Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 11, 2011

Then came the days of wanting to appear at the top of a Google search (either paid or organically). 11 B2B Marketing Predictions for 2011 Around this time last year I wrote about the 10. It’s all based on Facebook’s algorithm called EdgeRank (see photo above).

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 5, 2011

Google does that automatically for you based on your IP address, or based on your personalized settings if you are a user of Google’s personalized search features. I’m pretty certain, and I’m sure Frank would agree, that Google Places will be the main focus on Google’s local efforts far into the future.

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below are 5 social media must-reads from last week that we wouldn’t want you to miss. By Pervara Kapadia While Google’s search algorithms are well kept secrets Facebook is transparent about the algorithms that it uses for Posts of Pages to appear on the Feeds of the Fans / Community Members.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 27, 2011

This last year Google brought a large number of algorithm changes to the table. In case you missed it through all the chaos, below lists all of the crazy Google changes that occurred in 2011and just what they all meant: Top 10 Google Algorithm Changes of 2011. Google claims the update “incorporates new signals.”

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Writing Around the Web is a monthly series highlighting guest posts I’ve written on blogging, business, SEO, social media, and other topics! 50+ Awesome Posts on Conversions – Catch up on the latest and greatest information in this list of over 50 awesome posts on conversions from 2011. Google Analytics.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 20, 2011

According to an article on My Edmonds News website, small businesses stand to profit more from social media than big businesses or corporations. So what is meant by social media? If you are effective in positioning your business, then you’ll find that social media has a big pay off. I totally agree.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Writing Around the Web is a monthly series highlighting guest posts I’ve written on blogging, business, SEO, social media, and other topics! Featured Post – How to Optimize Social Media Profiles for SEO. Social Media. What’s at stake in this blogging contest? A nice cash prize of $1,000!

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

» Content Farms: Did Google Go Far Enough? Thursday, Google introduced a new algorithm to reduce the rankings of content farms in its search results. The interesting thing here is that the algorithm was introduced just days after a Google Chrome extension allowing users to block content farms from their search results.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

» Is E-mail Marketing More Effective Than Social Media Marketing? What may surprise many small business owners is that social media marketing is so far down the list, especially when it comes to two-way communications. This compared to only 8% for search engines and 5% for social media.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News November 15th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt Please stop yawning Don’t worry. But what about SEO for news sites, particularly Google News?

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Kikolani

JUNE 27, 2011

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Kikolani

AUGUST 2, 2011

Featured Post – Social Media ROI with Google Anlaytics 5. This month’s featured piece just went live today and is part of the 2011 Conversion-Fest Blogging Contest. Search Engines vs. Social Media – Which Matters Most – Three reasons why you shouldn’t be just doing one or the other, but both.

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Twist Image

JANUARY 6, 2011

beating out Google (according to Experian Hitwise )! Groupon - which enables local businesses to offer a unique discount once a pre-determined amount of people commit to purchasing the deal - turned down a six billion dollar acquisition attempt by Google , which validated that hyper-local has finally arrived. Does your website suck?

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? Display a feed of brand-related comments from a variety of social networks on your website? Search for a brand name or keyword across all of the most popular social networks at once? Promote events through social media?

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Image: Greig Christie via Flickr, Creative Commons Since Google Instant’s launch just over a month ago, digital marketers have been scrambling to figure out how search engine marketing strategies might need to change. So far, early research indicates little difference in the length of searches since Google Instant.) Search algorithms.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Writing Around the Web is a monthly series highlighting guest posts I’ve written on blogging, business, SEO, social media, and other topics! What Your Analytics Software is Hiding From You – There are many reasons for confusing and missing data in Google Analytics. Social Media. Social Media.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 30, 2011

I analyzed my Top 6 blog posts for 2011 by total page views, and am re-running them this week as a “greatest hits” compilation. Since I originally published this post, you’re seeing Google do a lot of the things I predicted. Kissing Cousins: Search and Social Media. (Happy Holidays! This is #1.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 4, 2011

The ONLY Way To Manage Your Twitter Account » Is Social Media Inherently Viral? Social media offers Internet marketers a powerful way to get our message across, but it is work. 3 Responses to “Is Social Media Inherently Viral?&# Did you know Jackie Chan died? I didn’t either.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

As a side note, this is why I love Google+. Almost every update happens within Google+ itself meaning if you comment on something, the person might actually be there to answer you vs. someone who just auto updates to update and not to engage. The Best Facebook News Feed Setting. Hide Updates by Third Party Applications. Good stuff!

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

» Is Social Media Spam Here To Stay? But, Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim is pointing out a new Google algorithm that could very well shake up the search marketing world. Spammers are going to do their best to weasel their way into your social network so that they can push their content higher up in your search results?

