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Social Media Tips and Tricks – Twitter Search

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Just about everyone we know is now using Twitter in one form or another, whether it is for business use or on a personal basis. What a lot of people don’t realise though is that Twitter is a great tool for doing research and searching for information in general but many of us don’t know how to use the powerful search commands that we have at our disposal. Of course as well as a great resource for information, the search commands within Twitter are also great for finding out about topics in your particular business niche so it’s well worth spending a little time getting to grips with some of the more common commands and we will discuss these more in this post. Basic Search and the Hashtag # Twitters basic search commands work much like those of any search engine, so for example type in the words social media

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Ignore Social Media at your Peril

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Social Media and powerful SEO techniques Whatever your personal feelings about social media networks may be you may be missing out to the competition if you do not already have your business social media profiles up and running. SEO is about optimising your website, and your entire online presence needs to be managed in order to help you achieve all that is possible. Social Media may have started out for personal enjoyment, but it has quickly developed into a powerful marketing tool which should not be ignored. The behaviour of consumers is constantly changing, and social media has become one of the most important factors which are affecting your potential customers in the modern digital age. Know Where to Advertise There are many different social media platforms which are available for businesses. Some of the most powerful tools for SEO purposes include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Youtube. Setting up a

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Facebook Timeline delayed but is still coming, so what’s it like?

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Recently we decided to take a look at the new Facebook Timeline which is still currently in beta, we couldn’t wait any longer and so used the developer’s app method to get an early sneak peak, if you want to take a look as well then you can find out how here. I’m not going to get involved in the raging debate about privacy and all the rest of it as that’s something I think for each of us to decide individually, when you set up your Timeline profile you can choose to hide elements that you don’t wish to be visible anyway. One of the first things you will notice is the nice big banner at the top of the page known as the cover image. This can be any image that you already have on Facebook or you can upload a new one, even create a custom image

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Whats all the fuss about Google +

You may have seen that lately we have been tweeting as have others about Google’s latest entry into the world of Social Media, known as Google + or Google Plus, this latest venture is currently in Beta test mode, so why all the fuss? Google + Features Having recently received an invite to Google + we set an account up in order to have a play and see exactly what all of the noise on Twitter and elsewhere has been about and I must say that our initial reactions are promising, within minutes we had the account setup and the profile filled in and set about learning how to use some of the features of this latest social media network. One of the things that struck me straight away as being a great idea was the Circles+ feature. Circles + allows you to visually sort all of your contacts and

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Social Media SEO is all About Instant Gratification

It is very important when thinking up new content how users will manage to stumble across your pages among the millions of other sites on the web.  With this useful information you are able to target your audience more precisely and increase the chances of giving the browser what they are looking for.  Not all users are after the same thing even if they are in the same demographic.  Therefore it is helpful to include something for everyone, and researching the latest search trends can help you focus your SEO campaigns more effectively.  Study Releases Discovery Information Outbrain have released their latest study results which have shown how users are using the Internet to navigate through the tonnes of readily available information.  In their study they reviewed the traffic activity of 100 million different sessions which were carried out over 100 premium publishers on the web.  They were looking out

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Google + 1 Hits the Whole of the Web

Especially Relevant for UK SEO Google have been testing out their brand new friend recommendation tool, + 1, since March. An announcement on the Google Blog today brings the news that the +1 button is available over the entire web as from June 1 2011. So if you haven’t stumbled across the + 1 button chances are that you will do very soon. Many websites will be incorporating the recommendation such as YouTube and Tech Crunch. Need to Know Basis The announcement is especially relevant for UK SEO as it has also been confirmed by Matt Cutts that the + 1 data will be used in Google’s algorithm to determine the rankings on search engine results pages.   Furthermore SEO companies have been shocked to discover that the information gathered from the blocking feature which was also released at the start of 2011 will not be made available to webmasters. So

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