Most webmasters and (hopefully) all internet marketers know the importance of properly understanding keywords for website ranking, but that nugget of knowledge seems to be forgotten when thinking about and posting on social media channels.But the keywords are king rule is as equally important in...
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Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
SEO benefits of Social Media
Most businesses now recognise the fact that social media doesn't necessarily directly lead to a sale, but I know for a fact that it can help that sales process; instead most big businesses now look at social media as having SEO benefits and allowing their website and webpages to gain better rankings...
Get Engaged, Socially Engaged!
Without a shadow of a doubt, a business that is socially engaged online will always get more business than the ones that aren’t; even if they only generate a little more traffic, it’s traffic that they wouldn’t have got otherwise.
But social engagement is more than just generating traffic; it’s also...
The NEW Social Media Strategy - how to get rankings from your social channels
During the last quarter of 2013 I started to change my view
on Social Media and the benefits from it to search engine ranking; tests that I
was undertaking didn’t really give any credence (improved ranking) to the fact
that Google love it when you post and engage with people of social media.
Sometimes...
Twitter doesn’t use Twitter and Facebook social signals to rank pages
Matt Cutts (Google's head of search spam) yesterday explained this in a video (see below) that whilst the Google algorithm doesn’t treat social sites any differently to aid (or otherwise) webpage ranking, where they can they do still crawl and index the page like they do for any other website.
What...
Social Media for Ranking
Top retailers will tell you that Social Media isn’t very good for generating traffic direct from the links that you put in your Twitter feeds, Facebook pages or Pinterest boards; but what it is good for is providing the big search engines with suggestions on your engagement with the social sphere.If...
The Ultimate Twitter Starters Guide
Setting up and getting started:
Choose a short username so that users can easily retweet your posts easily without running out of 140 characters
Ensure that you have completed your profile fully
Write a short description of yourself and your business
Include a link to your website in your description
You...
What can your website learn from Social Media?
Social Media is the internet success story, we all engage with it in some way shape or form, we love the social channels that we have signed up to, they keep us coming back several times a day; but what exactly attracts us to these sites, and what can we learn from them that we can implement in our...
Search Remains First, Social Second For How People Find Websites
In an interesting report by Forrester Research they highlight that the majority of consumers still find websites through natural search (Google, Bing etc) rather than through Social Media (Twitter, Facebook etc); which to those of us that have been around search, SEO and Social Media for more years...
How to deal with negative comments on social media sites
If you are unlucky enough to find
an extremely negative comment on one of your social media accounts (i.e.
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc). How
should you deal with it?
Even if you have spotted it quickly,
then the chances are that other have also seen it; in the case of Twitter,
within...
Killer Social Media Strategies
Social media allows businesses both large and small to have
a lot of impact and power, here are just a small number of things that you can
do.
1. Q&A's
Social media has been developed to engage with your
potential customers and customers alike, but may businesses have no idea how to
do this...
Sneaky way to improve your Klout score
This is a little sneaky but it does the job!
Ok so you love Klout, you need to improve your score, to do this you know you need to get people to interact with you but you have no idea how to do it … here’s a great tip.
Simply ask questions
Pick an account with a large following (Consumer brands...
Getting more Twitter followers easily
Some simple tips for you to follow to help get more Twitter followers easily.
Post great content that people love and are interested in.
Posting content on trending topics may get you a number of followers that are interested in those trending topics.
Use a real photo of yourself might get...
Improving your Klout score
If you’re fixated by your Klout score then you have no doubt
tweeted like crazy and got numerous Retweets, things are looking up as your
Klout score slowly increase.
BUT you’ll find that when you hit a Klout of around 40 then
this strategy of tweeting and gaining Retweets doesn’t help you anymore!
So...
Tweet like a Pro
Take a leaf out of the books of big businesses who know how
to keep a news story running and running.
The vast majority of the largest companies in the world have
a series of press releases that are so good that every so often they like to
send them back out again and for some strange reason they...
The easiest way to get someones attention on Twitter
Twitter is great when you finally get noticed by an influencer
or business that you want to get your brand or service in front of; but how do
you get their attention?
The easiest way is to tweet about their favourite things or
to retweet popular past tweets, but how do you find out that they are?
Favstar will...
Tips for getting more Twitter followers that stick to you!
If you want to get some additional loyal Followers on Twitter
then there are a couple of things that you need to do.
Tweet Often – If you want to maximise the benefit of your
Twitter activity then you need to be an active contributor to your Followers
streams; I’m not just talking about 1-2 tweets...
Don’t have much time to check your social media?
Many of us don’t all have lots of hours free to sit in front of a device and
check our social media as and when things happen, find new people to engage
with and track down those influential people that can make or break your
business, so if you can only spare 20 minutes a day what should you do?
There...
Twitter - Remember CRASH!
I know sometimes we all struggle with how to interact with Twitter ….. what should I say? It is worthy of a tweet? Etc etc
Try this simple reminder of what you can do when you sit down to catch up with your Twitter...
Infographic: Guide to advertising on Twitter by Alchemy Social
Earlier this year Alchemy Social unveiled an infographic guide to advertising on Twitter.
The brilliant guide looks at how to target the public, what motivates people to become followers, and what enhanced pages should...
