Category Archives: Social

SEO Software Startup Story: How BuzzStream Link & Social CRM Came Into Being

Paul May co-founded BuzzStream, a CRM for link building and PR/social media that allows online marketers to manage relationships and be more effective in getting results, be they links or press. He gave me the following two-part interview about the software creation and startup process. If you’ve ever been solicited to SEO a startup with […]

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SEO Software Startup Story: How BuzzStream Link & Social CRM Came Into Being

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LOCQL: A Location Based Q&A Site and an Inspirational Source for Local Marketers

LOCql is a location-based question and answer social network that lets you quickly find answers to any questions revolving around a city. The site is still relatively new, so things may seem a bit quiet at first, but it looks like a promising tool for local bloggers and marketers to locate content and keyword inspiration. […]

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LOCQL: A Location Based Q&A Site and an Inspirational Source for Local Marketers

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The Hidden Opposition between Social Media and Viral Marketing

The generally accepted definition of viral marketing is that it refers to a marketing technique in which some marketing objective (often brand awareness) is enhanced by way of a viral process – the brand and/or message spreads like a disease or virus, infecting people, who in turn infect their peers. Something struck me as remarkably […]

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The Hidden Opposition between Social Media and Viral Marketing

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Likeonomics: How Facebook Is Changing Online Business

Likeonomics (n.): The study of how affinities and passions affect the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The Keyword Made The Web What it Is You might not realize it, but the way Google works has shaped the web for the last 10 years. Think about it for a second… How many new […]

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Likeonomics: How Facebook Is Changing Online Business

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Social Media Event Case Study: NYS Interactive Ethics Forum

This past week, NY State Democrats held their first ever Interactive Ethics Forum. In it, they took questions from twitter users, Facebook fans, as well as questions via email in order to get the every day citizen’s concerns on the topic of Ethics Reform in NY State.  While I’m not normally a political person, I […]

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Social Media Event Case Study: NYS Interactive Ethics Forum

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How to Promote Your Blog and Increase Traffic

Blogging is an enjoyable habit especially for those who love writing and expressing themselves to others. Many people even make a living out of it. However, gaining profits in writing blogs is not an easy task especially if you are just starting your blogging career. Other than writing relevant content, driving traffic to your website […]

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How to Promote Your Blog and Increase Traffic

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Heightened Senses: Optimizing Beyond SEO

If you’re looking for something close to a top ten or link bait post talking about some cut-throat SEO strategy, then I highly suggest that you close this window now and go on with your day. On the other hand, if you’re looking to understand SEO from a deeper perspective, then you might find this article quite […]

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Heightened Senses: Optimizing Beyond SEO

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Reading About SEO & Social Media vs. Putting It Together

We’ve been talking a lot about SEO and social media around Level343, lately. Partly because it’s what we do, and partly because there’s always room for learning better strategies for higher returns. But, what are the returns? You read on all these blogs and articles how social media returns are XYZ. SEO returns are ABC. […]

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Reading About SEO & Social Media vs. Putting It Together

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What Are You Doing with All of that Social Media Data?

Recently I participated in an article where we outlined how to monitor and measure your brand in social media. It was a really fun article to help put together thanks to the great questions outlined by Debbie Hemley. One of the questions she asked I’ve been thinking a lot about: Have you changed your direction(s) […]

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What Are You Doing with All of that Social Media Data?

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Google’s +1 is No Facebook “Like”

With the release of Google’s new +1 feature, it is clear that Google is working hard to oust Facebook from their social throne. As a search marketer, I think the new feature is pretty great. Eventually AdWords advertisers will be able to get statistics on what ads have the most +1’s and Google Webmaster Central […]

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Google’s +1 is No Facebook “Like”

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