Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 15, 2011

How Q&A Sites Can Boost Your SEO » Is Twitter Still A Good Marketing Tool? Twitter has posted some impressive numbers about its service and Frank at Marketing Pilgrim has picked up on them, and he’s asking some really pertinent questions. Not every Twitter account holder is active. Many people are.

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Small Business Tools Postrank Twitter 93

Convince & Convert

JANUARY 11, 2011

The more fans that click “like” and comment, the more likely your future updates are to be seen in their News Feed, dramatically increasing your actual Facebook audience. Rather than paying rapt attention to the number of Twitter followers you’ve corralled, instead look at your Klout score. PostRank Analytics solves this problem.

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Metrics Postrank Social Media Klout 159

SocialFish

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Clearly this is enough to keep y’all busy for a while, but if you want more SocialFish curated links, here’s the link to the feed to subscribe to Maddie’s Reader shares. *NB or higher out of 10 by my beloved PostRank plugin. Alan Rusbridger: Why Twitter matters for media organisations (Guardian.co.uk).

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Jason Yormark

AUGUST 25, 2010

Most achieved a Postrank of higher then 6, and 9 out of the 10 articles dealt with social media. For those not familiar, Postrank is a nifty little WordPress plugin that provides some analysis into the social engagement factor of the content you create. These were the top 10 visited blog articles I wrote in the past year.

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Data Postrank WordPress Course 184

Kikolani

JULY 28, 2010

Adding your blog to the PostRank system (if it’s not already there) and under particular topic categories, you can get ranked in the top blogs on that topic based on your blog’s social engagement. Do you have a Google account (ie. For Top Blog Lists. Want to get listed as a top blog in your niche? Get listed on these sites.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 24, 2011

Google Grants for Google AdWords Google offers $10,000 per month free advertising to qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations serving the arts, education, health, science, technology, and volunteering. You can catch up with her on Twitter or by email. Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Google, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Amplify, are the here and now. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. calendars – Google Blog Search [.] may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or Subscribe by Email. When clocks and calendars collide.

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Postrank Tourism RSS Blogroll 129

Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 25, 2010

Now they’re offering a direct sync with Google (beta) if you’re a premium user (read, give them money, currently just under US $60 a year). I am, which means I can keep my contacts current in both places, which will be useful should I ever stop using Google Contacts. But I’ll go with the flow. I don’t.

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Plaxo Products Tools Class 251

Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Comment as pts moderator 3HatsComm Getting info Pending approval share On Facebook On Twitter flag Delete Hide Unhide Ban user New! Whats more, I just added new fruitful blog names in my Google Reader. That’s why I read him.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It’s the Google generation’s way of thinking. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Comment as pts moderator Jill Foster Getting info Pending approval share On Facebook On Twitter flag Delete Hide Unhide Ban user New! Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Class WordPress Creative Commons Postrank 215

Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Google can’t save us from ourselves , from SpeakerBox’s The Sounding Board. She’s another quite amazing person I’ve been lucky to meet, first through Twitter and then IRL. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. And her recap still touches me.

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Jason Yormark

AUGUST 30, 2009

Most people with a pulse can tell you that Facebook and Twitter are all the rage, but Socialnomics drives it home with detailed examples from organizations that have embraced social media and found huge success (Obama’s campaign detailed in Chapter 4), to companies that have missed the boat (see Hasbro’s Scrabble incident in Chapter 7).

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Review Case Study Postrank Study 209

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

A while back, I was looking at my Google Analytics for WUL and I noticed that my 404 page , i.e. the one you get when the server can’t find the page you’re looking for on a particular site, was the 4th most highly-trafficked page on my blog. First, you… Image: Kate Sumbler via Flickr , Creative Commons Hold on! pts Settings.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 13, 2011

With Google Analytics I can see if people are engaging with our blog’s content and then use that information to adapt to the preferences of site visitors. My favorite thing to do in the morning is check Google Analytics to see where our site visitors are coming from. So pitching the merits of going paperless was a no-brainer.

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Project How To Class Posterous 170

Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It integrates with Twitter, which was the first reason I took to it. So when I post to Amplify, it posts to Twitter as well (assuming I’ve set up the sync) – and I can post to as many Twitter accounts as I like. I know we can do that for Twitter through HootSuite, etc., It’s easy. Can you say OMIGOD?!

