Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

Is there still a place for forums?

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Having spent much time over the years in forums, it strikes me that forums are being ignored by many in their internet marketing mix with the dash to incorporate Twitter and other social media.
However, there is much value in forums, which cannot be replicated in such depth using the likes of Twitter or Facebook. It [...]

SEO and Internet Marketing Google Wave

Monday, November 16th, 2009

In light of the fact there didn’t appear to be any public waves on SEO and internet marketing, Clickthrough decided to set one up!
SEO and Internet marketing Google Wave
We haven’t really publicised it yet, but feel free to tell others to come and join us in our new community.
The point of the SEO Wave is [...]

A free Facebook internet marketing idea for someone

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

The rise of Facebook is difficult to ignore and the latest trend appears to be joining Just For Fun groups that are utterly pointless. For instance, I hate the little triangle that is never wiped by the windscreen wiper, Trying to turn on the lightswitch with your head whilst your hands are full, Sometimes I [...]

When Twitter beats the press

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

It has become increasingly obvious recently that Twitter can prove an invaluable tool for PR agencies and those wishing to get press releases out there, fast.  There have been some very high profile cases of news breaking on Twitter long before the mainstream media report the story eg news from Iran, The Carter-Ruck Trafigura case [...]

Ready to surf the Google wave?

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Google Wave will be launched on Sept 30th to 100,o00 invitees. If you haven’t already studied what Google Wave will be bringing to the online world, you need to start today. Mashable have created a clear guide to Google Wave, which is well worth reading, and there are thousands of articles on Google Wave out [...]

587 twitter tools

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

For those using Twitter or looking to see what you can do with it, take a look at TwitterEye which is a directory of the ever-increasing number of apps available for Twitter users.
Very useful and shows just what happens when you make your source code / API available to developers to play around with.

Pls RT: Twitter security problem still an issue

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Yesterday, various people pointed out that a bug had been found in Twitter that could  hold the potential for malicious exploitation. Last night, Twitter attempted to fix the issue and today, David Naylor, who initially discovered the exploit, has pointed out that Twitter have not fixed the issue.
If you are using Tweetdeck or a similar [...]

Content is king for the search engines but…

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

What content should you be creating in 2009/2010?
Back in the olden days of search engine optimisation, it was all about text. Building websites full of textual content, sending emails full of text, sharing text through bulletin boards, and so on. Most people had dial up modems and images just slowed the connections down to a [...]

Who’s copying your RSS feed?

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I was actually looking for a tool that would allow me to easily see who was pulling the RSS feeds from certain sites and came across Copygator instead. Whilst the original search was not for content theft per se, but rather to discover where content is being syndicated, this seemed a useful tool.
Copygator constantly monitors [...]

Getting backlinks the easy way

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Take a look at your website.
On every page, and every piece of great content, how many ways of sharing that content do you have? None? One? Many?
Do you make it easy for a site visitor to send out a link to that content? Can they tweet it, add it to Digg, Facebook, delicious? Is there [...]