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Tool Tuesday: PostRank Analytics

Akamai Marketing

Because if you are creating content, you are likely distributing and promoting that content in variety of ways, including social media. Enter: PostRank. In short, PostRank endeavors not only to show you how much TRAFFIC you got, but how many times a particular post was talked about. There are several tabs within PostRank, each designed to give you a unique view of the data. What’s your social currency?

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Top 25 Blogging and Social Media Posts on Kikolani

Kikolani

This first list is a compilation of the top posts on Kikolani, as determined by PostRank ’s engagement analysis. 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. Social Media. Learn about the benefits and ways to be more accessible on social media.

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You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure! Social Media Analytics

Harp Interactive

The client wants to know if their social media campaign is working! They want to understand how social media marketing will meet their goals before they commit to a budget allocation for a “mythical campaign&#. Social media marketing companies like other marketing agencies need to back their claims with statistics and provide metrics to prove effectiveness. PostRank : A content analyzer and provides great feedback on Tweets, Digg, Stumble and Freindfeed.

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Talking The Social Media Walk

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Talking The Social Media Walk December 16th, 2010 Tweet Walking, and talking, and talking, and walking… When I wrote about walking the social talk last week, I had no idea what a terrific discussion it would spur. True, there is no perfect “right&# or “wrong&# way to walk the social talk.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media? Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. Two Sides of the Same Coin A remarkable recent study by MarketingProfs, however, pokes a hole in even that notion of B2B and B2C social media divergence.

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6 Critically Undervalued Social Media Success Metrics

Convince & Convert

People who say social media isn’t measurable aren’t looking very hard. The truth is that there are at least 25 viable metrics you can use to evaluate the success of your social media efforts. Here are the 6 critically undervalued social media success metrics. PostRank. PostRank Analytics solves this problem. The best part of PostRank Analytics is the Engagement Score, which is sort of your Klout score for each blog post.

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How to Audit Your Social Media Efforts: 20+ Questions to Ask Yourself

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Business , Marketing , Social Media > How to Audit Your Social Media Efforts: 20+ Questions to Ask Yourself How to Audit Your Social Media Efforts: 20+ Questions to Ask Yourself by Tamar Weinberg on June 16, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Kwame Boame. Some people think social media is just fun.

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Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social September 7th, 2010 Tweet Today BNET published my second post, focusing on how companies can use social media to turn customers into evangelizers. Social media is a great way to start doing this.

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Social Media Book Giveaway Contest Follow Up

Jason Yormark

8.1/10 PostRank (50% higher then average). And without further ado, the winner of the Social Media Book Giveaway is Sue Koch ! Social Media Book Package Giveaway! Social Media Friendly Blogging. Tags: Blogging Social Media Tweet When I decided to do a book giveaway, my intentions were certainly noble. I genuinely wanted to give them away.

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25 Guest Posts on Blogging, SEO and Social Media

Kikolani

Earlier this week, I shared the top 25 blogging and social media posts on Kikolani. This year, I have had the fortune of being a regular contributor and guest blogger on a lot of awesome sites, including Social Media Examiner , Search Engine Journal , Search Engine Watch , Stay on Search , Vertical Measures , Famous Bloggers , and many others. Social Media. Top 25 Blogging and Social Media Posts on Kikolani.

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How does your brand look on social media?

Janet Fouts

It used to be this would return a list of scholarly papers, some nasty pictures of you at a bachelor party, a random smattering of form posts about cupcakes or software and possibly your connections on some social networks. If any part of your job relates to social engagement you’d best have a good look at your numbers on some of the ranking sites and see how you’re doing before you stick your foot in your mouth and say you’re fantastic at creating an online presence.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search 6 Critical Services Agencies Must Provide to Stay Relevant in Social Media March 3rd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is there a future for agencies in a social media world?

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Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media September 28th, 2010 Tweet I haven’t been the biggest fan of my local energy company, Pepco, recently. To pick up where I left off I was all set to do a humdinger of a post about how terrible Pepco was, particularly in its use of social media.

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How Pink Panties Heralded India's Social Media Movement

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How Pink Panties Heralded India’s Social Media Movement January 4th, 2011 Tweet Move over, adult entertainment It might border on redundant to mention that the social web has surpassed pornography as the most popular activity on the Internet. Apprehensions of a social bubble, destined to eventually attain saturation, still linger.

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Best of #SMAZ – Blogging Tips, Social Media ROI, & SEO

Kikolani

One of my goals for 2010 is to attend some events / seminars / conventions pertaining to blogging and social media, and today was a great start as I attended the Social Media Arizona event in Tempe. Social Media 101. After having a bagel and cream cheese, my colleague Sarah and I went to the first session on Social Media 101, a discussion led by Evo Terra of A Simpler Way. Measuring Social Media Influence. Social Media ROI.

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Social Media Book Giveaway Contest Follow Up | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Blogging , Social Media / Social Media Book Giveaway Contest Follow Up | Subcribe via RSS Social Media Book Giveaway Contest Follow Up September 13th, 2010 Posted in Blogging , Social Media Tweet Share When I decided to do a book giveaway, my intentions were certainly noble. And without further ado, the winner of the Social Media Book Giveaway is Sue Koch !

