These folks are trying to appease the almighty search engines. Specifically Google, but Bing and Yahoo and all the other 2nd tier engines  figure in as well. Content producers defer to search engines instead of people. Is it people or search engines? We’re content starved. The The emergence of tablets and mobile devices has only enhanced our desire to consume digital content. There’s a problem though. When content producers cannot meet the demands of a ravenous public, things can get ugly and the public walks-digitally speaking. Screw the readers. MORE >>

And… the majority of these activities have incredible SEO ( search engine optimization) ramifications. How can you protect your children from social media? One might say, “Do we really need to&# ? and another would say “We have to&#. and still another will say, “We’re all overreacting&#. and you know what? All three opinions are in a certain way, correct. Do some of the following questions and comments sound familiar? Right? Before we dig into the what to do, let’s review something real quick that may help you to understand the landscape a little bit. MORE >>

12)  Set up real time keyword /product/ industry monitoring engines and show them the results. This past Tuesday on our weekly Hashtag socialmedia tweetchat , we were honored to have one of the classiest people I’ve gotten to know, host our chat, BL Ochman. To say that it was a successful tweetchat is an understatement, but what really pushed the chat over the top was the last question in which she asked for quick tactics to encourage corporate social media adoption. What’s great about this list?  Make sure you open them. Show the benefits of why you need to join in. MORE >>

spam blog , sometimes referred to by the neologism splog , [1] is a blog which the author uses to promote affiliated websites, to increase the search engine rankings of associated sites or to simply sell links/ads. I like differing opinions, thoughts and comments. think it’s good to have a variety of thought. No one likes a yes man right? Except maybe in the social media world. Then sometimes it resembles a quid pro quo type of environment. I’ll promote your stuff you promote mine. The thinking is well illustrated by David Armano with his depiction of influencer ripples. MORE >>

Thus this post could have easily been titled, “Content for content’s sake&# or “Crappy content for search engines&# , or “The difference between worthless content and worthy content&#. If the person who has authored it has not written equally for search engines as well as for their audience, and if it doesn’t possess the &# right&# linkage and properties that meet Google’s search algoritham-it may fall quietly by the wayside. Like it or not we are a search driven society. The reason? The reason? Good content takes time. SEO/SEM MORE >>