Did you ever think about when you should be sending out tweets to get the best possible traffic? Maybe you should, because tweeting or sharing at a specific moment can really make a difference. Maybe this will help.
With the new Google+ functions jumping around the web, will people leave Twitter or Facebook? Probably not. But still, it is a good time to reflect Twitter. Is it a waste of time? This infographic gives some nice insights. (more…)
UKOM/Nielsen reports that for the first time ever Facebook surpassed Microsoft to become the second-most popular website in the UK. They grew 7 percent compared to a year earlier to 26.8 million visitors in Britain in May.
With that Microsoft falls back to the number three spot. MSN/WindowsLive/Bing sites combined were still good for 26.2 million visits from Brits. Google is still leading the dance with 33.9 million. Nielsen came to these numbers by looking at their panel of 50.000 people. (more…)
First up I need declare a bunch of caveats, I’ve spoken at loads of search marketing events, I arrange one and have attended absolutely loads of them. So take my following opinion and bias with a pinch of salt…but I’m really starting to wonder whether live blogging and particularly live tweeting is making the digital marketing conference a worse experience.
People not at the conference may really appreciate the play by play coverage but I think the whole phenomenon isn’t helping anyone, especially those who have paid—in many cases—hundreds of pounds to attend. (more…)
It’s the most done search on the web: the ego search. People looking for their own name. But also many people look for other peoples names, like the ones they are going to meet for the first time, either in a meeting or on a date for example.
I’ve stated before that it would be interesting to actually get a page which you can monitor yourself that would show up in the Google results for your own page and with the new and updated Google Profiles Google seems to have done just that. And Google is now taking another step.
The Google Profiles are showing up more and more in the SERPS and it seems that Google has made a change to how they show Twitter results when you search for a name. (more…)
In this weeks episode Bas and Roy were joined by Jorg Ruis, who is the head of SEO for The Next Web and Twittercounter. In the show the guys discussed what kind of things Jorg encounters in his day-to-day job. Also some news-items were discussed.
The shownotes are below.
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Similar to Twitter’s little blue bird, time flies. It was this time a year ago that I wrote my most successful post on State of Search – 10 ways to grow your twitter followers and 10 essential tools to do it I must admit, I was surprised at how well it was received, to this date it has received 39 comments, over 400 re-tweets, 20,000 page views and nearly 13,000 visitors via search engines.
Today I want to revisit the Twittersphere but look specifically at how small local businesses can utilise Twitter to grow their followers, but most importantly their business. One thing I have noticed about Twitter is that some people are too caught up in the numbers game and try to artificially increase their followers. Local businesses really benefit from interacting, engaging and developing relationships with users who are local, so quick fixes such the search queries below won’t help much. (more…)
Google is taking it step by step, a very different way than we are used to in this digital era, but slowly but surely Google’s social face is becoming more visible. The latest additions to the Google search results are yet again another signal of Google’s social efforts.
Googles Social Search has been around for a while now (since 2009) but is only showing a small amount of social elements. Social results coming from tools like Twitter for example, were until now not a very big part of the search result. Google now has started to mix social results, from for example Twitter or blogs, with other results. (more…)
Today Bas and Roy started of by discussing design matters. Twitter has a new design, but got hacked right away, Bas was surprised by this because a similar hack was already discovered a year ago.
In the final part of the show Bas and Roy were joined by Brent Payne who wrote a post on making different pages for different type of users, by some called cloaking. A very nice talk which is a must listen!
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There are many great search-experts out there. We decided we wanted to give some extra attention to some of them. Therefore we will be interviewing some of these experts. During the entire summer you will be served with short interviews with influential people in the industry. You will be seeing interviews with the likes of Joost de Valk, Marcus Tandler, Chris Sherman, Mike Grehan and Danny Sullivan, and off course our bloggers! Be aware that some interviews will be published in the newsletter!
Today: someone who has been an example for me since the beginning, a legend for me: Danny Sullivan, chief editor of Searchengineland.
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Not a lot of search in this weeks show but a huge amount of information on automating Twitter and spam. Bas and Roy talked to Paul Madden, aka SEOidiot. Paul is an expert on automation and talked about how to automated, when to automate and the difference between automation and spam. The good and the bad were discussed where Paul gave useful tips on how to recognize spam accounts. A very interesting show to be listening to!
The shownotes are below, all the links can also be found in the special delicious feed. (more…)
If we take a look at our statistics we do not only see a steady growth in number of visitors. What we see most is that most of our visitors are returning visitors. Wit the website being only a few months old its obvious that search traffic will grow in time, but the fact that we have so many returning visitors, who on top of returning, all spent quite the amount of time on the website strengthens our vision. Our articles are not only clicked on, they are read fully!
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