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Social Media Blog Posts
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- 16th Dec 2011
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SEOmoz Social Dashboard Review
SEOmoz recently added a new tool to their arsenal – the Social Dashboard – promising a new way for website owners to see the effect of their social activities. This new profile offers tabular and graphical representations of follower growth, top interactions and the traffic to your website from social media.Since the Beta we’ve had 2 months to play around with the data and are really impressed with the level of information that can be found. Today we take an in-depth look at the tool, and what it can offer your business.
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- Social Media
- 13th Oct 2011
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UK Social Media Market Share Winners and Losers
Of all the metrics used to measure online success, market share is perhaps the most misleading. It provides you with little or no information on user interaction, general popularity or even what the market is worth. So with this in mind, here are the latest market share statistics for the UK social media market from Hitwise.
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- Social Media
- 18th Jul 2011
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YouTube Cosmic Panda: Bigger, Bolder and More Space-like
For over a week now I’ve had something called Cosmic Panda enabled when I visit YouTube. Despite its catchy but pointless name, it is essentially a ‘theme’ to enhance the way the YouTube website is displayed. The Grey/White/Black colours with a large helping gradients make it fit in with current website design trends, but let’s look at some of the changes to its usability. -
- Social Media
- 18th Apr 2011
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Top Free Online Video Editing Software
So you want to take your first steps into video editing but don’t fancy paying for expensive software to install on your PC (that probably won’t even run very well because you failed to notice the required high minimum specification of the software and you need to buy more RAM and a faster graphics card). Read more
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- SEO
- 9th Dec 2011
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Stumbleupon Channels - The Main Changes in Stumbleupon's Redesign
You may have noticed that Stumbleupon has recently undergone a rather big redesign. The change is aimed at making it easier for people to explore the things that interest. They have also added a new feature called Channels.However the new design has left regular users slightly uncoordinated with many confused as to how they should use the new version.
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- Social Media
- 21st Nov 2011
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Job Search Traffic Increase: Improve Your Chances with Social Media
As many countries in the western world have been affected by the financial crisis and subsequent budget and job cuts, more and more people have found themselves out of work – in the UK alone 2.62 million people are unemployed.With such unprecedented levels, many of whom are young people, the Internet has become a source of information to find and search for jobs, albeit a competitive one. As such, you may be tearing your hair out desperately trying to figure out where your next break will come, whilst knowing that thousands of other people will be doing the same thing. There is help though, especially in the form of social media.
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- 21st Oct 2011
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The Dangers and Benefits of Social Media for Big Businesses
When you’ve got thousands of employees, each with their own viewpoint and ideologies, the public openness of social media can be daunting. Some businesses ban it outright. You can’t discuss work, should never mention what you’re doing or maintain any form of association online. Essentially, they want to create a clear distinction between the individualism of the employee and the collective of the company. -
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- 19th Oct 2011
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Twitter for Small Businesses - Why and How
Discover why you should use Twitter and how you can use it – even as a small or local business. As one of the Internet’s darling children, most online users have heard of Twitter – even if most of the ones you speak to might admit to ‘just not getting it’… -
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- 11th Aug 2011
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Trouble Brewing for Facebook as Audience Figures Slip
Earlier this week it was announced that the dominant market share that Facebook enjoys within social media has dropped to a two year low. Whilst the 50.14% figure announced by Hitwise is certainly not a disaster, it is part of a growing list of concerns for the once imperious network.Market share is a notoriously difficult figure to accurately gauge. A drop may happen for any number reasons and not necessarily because of a reduction in actual visitors. In fact, the drop in overall share is more likely to be caused by larger increases elsewhere, with sites like Twitter and YouTube gobbling up visitors due to coverage of major events (such as the hacking scandal). The introduction of Google+ certainly won’t have done much to help either.
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- 25th Jul 2011
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Summify: Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader Summaries Made Easy
This week I’m taking a break from the Video and Website Optimisation blog posts as I wanted to highlight a web service I’ve been using lately to help aggregate the overflowing amount of blog posts and links from people I follow on Twitter and from my Google Reader account. It’s called Summify and it does exactly what it says on the tin, summarise and deliver the most popular and relevant stories to your email inbox, twitter feed or via the web interface and new iPhone App. Read more -
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- 8th Jun 2011
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There is a huge range of online advertising channels to choose from. The trick is to test, test some more and then test again.Once you have launched a new website the next task will be to get a range of targeted visitors. Many people will opt for Search Engine Optimisation to stream relevant traffic. If you don’t have the knowledge or patience to go down this road there are plenty of other ways to advertise your site and maintain a reasonable return on investment.
