It talks about putting a team together and how to find resources like industry news and search conferences. It's a great reference while you're building a site," Jones said. If you're more technical and have optimized site architecture but are...
All this and much more in our quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. Windows 8 App Refresh – Bing Search BlogBing News app is now customizable, offers offline reading, and supports RSS; Bing Maps now has...
While Facebook sent my news site the most referrals, Twitter tends to be the biggest social referrer for both my agency site and most of the sites for which I have Google Analytics access. Last example: My agency runs a local news site and we've...
Is your goal to become a thought-leader in your industry and captivate the inquisitive minds of business professionals who use LinkedIn as their main news source? This is a great place to provide link addresses of supportive and contact information...
In the news segment of the show, Craver and Miller discussed Facebook's recent site scraping issue. SEW Weekly kicked off with analysis of the week's search and social news, followed by special guests sharing in-house SEO strategy.
The good news is things can take time in SEO too. When you launch a new site or enter the SEO game for the first time, one of the most obvious first steps is spending some quality time working on on-page optimization.
It’s been all good news for the fledgling social site since then; in just a year, it became one of the Top 20 social networks in North America and the UK and now has over 10 million users. The site has over 10 million registered users and in the...
The feature could provide a new option for online retailers to interact with customers on the social networking site, allowing users to target potential purchases and organize items for future purchase or potential gifts.
To gain some perspective, consider that every day: percent of Internet users access a search engine percent send or read e-mail percent use a social networking site percent get news percent go online “for fun” percent look for information on a...
Press releases are tricky, because you want to announce your deal, but make it sound like news versus sales-speak. Remember, press releases are news. On-site I didn’t have the email handy, but visited the site thinking I would easily find the deal...
It’s a feel-good, warm and fuzzy website designed to pull on the heartstrings of Facebook users and make them feel better about their participation on the social networking site. Facebook spokesperson Tucker Bounds explains to ABC News:
Big local news can lead you to amazing places for local links. For example, in Greensboro it's big news that we have a Downtown Greenway. Local news publications, TV stations, alternative newspapers My employees work on the site alongside some...
Just last week, the CEO of WPP, the world’s largest marketing group, told news outlets he had notified Facebook “the social network is great for branding, but not advertising. Nothing beats your own experience and while industry news about the...
You can see metrics for social media, social bookmarking, and social news sites. The SEOBook Toolbar offers a wealth of website data including Google PageRank, backlinks count from Open Site Explorer, Majestic SEO, Blekko, Yahoo.
Surprising to some, we’ve also watched a social networking site grow from 100 million users to a publicly traded company with almost 900 million active users. Not only are official accounts available for @Olympics, @USOlympicTeam, @IOCMedia...
Google's social news reader, Currents, was hyped as a legit competitor to Flipboard, but is considered a flop. Horowitz also said the last user figure given by the Google, when it said in April that the site had 170 million users, was out of date...
The acquisition of Face.com brings their technology in-house for Facebook and gives them control over a domain name similar to the name of the popular social networking site. This transaction simply brings a world-class team and a longtime...
What sort of publishers, bloggers, and news outlets are prominent and/or influential in the industry? With Google’s own webmaster guidelines indicating that site owners shouldn't “participate in link schemes designed to increase [a] site’s ranking...
Consequently, most retailers have the impression that the Facebook plugins just post to their friends news feeds which accumulates stray traffic. Google has given webmasters a little more guidance on how to implement Google+ plugins (namely to add...
A brand that delivers content through news outlets, a brand that is engaged in social media, a brand that pushes content through email and through other avenues just to name a few. Managing a site with no social sharing ability is like going to a...
