yMarketingMatters

JANUARY 19, 2012

What a year was 2011 for social media and marketing! I think these marketing trends are a must for your SMB this year, following how the landscape “ended” in 2011 and are going to be very powerful in 2012. Inject your own special personality into your brand, and each piece of content. Trend #3 – Provide Valuable Content!

Trends 279

Trends Marketing Mobile Wireless 279

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 11, 2011

They spend all of the effort to get the page perfect and have it be in compliance with their corporate guidelines but they have no real plans for how they are going to grow their base of Fans with rich engaging content. It occurs to me my definition of content often differs from their definition of content.

Feed 264

Feed Feedly News SEO 264

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 1, 2011

Certainly, I think on-page content is one factor, and inbound links, to a certain degree, are also a factor. If you’ve claimed your business listing in Google Places, Bing Local, and Yahoo! You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. But what else can be a factor? You must be logged in to post a comment.

Small Business 173

Small Business Real Estate Hubpages Case Study 173

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Then I took the shuttle from the Westin to BlogWorld with Jelena Woehr whom I met at last year’s BlogWorld where she gave me a copy of the Yahoo Style Guide (great guide for blogger, copywriters, editors, and so forth in the digital world). Create products from content you already have. Related Posts.

Hotels 153

Hotels iPad eBook Screencast 153

Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 9, 2011

Bad reviews = content and content is good. Google Places, Yahoo! Let your customers know you have a listing at these sites (you do, don’t you?) Other sites like Yelp and CitySearch offer local business listings and a way for customers to review a business. It’s true.

Small Business 156

Small Business Review Case Study Press Release 156

Social Media Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

Great news for Delicious users: the service has been acquired from Yahoo! As you may recall, in December I reported that Yahoo! Why has Yahoo! We anticipate Delicious in its current form will be available until approximately July 2011. by none other than the founders of YouTube. What's next for users?

News 160

News Delicious Yahoo Social Bookmarking 160

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

If web metrics from these local sites start showing less referral traffic from Google, then it’s surely possible that Google Instant is, at least in part, to blame. Bing offers an excellent guide on how to optimize sites (PDF) for its search engine. Relevant content is, and will continue to be, key to reaching searchers.

Google 254

Google Class Creative Commons Yahoo 254

Social Media Marketing

MAY 22, 2013

Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. The Platforms Yahoo has had a big week.

Social Media 167

Social Media Yahoo Privacy Flipboard 167

Kikolani

JANUARY 13, 2012

How to Find Out Who is Stealing Your Content & What to Do About It – Some potential link building benefits to content scrapers, how to find out what sites are scraping your content, and what you can do if you to have them take it down. Site Explorer Alternatives: Hits and Misses – Yahoo!

Mashup 115

Mashup Resources Quantcast Yahoo 115

Twist Image

JANUARY 31, 2012

Users create a board (it can be anything from cool pictures of cats to the most fascinating business Blogs) and as you come across pieces of content online (and it can be text, images, audio or video), you "pin" the content (which is done by installing a "pin it" button on your web browser's toolbar). It's in the way that you use it.

Hitwise 101

Hitwise Delicious Findability Yahoo 101

Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 11, 2011

You can learn more creative ways to produce your content so that it shines and attracts new audiences. You can learn more creative ways to produce your content so that it shines and attracts new audiences. YouTube is hoping to make money from your content. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

YouTube 79

YouTube Case Study Press Release Small Business 79

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 26, 2014

Background on the two social media sites. social web site, surpassing Google in site visits. Myspace’s user base decline resulted in a tremendous loss in valuation; in fact, News Corp sold substantially all of its Myspace ownership in May 2011 for a rumored 35 million dollars. However, they were more ad than content.

B2B 190

B2B MySpace Startup Social Networking 190

Twist Image

JULY 12, 2011

In June 2006, Myspace became the most popular online social networking site in the United States. According to the Wikipedia entry for Myspace , the company had a 2009 estimated revenue of $395 million with over 30 million users as of June 2011. It's a position that it held until 2008 (that's when Facebook starting taking over).

