Archive for June, 2009

Where do you put the hashtag?

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

The correct netiquette on Twitter is to place the hashtag at the end of the tweet. Just so you know!

The real numbers behind your HUGE Twitter following

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

LOL, great article that finally puts some meat on the bones of the numeric reality behind claims by the great and good Internet marketing gurus etc abut their ginormous Twitter following, and the influence that they therefore wield. Not!

Get Twitter alerts with TweetBeep

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Now this is one neat tool for anyone wanting to monitor certain terms on Twitter. Tweetbeep markets itself as Google alerts for Twitter, and it sure seems to be!
You may want to keep an eye open for mentions of your Twitter name  (although Tweetdeck and similar software also provide this functionality) or look for potential [...]

Aiming at the middle with your internet marketing activities

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Seth Godin has recently posted twice on the subject of the “middle of the market”. His first post Fast In, Fast Out obviously started a train of thought and triggered the second about The Paradox of the Middle of the Market.
Whilst Seth is mainly talking about product development and then marketing that to the masses, [...]

Habitat get it wrong on Twitter

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Habitat managed a major faux pas this week when they misused the hashtags on Twitter in an attempt to jump on the trending bandwagon.
Topics that trend on Twitter are those where hashtags are used to create a ‘channel’ to allow users to easily follow all tweets on that particular topic.  For example #MJ has been [...]

RT or via @

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Aha, a small problem has been solved today that has been a minor bugbear with Twitter.
When retweeting, it is sometimes necessary to edit or even amend the original tweet to include a comment, an answer, hashtag, or shorten it to fit in the 140 characters.
Discovered today that the protocol of RT is to leave the [...]

Search for your life / living

Friday, June 26th, 2009

It is surprising how many businesses have not yet mastered search, not just within the search engines, but elsewhere too. The benefits of becoming “search literate” are many fold, and will allow you to save time and effort in finding the answers or solutions to a multitude of questions.
Not just who are your competitors, but [...]

Black hat seo spam wave on news of Michael Jackson’s death

Friday, June 26th, 2009

It had to happen. As the news of Michael Jackson’s death spreads around the globe, the black hat spammers start to cash in on the activity.
A few mere hours after the announcement was confirmed, the security companies such as Sophos started to notice aggressive activity from spammers attempting to harvest email addresses, as well as [...]

Marketing in a recession – the new way

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Times are hard, budgets are tight, customers are finicky, so think out the box to grab their attention and email addresses.
What will make you stand out from your competitors? What are customers looking for that will give you the edge? We have previously talked about respecting your customers and understanding who they are and what [...]

Matt Cutts says content not page rank

Friday, June 19th, 2009

In a recent blog post, Matt Cutts clarifies the Page Rank debate which has raged, with particular relation to sculpting sites for PR. He recommends allowing Page rank to flow freely through your site rather than trying to sculpt pages and links to force PR to flow.
It seems that some of us SEO folk had [...]