‘Social Media’ Category Archive

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Excerpt: Twitter is becoming an increasingly popular social media tool. An interesting post on Science for SEO to do with Twitter. Wouldn’t it be great to find out who was an influential member of the Twitter community? Google has an effective algorithm developed by its founders Larry Page and Sergie Brin, known as PageRank. A similar algorithm has been created for the Twitter network, by Daniel Tunkelang called, you guessed it, TunkRank. TunkRank measures your influence in the Twitter world. For those that are familiar with PageRank it uses a similar concept of traversing the directed graph the graph of  follower and…

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Excerpt: As promised, this post is on social media to increase traffic for blogs. Social media is quite a vague term but it is generally accepted to mean any thing from leaving comments in a blog to the large content community sites. A good blog should foster opportunities for communities to interact. Not only does it have a feel good factor that make you want to carry on writing a blog but it also reduces reliance on traffic from search engines and the whims of the mighty Google. The key to success of a blog is to create content that will…

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Excerpt: For your Twitter network to be an effective tool you want to follow people that are going to provide value. Following hundreds of people can become distracting and time wasting. How do you choose who to follow on Twitter? Perhaps you have followed your  friends and work colleagues, people you know in your industry, some famous people just for a laugh, followed people because they followed you or based on what their avatar looks like. After this, most people would probably choose their Twitter followers randomly. Alternatively, you could look at intersection of the set of followers of a number of…

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Excerpt: Everyone in SEO is banging on about how social media is so great for SEO. We talk about it often on SEO the Game but have not really discussed it in detail. What is the social media and what are the opportunities out there for those dipping their SEO toes in the water? What is Social Media? You might be forgiven for thinking it was any site with a domain name that replaces ‘er’ with just r at the end of the domain (Flickr, Frappr, Scanr) or it was any site with a stupid nonsense word (Squidoo, Ning).  However, I would say…

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Excerpt: Recently, a rumour was circulated by Marcus Tander – aka Mediaadonis (a marketing consultant) that if you apply a the word hyves as a sub-domain before your own domain name it would show you whether you had been given a penalty for selling links. If it showed as PR 7 in your PR-meter, it was okay.  If it was a PR 4, then your site had a penalty against it. It could also be PR 0 if you were banned. At the time it seemed quite bizarre that this would work but many were posting about it.  It is good…