Submitted by Briancarter:
I’m a big fan of the “Now Discover Your Strengths” series of books, including “StrengthsFinder 2.0”, and “First Break All the Rules”.
If you’re not familiar with these books, the big idea is:
It makes more sense to do what you’re really good at, what you’ve always been a natural at, than it does to try to perfect your we (Read More)
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The more I thought about it, the more I saw that SEO, SMO, and PPC form an interdependent triangle, or pyramid, since pyramids are generally cooler (see Matt McGee's SEO pyramid). I thought, hey, that was a really successful concept, so I created...
The SEM 2.0 Pyramid:. (Read More)
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Since Twitter is a growing phenomenon and they have just about to gain some more funding for the service, we thought we would provide you with a list of some of the best Twitter applications out there in the market today. The applications has been broken down into desktop, mobile and web. Make sure you test them out and let (Read More)
Submitted by Briancarter:
A 2.0 press release follows the guidelines below. There's no reason not to do both traditional and 2.0 press releases. But know that a traditional press release alone isn't going to engage web visitors like a sexy blog post will. ...cuz who doesn't like sexy? Ok, maybe the pope. (Read More)
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Just recorded a video where I finally had a good reason to show you Tweet2Tweet, if you haven't seen it, and a bit about the limits of that... what if three people are conversing? I had to go to Summize for that. (Read More)
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Submitted by Briancarter:
...the question is, is this a default that Sphinn didn't change, or was there a tactical reason? Is Sphinn trying to keep more traffic on their site? Encourage commenting?. (Read More)
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Submitted by Briancarter:
I just figured out a key reason why Twitter is so exciting...In the past three weeks since I've really been using it, I've gotten to converse to some degree with some of the most respected and powerful people in my industry (SEM/Web 2.0).Here are some tips on how I've networked thus far- although really, you can't fake this (Read More)
Submitted by Briancarter:
Let's face it, there are bunches of bloggers who've never typed "A HREF" and who start twitching if the code view accidentally appears. Nothing wrong with that. They can still do SEO that will significantly increase their blog traffic.
Here are 5 easy tips for how to make sure real eyeballs look at your amazing blog posts. (Read More)
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Submitted by Briancarter:
Some benefits of web 2.0 are:
* Traffic / prospects / contacts
* Engagement / comments
* Pagerank / backlinks / SEO improvements, which lead to more traffic and authority
It was clear to me that I'm doing something right- but what?
Here's what I think has been working so well.... (Read More)
Submitted by Briancarter:
Matt Cutts is a Google engineer who focuses on web spam, and he's their main spokesperson when it comes to SEO and spam. According to Matt, web spam happens when website break the rules "so that their website shows up higher than it deserves to show up." You may not want to consciously spam Google, but do you want to show u (Read More)
Submitted by Briancarter:
Online reputation management is becoming more and more important to everyone online, not just companies.Monitoring Your ReputationAs G.I. Joe used to say, "knowing is half the battle," and in ORM that means monitoring all relevant online channels for people talking about you, your company, your products, and even your whole (Read More)
Submitted by Briancarter:
I think two things are shameful right now in social media:1. Everyone is trying to define or limit Twitter- Twitter is for this or that or should be used in this way and not that. You should have this kind of following:follower ratio. Blah blah blah. Here's a prime example of a statement that's clearly false: "Twitter is (Read More)