Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

For both public relations and search engine optimization, publishing content via other people’s sites is a critical part of their everyday duties. Gatekeepers are the ones who control what is published on their site. Here are a few ways to find topically relevant sites: Follow blogrolls. Image: SalFalko via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Blogger Strategy Technorati Community building 263

Idaconcpts

AUGUST 26, 2010

Many website owners as their businesses expand they come to the dilemma of splitting their sites into a few microsites so they can rank better for their targeted terms. – Reasons to split a site into Microsites. By splitting your site into microsites you will have to remove a great deal of content. Links Farms Issue.

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Sites Domain Name SEO Directory 132

Freelance Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Google Wave Invites Being Sold on Ebay by cinta5 on September 30, 2009 Google wave invites going for as much as 72 bucks? This has to be breaking Google’s Terms of Service About the author Jacinta wrote 70 articles on this blog.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 7, 2010

Google has quietly made a change recently in Google Webmaster Tools. Just so you know, when I say “linking&# , I am referring to getting links from other web sites to your web site. Just so you know, when I say “linking&# , I am referring to getting links from other web sites to your web site.

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Freelance Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe 8 minute video explaining Google Wave by cinta5 on September 30, 2009 Google uploaded this video on Sunday, pretty awesome. Developers Stephanie ( @Twephanie ) and Greg take us through Google Wave.

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Google Video Foursquare Technorati 127

Freelance Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Twitter Reaches Deal with Google and Bing by cinta5 on October 21, 2009 Looks like you’ll no longer need to visit search.twitter.com to search for twitter updates. I’ve been using it for awhile and it’s very handy!

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Idaconcpts

DECEMBER 28, 2010

For many Google has become the patron saint of open source, and the number of open source projects Google supports or directly develops seems to increase every day. Google Refine. Think of Google Refine as a cleansing diet for your database. Think of Google Refine as a cleansing diet for your database. EarthSurfer.

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Open Source Project OpenSocial Google 151

Freelance Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Google Wave: Thoughts after an hour of testing by cinta5 on October 1, 2009 I was fortunate enough to be 1 of the 100,000. Here’s what I took away from an hour of testing Google Wave. Thanks, borjanoise It looks great!

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Google Foursquare Construction Technorati 169

Freelance Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Google Friend Connect by cinta5 on December 5, 2008 Webmasters looking to add social features to their websites can now do so with Google’s Friend Connect. About the author Jacinta wrote 70 articles on this blog.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The Web Marketing Association has named the Best Web Sites in 96 different categories. I took a look at the top award winning web sites and the web sites of those who produced them: and am horrified to see a lack of basic search engine optimization techniques being applied. – Best of Show Web Site.

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Engineering Sites Marketing SEO 136

Freelance Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Google Wave Tips and Tricks, Twitter by cinta5 on October 2, 2009 Wave Tips and Tricks was started by Sam Davyson Find the wave here The first 7 tips posted are below: 1. Mark read waves as read.

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Tips Social Media Google Twitter 169

Freelance Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Google Updates Analytics Favicon by Jesse on August 5, 2008 I was a little disappointed in the last favicon update that Google rolled out a few weeks back. I like it, let us know what you think.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 14, 2011

If you are looking for a web site called “ Cake Central “, then you probably don’t want to perform a Google search today. Apparently Google thinks that a web site called Beerby.com is ranking Cake Central, a popular wedding cake web site, first in the search results for this brand search.

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Google URL Technorati Yahoo 97

Freelance Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Adobe Flash now trackable with Google Analytics by cinta5 on November 17, 2008 It was frustrating when I had used a bit of flash on a site and was unable to track its performance. It looks like the times have changed!

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 14, 2010

For this search engine optimization tip, let’s talk more about content and adding content to your web site. You would think that when planning a new web site or a totally new version of your web site that you can sit down, make a list of web pages, create the content, and forget about it. Web Sites that Rank Well Are Experts.

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Engineering Sites Widget Tips 100

Socialized

AUGUST 1, 2009

Technorati ’s new Twittorati (launched July 7, and not last week as some sites are reporting ) will feature tweets from what Technorati thinks are the top 100 bloggers. And if I didn’t, I would set up Google Reader or a NetVibes page with Twitter and blog RSS feeds from only the top bloggers that interest me.

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Technorati Features Netvibes Aggregator 167

Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Google Instant is an enhancement to Google’s search engine that shows you, and changes, the search results as you type, in real time. By implementing Google Instant, Google is trying to enhance our overall search experience by delivering the search results to us, faster. What it means for Search Engine Optimization.

Engineering 106

Engineering Google Hotels Technorati 106

Bill Hartzer

JUNE 18, 2010

This search engine optimization tip has to do with removing a page or a specific URL from the Google search engine. In this blog post, I am not going to give you a log of explanation about why you would want to remove a web page from Google. But, what I am going to do is give you several options for removing a web page from Google.

