. Just like “digg it” and “stumble it” buttons made it easier for your readers to submit content to these popular social media sites, it might be time to add that “retweet” button as well. Ann Smarty does a great job of listing all the different ways...
TAGS: Backlinks, Editor's Picks, Link Building, Local Search, Local SEO, paid search, Pay-Per-Click, PPC, Social Media, Twitter
Editor’s Picks: February 16-20, 2009
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- by Andrey Milyan in General SEM
Promoting content with social media. This week there has been a number of great posts on writing quality content for social media. Darren Rowse has a nice article on writing for Twitter. The article discusses some key elements your tweet should have to get retweeted.
TAGS: Content, Editor's Picks, Link Building, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
Editor’s Picks: February 2-6, 2009
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- by Andrey Milyan in General SEM
Here are some of this week’s posts that you might find interesting.
TAGS: Blogging, Conversion, Editor's Picks, Offline, Social Media, Twitter, Usability
Editor’s Picks: January 19-23, 2009
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- by Andrey Milyan in General SEM
Here is this week’s installment of the editor’s picks. SEO value of Twitter. As with many other things, Aaron Wall stands opposed to the majority opinion. He makes some interesting points in his post on how Twitter can have a negative impact on your online marketing campaigns. As a SEO guy, he notes that there is little link value in your tweets. Of course, the value of Twitter is not limited to gaining links and...
TAGS: affiliate, Editor's Picks, International SEO, Reputation Management, SEO, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Twitter
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