Webbiquity SMM

JULY 23, 2013

So, once you’ve developed useful and compelling content, incorporating the words and phrases your customers are likely to use when searching, how can you attract links to your site? Virtually all businesses can benefit from providing their company and contact details to the local versions of Google, Bing and Yahoo!, Business partners.

Directory 194

Directory Types SEO Engineering 194

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 2, 2013

Women make up the larger share of users on Facebook (58% to 42%) and are a slightly larger share on Twitter (52% to 48%) while men are the predominate users of LinkedIn (63% to 37%) and Google+ (71% to 29%). Furthermore, half of all Google+ users are under 25 years old. iMedia Connection ). Social CRM is still confusing. eMarketer ).

Social Media 245

Social Media B2B Marketing SEO 245

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

marketers used the site in 2015, and that figure is expected to approach 70% by 2017) while Google+ is struggling (though it has 300 million active monthly users worldwide, less than 6 million made any public posts in 2015). Users spend, on average, 20 minutes per day on the site. 36% of Twitter users visit the site daily. (

Social Networking 100

Social Networking B2B LinkedIn Instagram 100

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 23, 2011

But it makes sense: the more often your blog is “seen&# on other sites, the more people will bookmark it, subscribe to your RSS feed, and type in the URL directly. Of the top dozen sources of traffic, four were social networking or related sites: Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and HootSuite. Social media is important.

Syndication 186

Syndication Data How To HootSuite 186

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

According to research from BuzzFeed , “Search traffic to publishers has taken a dive in the last eight months, with traffic from Google dropping more than 30%…While Google makes up the bulk of search traffic to publishers, traffic from all search engines has dropped by 20% in the same period.” But what does it mean?

Directory 196

Directory SEO B2B Real Estate 196

Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Other than your company’s website, most mentions were likely in well-known online news sites or trade industry publication sites. A simple tool like Google Alerts would pick up most stray citations. If Google Alerts had been developed with a focus on social media, this would be it. Social Mention. Alterian SM2.

SM2 202

SM2 Vocus Alterian Radian6 202

Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 30, 2012

Facebook / LinkedIn / Google Plus metrics (i.e. If not, or to supplement the results from those paid tools, do some manual research using free tools like AllTop , Technorati and Google Blog Search. Your prospective buyers are likely having conversations in places well beyond the big five social networking sites.

Vocus 184

Vocus Alltop Message Boards Klout 184

Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 30, 2015

To help you be efficient and find great collections of free or low-cost images, here are links to six excellent image sources along with guides to and reviews of dozens more free image sites. Reviews of Free Image Sites. 20 Sites to Get Free Stock Images for Commercial Use by Social Media Today. FreeDigitalPhotos.net.

Public Domain 100

Public Domain Wikimedia Creative Commons Hubspot 100

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2019

The first step is to choose which social media sites on which to focus your activities. Besides mainstream sites like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter, there are also niche social media platforms that target specific industries.

Social Media 164

Social Media Marketing Hashtag Campaign 164

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Examples range from Google News and Yahoo! to topic-focused niche sites such as (using social media as an example) Social Media Today and Social Media Informer. The site also makes it easy to promote your newspaper through Twitter and Facebook. Post on Google Buzz. Yet they are time-strapped and still value convenience.

Aggregator 187

Aggregator Paper.li B2B Content 187

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? that are irrelevant or profane), and enable site visitors to share comments back to their social networks without leaving your website. Blekko’s Tools Give Search Marketers Google Alternative by MediaPost Online Media Daily.

Tools 206

Tools Social Media Lithium Sysomos 206

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 30, 2012

Web Traffic Tracking Alternatives to Google Analytics by uber.la. Not too surprisingly, All in One SEO Pack, Akismet and Google XML Sitemaps top the list. 8 Excellent WordPress SEO Plugins by Six Revisions. 15 Essential WordPress Plugins (Presentation) by Mykl Roventine.

