Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ. Make sure you’re not just shopping who you think your competitors are, but also who Google says your competitors are, based on search engine results. Thanks for the link back to the social FAQ – I'd lost the link during my busy summer.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Regarding comments about the search box location, I'm used to a left or central location on search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.), Thanks for your help! but a right-hand location on content sites. I completely missed it in the first two headers, but noticed it readily in the third. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

Consequently, if someone searches for “Colorado River Whitewater Rafting&# on Google, they’ll likely find that version of the Western River blog, which contains only posts about “ Colorado River Whitewater Rafting “ The software automatically harvests and organizes topically similar posts for maximum search effectiveness.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

More from Convince and Convert 5 Ways to be a Social Networking Smash How to Create a Share of Voice Report Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? I am showing as 2291 keywords where my site appears in Google's index, but only 170 words where they have actually clicked through to the site itself.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

I'm not sure you can separate content from community anymore, as Google seems to be looking more and more at engagement (comments, linkbacks, time on site) to determine the value of content. After your webinar yesterday my department spent an hour or so asking ourselves, “What IS the goal of our blog? All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Taxonomy is incredibly important in social media because it’s the most direct link between the worlds of social and search marketing. Remember, your most important customer is Google, and your content ladder needs to maximize your chances for search success. What shows up in these search results? Your actual customer is.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Content marketing is perhaps alone in its ability to be a successful endeavor at every phase of the customer lifecycle: When a potential customer is using Google to research new digital cameras, what is going to get them to a Kodak site? Because content is the most efficient form of marketing available. Smart, optimized content.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 31, 2012

B2B Magazine, which also has a website, B2B Online, put out a little research this week that said that amongst B2B companies, 33% of them have “fully embraced social media marketing.” They asked B2B companies, “What was your best social media format? Best network, best outpost?”

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

People coming from Google don’t know who you are yet, so you can’t treat them like a Facebook audience that’s already drinking your Kool-aid. – [link] [link] Merry Ann Moore Very useful for getting clarity: Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive? Of course, this isn’t entirely an either/or scenario.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

I'll have to check my Google numbers, all that good stuff. That would be a fun discussion, right? I follow many of these other tips in my own ways, and it all centers around one idea: write for the readers.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Recall that MySpace was the logical heir to the online profile/social network world pioneered by Geocities, Tripod, and Angelfire. Facebook is the Model T of social networks.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

His ramblings can be found at www.membershipjedi.com This post is a compilation of ideas born out of Jay’s post “ Why You’re the Key to Social Media Success ” in which he succinctly describes one of the biggest obstacles facing organization’s pursuit of social media effectiveness – corporate culture.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

The metrics available on Facebook are in many ways better than you can get from Google Analytics. Make sure you’re tying together your email program and your social media program. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and yet video content continues to be under-leveraged. Now for more coffee.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Me Too Agencies realize how hot social media is, and they are scrambling to add social media expertise (real or imagined) to their services mix. In fact, a search for “social media agencies&# on Google yields more than 41 MILLION matching Web pages. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

You'd be lucky to find anything about Mr. Fux online even with a google search. You'd be lucky to find anything about Mr. Fux online even with a google search. And you wanna talk “online&# influence? In time, I'll try my best to learn all I can about this “online influence&#. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 4 Steps to Drive Sales with a Social FAQ 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say The 3 Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing Jonny Stark Wow, quite a few comments on here already!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

link] Social Media Strategy | Afrinnovator.com [.] link] Crushing the Myth of B2B Social Media [.] in social media? Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps [.] Your customers are already [.]

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

At one point we discussed headline writing and what draws clicks within the social media content universe. I mined my Google Analytics and put together a list of the 25 most popular posts that have ever appeared on this blog , ranked by total number of page views. All rights reserved.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What role does social play in a brand’s overall online visibility? How does social media use differ in B2B vs. B2C companies? 68% of Google+ users are male, while 80% of Pinterest users are women. are now active on at least one social network, up from 67% in 2012 and just 8% in 2005. Relevanza ).

