Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali On Lists, Their Importance, And How To Get On One February 8th, 2011 Tweet This post has been about a year and a half in the writing. Lists are as important as you think they are. Yes, really!

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SocialFish

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The list below is for serendipity ; if you prefer our “Must Read&# shares about important stuff for association social media, please click here to subscribe , or click here to browse. or higher out of 10 by my beloved PostRank plugin. Let me know if you notice a difference in this list.

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Twist Image

DECEMBER 1, 2010

PostRank is one of many online analytics tools that attempts to rate and score social statistics from reader's online to help people determine what is worthy of reading. It applies a PostRank score of 1-10 (1 being of little interest to 10 being of significant interest). google reader. google reader. What's your take?

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 13, 2010

6 Ways to Ensure Better Rankings in Google Instant – A look at some of the changes that search engine marketers need to make to their strategy to ensure better rankings in the new search algorithm. 9 Ways to Use Twitter Lists – Twitter lists can be a great asset for making sure you don’t miss important updates.

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Akamai Marketing

JULY 28, 2011

Now, you might desire a list like his and it certainly has brand potential, but you could generate more influence with a much smaller number of followers. PostRank will help balance out the information from Google Analytics, including RSS feed tracking and conversation on Twitter surrounding a particular link.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 24, 2011

Wait for it…) Relax, I’m not going to re-list what’s already been written all over the Interwebz about affordable technology available to non-profits. Examples of sites using Mobify include Boing Boing and A List Apart. You are also limited with the grant program to maximum bids of $1.00

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Jason Yormark

AUGUST 25, 2010

3 of these were lists (no surprise there). Most achieved a Postrank of higher then 6, and 9 out of the 10 articles dealt with social media. For those not familiar, Postrank is a nifty little WordPress plugin that provides some analysis into the social engagement factor of the content you create. My analysis and thoughts follow.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 27, 2011

It’s a given these days that before at least 50% of the first-time meetings you’re about to have you and the person you’re meeting will have Googled each other to learn a bit more about the person. Postrank Analytics. disclosure: I’m listed as a Klout influencer and have received Klout perks.)

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

I like to subscribe to the blog in Google Reader and use the PostRank Chrome Extension to see the posts with the most social engagement and then send them some great headlines running along those lines. You can find more blogging contests by simply searching blogging contest on Google. Entry cutoff date is January 1, 2012.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 25, 2010

Now they’re offering a direct sync with Google (beta) if you’re a premium user (read, give them money, currently just under US $60 a year). I am, which means I can keep my contacts current in both places, which will be useful should I ever stop using Google Contacts. I don’t. Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Kikolani

JUNE 15, 2010

Keep a sticky post about the blog’s main Twitter list as well as individual listings of where to find blog contributors on Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn , etc., One way to encourage contributors to link to posts using specific anchor text for each post is to create a list that has specific anchor text to be used with each post.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 16, 2011

Be sure to list your new blog URL as well as your new RSS feed URL in that post so people can subscribe easily to your new site or visit it directly. Also, maybe encourage mailing list signups from both the blog and the Facebook page, that way you can get to potential customers through their email as well. Will it help in this?

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SocialFish

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Deirdre Reid has another great 101 post about Google Reader. As it happens, I LOVE Google Reader and I have TONS of Reader tips for ya! list of links on the associationTECH blog – so I can find them all later when I’m ready to write the post. Tip 3 – Postrank extension. You got any good ones?

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Kikolani

JANUARY 26, 2010

Google tracks links and related keywords in social mentions, so having a tweet stating “Our updated link building services page [link] will Google will associate link building services with the referenced website. Google Alerts – Email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.)

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Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

Google Analytics Before Google Analytics came along there weren’t really that many decent tracking tools available. Instead of waiting around for Google to catch up, you can see what is happening on your website, right now. Postrank I have been using Postrank Analytics for about 3 weeks now and find it really impressive.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 13, 2011

With Google Analytics I can see if people are engaging with our blog’s content and then use that information to adapt to the preferences of site visitors. My favorite thing to do in the morning is check Google Analytics to see where our site visitors are coming from. So pitching the merits of going paperless was a no-brainer.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

How will you ever get in good with such-and-such A-list blogger? Do a Google search for Bryce Keane, one of WUL’s regular guest-bloggers. Mark as read Approve comment Great list Shonali. Image: Quinn Dombrowski via Flickr , Creative Commons I’ve already said that blogging is a strange beast. Read All About It!

