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Best Practices for Using Social Media Listening to Improve Your Marketing Strategy

Social Media Strategies Summit

The use of the word “social” is a little misleading because it’s not limited to platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn. Social listening can cover the whole of the web, often focusing on sites like blogs and forums alongside social media. As you can likely imagine, monitoring the entire internet is no easy task.

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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity SMM

Facebook / LinkedIn / Google Plus metrics (i.e. Find relevant groups on Facebook and LinkedIn. This is as simple as searching within “groups” on each social networking site for your primary keywords and recording the results. followers/fans/circles, how complete is their profile, level of activity).

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12 of the Best WordPress Guides, Hacks and Plugins of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

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.

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Visibility is More About Social Than Search

Proactive Report

Google is severely penalizing sites that are buying links or are invested in private blog networks. Sites that have dominated search in the recent past are being penalized or de-indexed, going from the first page to page twenty or being removed completely, stripping many eCommerce sites of revenue. It’s worth it!

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Step 1: Hit The Big Three (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) It’s no secret that social networking is all the rage, so it doesn’t take a genius to point out that you need to start there. In addition, WordPress’ sister offerings, BBpress and Buddypress offer message board and social network features as well that all integrate well with each other.

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How to Integrate Social Media into Your Website with a Homeland Embassy Strategy

Convince & Convert

Is it okay for a company or brand to engage on Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin but be antisocial on their own website? He knew that by hosting the conversation on his own site, whether the discourse was positive or negative, and allocated staff to respond, he was able to sell against those conversations. The option just doesn’t exist.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

Other than your company’s website, most mentions were likely in well-known online news sites or trade industry publication sites. I’ve used this tool on behalf of small clients for finding hundreds of key influencers on Twitter, blogs and various other social networking sites and forums. Social Mention. Alterian SM2.

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