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Tunisia, Social Media And Change

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Tunisia, Social Media And Change January 20th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Conway Wigg A new year and a new life After four-plus great years in London with @propellergroup , I have now started a new adventure with Malta’s leading marketing agency, BPC International. There’s no doubt social media played its part.

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3 Marketing Tools I Miss (and Their Alternatives)

Kikolani

PostRank. PostRank was a social analytics platform that scored blogs based on their engagement (comments and social shares). I wrote about PostRank regularly as a way to discover the most engaging content on blogs for inspiration, guest post pitches, and competitor research. PostRank Alternatives. You can see the top blog posts based on social engagement and sort them by most tweets, likes, +1′s, and stumbles. Blogging Social Media

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Top SocialFish posts of 2010

SocialFish

As a quick wrap-up to 2010, here were the top SocialFish blog posts of the year (based on Postrank score, which measures pageviews, RSS views, comments, tweets and retweets, shares, Buzz, bookmarks, clicks, trackbacks etc.) The Trainer’s Social Media Tool Box. Need help with Social Media policies? How to find your people on the social web – fast! The Science of Social Media Marketing. Cool tools in my social media arsenal.

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Weekly Roundup: The Spin Sucks Edition

Waxing UnLyrical

PostRank Connect and analytics for bloggers , by Gini (yikes, this is getting old). Why: I’ve been using PostRank for a while, but Gini beat me to the punch in talking about it. Blogging Blogging for Grasshoppers Public Relations Resources Social Media Weekly Roundup gini dietrich spin sucksI don’t think I’ve ever done this before. Devoted an entire Weekly Roundup to posts from one – yes, one! – blog.

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The 4 Types of Content Metrics That Matter

Convince & Convert

Even though my blog includes public displays of affection like number of tweets (look at the top of this page), by far my favorite way to track sharing metrics is PostRank Analytics , which combines all the sharing behaviors into one jambalaya of data that’s easy to track and compare. Unfortunately, PostRank was bought by Google a few months ago, so you may not be able to sign up as a new user.

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5 metrics to track on Twitter

Akamai Marketing

Again, I’ll say that what you should measure depends on your strategy, what are you trying to accomplish with social media? PostRank will help balance out the information from Google Analytics, including RSS feed tracking and conversation on Twitter surrounding a particular link. Metrics social media Study advice analytics metrics TwitterIt happened again this weekend. Over mimosas and a lovely chat.

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MeasurePR, the Don Bartholomew Edition Round II

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali MeasurePR, the Don Bartholomew Edition Round II September 21st, 2010 Tweet I probably sound like a breathless teenager But last week’s #measurepr chat with Don Bartholomew was Awesome. We continued our conversation on social media and ROI.

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Measurement… Supplemented

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Measurement… Supplemented October 22nd, 2010 Tweet Last week, Priya Ramesh, CRT/tanaka ‘s director of social media, joined us for the bi-weekly #measurePR chat. The SMAB were health and wellness experts so their motivation to guide CRN’s social media efforts was high.

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Like Stuff On Facebook? Say Cheese, You're An Ad!

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Like Stuff On Facebook? January 26th, 2011 Tweet What’s the buzz, tell me what’s happening Yesterday’s social media storm-in-the-making (or so it seems to me) was about the fact that Facebook can now turn your “likes&# into ads. I think the next few months/years will be interesting to watch in social media.

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5 Steps to Submitting a Guest Post & Getting It Published

Kikolani

One of the easiest ways to do that is using Google Reader in the Chrome browser with the PostRank Chrome extension. Simply subscribe to your desired guest post destination in Google Reader, and let PostRank do the rest. This little snapshot is from Mashable’s RSS for their social media category. I’d still suggest the Google Reader / Chrome / PostRank extension option as it will give you a faster view of their latest posts and PostRank scores.

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Link Love Monthly: Best of November 2010 [experimental]

SocialFish

The list below is for serendipity ; if you prefer our “Must Read&# shares about important stuff for association social media, please click here to subscribe , or click here to browse. or higher out of 10 by my beloved PostRank plugin. I’m going to test whether this selection can be automated to some extent (thereby creating an example of how YOU can save time should you want to use PostRank rankings for your own association curating!). Outspoken Media).

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4 Free Tools for Researching Guest Blogging and Advertising Opportunities

Kikolani

PostRank. If you’ve been following my writing for a while, you will notice I always find a way to throw in a mention for PostRank , and for good reason. Simply search keywords in your industry, and PostRank will give you a list of the blogs with the top engagement on that topic. Engagement Details on PostRank. When you hover a post’s engagement score, you will see the number of comments, social shares, and social bookmarking for that individual post.

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Let Your Freak Flag Fly

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Let Your Freak Flag Fly October 6th, 2010 Tweet This is a guest post by Narciso Tovar This past week, I gave a presentation to the Dallas IREM group about the importance of giving social media a second look. Music is a great way to help the social networking medicine go down.

