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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

For example, if you go create an external facing idea portal but don’t do the hard work to drive process change internally with the functions that own the changes your users want - your idea engine could do you more harm than good. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. Go join that!

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How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google

Viper Chill

For those of you who don’t know why links are important, let me just say that if you want to get traffic from the major search engines, they’re crucial. Links from other sites to your site are basically a ‘vote’ that tell search engines you are trusted and you are a good resource for whatever your content is about.

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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

Hootsuite

Analytics is an umbrella term used to describe both social analysis tools and the information those tools provide. Link building is a marketing strategy to boost traffic and search engine rankings by getting other websites to link to yours. Search engine optimization (SEO). Sentiment analysis. Link building.

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