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! Something for everyone, from blogging to social media, landing pages to squeeze pages, increasing conversions vs. conversion killers, design, and more! Google Analytics.

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Analytics Conversation Social Media Google 105

Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Automation is a close friend of any social media marketing strategy—Instagram included. Instagram automation can alleviate some of the repetitive tasks while allowing your social mean more time to develop creative campaigns. Automating likes and comments is a recipe for a potential social media crisis.

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Instagram Tools Strategy Hashtag 113

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 17, 2011

This is a guest post from Marshall Sponder , author of the newly released Social Media Analytics. I picked up Hubbard’s book and it nicely fits into my own framework on analytics tracking I put forward in Social Media Analytics.

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Analytics Radian6 Eventful Sentiment 164

Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

» Google Linking Webmaster Tools And Google Analytics There have been several significant improvements made to Google’s Webmaster Tools over this past week. One feature that has been added is the ability to link your Google Analytics data to your Webmaster Tools account. Analytics are an important tool for all webmasters.

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Analytics Google Tools Case Study 161

Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Chuck Hemann , Director of Analytics at WCG , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to tell us about the difference between analytics and insight in the social branding sphere, and the importance of both. The RSS feed is: Click to read more » Listen Now.

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Analytics Brands RSS Feed 137

Keyhole.co

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Social media monitoring is the act of paying attention to what is being said on social media. In recent years, we have come to understand that social media monitoring is your brand’s first line of defense against a potential crisis. And this is where social media monitoring tools come into place.

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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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Hootsuite

MAY 21, 2020

Social media monitoring tools let you keep track of every conversation, account, keyword, and hashtag that’s relevant to your business. But before we do, let’s look at exactly what social media monitoring is and why it’s critical to any successful social marketing strategy. Relevant hashtags.

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Social Media Tools HootSuite Sentiment 145

Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ultimately, as Olivier Blanchard has pointed out repeatedly , social media marketing has to demonstrate an ROI (though he acknowledges the questions have to be made more specific). But it’s crucial to the social media ROI debate to recognize that “R” is an end-of-the-process measure. Social media/network-referred traffic.

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Social Media Metrics ROI Klout 194

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 21, 2012

When it comes to staying on top of social media, one of the big challenges we have is to find the social media tools that will help us achieve a happy medium between curating, listening, engaging and producing content. You can syndicate your blog posts to Facebook via your RSS feed. I hope this is helpful!

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HootSuite Social Media Curation iPad 269

Sprout Social

JANUARY 24, 2022

The idea that social media is “something the intern can do” is about as outdated as saying the internet is all cat videos. And yet, you don’t have to scroll too far through #MarketingTwitter before you find social media managers venting about feeling overworked and undervalued. works in social, always working*.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 15, 2023

It’s common knowledge amongst social media marketers that Facebook’s organic reach is tough to get. Consistency Consistency is key when it comes to social media algorithms. Boost productivity Finally, scheduling content is the perfect social media tip for boosting productivity.

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Facebook How To Publishing Analytics 119

Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Most obvious of these is Google Analytics. Another is the popular “Add This&# which also offers analytic information. Because if you are creating content, you are likely distributing and promoting that content in variety of ways, including social media. Its that we need a tool that does what it does really well.

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Postrank Analytics Tools Klout 134

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 9, 2010

While there are unquestionably many ways that social media marketing results can be measured , the debate rages on as to whether it’s truly possible to quantify the ROI from these activities. Some experts contend that because social media activity is rich in metrics , you can and should be measuring ROI constantly.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

While powerful on its own, the 140-character social chatter site is even more useful when extended with tools to accomplish all sorts of tasks, from analyzing current followers and finding new ones to identifying influencers and trends, creating custom Twitter feeds, monitoring brand conversations and more.

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Review TweetBeep Tools Twitter 189

Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the more interesting, maybe even downright controversial aspects of social media is actually measuring results. The Problem with Google Analytics. Before I get into actual stats, I have to preface this with the fact that there are a lot of numbers that Google Analytics misses. Triberr Visits vs. Google Analytics.

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Case Study Analytics Google Study 163

agora pulse

MAY 30, 2018

Social Media Lab May Wrap Up. May is almost over so it’s time to take a look back at some of the experiments we did in the Social Media Lab! In this study, we dove into the analytics of nine very busy and prominent Twitter Chats to find out if they have any value (other than keeping you busy).

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Social Media RSS Study YouTube 67

agora pulse

MAY 30, 2018

Social Media Lab May Wrap Up. May is almost over so it’s time to take a look back at some of the experiments we did in the Social Media Lab! In this study, we dove into the analytics of nine very busy and prominent Twitter Chats to find out if they have any value (other than keeping you busy).

