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APRIL 20, 2010

Because of the specificity, it’s much easier to achieve a top 10 search engine ranking for long tail searches, and higher rankings = higher conversions. The Long Tail of a Blog – In Action Last month on Convince & Convert , 6,243 incredibly discerning folks visited from some sort of search engine query.

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MAY 27, 2010

Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here. What have you seen in the social media world lately that’s excited you? (I’m I’m psyched about the Kurrently search engine ). agencies, you should be experimenting with this too). Comment away!

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MARCH 4, 2010

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JULY 28, 2010

If you have a search engine on your website, look at a report that shows what people type into that box. Make sure you’re not just shopping who you think your competitors are, but also who Google says your competitors are, based on search engine results. Internal search reports.

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MAY 25, 2010

Which Are You Providing I see 17 online marketing services that small and medium agencies (especially PR-focused firms) could credibly offer clients, if they made the effort to build competency: Search Taxonomy Analysis Search Opportunity Audits Search Engine Optimization (not super duper hard core SEO, but intermediate level) Blogger Outreach Influencer (..)

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MAY 26, 2010

YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and yet video content continues to be under-leveraged. " @jaybaer [link] [link] Debi Davis "YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world, and yet video content continues to be under-leveraged." The reviews business will be transformed by geo-location.

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APRIL 1, 2010

However, the photos in each location appear to be different, and the file names on Flickr are straight from the camera (tough to rank in search engines when your photo is named “CIMG1537″). Consistency and Leverage I didn’t start out looking to slam the Timberwolves’ social media program.

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MAY 11, 2010

Not in a “here’s our FAQ&# way, but in a vigorous, social media way. For B2B companies, I suggest adding a short slide presentation that answers each question, and possibly a podcast that answers all six in aggregate. I recommend answering each question with a dedicated blog post, and a video – at a minimum.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

gave up their search engine duties in U.S. We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Recall that MySpace was the logical heir to the online profile/social network world pioneered by Geocities, Tripod, and Angelfire.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Unless you happen to catch lightning in a bottle (#4), the incremental page views stemming from people linking to these posts or finding them on search engines adds up. I may run a similar analysis and rank my top posts by page views coming from search engines. Most of the rest are from spring 2010 or earlier. Search does matter.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Socialmention.com is basically a social search engine, if the business name is unique it can be a good option. Craig Lindberg MLT Creative [link] Andy Beal Social Media Monitoring Tools – How to Pick The Right One – [link] <– wow, all of them $500+ pm. RT @jaybaer: Not sure which social media tools to use?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is hard False. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&#

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 4, 2012

How can marketers make more productive use of their time on social networking sites? How can you make sure your company’s social media policy doesn’t run afoul of employment law? How your brand is abusing social networks by iMedia Connection. ** 5 STARS.

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MAY 19, 2010

This means the best kinds of marketing content need to be findable by Google (and the others), properly tagged, and optimized for search engines. If we like it we want to pass it around to our network so that they can interact with it. is Crucial to your Content Marketing Strategy [link] #marketing #b2b [link] Maneesh Why D.I.S.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Kurrently is a new, free real-time search engine that combines results from Twitter and Facebook in a simple, blazing fast format. I believe Kurrently has the potential to make Facebook a much larger player in the social CRM world, as companies can now instantly see just how much they are being mentioned on that platform.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Content Marketing & Thought Leadership Most often used in a B2B scenario, you create and distribute free information snacks so you can sell paid meals down the road. Social CRM The new telephone. “Social media&# will change customer service more acutely than it will change marketing. Whatchew Talking Bout?

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JUNE 3, 2010

Of these trends, the biggest is the embedding of services into online infrastructure, because the line of demarcation between your website and our social networks is going to get very fuzzy over the next few years. Ask a newly-minted Foursquare mayor how they feel about it. It will be slow, and it will be messy, though.

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APRIL 8, 2010

I totally get the point of the iPad as a way to make casually web browsing, social networking, and ebook-reading simpler and trendier, but in no way are these things “computers&#. And MiFi is soooo much better than USB dongle. Surprised it hasn't taken off more yet. RevShark Great post Jay.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. And a search engine of it's own. It would be a giant spam engine. It would be a giant spam engine. Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. It is a tool.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. And a search engine of it's own. It would be a giant spam engine. It would be a giant spam engine. Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. It is a tool.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Due to embedding of tweets, people scanning tweets but not actually having an account, and tweets being picked up by search engines, 23% of consumers read tweets at least monthly. Was their any distinction in B2C and B2B brands? Was their any distinction in B2C and B2B brands? Interaction.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

All In One SEO Pack Like many bloggers, I utilize the excellent All in One SEO Pack plug-in to optimize posts for search engine rankings. Authority Labs By far my favorite tool for tracking search engine positioning, Authority Labs shows you at a glance whether you’re #4 or #40 in Google, Bing and Yahoo! Glad I stumbled here.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

Here’s a modest contribution to help with that effort; more than six dozen of the best, most bookmark-able articles and blog posts about social media tactics, tools and strategies written so far this year, by leading writers like John Jantsch , Lori Dicker , Lee Odden , Lisa Barone , Jay Baer and many more.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

If you were Starbucks, how would you take advantage of this new network? In 1999, Yahoo had 67% of the search engine market. link] giovanni ciampaglia RT @benasmith Interesting post looking at the potential of the new Starbucks Digital Network [link] [link] Marc Buote Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook?

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APRIL 27, 2010

I'm presenting at a leadership conference (of engineers) this weekend and one of the points I will try to make is that “Information isn't boring by accident. I'm presenting at a leadership conference (of engineers) this weekend and one of the points I will try to make is that “Information isn't boring by accident.

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