Social Media Posts from the Internet Marketing Blog
Facebook Family Additions: The New Send Button & Social Deals
Facebook develops new features and alters its layout and settings (and privacy policies) frequently, and the social giant recently introduced two new additions in its continued mission to take over the word. Facebook’s new Send button allows users to share items with select people rather than everyone in their friend network.
Maybe you found a great bar in which to throw your friend’s surprise party – but you certainly don’t want the birthday girl to find out. With the Send button, you can quickly and easily share and send the URL to specific friends, groups, and email addresses. Cynthia Boris at Marketing Pilgrim has a clever idea about how the Send button could be implemented as a marketing strategy: "As a marketer, I’d take this one step further and u... > Read more
Be Your Own Lewis & Clark with Google's Map Maker
In Google’s continuing efforts to get more social, Google’s Map Maker tool made its introduction into the United States yesterday. Map Maker allows users to add and update maps with their own insights. This can mean a number of different things, such as moving place markers to more appropriate spots, pointing out certain parks and playgrounds, building a more detailed map of a college campus, or even marking the bike lanes in your town.
Essentially, it makes Google Maps into a Wiki.Google’s Lat Long blog notes that since the release of Map Maker, the percentage of the world’s population that has detailed online maps of their neighborhoods has jumped from 15% to 30%. Users have mapped road networks, bike lanes, schools, and even entire cities that were not documented ... > Read more
LinkedIn or Facebook for B2B and B2C Businesses?
If anyone asked, I’m sure you could spout off a hundred reasons your company should be involved in social media. But do you still need to get started? Which social network would be the best fit? What are some good first steps? Yes, I believe in social media. How else can you scale talking to people and learning more about them? Building relationships is a two-way street that can benefit you far more than just turning on a faucet of traditional advertising media.
But to have conversations, you need to be where your customers are. B2B? Yes, you have customers, too! Slow and steady wins the race – so setting up one account that you spend an hour on each day is going to be worth more than setting up five accounts and forgetting about them all. But you want to pick the right account... > Read more
Using Quora to Answer Questions
This is a guest post by Daniel Cawrey, a freelance writer. In addition to discussing topics such as consumers and their credit cards, he also has a blog about Google Chrome and Chrome OS. Recently, the question and answer site Quora has been getting a lot of exposure in the technology space. If you have not heard of it yet, here's how it works: Users post questions that they cannot find answers to anywhere else on the web, and people answer them.
Unlike sites like Yahoo Answers, however, the site seems to attract those who have a lot of authority on subject matter. Recent examples of this would be Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings using Quora as a platform to talk to customers of the company’s service. Seems like a really smart idea! Other authorities and companies use Quora to engage users... > Read more
Bing and Facebook Like Each Other (But Do They Like-Like Each Other?)
On Wednesday, Bing and Facebook announced a partnership to make search more social by integrating Facebook "likes" into search results. According to the Facebook blog: When you search for something on Bing or in web results on Facebook (powered by Bing), you'll be able to see your friends' faces next to web pages they've liked.
So, you can lean on friends to figure out the best websites for your search. In theory, if you search for "The Social Network" in Bing, you might see links to reviews or stories about the movie that your Facebook friends have given the thumbs-up. Or if you're searching for a hotel in Santa Monica, you might see that a friend liked a certain hotel's Facebook page. In addition, people in your FB network will be more likely to show up in searches for names. M... > Read more
How Tumblr Opened My Eyes to the Social Web
This is a guest post by Terry Van Horne. Terry is the founder of SeoPros and a 15-year veteran of Web development, currently working out of his consulting and development firm International Website Builders. Terry's interests are primarily the socialization of search and analysis of social Web traffic and applications like Twitter.
Search Meet Social ... Now Play Nice! In the last SEO Training Dojo Friday Chat, I discussed using the Tumblr micro-blogging tools as a content distribution strategy. A few SOSG warriors wanted me to expand on it, so I decided to share this case study here on the WordStream blog. The temporal nature of universal search, which I had kinda stumbled upon before I embarked on this campaign, is partly why this strategy worked as well as it did. This particular campai... > Read more
How B2B Companies Can Use Foursquare for Marketing and Advertising
Foursquare, launched in 2009, is a hot mobile social media platform self-described as a “friend-finder, a social city-guide and a game that rewards you for doing interesting things.” So far Foursquare has been very successful with Individual users Media outlets, such as The New York Times and The History Channel B2C companies, like Starbucks and McDonald’s But B2B companies have yet to embrace Foursquare.
Many see it as having limited utility and aren’t quite sure how to leverage it, so they don’t see it as a viable business application. So are there ways B2B companies can use Foursquare to reach new customers or promote their brand? Let’s get creative and look at some of the ways B2B companies can follow the lead of other Foursquare adopters to ... > Read more
Keywords and Social Media: What You Should Know
This is a guest post by Kaila Strong. Kaila is an Internet Marketing Specialist and Social Media Architect at Vertical Measures, a leading online Internet marketing and link building services company based in Phoenix. She’s also an avid tweeter (@cliquekaila), and guest blogger. When one thinks of social networking they don't often associate it with keywords.
Usually, businesses or individuals look to use social networking as a means to brand themselves, connect with friends/customers, sell a product, or share experiences with people they’ve never met IRL (in real life). But what many brands and individuals miss out on is the opportunity to integrate keywords into the public messages they post on Twitter or other social networking sites for the purposes of research as well as search en... > Read more
Social Media Interview Series: Rebecca Kelley
Rebecca Kelley is a blogger and writer with expertise in SEO and social media. She has held positions at SEOmoz (as a copywriter and SEO consultant) and 10e20 (as Director of Social Media) and is currently involved with a new marketing startup. Follow her on Twitter. Can you tell me a little about your current role? I recently transitioned from consulting to an in-house marketing position for a startup that’s working on a few different projects.
I can’t disclose a whole lot more until we launch our first endeavor later this spring, but essentially my role is the Director of Marketing and Community Relations. I’m very excited to apply the skill set I’ve built from years of consulting towards these new projects. What factors make a piece of content good linkbait? If itâ... > Read more
Announcing The Experts' Guide to Keyword Research for Social Media
Keyword research isn't just for search marketing. It's also a highly effective method for social media marketing. Whether your target audience is on YouTube or Twitter, your social media marketing efforts should start with determining which keywords they're using. That way you can match your message to their interests.
With that, I've put together The Experts' Guide to Keyword Research for Social Media. In this comprehensive guide, I give detailed instructions on how (and why) to conduct keyword research for social media, and I break it down with tips and techniques for research keywords on four of the most popular social media platforms: Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Facebook. Enjoy! READ: The Experts' Guide to Keyword Research for Social Media ... > Read more
