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100 Simple Ways To Effectively Use Twitter

100 Simple Ways To Effectively Use Twitter | Surviving Social Chaos | Scoop.it
From edudemic.com - October 26, 2012 8:32 AM

Twitter is too big to ignore. You see hashtags in commercials, sponsored tweets, posts, news broken on Twitter, etc. It’s quickly become an indispensable tool for teachers, admins, parents, and students too. Right now, there are still many (MANY) in education not using Twitter. They may think it’s tough to start using, difficult to monitor, and even a waste of time.

 

But what if they had a categorized list of the top tips to help you use Twitter? Our content partners at Online College have shared an incredibly useful set of tips that are too good to not share.

 

Read more, a MUST:

http://edudemic.com/2012/10/simple-ways-to-use-twitter/

 


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[Infographic] Evolving SEO tactics: longer posts, Google+ and the tilde

[Infographic] Evolving SEO tactics: longer posts, Google+ and the tilde | Surviving Social Chaos | Scoop.it
From leaderswest.com - April 30, 7:12 AM

This is an infographic about current SEO thinking with tips and tools to help sites rank better on search engines.

 

Most people have a general idea of how to optimize their content for search engines. That search engine algorithms are proprietary and evolving inevitably causes different opinions on SEO. Of course there’s another school of thought that minimal keyword research and a green-light from a SEO plugin are enough to publish a piece.

 

This infographic challenges writers and some of the preconceived notions about SEO. It has a mixture of tips and tools to help you rank better in search...


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MizWalidah's curator insight, May 2, 3:55 AM

There aren't many band blogs as it can be too time consuming strays away from actually making music. So SEO really comes into play when a band is finding it difficult to be found on Google maybe because their name is to similar to a person, place or thing that is more popular but may or may not have anything to do with music, much less your band. My band  still suffers from this situation. The band's name is St.Lô which is also the name of a small town in France. this small town also shares some serious history during WWII. And then of course there is St.Louis.  

 

SEO became apart of our blogging and social media gameplan. We use a highend paid Tumblr template for our website and then also have Facebook and Twitter accounts. Rule #6 in the SEO suggestions above, utilization of the Long Tail helped a great deal. We had to differentiate our name from the towns with keyword that we did not have in common. We had to think about how would be search for ouside of the obvious simple search. Also where we couldn't write lengthy articles about everything we did, we instead updated our facebook and blog regularly, if not daily. Because the blog and the facebook/twitter pages are linked the cross referrencing and the amount of times in which people have shared the band with has prevailed. Frequency over volume at the end of the day won out!! NOw when you search for St.Lô Music we rise to the top over WWII history. We still have yet to rise to the top if someone simly types in St.Lo but we are steadily rising to the top and are atleast on the first page of the google search. 

 

SEO matters for band blogs as they do for business. You want to always be the first choice when someone searches for your band. Continually optimizing your meta keywords and tags to better fit the culture of your band will help you stand out from all that may be similar. 
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, May 2, 12:52 PM
Great comment MizWalidah. I wold modify one point. Instead of "continually optimizing your meta keywords and tags" I would find ways to ping in fresh content such as User Generated Content from reviews or comments. Once a website I've SEOed is inside of Google's algorithm changing meta values that matter (mostly the page's title) can HURT SEO. I change titles VERY VERY carefully since the first rule of SEO is DO NO DAMAGE. The QDF (Quality Deserves Freshness) movement post Panda and Penguin LOVES it when a page pings, so I love the 1% of visitors who are willing to comment, review or otherwise contribute User Generated Content.

I DON'T play with meta nearly as much as you imply since to do so can look SPAMMY and cause real harm. The most important idea is creating content other people want to share. This is why I love GAMES and CONTESTS especially for bands. High engagement content such as Contests and Games can help with SEO and they can help create a distinct brand all bands need. Appreciate your enthusiasm, but be careful about meta (especially title) changes. Marty
Coralie D.'s curator insight, May 3, 4:32 AM

Infographie sympa sur la rédaction SEO... A lire et relire, c'est toujours utile ! ;)
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Google to Roll Out Integrated Small Business Marketing Solution | Social Media Today

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From socialmediatoday.com - June 21, 2012 1:27 PM

According to a recent article by Amir Efrati of the WSJ, Google is creating a integrated marketing solution for small businesses (SMBs) trying to cash in on the consumer shift to social, mobile, local. Given that more than 95% of all US companies are classified as SMBs, small business is potentially big business for the tech empire. Google plans on combining several products and services under one banner in order to capture a chunk of the roughly 20 billion-dollar yearly ad spend by SMBs. Coming out as early as July, the initiative has been provisionally named “Business Builder.”

