Posted by bethaney | Posted in SEO, social media | Posted on 31-03-2010
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Please nominate The Social Robot in the 2010 Search and Social Awards for Best Social Media Marketing Blog, put on by Search Engine Journal.
To nominate TSR, all you have to do is send out a tweet that says:
@sejournal I nominate The Social Robot for Best Social Media Marketing Blog (http://thesocialrobot.com)
That’s it! You can also vote for The Social Robot in other categories and by commenting on the blog post announcing the awards. Nominations continues until April 8 and voting will then begin April 15.
After coming across Jaspal’s brilliant blog post, How To Add Digg, Stumble, Twitter Share Buttons On Your WordPress Blog, I tried to add the buttons using the method he explained to The Social Robot. However, I decided that I didn’t really know how to host the javascript images that Jaspal suggests and I wanted to have Twitter, Sphinn, and Facebook buttons instead of Digg and StumbleUpon because my blog is mostly about social media and search engine marketing.
So, after several tries, I modified the code using javascript that is already hosted as sites like TweetMeme and Sphinn. That way you can just pop in the code and you’re ready to go!
Social media profiles like those found on Twitter and Facebook are crawled by search engines and are indexed. In addition, user contributions on social media sites- notes that are posted, statuses, tweets, are also indexed, sometimes at an alarming rate.
Be sure to use clear, plain language cut to the chase. No one wants to read a tweet about what the intern is wearing or the color of the new carpet being laid in the office.
Posted by karen | Posted in Blogging | Posted on 22-03-2010
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Google Alerts are for more than just recieving an email every time someone talks about you online. They can be used to find great blog or article ideas when you have writer’s block. Just think of some keywords that concern what you need to be writing about and go to http://www.google.com/alerts to start setting up Alerts.
Posted by aaron | Posted in social media | Posted on 19-03-2010
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By Aaron Couch
I admit it. I’m fairly new to Farmville, so maybe I’m unqualified to write about kicking your addiction to CG pumpkin patches and digital sheep. But, I’ve been tending my crops for a month now, and I can see why 80 million people—a fifth of active Facebook users—are also playing the game.