MySpace 97

MySpace Wikipedia Yahoo iPad 97

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 14, 2011

If you are looking for a web site called “ Cake Central “, then you probably don’t want to perform a Google search today. Apparently Google thinks that a web site called Beerby.com is ranking Cake Central, a popular wedding cake web site, first in the search results for this brand search. Learn more.

Google 96

Google URL Technorati Yahoo 96

Kikolani

JUNE 27, 2011

If you’re like me, you write a lot of posts for sites other than your own and want to be able to share those posts with your readers. The solution to this would be having an RSS feed with only your content in it from each of the sources you write for. Creating a Custom RSS Feed. Of course, that is a challenge in of itself.

RSS 142

RSS Feed Feedly FeedBurner 142

Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Google Docs, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Do you remember the controversy, during its short life so far, regarding it’s attitude to content ownership ? Everything’s going smashingly well, your site has amazing uptime backed by one of the world’s biggest retailers and your tribe is loving it. iPhone, iPod, iOS.

Privacy 130

Privacy Exercises Data WordPress 130

Laurel Papworth

MARCH 5, 2012

Here’s the proof : Date of Last Revision: May 11, 2011. Ads linking to Facebook branded content (including Pages, groups, events, or Connect sites) may make limited reference to “Facebook” in ad text for the purpose of (1) fulfilling your obligations under Section 2 and (2) clarifying the destination of the ad.

Guidelines 88

Guidelines Facebook Blogosphere Policies 88

Proactive Report

OCTOBER 26, 2011

In the State of the Media 2011 report Pew Research Center states that the one factor that most impacted the news industry in the last decade was search engines. There are many choices for news online – according to Nielsen ratings the top ten online news websites are: Yahoo! Why would search engines affect news consumption?

News 56

News Press Release Yahoo Nielsen 56

The Way of the Web

AUGUST 9, 2010

There was some surprise that content farming doesn’t currently make Demand Media profitable – last year it turned over $198 million in revenue, but still managed to lose $22 million. What content farms rely on: There are two things that content farms rely on for content creation – Search and Advertising.

Content 28

Content Adwords Adsense Advertising 28

Mindjumpers

JUNE 16, 2011

Last week, I visited the Internet Week 2011 in New York. Yahoo was one of the main sponsors for Internet Week and the Provoke Summit, and it seems as if they are striving to dust of the brand as being one of the old dot com giants – they’re fresh, they’r e on the move… or not? Last week, I visited the Internet Week 2011 in New York.

UGC 215

UGC Foursquare Yahoo Energy 215

Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 26, 2012

Oh well, whatever you call the discipline of maximizing a company’s online visibility in a world where search is much more than Google-Yahoo-Bing and where web presence is much more than a corporate website, here are 18 of the best blog posts and articles from the past year on how to do it well. Videos, Images & Google!

Tips 183

Tips Reputation SEO B2B 183

ProBlogger

MAY 3, 2013

Not ‘my content might not be good’. I did meet Darren Rowse, Sonia Simone, Chris Garrett, Tim Ferris and Annabel Candy at the Problogger Conference in 2011 but I was so new that I was too scared to even introduce myself properly. You spend insane amounts of time creating content but nobody takes you seriously. None of that.

How To 55

How To Blogger Tag Cloud eBook 55

Adam Sherk

APRIL 4, 2011

The launch of Google’s Page Speed Online (which allows users to get Page Speed scores without installing a browser extension) reminded me that it has been a year since I looked at the page load times of major news sites. Today I checked each of those home pages again and ranked the sites by improvement. Site Page Speed Score.

Sites 128

Sites News Google Yahoo 128

ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

In February of 2011, Google released the Panda update that took rankings away from websites with low-quality content and sites with more advertising than content. Links can do this regardless of whether or not they contain the “nofollow” attribute, contain redirects, come from a site with a high PageRank , and so on.