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48 Free Social Media Monitoring Tools

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From www.dreamgrow.com - May 9, 2012 6:57 PM

Even if this list is from 2011, you'll find a lot of interesting tools for today. [note mg]

 

If you want to know what’s happening in the social web you need monitoring tools. Before you get out your credit card and start to spend money try out some of the free social media monitoring services. This way you get a taste of what is available and if you need paid services.

 

I have collected 48 free social media monitoring tools. In the Group A are the services that I use regularly or seem interesting to check out immediately. The Group B is an alphabetical list of tools for you to play with. Here we go:...

 

Read more: http://bit.ly/IDzrqr


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10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics

10 Awesome Free Tools To Make Infographics | Surviving Social Chaos | Scoop.it
From www.makeuseof.com - May 2, 2012 11:01 PM

Maybe you want create your own infographic, here 10 tools to support you to do it. [note mg]

 

Information graphics, visual representations of data known as infographics, keep the web going these days. Web users, with their diminishing attention spans, are inexorably drawn to these shiny, brightly coloured messages with small, relevant, clearly-displayed nuggets of information. They’re straight to the point, usually factually interesting and often give you a wake-up call as to what those statistics really mean.

 

Who can resist a colourful, thoughtful venn diagram anyway? In terms of blogging success, infographics are far more likely to be shared than your average blog post. This means more eyeballs on your important information, more people rallying for your cause, more backlinks and more visits to your blog. In short, a quality infographic done well could be what your blog needs right now.

 

Read more: http://bit.ly/K0s4LL


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Social Media Tools That Support Google+: Solutions for Small Business

Social Media Tools That Support Google+: Solutions for Small Business | Surviving Social Chaos | Scoop.it
From www.business2community.com - April 23, 7:44 AM

Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn can be found in the majority of social media management apps. It is with Google+ that things get a little bit more complicated: very few social media tools support it due to some technical challenges.

 

However, most social media managers would prefer a solution that would allow them posting to all social networks in one place, Google+ including.

 

In this post, you’ll find reference to all tools that are to date integrated with Google+. We’ll bring small business editions to a special focus and review social tools that (1) support Google+ and (2) the ones you can use for free or under $10 a month.


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NUMBER 1 FOOD TESTING CERTIFICATION SERVICE INDIA's curator insight, May 11, 10:32 PM

integrate your marketing efforts!.. in social media 
Venkatesh Iyer (venkyiyer.com)'s curator insight, May 18, 2:22 AM

I am most familiar with Hootsuite. I wasn't aware of a couple of the tools mentioned in this post.
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I am most familiar with Hootsuite. I wasn't aware of a couple of the tools mentioned in this post.
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Five tools to help simplify social networking management

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From www.techrepublic.com - June 14, 2012 8:05 AM
If your social media presence is becoming impossible to manage, one of these tools may help bring things under control.

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17 Little Known Social Media Tools You Should Be Using (and Why)

17 Little Known Social Media Tools You Should Be Using (and Why) | Surviving Social Chaos | Scoop.it
From blog.kissmetrics.com - May 3, 2012 8:21 AM
Everywhere you look there is social media. It seems that every week there is a new social site launched. To make matters worse, for every social site launched, there seems to be two or more services created to measure, track and monitor that service.
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5 Ways to Turn Twitter into Your Most Powerful Social Media Tool

5 Ways to Turn Twitter into Your Most Powerful Social Media Tool | Surviving Social Chaos | Scoop.it
From www.jeffbullas.com - April 30, 2012 7:06 PM

What do you use as your daily Social Media dashboard every day?


Most likely not Twitter.com I am guessing.

 

Yet, in recent months, there were a great number of browser extensions released, specifically for Twitter.com. They help you create a much greater experience right inside Twitter.com.

 

What I like best about this is that you are in charge regarding how many bells and whistles you are adding. You can basically fully customize your own Social Media dashboard.

 

So here are my top 5 finds you can use to make Twitter.com a truly powerful Social Media tool for you:...

 

Read more: http://bit.ly/IjmxO3


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