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Social Networking Class Comments Conversation 270

Kikolani

JANUARY 16, 2011

Be sure to list your new blog URL as well as your new RSS feed URL in that post so people can subscribe easily to your new site or visit it directly. When you share your post on Twitter or Facebook, instead of just sharing the title and the link, propose a question there such as “Got an opinion on the new Facebook profile design?

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Questions WordPress Postrank Blogger 167

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do a Google search for Bryce Keane, one of WUL’s regular guest-bloggers. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Comment as pts moderator Jen Marsik Friess Getting info Pending approval share On Facebook On Twitter flag Delete Hide Unhide Ban user New!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 16, 2010

If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Comment as pts moderator Robin Ferrier Getting info Pending approval share On Facebook On Twitter flag Delete Hide Unhide Ban user New! How cool are my commenters? Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Social Media Class Creative Commons Flickr 224

Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Remember when Twitter lists first appeared? Of course it’s pleasant if you see your name on so-and-so’s “X number of Twitter hotties&# list, or any iteration thereof. A not-so-obvious hashtag to include is #solopr, which is related to Kellye Crane ‘s Twitter chat. You know why? What about you?

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List Class How To Comments 161

Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

Google Analytics Before Google Analytics came along there weren’t really that many decent tracking tools available. Instead of waiting around for Google to catch up, you can see what is happening on your website, right now. Postrank I have been using Postrank Analytics for about 3 weeks now and find it really impressive.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 26, 2011

.&# The unit will give brand-related action such as a “like&# or a check-in a lot more visibility on Facebook by adding them to an ad unit in addition to users’ news feeds. This seems to try to put a twist on Twitter’s much-ballyhooed “ promoted tweets ,&# which received more than its fair share of attention.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 29, 2011

Then measure it.You can use Google Analytics, PostRank or even (GASP!) Photos especially are great SEO tools…so allow your photos to be your Google’s Marilyn Monroe, while your writing is the classy Jackie O. Determine what the benefits to blogging will be. Are you trying to create community? Then live it.

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Press Release Technorati Klout Metrics 238

Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

In fact, a search for “social media agencies&# on Google yields more than 41 MILLION matching Web pages. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google. There’s a way to get your Facebook update seen in more news feeds. There’s an optimal time of day and day of week to tweet. Between bit.ly

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Social Media Strategy CoTweet CoTweet 121

Ari Herzog

MARCH 3, 2011

Feed Pauser halts the syndication of a new blog post for up to 20 minutes to let me ensure there are no typos and that the published appearance is how it was intended. Google XML Sitemaps helps search engine robots know what the site looks like, enabling you to see the best post when searching for a keyword.

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WordPress Lurker Postrank NoFollow 168

Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

I went from having over 150 blogs in my feed reader in the last few years to just 12, purely because I was seeing the same content over, and over (and over) again. While the service was a little too basic to pay for, I do still enjoy the company’s Postrank tool. Especially in regards to my own affiliate marketing strategy.

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How To Delicious StumbleUpon Postrank 77

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Follow him on Twitter. If you have your brand name as your Twitter handle and a portrait photo of you on your profile, you are getting it all wrong. You may want to create a custom Twitter background, custom Facebook fan page landing tab (with FBML) and custom YouTube channel backgrounds. Some however see it as an opportunity.

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Questions Social Media How To Postrank 277

Kikolani

JUNE 28, 2013

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. 3 Marketing Tools I Miss (and Their Alternatives) – If you used PostRank, Formulists, or Google Reader, here are the best alternatives. Be sure to follow Kristi on Twitter and Facebook.

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Marketing Postrank eBook RSS 119

ProBlogger

MARCH 17, 2011

Followers—be they RSS subscribers, Twitter followers, Facebook friends, or something else—are not a great way to measure your influence, at least not at face value. PostRank is a great service to measure influence in an effective way. That old adage applies here: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.

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eBook Postrank Influencer System 41

Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Making The Most Of A Twitter Chat September 2nd, 2010 Tweet Huddle, huddle, roil and muddle I remember the first Twitter chat I attended. But a Twitter chat? It drove me nuts.

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