WordPress 184

WordPress Movable Type Review AJAX 184

Webbiquity SMM

JULY 1, 2013

Stay in touch with your customers by utilizing Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other social media sites to your advantage. This doesn’t mean you should just post information to these sites and then forget about it. In order for a site like Facebook to work to your advantage, you need to engage your fans.

Trends 217

Trends Marketing Mobile Engineering 217

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Blogger interest in the site seemed to follow a similar pattern. At the end of last winter, posts about how cool Quora was, the various uses for the site, and tips for getting the most out of it seemed ubiquitous. But that flood began to subside in about April of last year and had slowed to a trickle by late summer.

SEO 146

SEO MySpace Hubspot Patterns 146

Webbiquity SMM

JULY 25, 2011

Also, keep in mind that search is no longer just Google. Social media, online PR and user-generated content sites open up a new world of places to be “found.&#. Businesses that primarily serve a specific geographic area will want to have a complete and up-to-date profile in key local directories including Google, Bing and Yahoo!

Reputation 173

Reputation Directory Social Bookmarking Diagrams 173

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Writing that “The most productive PR path…is a blended approach to social and traditional media,&# Len Stein offers a quick but valuable process for obtaining and promoting old and new media coverage using multiple tools like social bookmarking sites, internal company distribution, your own website, marketing emails and more.

Press Release 200

Press Release Tips HootSuite Alltop 200

Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Any significant online news site pickups of the release are posted to Twitter (it’s okay to repeat news a few times on Twitter as not all of your followers will see all of your tweets, just don’t overdo this) and to social bookmarking sites. Post on Google Buzz. Smart companies and agencies are putting this together.

Press Release 211

Press Release Social Media Social Bookmarking Blogger 211

Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 20, 2011

company website, newsletters, syndication sites). Two Google+ Metrics. Note: Google has indicated that it plans to introduce more advanced analytics for Google+ soon. . • Most popular posts (indicates topics with highest interest). Search traffic. Social media/network-referred traffic. Other key sources of traffic (e.g.,

Social Media 194

Social Media Metrics ROI Klout 194

Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 28, 2010

And blog content is more likely to attract natural links from other sites than is standard marketing copy, as it’s inherently more interesting. Public Relations (PR): trying to manually build links from high-quality sites is difficult, tedious and time-consuming. Post on Google Buzz. Share this on Bebo. Share this on Mixx.

SEO 181

SEO Press Release Social Bookmarking Technorati 181

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 25, 2010

Want to stay up-to-date on the latest social media news and thought-leadership commentary without visiting a gazillion different sites, relying on an RSS feed (or someone else’s filter) that inevitably misses important news, or following aggregation sites that regurgitate the same over-exposed content from a handful of popular sites?

Social Media 150

Social Media Aggregator B2B Technorati 150

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Angela Bowman shares her “clean and simple list of the plugins I use most often on my WordPress sites&# for SEO, feeds, forms, security, Twitter and more. Robyn-Dale Samuda offers guidance on navigation setup, image tagging, sitemaps, permalinks, plugins and more for search-optimizing a WordPress site or blog. WordPress SEO.

WordPress 182

WordPress Content management systems Message Boards SEO 182

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Social Mention , Alterian’s SM2 Freemium and Google blog search are helpful free tools, and a growing number of commercial suites are available. Tag them on social bookmarking sites. Post on Google Buzz. Retweet them. Endorse them via Twitter’s follow Friday. Contribute to the conversation. Share this on Facebook.

SM2 189

SM2 Alterian Social Media Influencer 189

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 9, 2010

Measuring the ROI of social media is challenging for several reasons, the most significant of which is the problem of “last click attribution;&# just because a sale or lead “came from&# Twitter or Facebook as the last click doesn’t necessarily mean that site deserves all the credit. Post on Google Buzz. Tweet This!

SM2 187

SM2 Alterian Vocus Social Media 187

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 12, 2011

Even bloggers with less traffic to their site are still being pitched on a regular basis. Google Launches Blog Finder for Any Topic by ReadWriteWeb. Marshall Kirkpatrick dives into Google’s expanded blog search capabilities and concludes “The search results in this new search by blog feature look pretty good to me.

