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Spring Cleaning For Your Blog – How A Little Work Can Drive Search Engine And Social Media Traffic

SocMed Sean

"Spring" via promanex on Flickr under creative commons license. Remember, the more you clean up those old posts the more they will pay you back with increased search engine traffic or organic traffic from social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Leave a comment and let me know. Ahhhh Spring!

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The One Tip That Took My Blog To New Levels. Stop Caring.

SocMed Sean

Not just from researching and writing articles, but form the comments/feedback that I have received and the conversations that have been sparked with others via social networks like Twitter. When I first started blogging, I was so worried about driving readership, getting listed in the search engines, becoming popular, being liked.

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15 Metrics You Should Measure in Content Marketing

Waxing UnLyrical

Social media engagement can be measured by the number of likes, comments, shares, and mentions that your content generates. If your digital content is not optimized, it will rank lower in search engine rankings, thus affecting your website traffic. Let us know in the comments below. Email/Newsletter Subscriber Growth.

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How Google Instant Might Impact Your Small Non-Profit

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Greig Christie via Flickr, Creative Commons Since Google Instant’s launch just over a month ago, digital marketers have been scrambling to figure out how search engine marketing strategies might need to change. Bing offers an excellent guide on how to optimize sites (PDF) for its search engine. received 13 percent.

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25 Social Media Pet Peeves – How Many Are You Doing?

SocMed Sean

Also, if you have a pet peeve to add, feel free to add it to the Facebook post or leave it in a comment on the blog post. Junk content that is only meant to bait the search engines , not offer value to readers. So…here they are. 25 social media pet peeves. How many of these are you doing?

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15 Places to Find Free Images for Your Blog

Writtent Blog

Creative Commons Search. The official Creative Commons website lets users search websites for free-to-use images from a variety of sources, including Google Images, Flickr and the Wikimedia Commons. Aside from just image search, you can use it to access Creative Commons music, media and video files.

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Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News

Waxing UnLyrical

This isn’t another overview post about how to search engine optimize a news release. Yet I often find that communicators don’t realize that priorities for SEO for Google News are actually slightly different than SEO for Google’s main search engine. Image: Andras Pfaff via Flickr , Creative Commons Was this helpful?

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