Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 7 Reasons To Add Amplify To Your Social Networks December 21st, 2010 Tweet I first heard about Amplify earlier this year; I believe it was at the January chapter meeting of IABC/DC Metro.

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Kikolani

AUGUST 15, 2012

You can also +1 anything you see on a website, so for example if you read an article you particularly like and it gives you the opportunity to +1 it, you can do so. Do +1s Have Any Bearing on SEO at All? So in this sense they can have a bearing on SEO – just not in the way you might think.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Are you feeling overwhelmed by social media? As a blogger, you have to wear several different hats, from creating good quality blog post to trying to spread the word for your blog and connecting with others. This is where social media tools can help. Keep track of all your social mentions with this nifty social media tool.

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Kikolani

MAY 31, 2012

If you’re looking for quick growth on a new social network, then you should funnel fans from an existing channel. For example, you could: Borrow some of your website traffic Run a promotion with larger, established partners Send an update to your large email list Cross-promote from another social network.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 13, 2019

They’ve adapted to using online social networks (namely LinkedIn) to identify passive candidates in the last few years and it’s serving them well. The nice thing about SEO, blogging and social media marketing, is that the results are cumulative and compounding. This is a very successful company.

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Kikolani

JUNE 15, 2012

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. 10 Free Tools Every Business Blogger Should Bookmark – Explore the free tools out there that will help you be better at business blogging and content creation.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 26, 2018

If you are a blogger looking to expand your audience, translation of your existing content might have crossed your mind. As an example, a while back I translated my top-performing blog post about issues with Facebook Messenger into this version of the post written in Spanish. More on that later.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 6, 2010

But integrated properly, social media can help amplify PR efforts, and effective PR can help generate social media coverage. In this example, a press release is distributed online, posted to the company’s Facebook and Twitter updates, and used to create a social media release (using a tool such as PitchEngine ).

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

BuzzFeed mentions changes in behavior, greater use of social networks for content discovery, and a 52% increase in traffic from “‘Dark social,’ that netherland of direct traffic” (i.e., Yes, SEO (which increases website visibility) is a key component of WPO, but it’s only one component.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Will Google+ be a “Facebook killer” or just Google’s next failed social network? “Ghost town” or not, many experts agree that Google+ is here to stay, and it’s valuable for b2b marketing, SEO , personal branding, and reputation management. Google+ Guides and Tips.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 12, 2012

Many “traditional” journalists now write blogs; does that make them bloggers? What are the (current) best practices for pitching bloggers? How can PR pros optimize their use of social media tools? Find the answers to these questions and more here in a dozen of the best social PR guides of the past year.

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SocMed Sean

JULY 11, 2018

Historically, it has been a pretty fundamental activity with regards to search engine optimization (SEO). Emailing a blogger and asking them to “swap links” or “add you to their blogroll” is a thing of the past and just doesn’t work. Don’t get me wrong. Make sense? Don’t plagiarize.

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Josh S Peters

JANUARY 9, 2013

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. This layer is important, but it shouldn’t be the only focus of your social media program.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 23, 2011

Every blogger wants more traffic. The key is a balanced strategy of search engine optimization (SEO), social media, syndication and guest posting. SEO doesn’t produce immediate results, but is crucial over the long term. Twitter is the most productive, driving more than half of all non-blog social media visits.

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Postcron

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Learning SEO for blogs is much simpler than it seems. You’ll see that the myth (SEO = “very complicated”) is just that, a myth. So, when the day came that I had to start researching/studying about SEO for bloggers , there was tons of information, words, and structures. WHAT DOES SEO MEAN?

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

WordPress, Blogger, and Tumblr have made it so that anybody can put up a website. At the same time, many of the businesses who use social media are ignorant of how it works and why people use it. The vast majority of people use social networks to entertain themselves first and foremost, as well as to express themselves and communicate.

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Myrland Marketing

APRIL 6, 2010

Home About Services Social Media Speaking-Training LMA Contact Subscribe Myrland Marketing Minutes Strategic Social Media: Making Social Media Make Sense THE BEST SOCIAL NETWORK FOR LAWYERS, OR ANYONE, IS… by Nancy Myrland on April 6, 2010 An interesting question was posed on a legal marketing forum of which I am a member.

