Submitted by The Puck
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One of the tools of the SEO trade has apparently been axed by Flickr. It seems like every SEO conference I have attended since Flickr went live included recommendations that Flickr photo submissions be treated much like HTML pages. The title of the photo, description, tags and any links in the description text work just lik (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
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In June 2008, I joined a panel at the MarketingProfs BtoB Forum 2008 in Boston. The team, moderated by Roy Young, presented the highlights from the panel's recent research with MarketingProfs on how B2B marketers were using online media.Contrary to popular wisdom that social media tools like blogs are best suited for engage (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
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A trend I'm seeing develop on Twitter is the use of automation for such things as auto-follows, auto-responses (which often include a pitch...visit my blog at www...) and scheduled tweets.I think this is a terrible trend that should be avoided at all costs. To me, Twitter is the most personal and conversational of all s (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
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Photo by NimagesDRNo. Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, a question asked by the Give and Take blog. YES! Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. Some holy grail metric (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
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I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. There’s something about a 4–day weekend that makes me think that every weekend ought to be 4 days long. It not only allows for DOWN time, it allows for THINK time. Here’s what I thought about…There’s no question: Social Media is having an enormous, life-altering impact on the communic (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
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While the world is experiencing an economic financial crisis, the SEO industry is experiencing a surprising increase in demand. From intensive training and SEO consultation to actual website changes and link building, the demand for expert SEO assistance is growing at an astonishing rate.For those individuals or firms t (Read More)
Submitted by Raavi:
I have been thinking a lot about social media and brand management lately, with the rise of Google’s SearchWiki and growing commercial interest in Twitter and other social media sites, focusing on how to capitalise on or simply monetise this medium more. Just think how many global social media sites reach right across cult (Read More)
Submitted by The Puck
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This is Part of a series: The 13 Skills of the Public Relations Professional of the Future. It's also the subject of a panel we ran at PR Week's Next Conference a couple of weeks ago. You Gotta Walk the Walk It's one thing to know or talk about social media. You can gather the right graphics from Slideshare that (Read More)