Janet Fouts

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Do you syndicate your blog?

Janet Fouts

You see, lots of bloggers have their blog posts syndicated on other sites that aggregate content, and sometimes we write posts specific to a site just to get our names in front of more readers who frequent that particular web site. Duplicate content is becoming a bigger deal with search engines.

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Is Your Website Pinterest Friendly?

Janet Fouts

The thing is, many websites are still not friendly to “pinning” Sites that are framed, dynamic image generation, Flash slideshows, all hinder the ease in which people can pin your images and drive traffic to your website. Many sites don’t take advantage of ALT tags on their images. Blocking Pinterest from your site.

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Scribe SEO for Wordpress

Janet Fouts

I thought I knew quite a bit about search engine optimization until I found this nifty new tool called Scribe. Even though I optimize sites for search engines as part of my daily duties, it can be tedious and there is always more to learn. So how do you learn SEO techniques and see how it relates to your own content online?

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Tapping into the mind of the crowd

Janet Fouts

If you need to know about how long an open bottle of wine will last , a trick to make your web site load faster, which video camera to buy or how working remotely differs from in an office, there’s somebody out there who knows and is happy to help. Crowd-based information sites have been around for a long time. courtesy Compete).

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Graduates- Think about Your Brand

Janet Fouts

Share links to other sites they may not know, quote a recent study or a paper you’re writing. Use sites like Buzzsumo , Mention.com , Brandwatch , and of course, Google to find out what is out there for you to talk about. Add insightful comments and engage when possible. Look for value you can add to the discussion.

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Naming your Facebook page

Janet Fouts

It’s also a URL the search engines will pick up, so think carefully. From a search engine perspective it’s fine. This post is part of the Facebook Page Toolkit membership site. It’s the only way people are going to find you on Facebook. What should be in your name? First off, no spaces. Google likes hyphens.

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Empire Avenue – Measurement of Social Influence?

Janet Fouts

Basically Empire Avenue is a community (and I use that term loosely here) where members buy and sell virtual shares in each other in the hopes of getting rich in currency of the site, called “eaves&#. If you want to increase your value you make your investors happy, interact a lot on your social networks and on the site and voila!