Social video sharing and promoting site YouTube has introduced a new metric to determine which videos are brought to the forefront of their pages as video views are on the decrease.
Blogging has been popular for a number of years now. It is a good way of expanding a site’s reach, build your brand, continuing to develop fresh content on the site (which search engines like) and to create linkable content.
Friday was the day that investors and folks in Palo Alto had been waiting for with bated breath, ever since Facebook announced that they would be going public back in February. Whilst the IPO was far from disastrous, a closing price of $38.23 ($0.23 above the opening value), issues with the Nasdaq flotation and a looming $15billion lawsuit over privacy violations left a bit of a bad taste on one of the biggest days in the company’s history.
On November 7th 2011 Google launched the much anticipated Google+ pages for businesses. This gave organisations and companies the chance to expand their brand presence on the relatively new Google+ social network.
ComScore.com has recently released new findings, through a compilation of data in their latest study, which show that social media brands experience heavy engagement via smartphone operating systems.
The addition of Social Reports represents a major update for Google Analytics. At first glance there’s some useful data that can help you work out a better ROI for social media than ever before. UPDATE: Backlink data has now also been added!
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about LinkedIn, with my last post being about how to use LinkedIn to help your business. With this in mind I thought I would expand on my last post and see how else LinkedIn can help promote yourself or your business online.
As Google recently released their advert for Google plus, with the intention of attracting more people to sign up to their social network [See: Google+ TV ad Illustrates the Internet Giant’s Intentions], speculation has increased as to whether Facebook is planning to improve their search functionality to compete, or shall we say take away, some of the market share from the search giant.
If you didn’t know already, Google have followed up from their previous television adverts with yet another one of their well styled and slick commercials; this time promoting their social network, Google+.
So, another year has passed and some classic April Fools gags have been made (I think Google have won this year with their litany of gags, from the Google 8-Bit Maps for NES to the YouTube collection on DVD).