The articles listed below cover different aspects of social network marketing (or social media marketing) and how to maximise its potential. Click the headline to read the full article.
I read a very well written post on ProBlogger the other day that was an imaginary discussion between two people on whether Google should introduce a -1 button to combat spam. It produced some interesting arguments, both for and against. But I have to say, I came out against, and here’s why: it would be [...]
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Every time I’ve read a review recently of Google Plus I’ve seen a chart that measures the time it took for G+ to reach various subscriber milestones, as compared to how long it took Facebook and Twitter. The line is almost perpendicular for G+, whereas the other two take far more leisurely trajectories, and this [...]
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Google released their +1 button publicly last week. It’s yet another attempt by them to get involved in the world of social media. Their previous attempts, it must be said, have not been successful. Wave was withdrawn after a year in which take up was pitiful, Buzz angered many because it made the contact details [...]
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A while ago I read this article on Problogger about how Reddit can be a source of focused, targetted website visitors. In that article Antriksh Yadav gives some very useful hints on getting the best out of Reddit – enough to prompt me to give it a try. Despite it being early days (I’ve only [...]
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I’ve finally lost patience with Facebook and removed the badges from my sites. I wrote back here about some intermittent problems I started to experience with the Facebook Business Page that I set up for this site. Despite 3 trouble tickets, all of which went unanswered (except for auto-generated responses), not only were those problems [...]
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One of my clients (a corporate) recently hatched a plan to shift their main web presence to Facebook. Not smart, I suggested – here’s why: I’ve had a Facebook page for a while as part of my Social Media efforts and the number of Likes, Views and Interactions has grown steadily. But about a week [...]
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I saw a question today asking how to syndicate blog posts most effectively, so here’s how I do it: Very simply, I set up a TwitterFeed account a while ago. This takes the RSS feed from my site. Within my TwitterFeed account I set up services to Facebook and Twitter (both require verification). TwitterFeed takes [...]
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If you dropped into this site around a year ago you’ll have read that I was a big fan of Twitter for attracting readers. But over the past year my love for Twitter has withered. Why? Firstly: The search function no is longer as effective as it was. I used to search for people asking [...]
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