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Josh S Peters

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

When it comes to setting up a search and social strategy there is no end to the ways you can put the pieces together and it can be as simple or as complex to piece together as you want / need it to be. Simple Search And Social Strategy Framework. Knowing this will inform your marketing, social media, SEO, and content strategies.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

The Idea: “Co-op SEO&# The terminology came from one of our developers (Thanks, Dave ), but the model has been in place since our inception. That’s what we’ve dubbed, “Co-op SEO.&# I’m not an SEO expert, but I’ve learned from some of the best. How Does This Help You? Spread the net.

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Kikolani

JULY 5, 2013

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. How Much Bloggers Charge to Publish Sponsored Content – Most bloggers surveyed (60%) charge fees to work with brands or publish sponsored content.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Fetching Friday Many great posts over the last year have been from my Fetching Friday series, where I compile the best posts of the week throughout the blogosphere on a variety of topics, including blogging, social media, SEO, personal development, and more. Learn about the benefits and ways to be more accessible on social media.

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Kikolani

AUGUST 24, 2012

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. 10 B2B Companies That Create Exceptional Content – Examples of B2B companies that create great content and get inbound marketing right. Search Engines / SEO.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Top bloggers will take the time to check their posts for grammatical errors and factual inconsistencies before clicking on the ‘publish’ button. The All In One SEO Pack is a fine example which allows you to enhance a post with special tags and titles. 9 Ways to Use Social Networking for Blog Promotion.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Blogger interest in the site seemed to follow a similar pattern. But you often do want to socialize and share daily which is what you can do on Twitter or Facebook” and “There are better niche communities where you can get your questions answered, for example specialist communities or LinkedIn groups.”

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

­­This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, online business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. 17 blog archive examples – a look at good (and not so good) blog archives and how you can create one for your site. Social Media / Social Networking.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. 7 Outstanding Example Presentations Using Prezi – Want content beyond text? Rather, most bloggers would prefer to scare the ghosts and vampires away.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 12, 2018

As an example, he used the goal of producing 2,000 downloads that equate to marketing soft leads for sales. Yet today, we see SEO specialists doing earned media to earn valuable links from higher domain authority sites. She also is the lead blogger at Spin Sucks and is the founder of Spin Sucks Pro. Guest Post by Gini Dietrich.

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Kikolani

APRIL 28, 2010

Nominees for Best SEO Blog of 2010. Here are my favorite SEO (Search Engine Optimization) blogs out of the 22 nominees listed. Daily SEO Tip. Daily SEO Tip is a blog that covers everything from SEO, link building, social media, blogging, and keyword tools. A Sampling from Daily SEO Tip. ProBlogger.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 12, 2012

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. Case Study: Attracting More Blog Traffic with Long Tail Keywords – Examples of how blogging helped me get search positions and how I get extra visitors every day.

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Kikolani

AUGUST 2, 2013

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. You’ll just get one email a week on Fridays with one post about blogging, business, SEO, and social media. Search Engines / SEO. Top Five on Friday.

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Direct Marketing Observations

AUGUST 24, 2011

We’re at least five years in and I want you to quit being a social media specialist, because you aren’t one any longer. Simply put, and I’ve written about this at various points in the past, we’re all becoming social media generalists. We all did something before social media. Case in point.

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Josh S Peters

JANUARY 16, 2013

ZMOT is where people search the web for that accessible, quality content you and others have created and then use social channels for either more research and opinions or for sharing the content they find (or even the purchases they make). For example, let’s say you’re a makeup manufacturer. Josh S Peters.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. 21 Reasons You Should Write Guest Posts – As Penguin and Panda (the latest Google updates) have shown us – times are changing in SEO. Search Engines / SEO.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

StumbleUpon: The Funny, the Informational, but Not So Newsy StumbleUpon is probably the last social site that I’d consider going for “news&# — at least not for “current events.&# For example, just the other day I stumbled upon an Apple press release from 2003. Sorry, guys, it’s five years later.

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Kikolani

MAY 19, 2011

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. 10 things I hate about you as a blogger – when it’s time to break up with a blog. Search Engines / SEO. Social Media / Social Networking.

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Kikolani

MARCH 4, 2011

­­This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, online business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. 21 brilliant bloggers talk about commenting – great roundup of articles about the art of blog commenting. Search Engines / SEO / Link Building / Analytics.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The Blog World eBook – for those who missed Blog World Expo, check out this free ebook on one awesome blogger’s experiences. 4 ways to get traffic to your blog via LinkedIn Answers – great tips for bloggers on LinkedIn. 7 social link building tips – how engagement can build links.

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