August 12, 2010

• Twitter and SEO: Using Your Twitter Account To Gain Incoming Links

  Using Twitter and To Get Links You may be aware that links posted within a twitter “tweat” do not count for the purposes of ranking a website. Twitter inserts a “NoFollow” tag on all tweats. This nofollow tag tells the search engine not to count the link. In other words, links within tweats will not [...]

June 17, 2010

• Social Media Marketing: Do you Really Need It?

  Social Media: What Are People Searching For? When I was at the Web 2.0 conferences in San Francisco and New York last year, I was surprised by how many businesses were there looking for social media solutions to problems that had nothing to do with social media. Promoting your business on social media websites such [...]

May 21, 2009

• of Ken Underwood, Stereofame and Twitter….

  Image by bumpershine via Flickr I just noticed that Ken Underwood founder of Stereofame has 3300 followers on twitter, not a huge amount by twitter standards but pretty damn impressive considering that he gained them all in about 2 weeks and that they are relevant followers (i.e. music lovers, bands and fans who use Stereofame). [...]

March 25, 2009

• A History of Social Media and What it Helps People DO.

  In last week’s post on social media, I discussed what social media is and what it’s not. Next, I will speak about some of social media’s history, what it allow users to DO and how can begin engaging social media in your business. We will also talk about when you do not need social media. [...]