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Absolute PA

DECEMBER 17, 2011

2011 was a busy year for me: As I approached my third year in business I changed direction, practically starting from scratch and re-branded. Before I head off, I wanted to reflect on the year with a walk down memory lane with you, and share the most popular posts of 2011. 7 Steps to setting up Your Twitter account (November 2011).

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 16, 2010

All the comments were thoughtful, but there were a few that made me think a lot more about this whole “social media&# thing. But truth be told, after a while, this ‘social media’ stuff has made me consciously LESS social both in person and online, and I have my reasons. Interesting.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. Already, some early Google Plus users have created 20 or more Circles to categorize their online relationships. Kissing Cousins: Search and Social Media.

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Absolute PA

DECEMBER 17, 2011

2011 was a busy year for me: As I approached my third year in business I changed direction, practically starting from scratch and re-branded. Before I head off, I wanted to reflect on the year with a walk down memory lane with you, and share the most popular posts of 2011. 7 Steps to setting up Your Twitter account (November 2011).

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 24, 2011

Social Times is predicting that social media marketing is going to get harder , not easier. In the past few years, social media have been growing. So if growth of the social media platforms is going to slow down, what’s that mean for marketers? I can see their point, and I agree. Are you ready?

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Social Media Case Study Press Release Small Business 98

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. This is where Google Analytics Advanced Segments come into play. Is Google+ Imperative For SEO? Google stuff. Social Media / Social Networking.

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Proactive Report

JANUARY 2, 2011

They share news with one another on social sites like Facebook and Twitter. Just this week Facebook surpassed Google and is now the number one site visited on the Internet. Facebook drives 3x more traffic to news sites than Google News. Just take a look at Google News and you can see how many stories there are on one subject.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 8, 2011

But did you know that social media marketing can lead to the collateral effect of additional inbound links through others blogging about you? If you post great content in your social media efforts that in turn gets the attention of bloggers who write about you and link to you, then you will be doing yourself huge favors.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 10, 2011

I think the Google Latitude check-in offers service could grow more popular in the next year or two. Google seems to be paying a bit more attention to this local mobile marketing product, which it seemed to have abandoned as of last year. I performed a search for offers in the Minneapolis area and found 10 offers at over 70 locations.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

» Who’s The Bad Guy, Google Or Bing? Google claims Bing is copying its search results. I’d be curious to know if any of those signals and features include crawling Google’s search results. Evidently, Google thinks Bing could be doing something underhanded as well. That’s a bold claim.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 19, 2011

Google slapped the article directories hard, so hard that you might not want to keep putting your articles there. The 2011 way to market yourself through articles is to distribute them through other channels. The 2011 way to market yourself through articles is to distribute them through other channels. Even niche-related blogs.

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Hubpages Marketing Case Study Press Release 156

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 1, 2011

If you’ve claimed your business listing in Google Places, Bing Local, and Yahoo! Larry King says: May 1, 2011 at 12:09 pm "What Factors Affect Local Search Rankings? &# Larry King says: May 1, 2011 at 12:09 pm "What Factors Affect Local Search Rankings?" So how can a non-link affect your search rankings?

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 10, 2011

Tags: apps , customer service , iPhone , iphone apps , small business This entry was posted on Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at 11:48 am and is filed under Mobile Marketing for Small Business.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 13, 2011

It’s a search engine for veterinarians powered by Google. Here’s the catch: That’s IF they find the MyVeterinarian.com website, which doesn’t have particularly high rankings at Google for the search term “veterinarian.&# The concept is nothing new. And the benefits are always the same.

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Small Business Engineering Case Study Press Release 161

Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 30, 2011

But due to a recent Google algorithm change, which everyone has started calling Panda, HubPages has had to undergo some policy changes. About the Mavericks | Services | Social Media | Proffessional Speaking | Resources | Case Studies | Why Small Business Mavericks? You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 23, 2011

Jay says: April 29, 2011 at 12:14 am RT @CarolineMelberg: Let The Grocer Teach You E-mail Marketing [link] Log in to Reply Caroline Melberg says: May 6, 2011 at 4:15 pm Thanks for the RT! About the Mavericks | Services | Social Media | Proffessional Speaking | Resources | Case Studies | Why Small Business Mavericks?

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Marketing Case Study Press Release Small Business 173

Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 28, 2011

Hurley and Chen are co-founders of YouTube, which they sold to Google awhile back. So I suppose they had the money to buy the struggling social bookmarking website. Delicious is one of the early forerunners of social bookmarking. Unloads Delicious [link] Log in to Reply GrassRoots says: April 28, 2011 at 6:29 pm #dm2 Yahoo!

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