Social media best practices simply equate to playing by the rules, believing in social karma, making nice with those around you. In a way, it’s kind of like preschool meets high school. You need to listen and learn the rules before you can be one of the popular kids. Our Top Social Media Best Practices Friday Follow (#FF) Twitter users that you respect and value as leaders or friends Do not misuse Twitter hashtags or you'll use not only lose followers, you could be booted from ... Read More
Social Media Mistakes: Don’t Be “That Guy”
Social media mistakes are unintentional blunders that are typically made by very well intentioned people. Even with all the free information on the internet, a large number of people jump into social media without knowing the basic rules of engagement. In some cases, these mistakes are made by people who claim to be social media experts. For those of us who have who live and breath social media every day, it is painful to watch and even more painful to see unsuspecting companies pay for ... Read More
Friday’s Marketing Roundup: Good Reads for November 22nd
Happy Friday! It's that time to review this week's interesting blog posts, news and articles. Our content includes a variety of articles from DMCA notices to design best practices for a website's home page and landing pages. We've also thrown in a video from Matt Cutts and some great goodies on Schema. If you're interested in getting involved in the WordPress community face to face, we've included a list of upcoming WordCamps and the live WordSesh event. So without further ado, the ... Read More
Social Media Isn’t Just a Buzz Word
For the last few years social media has been the talk of the internet. Websites like Quora and Pinterest have become the Cinderella stories of the tech world. What originally started out as a novelty, has now become an integral part of SEO and content marketing tactics. Everyone wants to be seen on these social networking websites or be heard talking about how cool they are to use for marketing. My Travels Within the World of Social Media My social media experience started with Facebook. ... Read More
Ten Steps to Quality Link Building and Strong Organic SEO
Whenever I create a new website for a client, I always tell them the website is only the core foundation of strong SEO. Strong SEO requires a solid, well planned, and long-term link building campaign. Interestingly enough, as I prepare for a live Q&A sessions for my friends over at JuJuQ on the subject, I found myself an email to a client nagging him about building inbound links for a brand new website we launched last Wednesday. Inbound links are a huge part of SEO and since I’m an ... Read More
Twitter and Linkedin Unite in Social Matrimony
This week Twitter and Linkedin united to share status updates across their mass social media networks. I was thrilled, as I love both communities. As soon as the functionality was released, I was on my Linkedin profile attempting to unite the two applications. And for a moment, I quickly fell out of love with them and all the social ramblings they represent. At first, the process was bug ridden and would not connect my profiles. I am fairly savvy on the computer, so I knew this was not ... Read More
MySpace Proposes to iLike
Prior to launching my own Internet marketing company, I worked for an ERP software developer for almost a decade. I loved the company and the people, but was amazed at the industry. I watched in disbelief as Y2K came and went, and countless ERP software vendors evaporated through my ten year stint. As I transferred myself fulltime into search engine optimization, social media, and web design, I thought this would change. I thought these acquisition crazy companies were just ERP software ... Read More
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