When you’re writing a blog post, you want to make sure that you get as many eyes to read your message as possible – who would want to waste all that hard work?! You want to make sure you’re getting the search engine traffic, too. Here are 6 things to …
Friday Night Links: See and Be Seen
The first day you publish a blog post or a new webpage, it’s a great excuse to let people know about it. But how do you make the transition from brand new to evergreen content? There were a lot of different answers to that question today. Keep it social with …
The 8 Best Web Analytics Tools of 2011
Everybody’s entitled to their opinion, right? Well, how do you start filtering through those opinions to find out what’s actually true? Today we’re going to take 8 articles rating web analytics tools within the past year, combine their ratings and recommendations, and find the 8 tools most frequently mentioned. Not …
20 Ways to Make a List
There are a lot of things to keep track of. Appointments, goals, tasks – just hearing those words makes your head start spinning, doesn’t it? Wouldn’t it be nice if there was one place to turn, no matter where you were, where you could jot down whatever you were thinking …
10 Ways to Measure Social Media Engagement
Businesses should be using social media. It’s a bold statement, but we seem to hear it from everywhere – from bloggers and marketing experts all the way down to the little Facebook icons and Twitter birds that are found on websites, commercials, business cards, and everything in between. But as …
Friday Night Links: Pandas and More
The best pickings of this week are all over the map, and there are quite a few, so they’re grouped into subheadings so you can keep track and pick out which ones to look at first. Of course, people are still talking about Google’s “panda/farmer” algorithm update, trying to weed …
Our Favorite Market Research Tools
What’s cool? Hip? Trendy? Hot? Talked about? Want to ride the wave of consumer opinion? Well, you have to find the trends before you can understand them! Here are a few sites that will give you some insight into what people are talking and thinking about. With all of this …
7 Words for Wise Community Managers
You might be the forum moderator or the social media guru of your company. You might be the business owner or marketing director who manages social media along with everything else that’s going on in your life and office. You might even be a social media expert managing the reputations …
50 Tools Every Online Publisher Should Use
Here are 50 tools that every publisher should use or at least know about: Design 1. GIMP http://www.gimp.org/ When you want the power and flexibility of PhotoShop without actually paying for it, GIMP offers everything you could ever hope for . . . and probably more. Image creation and editing …
Friday Night Links: Luck o' the Irish
In honor of a certain saint, let’s follow our rainbow of links to find some pots of SEO gold. We’ll get a bit of insight from the British Isles, some tips for reaching out to leprechauns and other international compatriots, and even a wee snippet of essential SEO advice. If …