Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

Perhaps It’s Time Hollywood Agencies Hire SEO/SEM Firms for Reputation Management

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Yoshie Yager @yoshie_s_y
The saying goes: There is no such thing as bad publicity. But when your reputation spreads through the internet and other media, you might think twice about the expression.
If you are managing troubled stars like Lindsay Lohan or Mel Gibson, you have a mountain of work to tackle. Just like the phone conversation [...]

Open Graph and SEO

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Even though Open Graph is meant to weaken Google’s role in the long term as the most important referral engine for traffic to a web site, Google will be extremely important in the near future. Furthermore, even if Google’s importance does diminish, it will likely always serve enough traffic to warrant serious attention from web marketers, and this traffic is extremely important to success with Open Graph as you can use it to catalyze the flow of content from your site into the Facebook referral engine.

Streisand Effect - A Lesson for Enterprise

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

The Streisand Effect is a term that refers to an event where an individual or organization attempts to censor, inhibit, or otherwise block access to information on the Web, and subsequently the attempt to block the information foments and increases the interest in the information massively. The end result is that the involvement intended to block the spread of the information turns out to extend its reach and ironically push the information to many many more people via the Web.

Best Buy Twitter Commercial - TwelpForce

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Kudos and congratulations to Best Buy. Not only did they manage to vanquish Circuit City, but they also take the award for the “First Company to Air a Television Commercial Displaying a Twitter URL the Entire Time.” It’s a coveted award, I know, but why is it important?

Twitter URL Expansion Arrives at Last

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

For a long time there been a major security flaw with following links from Twitter. When a link is shortened via a service like cli.gs, bit.ly or tinyurl the user has no idea of where they will be directed upon clicking. The best way to manage this so far has basically been to click on shortened links only from users that you know or trust. That’s the danger of clicking on a shortened URL from Twitter Search or trending topics - you may end up clicking on a link to a site with malware or other issues that you would rather not encounter.

Facebook Vanity URLs - Are You Ready?

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Facebook users will be able to claim “Vanity URLs” to customize the Web addresses profiles starting at midnight Eastern on Saturday, according to a post on the Facebook blog. Currently, users’ profiles URLs have been structured as a string of numbers – as seen here:

Twitter Messaging

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

The content of your Twitter message is the most important thing to optimize over the life of your Twitter account. Here’s what you should know about how to provide value and optimize the content of your messages.

Community Engagement and Skateboard Design

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Comet Skateboards recently posted an account of how they designed their latest model of skateboard deck, and it’s a fantastic case study on how community engagement can benefit a you in very concrete ways. Check out this account for a textbook example of how engaging with an active community can earn you loyalty, credibility and dollars at the same time.

WOMM-U Miami - May, 2009

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

I’ll be speaking at this year’s WOMM-U event in Miami. I’m going to be leading a session on optimizing your Twitter efforts. Here’s the description of my conference session:

Facebook Filtering Multiple Updates

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Facebook is now collapsing multiple status updates from the same user. Is Facebook biased against updates that advertise a product or service?