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SBM Is Featured Social Media Blog

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Social Media Informer is an aggregate blog that focuses on content about social media for businesses and pulls together content from all over the Web for its readers. I’m honored to announce that I have been placed in very good company. Small Business Mavericks is a featured blog at Social Media Informer.

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5 Ways To Analyze Twitter Trends

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Tweetmeme – Tweetmeme aggregates all the popular links on Twitter and categorizes them for you. Conduct a search and you’ll get a list of tweets related to your topic. On the right side of the screen you’ll see the top 10 trending topics on Twitter. What The Trend – What The Trend is unique.

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Do You Protect Your Content?

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Pipes , which is used by many content scrapers to program online aggregators. You should also use the disallow command in your Robots.txt file to stop any robots that you know are content scrapers. One use recommended by Gab Goldenberg is to block Yahoo! Gab also has other neat tricks you can try to get the content scrapers.

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21 Sources For Blog Ideas

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Your RSS aggregator – Do you subscribe to the most popular blogs in your niche? No matter what industry or niche you serve, these 21 sources for blog post ideas are golden opportunities. Twitter – Who do you follow? Check out their links. There’s probably gold in those tweets. Google Alerts. You should. Blog Catalog.

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Have You Set Up Your Content Groupings Yet?

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You simple take a collection of URLs and group them into a content grouping category so that you can view aggregated metrics and analyze them. Google Analytics is rolling out a new feature. It’s called Content Grouping. I like this.

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Survey Results and Centroids

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Signals (15.5%) (IYP/aggregator NAP consistency, Citation Volume, etc.). Review Signals (9.8%) (Review quantity, Review velocity, Review diversity, etc.). My Business Signals (14.7%) (Categories, Keyword in Business Title, Proximity, etc.). External Loc. On-page Signals (21.0%) (Presence of NAP, Keywords in Titles, Domain authority, etc.).

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What Are You Going To Do About Google Reader?

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If it really concerns you, send a letter our to your list or write a blog post that educates your readers on RSS news aggregators and suggest a few alternatives to Google Reader. It is delivered by e-mail, and it’s very effective. One I recommend is Feedly.