How to Curate and Share Your Favorite Social Media and News Content
As we move to the next social media start ups, the race will be on to find and use tools that help you to curate useful social media content. There's just too much info to consume / digest these days, and I don't see if getting easier to make sense of the info flood any time soon. Here's a good list of 50+ social media curation tools already on the market. To help keep you efficient with content creation, we plan to keep on top of this important trend.
see http://dailytekk.com/2012/03/06/the-50-best-ways-to-curate-and-share-your-fav....T5-F579M53Y
Pagination and SEO - YouTube
If you have a large publishing or commerce type website, proper design of article and product category pagination is critical. The good news is that Google is now supporting rel="next" and rel="prev" HTML markup as well as rel=canonical. I recommend that you watch this important video to better understand the proper use of these important markup tags.
Google AdWords For Video Released Today
If you haven't ben using paid ads for your videos, now the time to get going Looks like we are now be able to use Google AdWords to promote our videos starting today. To make it easy for business advertisers, new service will be built right into the AdWords interface.
James Cameron, Google's Page and Schmidt Back Asteroid-Mining Venture Planetary Resources
While this is not on topic with respect to SEO, Social Media or traffic optimization, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to share this news - Planetary Resources Inc.'s plans will be formally announced at an event in Seattle on Tuesday, according to The Wall Street Journal. Backers of the new company say its goal is to "overlay two critical sectors—space exploration and natural resources—to add trillions of dollars to the global GDP" and to "help ensure humanity's prosperity."
Secret Of Advertising on Facebook: Why You Need To Understand Facebook Paid Ads – The SEO BrainTrust & Marty Weintraub
Killer Facebook Ads: Master Cutting-Edge Facebook Advertising Techniques.
Dan and Leslie at SEO BrainTrust host a very important webinar with Marty Weintraub about changes in how Facebook works with respect to paid ads. Recent changes mean that in order to leverage Facebook these days you really need to be using paid ads. Good news is that it's still early days and getting results (building a targeted community) is currently cost effective.
After watching the webinar, be sure to check out Marty's new book - Killer Facebook Ads: Master Cutting-Edge Facebook Advertising Techniques - http://www.amazon.com/Killer-Facebook-Ads-Cutting-Edge-Advertising/
Ever Wonder Why We Need So Many Social Networks?
Well, this chart makes it easy to understand. ;-)
Every Single Social Network Explained Through Donuts
source - http://www.businessinsider.com/every-single-social-network-explained-through-...
Facebook EdgeRank Exposure | Like Button | News Feed
Friends and fan pages with a high EdgeRank are mostly likely to show up in your Facebook News Feed. This post defines Facebook EdgeRank and shows how it's related to Likes and why it's so important. Basically everything you publish on Facebok is an object with an assigned EdgeRank. In addition to defining EdgeRank, this article from Social Media Examiner presents six tips to improve Facebook EdgeRank. A must read for anyone buidling community with Facebook.
By Jim Lodico
Published April 28, 2011Ever wonder why you can have 548 friends on Facebook, yet only 15-20 show up in your news feed? It’s not that those other friends have stopped using Facebook; chances are they’re still there. It’s just that they aren’t showing up in your news feed.
“Mobile”-ize your business with Google Sites - Inside AdWords
In case you missed it, be sure to check out Google Sites - now with mobile landing pages. This new offering is for creating mobile-friendly landing pages. It's includes easy editing, it is fee to use, and it integrates with Google Analytics.
You get 5 templates to choose from, or you can create a custom one of your own. To learn more and to get started - here's Google's website about it. http://adwords.blogspot.com/2011/06/mobile-ize-your-business-with-google.html
More Blog Traffic - Traffic Tips for Your Blog
Here's a useful article of 18 tips on how to get more traffic to your blog. This article is from TemplateMonster and targets wordpress blogs. However, most ot these tips apply well to any new blog you may be starting. The process outlined below is a good overview also serves as a good check list. BTW, If you decide to use Posterous as your blog platform, you will have less work to get these best practice items in place, and more fun posting. I guess my bias is showing. ;-)
Be sure to check out the full article on the TemplateMonster website here.
Transcendent Man
If you haven't been following Ray Kurzweil and his forecasts for the future, this looks to be a good introduction. Not really about SEO, rather this is about the impact of rapid digital technology changes on our near term future. I plan to attend the live event. ;-)




