SEO News – SEO 2012: 7 Point Checklist for Search Engine Ranking.

This is a pretty good article on SEO. SEO is not my primary area but I think all marketers should keep up with the basics and the basics are ever changing. Its a quick scan and I’d recommend looking at all 7 points.

The first item you’ll see Keyword Specific Domain Name is not for us B2B types. I have never worked for a company that would let me rename the company. And even if they did it there would be other problems with having the company name be a keyword.

Social Media Optimization continues to play an increasing role, however Lazarus suspects the search engines will be working on ways to mitigate the gaming that can happen.

The most interesting observation to me  in the post for me was:

The Panda update has made Directory Submission even more valuable and productive for generating back links than ever before as now, only those directories which have a high PageRank are in business while all other around have been buried. 

Thanks to   for posting it.

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A well done article simplifying and defining some key metrics. Kudos to Edwin.

http://socialmediatoday.com/edwin-huertas/415368/social-analytics-your-social-media-marketing-campaign-working

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Explaining “social media ROI” AGAIN. And again. And… again. « The BrandBuilder Blog

by Michael Procopio 12 December 2011 social media

Explaining “social media ROI” AGAIN. And again. And… again. « The BrandBuilder Blog. This is a post by Olivier Blanchard the author of Social Media ROI (Amazon link). It is excellent even with the explicit language (Olivier is a bit frustrated that after years people don’t get ROI) explaining when ROI makes sense and when [...]

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Facebook To Launch A Subscribe Button For Websites | TechCrunch

by Michael Procopio 11 December 2011 social media

Facebook To Launch A Subscribe Button For Websites | TechCrunch. While this is exactly the correct thing for Facebook to do for itself, this promotes the so called splinternet and make Facebook another step closer to being a walled garden. The question: is that such a bad thing?  First I’ll say, I’m no cheerleader for [...]

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11 Ways To Explain Social Business Benefits – The BrainYard – InformationWeek

by Michael Procopio 6 December 2011 social media

11 Ways To Explain Social Business Benefits – The BrainYard – InformationWeek.   This is a very good article on how to explain social media in lay person’s terms, that is no social media speak. Here is one bullet What are the things that do matter?   Making sure we get the most out of [...]

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Social advertising reaches new heights

by Michael Procopio 1 December 2011 social media

Thanks to Flowtown and Pivotcon.com for this informative chart Flowtown – Social Media Marketing Application

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Quipol | What is Quipol? | Quipol

by Michael Procopio 26 November 2011 social media

Here is a new tool I found courtesy of http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/. I’ll update this after I try it.   So, what is Quipol? Quipol is social polling. It’s a simple and elegant way to unlock the opinions and perspectives of your online audience. Quipol makes it easy to create social polls (called Quipols), share them with [...]

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Event promotion using social media

by Michael Procopio 4 November 2011 marketing

A friend of mine got a new marketing job at a start-up, part of that job is social media marketing. He was asking me about event promotion using social media.  Social media marketing can work really well for event promotion. Here are my suggestions for using social media marketing for event promotion. Commercials I like [...]

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MDG Blog: The ROI of Social Media Infographic – The Measurement Standard: Blog Edition

by Michael Procopio 3 November 2011 social media

MDG Blog: The ROI of Social Media Infographic – The Measurement Standard: Blog Edition.

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Twitter search – you can still get an RSS feed

by Michael Procopio 31 October 2011 social media

It really upsets me when platforms take away functionality that helps automate the world. In this case my ire pointed at Twitter. It use to be if you where at Twitter search and did a search there was a nice RSS feed icon so you could save a feed of your Twitter search to be [...]

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