SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

To all my blogger friends, I would love to hear opinions on whether it is more responsible for us to be right vs. first when reporting information. Is speculation okay? Is it useful?

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SocMed Sean

MAY 11, 2023

This article reviews 11 different AI writing tools and their applications for bloggers, editors, and those in marketing. The post AI Tools for Writing: A Review of 11 AI Written Articles appeared first on SocMedSean - Social Media Sean. Wondering about writing blog posts using AI writing tools?

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

For a while now, I have been hearing stories about how other bloggers are getting great traffic results from StumbleUpon. Until recently, I just saw it as another social bookmarking tool like Digg , Delicious , or Reddit. Read their content. It’s a great big circle of blog content. Boy, was I wrong.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Social media and social networking are both about connecting people. Without people and their personal relationship information, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter would be reduced to…well…MySpace. A barren wasteland full of bots and spam. I’m also talking about your employees.

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SocMed Sean

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

If you are a blogger and are having a tough time coming up with new topics, just think about problems you have faced and how you solved them. You help others by blogging good content that solves a problem, they increase traffic to your article! I’m always surprised how many bloggers are unaware of this tool. Which I did.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As lifestyle blogs continue to grow as a popular medium for distributing content, there’s never been a better time to start one of your own. Influencer marketing agency Mediakix defines it as, “a digital content representation of its author’s everyday life and interests.” What does it mean to create a lifestyle blog?

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Along with this comes a wide variety of new opportunities to use food and drink blogs as an effective way to deliver online content to readers. The theme of food and drink is enormous and offers a wide variety of opportunities for foodie bloggers to publish content. appeared first on SocMedSean - Social Media Sean.

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 26, 2018

In exchange for a free social media platform where we can share photos, connecting with friends and family, and watch cute videos of pandas playing in the snow, we give up our personal behavior data as our payment. After doing a quick Google, it turns out they are a blogger/influencer connection network.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The key, though, is to consider the pros and cons and determine whether the effort of translating content will deliver the results you’re looking for. If you are a blogger looking to expand your audience, translation of your existing content might have crossed your mind. …and who doesn’t love more traffic?

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 12, 2012

If you are a blogger or content creator, you REALLY should read the Pinterest terms of use I know I’m going to be in the minority, here, but I’m not thrilled about Pinterest right now. BUT… If you’re creating new content and uploading it to you Pinterest, you need to understand a few things from their TOU.

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 20, 2013

And recent trends in social media are showing that sharing photos and images is a great way to make sure that your blog posts are getting traffic. However, the more images you include in an article, the slower your page load times will be and the longer your visitors will have to wait to enjoy the content. So there you have it!

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 1, 2012

Have you written content that they would find interesting? If not…stop doing what you’re doing and formulate a plan to find new, interesting content. Is your content really interesting? One good way to get the attention of other bloggers is to send them links from your blog. Are you linking to other resources?

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SocMed Sean

JUNE 23, 2017

This week we welcome guest blogger Robert Everett. Robert is a content and marketing specialist at one of the leading essay writing companies. He graduated with honors from Columbia University with a degree in Marketing and Advertising Previously, he worked as a content marketing manager for a tech software firm.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Through the use of a custom browser widget, Pinterest members can capture media from any public Web site or blog and “pin” it to a virtual pinboard, usually organized around a specific topic (e.g “cool shoes”, “food I’d like to try”, or “my art”). So Why Now?

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Before we ever dive into the technology behind their blog, I like to explore their content and their attitude toward the search engines. The problem is, what if the search engine spiders like your content, but your readers don’t? ” Wrong answer. What did you accomplish? I’ll take the latter any day of the week.

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SocMed Sean

JUNE 21, 2012

I originally started at IntranetExperience.com and eventually moved over here to SocMedSean.com to expand my writings beyond internal social networks to both internal and external. I was so focused on what other people thought about my blog that it is evident that my content wasn’t as good as it could have been. Start caring.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

I get a lot of questions via Facebook , Twitter and my email contact form and many of the items listed below come straight from those questions, my experience in social media strategy, years of researching platforms and best practices and…well…tinkering with social media. Social media takes time and energy.

