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AUGUST 31, 2010

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JULY 26, 2010

Aside from optimizing the structure of the site and the pitches themselves, sheer volume and traffic drove our authority with Google and other search engines. Let’s say you’re a small business owner who wants your brand to appear in Google when someone searches for your product or service in your area. Spread the net.

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MAY 11, 2010

You can survey your customers, although that’s not always the best approach because the questions are not fresh in their minds – they’ve already made their buying decision. Remember that video is 52 times more likely to show up on the first page of Google search results, so don’t skip that part. To really do so.

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APRIL 20, 2010

Which is closer to buying, a consumer searching for “flat panel TV&# or a consumer searching for “26 inch 720p flat panel TV.&# ? Because of the specificity, it’s much easier to achieve a top 10 search engine ranking for long tail searches, and higher rankings = higher conversions.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. Thus, Western River doesn’t really have one blog, it has hundreds of keyword-focused blogs.

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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, Kathy [link] jaybaer Although it's my usual practice, I'm not going to reply to each comment, since this isn't a very conversational blog post. But seriously, THANK YOU. Incredible.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. You need to determine why your company should be social, for whom your efforts are intended and where your audience is in the buying cycle, and how you’ll measure success. Kipp Bodnar´s last blog.

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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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MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Commerce Related to the first, but commerce-oriented blogs are more interested in conversion events than in traffic generation. Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Conversely, many blogs are too community-oriented, taking an overly insider approach, given that new research from my friends and clients Compendium Blogware shows that search drives 60%+ of total traffic on 80%+ of corporate blogs. link] > @jaybaer [link] Stephanie Wonderlin Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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APRIL 12, 2012

Facebook buying Instagram makes perfect sense to me. I really think Google+ should have bought them. To keep it out of the hands of… Eric : Yeah, now Google and Twitter can’t buy it. To me that was what struck a chord is that social makes everything more transparent, both the good and the bad.

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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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JULY 27, 2021

If you’ve ever gone searching for information on the internet about a product you were interested in buying, you’ve replicated one of the critical parts of the B2B customer purchasing journey. By marketing through search engine results and paid search advertising, a company can capture high-quality leads with intent to buy.

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JULY 28, 2010

.&# Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. Buy your own product.

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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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MAY 26, 2010

The metrics available on Facebook are in many ways better than you can get from Google Analytics. Companies are starting to think of Facebook as a natural piece of the conversion funnel, not just as a free-standing silo. Make sure you’re tying together your email program and your social media program. Just like websites.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. Its great to see this conversation so relevant active! link] Rebecca Shaffer PR firms are asking 8 questions about social media — and they’re all wrong!: What do you think? Thanks for the kind words.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Anyway, I just got off the phone with a new client out of Canada, and we had nearly the same conversation that this post covers. Anyway, I just got off the phone with a new client out of Canada, and we had nearly the same conversation that this post covers. Social Media 101 Explained by the Best Fishing Analogy EVER =-.

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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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MARCH 23, 2010

I'll have to check my Google numbers, all that good stuff. I follow many of these other tips in my own ways, and it all centers around one idea: write for the readers. May seem simplistic, but your blog audience has come to you for a reason: they have a question, an interest, a need and was directed to your blog.

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JUNE 15, 2010

A major component of answering those questions effectively is understanding in which social outposts your customers are concentrated. This is a social address book, and social CRM application at each extreme. It is a paid feature, you buy credits and can do emails one at a time selectively.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Recall that MySpace was the logical heir to the online profile/social network world pioneered by Geocities, Tripod, and Angelfire. finally shut down Geocities last year, a decade after buying it for $3.5 BILLION) The attraction of these early social networks wasn’t the connectivity, is was the homesteading.

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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. What content lessons do you take away from these results?

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MAY 20, 2010

Premature Calculation The problem with the pet naming approach is that you end up having the “is this working&# conversation when the social media program is already in operation, which forces you to conduct statistical gerrymandering to determine which measures are relevant. And it’s about behavior that leads to dollars.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

Conversation Driver Analysis – Examination of words, phrases, themes Location Analysis – Where conversations about you are occurring in the “real&# world People Analysis – Who’s talking about you? Yet I doesn`t check RowFeeder, but that what you write is intresting.

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JULY 22, 2010

While the willingness to invest indicates that businesses recognize the potential to develop deeper connections with their consumers in the social sphere, many are still uncertain as to how to best join the conversation. Yael, what are your thoughts on this – how do you think it'll be measured in the long run?

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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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APRIL 22, 2010

Second, the social media tools and destinations will inevitably change, but considering 83% of online Americans are active in social media, and there are 425 million people with Facebook accounts, I think we’re past the lava lamp stage. In either event, your job in this circumstance is to create conversation.

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MAY 19, 2010

It was much easier when the company steered the conversation. 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. It gives us the ability to steer the conversation — and we like that.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. I don't want to play Mafia Wars, buy a cartoon pig or anything else. I love Twitter. It enriches my life every day. I hope it sticks around for a long, long time.

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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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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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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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JULY 13, 2010

Threatens Your Personal Brand as a Leader: At the end of the day, clients and prospects want to buy your counsel — not your special departments’ and certainly not your junior staff’s. Then, define a social and thought leadership strategy to get them there. Stop delegating and start absorbing.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I believe Kurrently has the potential to make Facebook a much larger player in the social CRM world, as companies can now instantly see just how much they are being mentioned on that platform. Then, you could pull the results into a Google Reader for an automatic and permanent archive of activity. Or Microsoft.

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MAY 2, 2017

Google Review Count: 175. A marketing intelligence tool that combines SEO features (such as keyword rank tracking and keyword research) with marketing channel tracking (search, email, social media, mobile, and paid) and competitive analysis. Google Review Count: 123. Google Review Count: 21. Social Media Optimization.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Some companies (such as Domino's which I also wrote about here: [link] ) have gotten better at acting like they are all of those buzz words like transparent, human, conversational, engaging, etc. Who better to help me buy a flat screen TV than the employee who sees 100 customers a week?

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