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Socialmention.com is basically a social search engine, if the business name is unique it can be a good option. You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing. Hope that helps!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 22, 2010

Let’s look at a few examples of companies that have done this successfully: Yelp’s Elite Squad: Yelp operates a social networking, user review, and local search website for members to post reviews and get user feedback on local businesses and restaurants.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2010

You provide a list of your customers’ email addresses, and these services figure out how (and who) among your customers are on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and niche social networks, what their “likes” are, and other important details. 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media [link] [link] Erik J. 4=wicked smart!

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2010

Whether it be discovered as a blog post via Google search, a video via YouTube or through an archive of indexed Tweets — we want the content we are looking for, when we are looking for it. This means the best kinds of marketing content need to be findable by Google (and the others), properly tagged, and optimized for search engines.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 9, 2010

A recent feature on CIO.com on “ 10 of World’s Strangest Social Networks &# gets it all wrong. Somebody’s “strange&# social network is someone else’s potentially thriving customer community. You've just set the tone for Social Media 2.0, Are you ready to look harder? or Web 2.5,

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Social Media Strategy YouTube LinkedIn 132

Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2010

There’s a reason that some videos show up on the first page of Google, and others do not. All of these answers are knowable, and if we commit to testing and optimizing our social media efforts in 2010, we’ll go from having a social media presence, to having a social purpose that drives meaningful ROI.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 20, 2010

They are tracking all of that, and by Christmas, Facebook will be a formidable competitor to Google Analytics. link] [link] Joby Semmler Love the Google “7 people who came to your Web site” line – RT @jaybaer: Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation? You know all that stuff that we “like&# now? well played Jay.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

Google Wave was the closest we’ve come, and that got killed off faster than the new Knight Rider TV show. Absolutely not. We can’t continue jamming a square peg in a round hole hoping it will eventually fit, and then being frustrated when it doesn’t. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook. Google has made a couple of dollars by reading and ranking Web pages. Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook. Google has made a couple of dollars by reading and ranking Web pages. Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

To date, customers of RowFeeder have either been interested in monitoring social media campaigns (tracking hashtags, Twitter replies, etc.); Schoenfeld says that the original RowFeeder project was intended to integrate into Google Spreadsheets (and it still does), but the recent addition of Excel tie-ins open up the user base substantially.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tracking Google Analytics No surprise, this is my primary statistical source for Convince & Convert. Despite being free, Google keeps adding functionality to Google Analytics. SocialMention For more comprehensive social media searching, I use SocialMention , which indexes blogs, tweets, message board posts, and a lot more.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble? And like Danny Brown noted (@DannyBrown), you've just gotta be that much more selective on who your 'real friends' are.

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Hootsuite

MAY 30, 2023

Nothing provides better social proof than reviews and testimonials from real customers. Encourage followers to review you on all platforms you have a presence on, including Google My Business and social media. 40% of your potential customers expect companies to connect on their preferred social media channels.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 13, 2010

Instead of proudly touting your digital department’s latest project, hold yourself accountable for personal and company engagement goals: Simply put, what do you want people to find if they Google each employee’s name a year from now? Then, define a social and thought leadership strategy to get them there. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

I think point 5 is a great one, and applies to many social networks – the more 'friends' you have, the more unmanageable it becomes. I wish I could say the same for Google). I'm not even going to try. I mean content should be king, not one-liners on the likes of Twitter. Thanks for the thought-provoking post!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Then, you could pull the results into a Google Reader for an automatic and permanent archive of activity. link] [link] Phil Real time results will be next main area for marketers to focus in coming days as BING, YAHOO also came in this market and google already have real time results [link] Ms. Or Microsoft. I noticed the same thing.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 6, 2023

Additionally, your chat conversations will differ based on the pages, networks and channels your programs live on. Consider your options: Your website Messenger by Meta Twitter Direct Message Instagram Direct This is essential because demographics differ for each social network.

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