Janet Fouts

JUNE 8, 2011

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. Google won’t love you any more. It’s like guest blogging, but more focused.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 29, 2010

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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Janet Fouts

APRIL 6, 2011

Google just introduced their “ plus 1 &# button. If you’re in a big hurry you can sign into Google’s Experimental Labs and add this experiment to your services. Here’s a video description of how it works (from Google’s point of view.). So who sees your +1′s? So what’s the downside here?

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 29, 2013

Actually I use Bing very rarely, I prefer Google, even after I took the Bing Challenge. Even though Bing now offers Bing rewards , I still prefer Google. Does it make the ranking site more relevant? I see that my Klout score did jump a bit when they made this change, though Bing is not showing up yet in my score.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 28, 2013

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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Janet Fouts

JUNE 6, 2017

Google yourself to see what your brand looks like. 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. Now write down what you WANT it to look like.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once Google took it over it just wasn’t reliable. So we moved some client sites to Feedblitz , others decided to use WordPress’s free built in RSS feed tool. Now, this blog is syndicated on several sites and I send the RSS feed to Triberr and quite a few other places and they seemed to be getting the feed, so what gives?

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Visit a search site like SocialMention.com and enter your key topics, one at a time. Gather links for their Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Linkedin profiles at a minimum. If the influencer is blogging, look up the page rank of their blog on Google to get an idea of how popular the site is.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 3, 2011

Browse a list of regularly scheduled Twitter chats here on Google Docs , and you can find hashtags that interest you on a site like Hashtag.it If you try to follow the chat from your own timeline on the Twitter web site you can, but if it’s a big chat you can quickly lose the thread of the conversation. or Hashtags.org.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

a Google Wave thread. Some are already calling the new offering Fmail, and I can’t help but wonder what will happen to the existing Fmail app on the site. Remember the Google Wave security nightmare? Remember the Google Wave security nightmare? What’s different than email? You CAN forward messages however.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 1, 2011

On the other hand FBML does a few things that we can’t do yet with iframed content on a web site. Sure, you can use the social plugins and some code to do a lot of it, but it’s not all there yet. We’ll be updating it as Facebook adds new features and probably changes the rules again. Check it out.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 26, 2014

Sure, you can search popular video sites like Vimeo and YouTube , but it can take a while to filter through all the videos available to find the good stuff. We all love videos and sharing content that we find which resonates with us right? But it’s getting harder and harder to find videos that really speak to us.

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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. Run it on more than one site so you get a good feel of what’s out there. Here’s a game plan.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 23, 2011

That makes the $Billion question: “How do I build a following to drive traffic to my…blog, web site, Facebook page, Twitter page, etc, etc, etc.&#. Even if you have to Google it and look it up. For that you need a network of connections, preferably with connections of their own! Answer questions. Go ahead, post about bacon.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 31, 2011

Google likes hyphens. This post is part of the Facebook Page Toolkit membership site. Facebook turns spaces into hyphens. So River City Widget Factory becomes River-City-Widget-Factory. What’s wrong with that? From a search engine perspective it’s fine. But people will have an issue remembering it.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 1, 2013

I can sketch out a design for a client on my iPad with Penultimate, save it to a folder in Evernote and share it with my designers instantly, clips web pages, take photos or scan documents on site and add it to the folder and have it all be easily accessible to whoever needs it. Great for saving those middle of the night bright ideas.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 30, 2015

Instead, check out this Google Doc via Ileane Smith. I’ve seen a substantial increase in followers on Twitter and Linkedin this month and I’ve only been using the site for a couple of weeks. This is a terriffic way to get real engagement and conversation with a large group. It’s still in beta and changing as we speak.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 4, 2011

If you want to drive a lot of traffic to a particular web site or raise your brand visibility you can do it with Twitter. People are more likely to post their kid’s pictures and personal stuff there than on sites like Twitter. Google loves WordPress, no question, and every comment adds value for the commenter and the poster.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 5, 2011

This post is meant to be a getting started guide for those of us who got an invite and are now wondering how to use Google+. If you’re looking for an overview of Google+ check out Part 1 of this post: Google+ and World Domination. Start with your Google Profile. Google+ Hacks and tips. Google+ Settings.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 17, 2010

Unfortunately you don’t always control what’s online about you so I’m a big advocate of setting up alerts in Google and Social Mention among others to get a heads up when someone posts something about you online. I was told about this list of 8 things you shouldn’t give to social networking sites at CFP.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I went into my Google reader and deleted every blog that hadn’t posted within the last 30 days. I know that Twitter users use the web site more than they do Twitter clients but really, once you get more than 100 followers you are missing a lot of stuff and trying to find the people you really want to hear can be a chore.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

You can have the biggest following on Twitter and Facebook and Google+ , the best videos on Youtube and a constant flow of repins on Pinterest and still not make a single sale. Use landing pages on your site for specific channels of your business. For example, I have one for a Google+ e-book. Basic, but often ignored.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 28, 2020

Westin hotels, General Mills, Goldman Sachs, Google, and Facebook all have programs to aid employee wellness that goes beyond the usual insurance plans and on-site gyms. The practices of mindfulness have been shown to be transformational in a number of industries.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 5, 2014

Founding Editor, @MarketingLand &@SEngineLand, covering Google, Facebook, Twitter, SEO, SEM & all things digital marketing, search marketing and search. Author, Speaker and kind of a big deal on a fairly irrelevant soc media site which inflates my self-importance. mike_allton. thesocialmediahat.com. Danny Sullivan. chrisbrogan.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 4, 2015

If Meerkat can get acquired by Facebook or Google, it’s game on. While I’m a regular guest on Google+ Hangouts On Air, I do not, generally, create video of my own, so I’ve been slow to adopt any of the video creation/sharing apps. Problem with the latter is people on Twitter just troll through streams.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 4, 2015

If Meerkat can get acquired by Facebook or Google, it’s game on. While I’m a regular guest on Google+ Hangouts On Air, I do not, generally, create video of my own, so I’ve been slow to adopt any of the video creation/sharing apps. Problem with the latter is people on Twitter just troll through streams.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

See, it turns out that not only does the TOU state “Cold Brew Labs and its licensors exclusively own all right, title and interest in and to the Site, Application, Services and Site Content, including all associated intellectual property rights”, (that means the pins you post too!) We don’t really.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

By the way, we’ll be talking about these things and much more in our weekly Google+ hangout, so come by The Friday Hangout and add your voice to the conversation. Are Google and Facebook ads resulting in real sales? The show goes live Fridays at 11AM PST. The most retweeted Tweet. Images for bloggers and presenters.

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