Dave Fleet

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Search Engines Are A Conduit, Not A Source

Dave Fleet

Let’s get this out of the way: Search engines are a key part of communications nowadays. Search engines usually drive a significant proportion – if not the majority – of traffic to companies’ websites. Search engines are a conduit – a step along the path – not a source.

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Monday Morning Reads: Churnalism, Bubble Bursting, Influence Limits

Dave Fleet

to avoiding getting caught when the social media “bubble&# bursts, to reputation management, influence and lastly a couple of Google stories to round things out. Thanks to this, when a reputation issue hit, the company was able to communicate directly with its fans (alongside smart SEM) and manage the problem. Back up your life.

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Social Mediators 7 – Eqentia – Social Media Monitoring Tool For Enterprises

Dave Fleet

Eqentia’s text mining engine promises to deliver content to users in near realtime, providing them with an up to the minute picture of conversations and references to their brands and issues of interest. The company has some potential client deals in the works and hopes to be able to begin to announce these in the near future.

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Don’t Be Fooled By Last-Click Analysis Of Social Media

Dave Fleet

Last-click measurement is insufficient – it works for email and search but other tactics receive insufficient credit “as they are typically early in the research funnel and are followed by visits to search engines or email&# (fair). Zero detail on actual social media activities. Top-of-mind awareness.

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Monday Morning Reads: TweetDeck, Black Hat SEO, Facebook Pages

Dave Fleet

You may not have realized it, but over the last little while one company – UberMedia – has scooped up several of the leading Twitter apps, including Echofon and UberTwitter. Search Engine Land: New York Times Exposes J.C. Penney Link Scheme That Causes Plummeting Rankings in Google. Dirty SEO tricks.

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Digital is facing a Trust Crisis

Dave Fleet

Even search engines, which in the past have seemed remarkably resilient to some of the shifts faced by other channels, dipped below 60% for the first time since 2013. from the people involved, to the way we make content from a brand recognizable by its audiences, to the causes that companies align themselves to along the way.

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