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Sometime last month, my friends and I did what most people do on a Friday night. Yes, we went out to blow off some steam and in the process, popped ...

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Let’s get one thing straight first:  you will NOT be required to do the following in order to get free followers on Twitter using this method: Tweet interesting thoughts Post ...

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A few days ago I was looking through my mentions on Twitter and I noticed a rough correlation between the strength of relationship I have with a person and the ...

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* There are many misconceptions about the kind of skills and traits you need in order to find a job within the Search Engine and Social Media Marketing Industry (hereinafter ...

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In this day and age, it’s probably fair to say that we’re all aware of the value of Twitter – both on an interpersonal level and in a business context ...

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SALT LAKE CITY — With more than 175 million users, it can be difficult to get your voice heard on Twitter, especially by those in your industry. Because of this, companies like SEO.com, politicians, celebrities and other Twitter users are hosting Twitter chats. The chats, similar to Internet chat rooms, are started ... Read more

Twitter arrived on the scene July of 2006. As of 2011 it has more than 200 million users and 1.6 billion tweets per day. It sure has grown. But can Twitter sustain its growth and weather the storm of the web and its own users? Twitter has a number of powerful benefits ... Read more

One thing I get asked frequently by clients is:  how can we keep in touch with our customers on Twitter? The answer is actually very easy, but judging by the ...

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* There are numerous ways of using Twitter for everything from business to fun. The key to using Twitter effectively is the use of tools. Without tools, Twitter can be ...

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“Whoever dies with the most toys wins.” Let me preface this blog post by referencing this cliche, and proposing my theory that it’s not about how many followers you have on Twitter.  It’s about relevant followers, and ultimately clicks that can turn into leads!  Try thinking of Twitter, or any social network, ... Read more

* It’s 2011 and by now I expect most people to know what Twitter is and how it works. Still, many people who should know better commit unpleasant mistakes – or rather they ignore the Twitter netiquette. They do things that make me unfollow them. I’m on Twitter for business and I expect to get [...]

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* While we Web professionals may assume that virtually everybody is using social media these days it’s far from the truth. People use social media but businesses don’t. A recent study shows that 94% of businesses actually do not use social media even for the most obvious task it’s good for: Getting feedback. That’s akin [...]

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1. Blogging
Blogging comes in many forms from corporate blogs with a controlled message to personal blogs with information about that latest weekend retreat with friends. Businesses often find it difficult to provide the necessary resources to blog consistently with a message that is satisfactory to upper management and provide enough value to both marketing and SEO ... Read more

Having been at a4uexpo London for the last couple of days, rather than try and read through my notes I thought I’d do a recap on the top tips during the conference. Plus it’s a great opportunity to demonstrate one of the social media tools I recommended; Blackbird Pie: There’s also some great takeaways from [...]

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Image: Catching up by M.Danys. While working on an extended review of the new social news community for SEO, SERPd I had a realization. Thus the review will have to wait till next week. First I have something more important to say. Listen up SEO people: Stop chasing traffic! On the Web today traffic is [...]

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Typical Digg comment thread. Last week the new Digg version 4 has been released and I have tested it ever since. Back in the days I was a staunch opponent of Digg and an avid supporter of competing services like StumbleUpon and Mixx. That was years ago though. Both Mixx and SU have stagnated over [...]

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Web analytics is perhaps the most important discipline for businesses online. In case you don’t know who and why visits you, buys your products and talks about you, you are blind on the Web. Web analytics goes beyond simple SEO metrics. It’s about usability conversions branding among others. Additionally, with the huge influence of social [...]

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Grumpy Face by ellie. I’m blogging all day. Most of the time at work I spend blogging. I write for four flagship blogs. Plus I have a private Tumblr blog as well. Two of the flagship blogs are about SEO, this one here and my own blog. The other two are client blogs covering two [...]

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Time flies by. It’s more than two years by now that I write the highly popular “30+” list blog posts to get links and traffic for SEOptimise. I’ve often tried to abandon them, to write tutorials or other types of postings but list posts with around 30 items still rule. They get the most shares on [...]

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In recent months I have been reading all kind of material on Facebook, search and SEO. I’m not here to predict the future or to hype Facebook as the new better search. Instead I’d like to analyze the clues we already have. Others have done great work on Facebook SEO by now. Moreover I’d like [...]

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Dear Readers, at the end of last week I haven’t published the “Twitter weekly” column. This time it was no poor time management issue. I did it on purpose. The week before I had written a highly popular “Twitter weekly” post but it was the last of its sort. Why? The Twitter hype is over! [...]

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Welcome back to the infamous “Twitter Weekly” attack where I dissect the hype around Twitter like a mad dog on crack. This week I will ridicule the baseless but nevertheless highly popular gossip about Google aiming to buy Twitter. First off I tell you one thing: Guess what? Google won’t buy Twitter! I don’t have [...]

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Welcome back to the “Twitter Weekly” column. This week I want to talk about the phenomenal success of Twitter in Japan. Of course I refer to the AP article that was widely circulated this week. It seems that Twitter is huge in Japan, 16,3% of Japanese Internet users tweet, especially compared to Facebook which is [...]

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As noted last week, Google’s new system for indexing and delivering fresh content online, Caffeine, went live on June 8th. Before Caffeine, Google used to update their index every few weeks, now it is pretty close to real time, as shown in my last post about Caffeine.
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Here at SEO.com headquarters, we live in a world of Twitter users. It is not uncommon to see at least 90% of the employees with Tweetdeck up on their second monitors following what is happening in the twittersphere.
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Welcome back to Twitter Weekly, our Twitter column: Today I’ll rant about the latest move by Twitter to monopolize the real estate of their own service. Twitter will in future reroute all links posted to Twitter via it’s new t.co shortener. URLs in tweets won’t display as shortened [...]

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Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. The biggest and saddest Twitter news this week was another blow to the Twitter app developer community: Twitter banned all third party stream ads to monopolize advertising for it’s own “featured tweets” ad platform.
While on the one hand, it’s understandable, Google doesn’t allow [...]

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Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. This week I want to speak about a new development in the Twitter retweet wars. In the first episode we have seen a massive rebellion against the new retweet functionality introduced by Twitter itself. A huge wave of resistance has forced Twitter and most third party [...]

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Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. This time a few days late due to the SMX London coverage. Today I’ll introduce the most common Twitter SEO best practices. Twitter SEO means at least 5 things:

Ranking with your profile for your name & brand
Ranking organically with your tweets in Google
Getting found [...]

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I’ve just noticed some trending topics on Twitter are currently being labelled as “Top Tweet”. See the top three listings here for a query on the currently trending topic #celebritytwitterpasswords:

A problem with Twitter search and real-time search, has been the fact that quantity is valued over quantity. This means that the latest tweet appears, rather [...]

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