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 11, 2012

'Angry bird puts a lid on it' courtesy of etee on Flickr via Creative Commons license If you’re engaged in social media for either personal or professional purposes (and if you’re reading this, I’m betting you are), there’s an important skillset and rule that you might want to think about: The art of not replying.

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 22, 2013

Explain the error that happened, and possibly describe the common causes of the error (outdated content, mistyped URL etc). For those using a content management system like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla the work has been done for you through the development of the CMS admin console. The language you use should be clear.

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SocMed Sean

JULY 25, 2019

This is a group of bloggers who are making money with their sites, so they are always looking for ways to increase the performance of their sites in order in increase organic traffic and, as a result, increase their revenues. When a visitor comes to your site, their browser makes a request to the server for the contents of the page.

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SocMed Sean

AUGUST 15, 2015

RSS, also known as real simple syndication is a web format that allows users receive your content in a variety of formats. Visitors who are interested in finding your RSS feed and subscribing to it are raising their hands and saying “I like your content, please give me more in the future!

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SocMed Sean

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Sometimes, however, some folks get the wrong idea that any video content can be made to “go viral” And often times, they are led to believe that this could be true because some social media huckster on Fiverr said they would drive “thousands of views to your content” for the low, low price of $5.

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Recognizing A Blog-Owner VS. A Blogger. Interestingly enough, there are also 2 types of bloggers. They surround themselves with every gadget, book, and resource they can leverage to improve their content, enhance their writing skills, and even make more money. They worry about terms like: monetizing content for a blog.

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SocMed Sean

JULY 20, 2018

The other day, I was helping another aspiring blogger understand some of the key performance indicators (KPIs) that I use when evaluating which posts “work” and which ones don’t. How can you consider yourself a successful blogger with a bounce rate of 80%??? But What If They Just Don’t Like Your Content?

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SocMed Sean

APRIL 17, 2019

Do you have an original thought in your head or are you a social media parrot who can only engage by retweeting what other people say? 4) Only talk about food The only exception here is if you run a restaurant, are a chef, or are a food critic or blogger. I’m not engaged in social media to meet press releases.

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SocMed Sean

AUGUST 20, 2018

A few days after publishing it, I received a question from a fellow blogger asking: Okay, so if bounce rate doesn’t matter, then what metric do you use to determine whether people like your content? For that reason, I include links to some of those other social media tips at the bottom of many of my articles.

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SocMed Sean

APRIL 25, 2019

SocMedSean - Social.Media.Sean 5 Tips For Using YouTube to Grow Your Business If you’re looking for opportunities to organically grow you traffic to your business website and content, you’d be hard-pressed to find one more effective than YouTube. billion people worldwide on a monthly basis. Start small and take baby steps.

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SocMed Sean

AUGUST 26, 2018

This one is a really good question that I got from a friend of mine who is a blogger. After blogging for about 5 years, she recently started monetizing her content through an ad program. She doesn’t promote any affiliate programs, so the only revenue that her blog generates is through ad revenue. The Wrap Up.

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SocMed Sean

OCTOBER 21, 2009

In the modern day of social media, though, they can call the 800 number, tweet their problems, look for solutions in a knowledge base, email, complain in an online forum, post a video on YouTube of your product malfunctioning, or blog about it. Believe me…I understand the desire to just crawl back in bed and ignore social media.

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SocMed Sean

AUGUST 14, 2018

Pinterest…it’s kinda the bane of my existence as a social media blogger. I like Pinterest a lot, but as a blogger who focuses on the use of social media it hasn’t really done me a lot of good when it comes to traffic. In fact, social media only delivers a 1/2 of a percent of my traffic.

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