From the category archives:

Search Engine Optimization

There are a lot of different aggregators, and they all pretty much parrot each other in functionality which makes them unworthy of any special attention. Amplify.com was smart enough to find its own unique angle which allowed it to stand out from the crowd.

If you were a blogger who had a hard time to express your idea or message in 140 characters, but still wanted your message to appear on Twitter, you could just write a long post in Amplify, post it and it would be posted to Twitter, Facebook ,Tumblr, Freindfeed and many other social networks.

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If you look at any major search engine, you see two different types of results displayed on search engine result pages for any popular keyword – paid results and organic results. Organic results are generated based on complex ranking algorithms which differ from search engine to search engine. Rankings for any particular site could be improved through thoughtful and skillful SEO campaigns.

Paid Search Marketing (or Paid Search Optimization, if you prefer) is responsible for the placement and optimization of paid results. Paid results could be displayed not only on SERPs (search engine results pages), but also on any other site that agrees to be a part of search network and displays relevant advertisement.

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There is a plethora of social media monitoring tools for every taste and flavor. They can be used to listen to social conversations and to identify important social reactions that require immediate response.

All these tools differ based on price, quantity and quality of monitored sources, sentiment analysis, data crunching capabilities, and identification of important players in your market (also known as influencers).

While there are tons of tools to monitor social media conversations there are not so many choices in regards to working with your leads.
In fact until recently there were only two options – a signup form tied in with your autoresponder and RSS feed subscription.

Good news: new lead generation option has just arrived.

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Google just rolled out a new update for its pagerank parameter (on June 27 2011). The last Google PageRank update was in January 2011, so it’s been almost 6 months between updates. Until this year pagerank updates were pretty stable – usually you could see a new update every 3-4 months.
GooglePageRank parameter is dedicated to the calculation of different factors related to the authority of your site. In basic terms, it estimates the quantity, quality and relevance of incoming links for your webpages. The higher the PageRank the higher is a probability that the site has some quality backlinks.

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let’s take a closer look at specifics of multi-step social strategies. Such social media strategies concentrate on development of multi-step relation-building channels to increase conversions and ROI.

There are several components that should be properly implemented to ensure the success of a multi-step social strategy. Some of them are more important than others. But there is one component that is absolutely crucial for a success of multi-step social media strategy.
Social media sites are a good addition to your social media strategy but they never should be a key stone of your online presence. (Read Social Networking and Blogging for more details).

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