Managing Twitter followers can become a time consuming task, taking time away from actually sending messages and growing your influence. Here are six tools to save you time. Twepe A little gem of a tool. Twepe , for a small cost, sends you a daily summary email of your Twitter followe...
The best way to engage followers is to talk about subjects related to your brand, but not necessarily your own products or services. Brands looking to generate shares should use photos and videos in their posts, while a clear call to action helps drive more Likes, according to results...
Facebook performs much more similarly to, say, a content network than a paid search advertising platform (both generally provide display network like click-through and conversion rates). The reason a Facebook ad will likely underperform when compared to a search-based ad is simple: in...
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[Live Chat] Tips & Tricks for Parasite's and Web 2.0 Properties What's up guys, It's about time for another webinar. When: Thursday, 4 P.M. EST. 5/17/2012 Where: nkneuper on Justin.tv What: We will chat about the following: -Tips & Tricks for Parasite's and Web 2.0 Properties -Current...
Most Search Engines do not consider extremely common words in order to save disk space or to speed up search results. These filtered words are known as 'Stop Words'.
Thank you, Kristi. I certainly agree with your coworker opinion. I would also add that the way search engine placements (SERPs) algorithms were designed made it super easy for spam sites to abuse them and get high ranks. That's why I strongly believe that "social authority" will becom...
SerpSleuth, you wrote: "Search Engine Land/Marketing Land, where you can get a few months of coverage for $6-$10k, peppered with mentions, and your content carries advertisements." No, you can't do that. You can't buy coverage with us. If you think it works that way, please feel free ...
What is the Code to Text Ratio The Code to Text Ratio represents the percentage of actual text in a web page. Our content ratio tool extracts the text from paragraphs and the anchor text from HTML code and calculates the content ratio based on this information. Why is the Code to Text...
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, snapped a picture of his desk after the IPO announcement. He said, "My desk" and the sign reads "Stay Focused & Keep Shipping Sign." It must be hard for Facebook employees to stay focused at a time like this. This post is part of our daily Search ...
Yes, even the Olympics is getting in on the live streaming action this year. Now, no matter where you are or what timezone you’re in you’ll be able to catch you favorite Olympic events either live or on-demand. Brightcove will be supplying the raw power behind the world’s largest spor...
It's likely that the behaviors of consumers are different in specific verticals. For instance, someone searching for toothpaste may not spend as much time in the 'sales tube' as someone searching for marketing services; but, being 'ranked first' does not guarantee conversions. Yes, a ...
We’ve talked a lot about how to optimize views on your YouTube videos, and we went over a lot about what the YouTube Creator Playbook says about YouTube Analytics . But maybe after you have a video that gets some good views, you start seeing a dip, and you might wonder how to keep it ...
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At this stage of the game, Google is heavily biased towards brand websites or websites that at least mimic signs of being a brand . There is so much emphasis on these signals that I strongly recommend having a smaller amount of quality websites as opposed to a large quantity of crappy...
Can I 'hide' sections of my pages? in the Google Optimization forum on SEO Chat. Can I 'hide' sections of my pages? Google Optimization forum discussing techniques to increase rank in Google. Find help for defeating spam pages, building site trust, and beating the Google algorithm. Al...
Late last week Google announced it was graduating social search from beta and making it active for everyone . I got a heads up from Barry Wise of KnowEm a day later, and we spent some time talking about what this meant for marketers. I thought I’d share some of our conversation with y...
Date of Birth June 2, 1988 (23) About MarketingBoy Biography: I have no experience in internet marketing. I can right articles though. Pm me if you want some. Location: Northern Ireland Interests: Football, Writing Articles, English. Occupation: Unemployed, Happy to work writing artic...
from SEOGadget comes in, that makes ingenious use of Excel and Google Docs. I hugely recommend you follow the link and save a copy of the document to your own Google Docs (when you’ve finished reading this post of course), as it will save you a massive amount of time and effort during...
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Use the canonical URLs to help give authority to your content as your content. This doesn't always have a great affect on this type of attack, but it's worth a try and good practice anyway. Block normal proxies using your htaccess in Apache or in IIS. Block Appspot.com. It's important...
From a user experience perspective, which is what Google insists is driving many of their changes, directories are pretty useless. When looking for articles with substance, most people have bookmarked well branded, authority sites known to have the best writers and reporters. There is...
The why is simple: the value of a website is as good as its backlinks. Content is great, but in terms of link building content takes a secondorary role for determining the value. The backlinks, ideally, are a reflection of the quality of the content. Webmasters rely too much on the Go...
First, once I got the design and categories setup, I hired a couple writers to go through each of the categories and subcategories and schedule several months worth of daily posts making sure each category and subcategory were accounted for within the first month then subsequently eac...
For years now, people have been looking for easy ways to write better quality content while optimizing their Web pages. If you talk to many search engine optimizers, their focus is typically on the technical aspects of “how to optimize.” They love to discuss topics like linking, where...
By John Alexander Back in 1996, I had left a successful career of 24 years in the propane industry, to start my own business, in what I thought would be Web Design. By 1997 I had began to focus more on what was then referred to as Web Positioning (before the acronym of SEO had been po...
By John Alexander If you recently seen some of the cool Infographic Apps around, perhaps you have thought of creating your own cool Infographic to compile some facts and interesting information for your readers. Last week, this Infographic has been getting plenty of attention showing ...
I've used the Google URL builder to set up different URLs for each ad so I can track them in the campaigns sections of Google Analytics -- however I am still getting visitors tracked as Facebook Referrals. At first I thought this was people who saw the ads, went to our FB page, and TH...