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The Everything In Between Post

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali The Everything In Between Post January 29th, 2011 Tweet This post has nothing whatsoever to do with public relations or media, even social media (well, peripherally social media).

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Is Twitter Still A Good Marketing Tool? | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

But Frank asks other good questions too, like “If you took away the social media ‘insiders’, in other the words the ‘super user’ how many tweets would you have?&# – Twitter has posted some impressive numbers about its service and Frank at … [link] Log in to Reply Gina Witucki says: March 16, 2011 at 7:32 pm Small Business Mavericks – PostRank (PostRank: All) – Is Twitter Still A Good Marketing Tool? About Us What’s a Maverick?

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How Do You Define Blogging Success?

Jason Yormark

My own desire to crack the AdAge 150 often has me banging my head on blog topic choices and how to drive my Alexa, Yahoo Backlinks, and PostRank ratings higher. Social Media Friendly Blogging. My blog often stresses me out. As much as I enjoy writing and actually having a decent audience that actually reads what I write, it’s definitely become part of my regular routine.

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Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses

Akamai Marketing

Blogs for business are an outstanding tool for business, they can build community, be the backbone of your social media program, and drive traffic to your website, just for starters. Then measure it.You can use Google Analytics, PostRank or even (GASP!) NOW HEAR THIS : No one wants to read your overly edited, specifically written to attract media attention, 1 page maximum dribble. Audiences have no shortage of media to consume, pictures and video help tell the story.

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The 4 Marketing Metrics Mandates

Convince & Convert

Tweet There are four mandates that companies are adopting when they are examining and analyzing the success of their online marketing and social media programs. Companies like PostRank (with its analytics product), and Klout (with its online influence measure) and leading this integrated metrics parade. But in the social media realm, we haven’t quite gotten there yet. Social media results are still too much about trial and error, not optimization.

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What I've Learned About Blogging Based On A Year's Worth Of Data

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Blogging , Social Media , Wordpress / What I’ve Learned About Blogging Based On A Year’s Worth Of Data | Subcribe via RSS What I’ve Learned About Blogging Based On A Year’s Worth Of Data August 25th, 2010 Posted in Blogging , Social Media , Wordpress Tweet Share I didn’t really get serious about blogging until the past year, and even then, I haven’t written as much as I would like.

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MeasurePR: The BrandBuilder Edition

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali MeasurePR: The BrandBuilder Edition November 3rd, 2010 Tweet If you work in the PR/marketing world(s) (are they one now? So I’m quite delighted that he will be joining the #measurePR Twitter chat on November 9, to talk about social media ROI and possibly quite a bit else.

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Influence is Not a Number

Waxing UnLyrical

I’ve written before about why Klout should not be a synonym for influence , and on influence in public relations and social media … so I’m sorry if I’m boring you. I’d look at Klout, Traackr (for now, while I have access to the system), perhaps MyMediaInfo (I’m currently a subscriber), Technorati (I know, I know), maybe PostRank … and I’d also be doing good old-fashioned searching, reading and listening.

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Bringing Open Community To Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Bringing Open Community To Public Relations November 22nd, 2010 Tweet Color me thrilled When Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer asked me to participate in a virtual book tour to explore concepts from Open Community (they call it “a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web&# ), I was thrilled.

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Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News November 15th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt Please stop yawning Don’t worry. Take this example: Let’s say you’ve created a tool that helps non-profits with social media, and you are sending out a news release as part of your launch.

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Meet Kristi and Her Key to Blog Promotion

Ari Herzog

I have a nice list of users who regularly ask me for votes on social sites or retweets, and I generally accommodate them, assuming it is a good article. I also keep their usernames in a text file list for future reference as people I can count on for a little social promotion. Win a Free Copy of “The Social Media Marketing Book&# by Dan Zarrella. Experienced blog publishers recognize that popularity and traffic come over time.

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The Top News Sites on Blekko

Adam Sherk

The AOL News hostrank figure seems strangely low but I doubled checked it and that’s what Blekko is reporting: Side note: when I compared news sites on social media engagement there was a question about which domain was used for MSNBC. As with the PostRank data used in that post, even though the MSNBC site is on msnbc.msn.com the Blekko data for msnbc.com shows larger figures so I used that domain instead. The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites.

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Socialnomics Book Review | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Book Reviews , Social Media / Socialnomics Book Review | Subcribe via RSS Socialnomics Book Review August 30th, 2009 Posted in Book Reviews , Social Media Tweet Share I debated whether to post a book review as I experienced flashes of high school busy work, but Socialnomics is certainly relevant to my world, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Related posts: Social Media Book Package Giveaway!

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Weekly Roundup: Trick or Treat

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Weekly Roundup: Trick or Treat October 31st, 2010 Tweet Today’s Hallowe’en. Some Halloween social media fun for a good cause , from Beth Kanter. How to celebrate Halloween social media style , from New Media Strategies. The Halloween theory of social media , from Richard Bailey’s PR Studies.

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