Business, Featured, SEO, social media

Social Media Optimization: An Overview

Creating a SMO-friendly website means making social media a core component of how users interact with content.

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Business, Featured

How to Make Your Own Link Shortener

Marketers love talking about brand equity, that intangible value your brand name provides its products. A branded URL takes advantage of brand equity, evoking the reputation of the website it's connected to.

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Featured, Search Engines, social media

What is Aardvark?

After reading the news headlines last week about the acquisition of Aardvark by Google, I went straight to Vark.com to find out exactly what Aardvark is and why Google would want to purchase it for millions of dollars.

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Featured, Reading List, Uncategorized

Finding Useful Information on Article Marketing Sites

EZineArticles.com, as well as other article marketing websites, can be a great resource for anyone that is wanting to grab some content or great story ideas.

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Et cetera, Featured, social media

GIVEAWAY: Invites to Shelfster, an Online, Desktop Storage and Sharing Tool

I recently got a few beta invitations to share to join Shelfster, a free online sharing and storage service.

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Extra, SEO, social media

Weekly Link Round-Up March 10, 2010

Posted on 10 March 2010

Weekly Link Round-Up March 10, 2010

Here is our weekly link round-up for the week. I especially enjoyed the ‘Who Uses Social Media More, Men or Women?’ article because it brings up the point of who uses social media and for what purpose.

A Vibrant Culture of Food Blogging
Real-time updates get turned on for millions of Blogs around the world
Hot SEO Trend for 2010:Getting Back To Basics
SEO without the SEO
Ballmer’s Right: Google Owns Search
Pretty Huge: Twitter ‘plans move into search engine marketing’
Search engine marketing industry ‘must cooperate to protect data’
Who Uses Social Media More, Men or Women?
Social networking not enough for good customer service
The Educationalization of Social Media
Why the social-media aggregator has croaked

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Free Social Media E-Book Downloads

Posted on 07 March 2010

Here are a few free e-books from HubSpot and Who’s Blogging What that are definitely useful when it comes to learning more about social media marketing and lead generation.  All files are PDFs and will open in a new window.

Social Media Lead Generation

Using LinkedIn for Business (great tips in here)

Who’s Blogging What 2010: Collective Wisdom From Social Media Experts

Does anyone else have any free e-books, webinars, or other resources to share? If so, email The Social Robot using the Contact tab to the left or leave a comment with the URL below.

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Weekly Link Round-Up March 2, 2010

Posted on 02 March 2010

Weekly Link Round-Up March 10, 2010

The web’s best stories on SEM, Social Media, and more, for the first week in March.

Build your integrated marketing team
Engaging a web partner- before the “I Do’s”
Microsoft and Yahoo deal cleared
Carnival, Travelocity say SEO and social media behind traffic surge
SEO recommendations don’t implement themselves!
5 ways to maximize social media marketing productivity in the workplace
Do’s and dont’s of social media marketing
Time for companies to embrace social media marketing

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Formspring.me: Overshare Without the Embarrassment

Posted on 28 February 2010

Have you ever wanted to ask someone something, but didn’t want them to know you asked it? Do you just have a weird question you like asking to get to know people better? Well, now you can ask away, thanks to Formspring.me. Formspring is this cool social media site where you can ask a person with a formspring account questions anonomously or by using your formspring user name.

Even cooler, the question box is embeddable in 3 different sizes too. You can also change the form colors.

With the Formspring.me website is a haven for nerds from around the world wanting to ask hot girls creepy questions, it is also great for public figures, employees who want to ask their corporate headquarters (or direct supervisor) a question, or just inquiring minds who won’t sleep until you answer the question, ‘Who Was Your Favorite Spice Girl?’

Formspring.me links to Twitter and Facebook so you can post a standard ‘Ask me anything! http://formspring.me/wonderwall7′ message or so you can post your answers to the questions people have asked.

Profile backgrounds are customizable as much as twitter backgrounds are– you can choose from a plain background (navy), a color, a default tiled pattern, or you can upload one yourself. However, you can text the colors of the background if you’ve uploaded a static image (not tiled) or the colors of the text, sidebar, and main question and answer box.

Kelsey’s Formspring.me profile

Other Articles about Formspring.me
http://gawker.com/5438956/formspringme-the-sociopathic-crack-cocaine-of-oversharing
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/04/formspring-ask-me-anything/

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High-Traffic Links for the Week of February 15, 2010

Posted on 16 February 2010

Weekly Link Round-Up March 10, 2010

Here’s what I’ve found this week for our weekly link round-up!

How to use social media to acquire staff
There’s no right way to blog
Google blurs the link between paid and un-paid results again (opinion)
3 ways to optimize your bidding strategies
5 social media marketing stats that will blow your mind
How e.l.f. became a social media giant
Why you need a strategy for social media
Bubble Motion launches Twitter-Like voice blogging service for mobile phones (TechCrunch)

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Weekly Link Round-Up Feb 1

Posted on 02 February 2010

Internet Marketing Services Set For Growth as Global Search Grows: http://www.clickthrough-marketing.com/Internet-marketing-services-set-for-growth-as-global-search-grows-46/19577785/

Fan, Friends, Connected with Ochocinco: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4868696

Netvibes, new aggregator: http://www.netvibes.com

20+ Reasons Why You Need to Start Guestblogging: http://myblogguest.com/blog/20-reasons-why-you-need-to-start-guest-blogging/

How to Identify New Trends & Generate Easy Traffic: http://www.acronym.com/keyworddriven/how-to-identify-new-trends-and-generate-easy-traffic.html

From TSR Archives:

Comparing the Usability of Google Chrome Vs. iPad: http://thesocialrobot.com/2010/01/comparing-the-usability-of-googles-chrome-os-versus-apples-ipad/

Creating a Niche for Mobile Internet and Social Networking: http://thesocialrobot.com/2009/12/creating-a-niche-for-mobile-internet-and-social-networking/

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