Engineering 136

Engineering Google Tips Directory 136

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.

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Vocus Alltop Message Boards Klout 184

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 10, 2011

You can easily search Google to find reviews for different places, but the results are not always useful for your situation. Google Hotpot is a website that is specifically tied to Google that allows you to search for ratings of places in your local area saving you lots of time, and energy.

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Review Google Technorati StumbleUpon 89

Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Some web hosting companies have now taken it to a new low: they are monetizing (making money) from your web site without your knowledge. And most web site owners don’t even know that this is happening to them. It could be happening to you, on your web site, and you don’t even know it. Search Marketing.

Hosting 103

Hosting Domain Name Sites Adwords 103

Jason Yormark

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

If you do a search for social media jobs, you’ll find a fair share of sites claiming to specialize in social media jobs, but 9 times out of 10, they’re just another iteration of a site pulling job ads from a job network such as JobThread. Add this to Google Bookmarks. Post on Google Buzz. Share this on Reddit.

Technorati 195

Technorati StumbleUpon Digg Google Reader 195

Bill Hartzer

JUNE 8, 2009

User Centric has released the results of an eye tracking study that compares data between Google and the new Microsoft search engine Bing. What is interesting to note is that sponsored links are attracting more attention than they are on Google. Google users appear to be more aware of the sponsored links. Post on Google Buzz.

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Study Google Technorati Engineering 127

Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

NASDAQ: SCOR) has recently released a study that focused on Google’s dominance in two emerging Internet markets: Brazil and India. They say that about seventy five percent of all Internet users globally visited one of Google’s web sites at least once last year. .&# In India, Google Sites accounted for 88.4

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 3, 2010

Google has issued what they are calling an SEO Report Card , an effort to provide Google’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations. Matt Cutts from Google explained that Google had done this “on purpose&#. Appealing Google sitelinks.

Engineering 107

Engineering Issues Report Google 107

Mindjumpers

JANUARY 5, 2011

3) It’s also a good thing to start monitoring and tracking of your brand, so you can be updated on when somebody mentions you and be aware of what is creating traffic to your site. This can be done by using Google Analytics and Google Alert , just to name a few, both of them being great tools for doing this.

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Social Media Marketing Policies Technorati 226

Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 19, 2010

You can investigate it here at Google Apps Rainmaker social CRM store. CloudCenter’s site is here. Rainmaker: Social CRM for Google Apps. Instantly turn Google Contacts into a Social CRM with the following features: Better Contacts – Populate from Social networks. Saved Contacts – Sync with Google Contacts.

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Social CRM Google B2B Social Networking 75

Jason Yormark

OCTOBER 20, 2010

I’ll be sure to share how this new partnership results in traffic for my site in a future post. Add this to Google Bookmarks. Post on Google Buzz. Add this to Google Reader. Share this on Technorati. Tweet This! Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Facebook. Share this on FriendFeed.

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Social Media Technorati Content StumbleUpon 178

Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Back in December 2009 , Google began showing the integration of the real-time web in the Google organic search results. Somehow, algorithmically, Google adds these features into the natural search results. Let us take a look at an example of what I am tattling about. Why would you want to do this?

Engineering 115

Engineering Google SEO Technorati 115

Freelance Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2008

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe E-commerce platform Magento integrates Google’s Website Optimizer by cinta5 on December 1, 2008 Magento is one of the best, if not the best, e-commerce platforms. There is a joint webinar this Wednesday, December 3 at 11:30 cst.

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Platform Google Foursquare Technorati 100

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. Share this on Technorati. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Press Release Social Media Social Bookmarking Blogger 211

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

Jason Yormark

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I’ve tried to avoid all the repetitive job sites that “claim” to be focused on social media/community, but are just glorified job boards with social media jobs listed at the top. Add this to Google Bookmarks. Post on Google Buzz. Add this to Google Reader. Share this on Technorati. Share this on Facebook.

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Resources Communities Social Media Technorati 196

Harp Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

cross-post your updates to Jaiku and many other sites like Facebook , MySpace , LinkedIn and more via Ping.fm. Options to post content to 50+ social media sites and more! Allows you to build a customized feed of made up of content your friends on other collaborative sites have shared, including news articles, photos and more.

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Resources Ping.fm Tools Social Media 243

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 Technorati.

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SEO Press Release Social Bookmarking Technorati 181

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.

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SM2 Vocus Alterian Radian6 202

Kikolani

JULY 28, 2010

There are a lot of places to list your blog for getting the maximum exposure, as well as places where you can receive blog reviews that may be the first impression a visitor may come across for your site. Here are some to add your blog or submit your site to in order to increase your blog traffic and reputation. For Reviews.

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List Alltop Forums Technorati 144