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10 Marketing & Promotion Tips to Help You Get More Traffic

Josh S Peters

Get started by visiting the Google Adwords homepage and signing up to the world’s largest PPC advertising network: adwords.google.com. Create a Social Media Presence . Social media is one of the new faces of the internet, and the major social networks combined easily encompass more than one billon internet users.

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HOW TO: Optimize the OG:Description Tag for Search and Social

Josh S Peters

OG stands for Open Graph which is a tagging protocol (OGP) that is quickly spreading and being adopted across the web as a new standard (you can learn all about OGP at the Open Graph Protocol site ). What a site will display is a completely different scenario. What a site will display is a completely different scenario.

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The Convergence of Search and Social – Part 1

Josh S Peters

she’s studying to be a beautician) and very rarely does she use the manufacturers web site to find the info she’s looking for. She’s relying on her own and other’s social networks. THE CONVERGENCE OF SEARCH AND SOCIAL.

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Search and Social Weekly (1.6)

Josh S Peters

Upon getting to play with the new search bar, I found myself impressed – it’s clearly a better interface, and while perhaps not a “game changer”, it definitely improves upon the ability to search on Facebook, and it has the potential to be built upon quite nicely… 10 Innovative Social Media Newsjacks of the Super Bowl Power Outage.

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The Convergence of Search and Social Part 7 – A Strategy Framework

Josh S Peters

Start with your own analytics platform(s) and see what kind of insights you can gain about where your customers are coming from and what they are looking at on your site. Use a social media listening platform like Radian6, Trakur, Sysomos, etc. and determine what blogs they read, social networks they use, forums or wikis they use, etc.

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Twitter Analytics… we’re waiting

Josh S Peters

The informational 1/2 is a list of sites / methods that you can use to get Twitter analytics data. Which, it’s great that they exist, but you have to be a little suspicious of the accuracy since it’s not coming directly from the source.

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The Convergence of Search and Social Part 2 – Social Media

Josh S Peters

The content created for branding and awareness is often what gets shared more since they are typically more engaging and designed to be interesting and shareable on social networks which can give them a bump in the search results. SEARCH AND SOCIAL TIPS. Facilitate R&D. This is another layer I expect to see grow in 2013.