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The Way of the Web

APRIL 7, 2011

I can’t remember where I first saw their offer mentioned (Possibly Reddit ), but if you emailed them via an address listed on their blog, they offered to send a T-Shirt and a cool little trading cards booklet which I can’t find to photograph right now. Say 25% of the T-shirt recipients are like me and have a blog.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 6, 2011

Google just downgraded content farms. I started listing all the benefits that I see available from working with bloggers, and they fell politely into these four buckets. analytics, PostRank, Twitter, social bookmarking websites, and so on. It’s not just “heritage media&# that’s trying to work it all out right now.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 29, 2011

Then measure it.You can use Google Analytics, PostRank or even (GASP!) Photos especially are great SEO tools…so allow your photos to be your Google’s Marilyn Monroe, while your writing is the classy Jackie O. SO Mr/Ms/Mrs Reader , quit lurking and tell me: What would you add to my list of 5? Then live it.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 7, 2011

I have a nice list of users who regularly ask me for votes on social sites or retweets, and I generally accommodate them, assuming it is a good article. I also keep their usernames in a text file list for future reference as people I can count on for a little social promotion. She does not disappoint.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter Lists Frenzy =-. Twitter Lists Frenzy =-. Twitter Lists Frenzy =-. Big List: 13 B2B Social Media Prediction Blog Posts For 2010 =-. Big List: 13 B2B Social Media Prediction Blog Posts For 2010 =-. B2C – “It’s the Engagement Level, Stupid.&# Great summary of the Marketing Profs data.-=

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 3, 2011

It is time for an updated list. Google XML Sitemaps helps search engine robots know what the site looks like, enabling you to see the best post when searching for a keyword. PostRank also runs invisibly and shows me metrics about the popularity of blog posts to help me know what you like to read and what you hate.

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Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

Use Postrank to Find Engaging Posts When I wrote a post about the 28 items in my internet marketing toolbox, I covered a nifty little service called Postrank Analytics which lets you see your most shared blog posts on sites like Digg, Delicious and Twitter. Especially in regards to my own affiliate marketing strategy.

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Kikolani

JUNE 28, 2013

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. 3 Marketing Tools I Miss (and Their Alternatives) – If you used PostRank, Formulists, or Google Reader, here are the best alternatives. This Week on Kikolani. Fetching Friday'

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

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. 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. Between bit.ly

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Some tools you can use are Social Mention , Trackur , and PostRank. You can also get Google Analytics installed on your Facebook Fan page. You can use Google Alerts or Social Mention’s alert feature. You can use Google Alerts or Social Mention’s alert feature. PostRank is becoming one of my favorite tools.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 26, 2011

If I can opt out of being marketed to via email (though dont even get me started on companies that completely ignore the unsubscribes and keep putting me back on their lists), I should be able to opt out of being marketed to this way. Thats whats sticking in my craw. Thats me speaking as a user. Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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Kikolani

JULY 23, 2010

Calculating ROI on Internet Marketing – measurings your return on investment for PPC, organic search, and social media with Google Analytics. 9 essential SEO WordPress plugins – a few in this list I didn’t know about but sound good! Social Media / Social Networking. Pearson battle.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 22, 2012

I recently waved Goodbye PostRank, Hello Google Social Reports at SmallBizTrends, breaking out five new reports designed to help you keep track of valuable social media insights. Thankfully, with the new Social reports from Google, we glean a lot more insights. But to best use it, you must have Goals set up in Google Analytics.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 27, 2011

I commented on only two blogs yesterday (and on one of them, my comment was more along the lines of baby babble), didn’t do anything on LinkedIn, shared a couple of posts via Google Reader, and on Facebook, just sent out some birthday wishes and posted in a couple of secret Facebook groups. You know why? Ridiculous. I said one.

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