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AUGUST 19, 2010

Consequently, if someone searches for “Colorado River Whitewater Rafting&# on Google, they’ll likely find that version of the Western River blog, which contains only posts about “ Colorado River Whitewater Rafting “ The software automatically harvests and organizes topically similar posts for maximum search effectiveness.

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APRIL 20, 2010

I am showing as 2291 keywords where my site appears in Google's index, but only 170 words where they have actually clicked through to the site itself. Whilst my site is very simple it was built from the outset to focus on the words brand, branding and more recently, social media.

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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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MARCH 23, 2010

Orientation for Your Blog Your first-time blog visitors are unfamiliar with your site design, navigation, structure, and other proclivities. One of the data points I track closely is the number of people who visit my speaking page, where they entered the site, and if they were first-time visitors or long-time readers of the blog.

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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? Smart, optimized content. I remember a time when the internet was young.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I’m going to put your Social Media Worksheet to work for me. Thanks [link] Joanne Spruyt So glad I found your site. I’m going to put your Social Media Worksheet to work for me. Thanks [link] Joanne Spruyt So glad I found your site. Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps [.]

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JULY 28, 2010

Make sure you’re not just shopping who you think your competitors are, but also who Google says your competitors are, based on search engine results. Thanks for the link back to the social FAQ – I'd lost the link during my busy summer. I'm looking forward to implementing something like that on our site.

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MAY 26, 2010

The metrics available on Facebook are in many ways better than you can get from Google Analytics. Make sure you’re tying together your email program and your social media program. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and yet video content continues to be under-leveraged.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

There has never been any sort of major effort to distribute MySpace broadly across the Web by baking it into other sites, applications or circumstances. In 2006, you have a veritable ATM machine, with companies begging you to put banner ads on your site. You’re the number one social network in the world. The goals shift.

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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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JUNE 15, 2010

This is a social address book, and social CRM application at each extreme. Few understand and submitt all emails to the social networking sites liked LinkedIn when they can be verfied. 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media [link] [link] Erik J. via @jaybaer) [link] [link] Annie Noll Whoa!

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MAY 20, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation?

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JULY 22, 2010

The Elite Program is a way for the Yelp to reward its most passionate users for making their site “funny, useful and cool&# by providing them with exclusive offers and members only events. Lion Brand’s Lion Brand Notebook: Lion Brand is a yarn company that has been in business for over a century.

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Social Media Strategy Influencer Case Study 128

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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.

Social Media 167

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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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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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MAY 19, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Why D.I.S.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Social Conversation a Myth?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I do this only occasionally, however, as my friends/followers on each site don’t have much overlap. Tracking Google Analytics No surprise, this is my primary statistical source for Convince & Convert. Despite being free, Google keeps adding functionality to Google Analytics.

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MARCH 9, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Are You Taking Social Media Shortcuts?

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Social Media Strategy YouTube LinkedIn 133

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MARCH 18, 2010

Our strategies and expectations for social media are in reality a complement to what we’re doing in email and lifecycle marketing. There’s a reason that some videos show up on the first page of Google, and others do not. It has helped myself get a better look on what I am doing with these Social Media sites.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Publishing 119

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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. The site is exceptionally poor at welcoming and training new users , which may result in its high churn rate. I love Twitter. It enriches my life every day. Maybe less is more.

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JULY 13, 2010

Instead of proudly touting your digital department’s latest project, hold yourself accountable for personal and company engagement goals: Simply put, what do you want people to find if they Google each employee’s name a year from now? Then, define a social and thought leadership strategy to get them there.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant SEO 138

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Social media relies on the premise that we’ll believe what people tell us more readily than if we were told the same thing by a nameless, faceless company. All I saw at their site is a lot of marketing about their survey and how it impacts you and “OMG&# hire us to help you keep from loosing everyone's trust.

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Social Media Strategy Survey Social CRM 119

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble?

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AUGUST 25, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook?

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Facebook Yahoo Collaboration Social CRM 142

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APRIL 7, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? We all need to extend our social media expectations timeline. That is troubling.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Kyle Lacy June 23, 2010 at 1:27 pm Social media sites have evolved (and will continue to evolve) so it’s hard to say if they’ve done something wrong. That’s what Social CRM systems are trying to solve. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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APRIL 27, 2010

Why can’t you have error messages on your Web site that are descriptive and blameless? RT @jaybaer: Information as Theater – The Power of Humanized Description [link] #sg [link] Jeremy Bryant Google Reader: Information as Theater – The Power of Humanized Description – Thanks Jay, great read! You Make It That Way.

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