Social Media 67

Social Media RSS Study YouTube 67

Adam Cohen

JULY 19, 2010

Marc Meyer and Jason Breed have done an amazing job over the last year plus bringing in some highly respected and social-media-knowledgeable folks like Chris Brogan , Amber Naslund , Beth Harte and Jason Falls. When combining social media with other interactive marketing practices, the results can magnify both.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 19, 2013

Do you find that the daily demands of social media promotion are increasing? Our time is our most precious asset and social media is great at eating into it! Here are 9 social media tools that will help you save time and improve your productivity. allows you to automate blog post delivery to social networks.

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Products Social Media Tools HootSuite 167

Freelance Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Google Updates Analytics Favicon by Jesse on August 5, 2008 I was a little disappointed in the last favicon update that Google rolled out a few weeks back. Featuring the Thesis Wufoo Skin WordPress Admin

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Analytics Google Foursquare Technorati 100

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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Analytics Research Real Estate Google 118

Freelance Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Adobe Flash now trackable with Google Analytics by cinta5 on November 17, 2008 It was frustrating when I had used a bit of flash on a site and was unable to track its performance.

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Analytics Google Foursquare Digg 100

Social Media Marketing

JUNE 12, 2013

Each week, I compose a newsletter for our team 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. These are those links.

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Social Media Metadata Flipboard Metrics 130

Sprout Social

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Managing your social media workflow in the constant chatter of Tweets, Likes and Direct Messages can be tough. A social media manager’s work is never done and it seems like a new task gets added to your checklist every week. It is important to note that there is no shortcut of value in social media marketing.

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Social Media How To Hashtag Publishing 75

Justin Levy

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Determining Social Media ROI Written on October 12, 2009 by Justin Levy in business , business strategy , ims09 , inbound marketing , marketing , marketing strategy , roi , social media , social media strategy , video 19 Comments - Leave a comment!

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ROI Social Media Analysis Discount 140

Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Joining Janet Fouts , Kyle Lacy , Alex Blom , Dave Fleet , Joel Postman , Damian Davila , Jennifer Jones , and others, you can add “social media informer&# to my bio the next time you introduce me. That is, my and their blog content are now syndicated and aggregated on a new online community that informs you about social media.

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Social Media Syndication Aggregator StumbleUpon 118

Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

We’ve found that one of the biggest challenges for social media marketers today is connecting social media to real business objectives and goals. From brand awareness right on down to customer conversions, social media has the potential to fit into many parts of the marketing and sales funnel.

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ROI Social Media How To Authentication 96

Freelance Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Top 200 Social Media Sites by Niche by cinta5 on October 6, 2008 Tyler over at SMMGuru offered up the top 198 social media sites. Diigo Foxmarks Furl Lycos iQ Ma.gnolia Mobilicio.us

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Sites Social Media CiteULike Newsvine 140

Akamai Marketing

MARCH 31, 2011

The quicker the response, the happier the complainer and the more impressed the social media listeners are. Give them a private way to stay in touch (so they can voice their concerns to their new friend on the inside as opposed to using social media). What’s your social currency? But not really.

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Social Media Klout Policies Forums 188

Jason Yormark

DECEMBER 28, 2009

I’m not saying that there aren’t any very knowledgeable people on the subject, but this has gotten so out of hand, that it’s hurting the credibility of those that can actually provide real value with social media consulting and marketing services. Social Media is not a new concept.

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Social Media Radian6 Small Business RSS 197

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2012

After taking the social media plunge, companies quickly discover that it is vastly more complicated and time-consuming than they thought. But companies must avoid a panicky response, because hiring a social media marketing (SMM) partner requires careful study. Social Media Marketing Activities and Skills.

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Social Media How To Marketing Syndication 168

Viper Chill

MARCH 21, 2013

Though niches that have more web savvy audiences like marketing or technology are more likely to be affected, this is going to impact anyone who has built up their RSS readership. Also, doing it now means you can alert them again in the future with enough of a gap to remind them without annoying people who don’t subscribe via RSS.

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RSS Feed Feedly FeedBurner 78

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? by Adam Sherk on October 6, 2010 It is safe to say that most news sites are now experimenting with various forms of user engagement and content promotion through social media.

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Sites News Postrank Engagement 176

agora pulse

AUGUST 23, 2016

There are millions of Chrome extensions for your favorite Internet browser but as a social media manager you need the ones that will help to ease your busy schedule. In this article, I’m going to tell you my five essential Chrome extensions for social media managers. Like most social media managers, I’m super busy.

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Social Media Management Social Media Curation Feed 60

Harp Interactive

APRIL 27, 2010

Facebook is being used for everyday tasks like e-mail, instant messaging, reading news, blogs, RSS feeds, search and shopping. Open social graph will lead to personalized web experiences and publishers will be able use behavioral targeting. Recommendation engines will provide users relevant content with implications on ad targeting.

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Social Graph Statistics Facebook Nielsen 343

Buffer Social

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We had the pleasure of speaking with Everette about what it’s like to be the Vice President of Marketing for Skurt and how he approaches social media at a service geared towards a younger generation of mobile consumers. How to listen : iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloud | Stitcher | RSS. Google Play. Sound Cloud.

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