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Social Media Monitoring Bookmarks and RSS

Laurel Papworth

When monitoring social media, don’t forget to monitor social media platforms (changes at Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn etc) as well as stuff specific to YOUR industry. For my students: RSS allows you to manually (or autopost) Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn etc updates from a 3rd party site.

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32 Signs You Might Be a Social Media Marketing O.G.

Ignite Social Media

You thought Google Wave was “the answer,” but knew that Google Plus circles were definitely not; 5. You debated whether FeedDemon or Google Reader was the best for RSS feeds ; 12. You can remember when social media really was a cocktail party ; 2. You may still be the mayor of your local taco place; 4.

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3 Tools for Social Media Listening on a Budget

Ignite Social Media

Google Alerts. Google Alerts are an easy way to get updates when a specific word or phrase is mentioned; a great, free way to find out if a crisis is brewing of if your competitors made a big announcement. If you want to read more on how to set up RSS Owl, check out this tutorial we wrote a while back! Simple, but effective.

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How I Organize Google Reader for Blog Commenting

Kikolani

In Google Reader, of course. So after a full weekend of removing feeds that hadn’t updated in a year, I began to slowly collect feeds from new bloggers I have connected with since the last time I did a full sweep of my RSS subscriptions. Why I Use Google Reader. The main reason I use Google Reader is convenience.

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Online reputation monitoring: What it is and why it’s important for business

Sprout Social

This is where something like social media sentiment analysis can really save the day. Gain a competitive advantage by tracking trends Reputation monitoring is invaluable for the sake of competitive analysis. But again, conversations relevant to your reputation go far beyond managing Google reviews.

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How Google Handles Duplicate Content

Kikolani

Indeed, many people have RSS or other feeds from external sites populating their pages, and do not report any ranking problems for the pages of their site that do have unique copy. One thing that many people are not clear on though is how Google determines which is the original source of the copy, and which are the duplicate versions.

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Post Case Study: Triberr Visits vs. Google Analytics

Kikolani

Naturally, being the statistics geek that I am, I wondered if I could match up the stats that Triberr gives you for visits from everyone’s unique Triberr URL of your post to the number of visits you see in Google Analytics. The Problem with Google Analytics. Triberr Visits vs. Google Analytics.