Blogger 42

Blogger Tools Tips Hubpages 42

Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

It’s almost like crowd-sourcing content. You know I wasn’t a huge user of the site myself but I think that, obviously, there was something missing there in terms of that relevance, also, just catering to the existing audience, right. But, it’s you’re putting content on somebody else’s land.

Digg 113

Digg Communities MySpace YouTube 113

Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Marketers have questions, this post has answers: 87 vital social media and online marketing statistics covering everything from how executives and large companies are using social media for marketing, customer service and recruiting to fresh stats on the leading social media platforms to search, email, content and mobile marketing trends.

Social Media 229

Social Media Hubspot B2B Marketing 229

Social Media Marketing

MAY 29, 2013

Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. But long form content performs well also.

Social Media 164

Social Media Yahoo Storify Flipboard 164

Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 26, 2011

January 26th, 2011 Tweet What’s the buzz, tell me what’s happening Yesterday’s social media storm-in-the-making (or so it seems to me) was about the fact that Facebook can now turn your “likes&# into ads. When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer.

Class 268

Class Facebook Privacy Public Domain 268

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

A marketer who’s an engineer by training (I can relate to that), April has a broad range of marketing experience that encompasses messaging, media relations, lead generation, email marketing, content marketing, social media, analyst relations and sales enablement. She was recently named CEO of Yahoo!, Ale Espinosa. aespinosa.

Twitter 257

Twitter Bazaarvoice B2B Microsoft 257

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Like last year, if your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, there’s a badge for you to proudly celebrate this achievement on your site. Scroll down to the bottom of the post to grab the code you need for your post or site. What Makes People Share Content? There are many goals you can achieve with the site.

Marketing 265

Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Twist Image

MAY 28, 2013

What is Yahoo going to do with Tumblr? What is Tumblr going to become with Yahoo? After it was announced that Yahoo would be acquiring Tumblr for a little over a billion dollars, the online channels (and traditional media outlets) went crazy in an " Instagram just got bought by Facebook for a billion dollars" kind of way.

Tumblr 101

Tumblr Yahoo Brands iPad 101

Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

What worked in 2011 may or may not be as effective in 2012. It gives you full ownership of your blog & its content, full control over design & functionality, lots of support because of the number of people using & writing about WordPress, and an overall professional presentation. Blog Platform. This one is simple.

Questions 167

Questions Adsense Marketing SEO 167

Kikolani

DECEMBER 2, 2011

7 Ways To Use Slideshare To Get More Blog Traffic – It seems that Slideshare has gone and done the impossible – turned the powerpoint deck into a content marketing darling. Yahoo Site Explorer Alternatives – Some of the free backlink checking tools out there to fill the place of Yahoo Site Explorer.

Mashup 117

Mashup Resources Yahoo RSS 117

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Alexa is a social media, web, and ecommerce content curator who strives to cut through the noise while having fun. Her blog, Web Content Curator , covers blogging, book reviews, social media, and more. Alice is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, and co-author of the book Let’s Panic About Babies (due out in March 2011).

Blogger 168

Blogger SEO Consultant WordPress 168

Convince & Convert

APRIL 19, 2012

When Facebook rolled out their ad platform, in such a way that it became very obviously a lot like Twitter’s ad platform, where it was all about promoting organic content, Adam my business partner at Argyle and I hopped on the phone with Jim Tobin a couple days later. Before that Yahoo!, He was actually at that conference.

CPM 118

CPM Advertising CPC Compete 118

Rebekah Radice

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

A few platforms you might want to consider discussing: Social networking sites (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram). Micro-blogging sites (Twitter). Video sites (YouTube, Periscope, Meerkat, Facebook Live and Blab). Photo sharing sites (Flickr, Imgur, etc.). Forums and Discussion Boards (Google, Yahoo!,

Trends 114

Trends Social Media Survey Mobile 114

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

They evolved into sites with graphical interfaces. in 1995), advertisers are now paying for programs so that we can use them and enjoy the applications without shelling out a dime, and web services providers are seeing the value of being free for users by monetizing their sites instead with ad revenue. It was faster for me, anyway.)

MySpace 101

MySpace Yahoo Ustream StumbleUpon 101