Press Release 194

Press Release Tools Tips Vocus 194

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

With 74 percent of adults using social networking sites , the opportunity to increase your site’s online exposure to new customers cannot be ignored. Google Plus, 540 million active users. or Google can help you track the number of click-backs. Guest post by Gary Dek. billion active users.

Social Media 100

Social Media Marketing Hashtag URL 100

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Employee advocacy not only has the ability to acquire new leads, but also can help create original content and bump your search rankings on Google, Yahoo, and MSN…Prospective clients are more likely to recognize your brand when you’ve got a network of employee advocates helping to sell your product through social media.

Yammer 198

Yammer Policies Social Media Yahoo 198

Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 25, 2012

It’s difficult to build a large social following on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google+ or any other such site right out of the gate. Social Networking: whether on an individual or corporate account basis, a social network grows over time as credibility is established.

Social Media 176

Social Media Content Vimeo Marketing 176

Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 12, 2012

And some multi-author blogs have morphed into hybrid portal/news/blog sites that are difficult to categorize. Guest blogger Jon Gelberg contends that “you don’t have to be Apple or Google or Sony to get the attention of the press. What are the best practices for pitching journalists in this new environment? .”

Vocus 188

Vocus Press Release Tips Blogger 188

Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The “big 5″ social networks have a definite “order of familiarity” to follow for proper social media etiquette: • Twitter, YouTube and Google+: you can follow/add virtually anyone you find interesting/relevant/influential. Google, Yahoo and Bing aren’t the only places people go to look for information.

Social Networking 190

Social Networking B2B Plaxo Marketing 190

Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 25, 2012

It’s difficult to build a large social following on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google+ or any other such site right out of the gate. Social Networking: whether on an individual or corporate account basis, a social network grows over time as credibility is established.

Social Media 170

Social Media Vimeo Content Hubspot 170

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 11, 2013

If you were to do a Google search for some of the top social networking sites , you’ll almost certainly stumble across a news story concerning privacy issues with user data. Guest post by Athena Newton.

Social Networking 171

Social Networking Privacy Policies Foursquare 171

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 26, 2014

Background on the two social media sites. social web site, surpassing Google in site visits. How can the respective histories and behaviors of these two companies inform the best practices for B2B marketers? From its founding, Myspace took off like a rocket ship while Facebook had a much slower ascension from launch.

B2B 190

B2B MySpace Startup Social Networking 190

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

You can get the whole story in B2B Blogging Trends in 2011 , a free (and no registration required) white paper from Aggregage (the software that powers the BMZ site). Post on Google Buzz. Among the findings: • If you don’t have a blog yet, 2011 is the year to start one. Share this on Bebo. Subscribe to the comments for this post?

Aggregage 181

Aggregage B2B Trends Hubspot 181

Webbiquity SMM

JULY 18, 2012

You’d probably rip the place on every review site you can think of and then never return to that establishment. Yet we tolerate exactly that type of behavior from leading search and social media sites every day, and even reward them with growing traffic and more of our precious time. And listens.

Google 181

Google Facebook MySpace Privacy 181

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Explain your goals and establish clear guidelines for any mention of the company on social media sites. She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.). Post on Google Buzz. Social Events (e.g.,

Review 152

Review Social Media Marketing Handbook 152

Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 30, 2011

Having optimized profiles on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook as well as personal profile / reputation management sites like Google Profile, Plaxo, LookupPage , VisualCV , PeoplePond and BusinessCard2 is crucial to optimizing one’s business online presence.

Social Media 188

Social Media Brands Plaxo Insurance 188

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Despite the reputation Google+ has in some circles for being the social network that everyone has joined but no one uses , marketers are increasing viewing it as a vital platform for branding and engagement. So what are the best practices for posting and sharing content on Google+? And how exactly does Google+ impact search results?

Google 198

Google Yammer Social Networking SEO 198