Archive for category: Social Media

Thinking Social? Think again…

17 March, 2010 (16:37) | Google / SEO, Social Media | By: admin

Everyone’s in a stink over the fact that Facebook landed a few more visits than Google last week and these so-called ‘social media experts‘ are trying to divert the need for SEO to popular social networking websites like Facebook.com.
Here are some statistics I think you might find fascinating…

70% of Facebook users came from outside [...]

Yodle Twitter Account Gets Phished

26 February, 2010 (19:40) | Google / SEO, Social Media | By: admin

Roughly 15 hours ago I received a direct message from Yodle who was an obvious victim of Twitter Account Phishing. The DM from Yodle on Twitter read this…
hey, i’ve been having better [removed] and longer with this here http://someURL
Obviously this wasn’t Yodle so it’s important that all you kids and businesses protect your brand by [...]

Social Media Expert. Best post i’ve seen thus far

4 January, 2010 (23:25) | Social Media | By: admin

Original Source: http://openpresswire.com/twitter/youre-not-a-social-media-expert-you-idiot/
This is a post I found written at OpenPressWire.com – the words, I couldn’t have said better myself. Here are a few paragraphs and I highly encourage you to read the rest of the article by clicking the link above.
Are you tired of hearing it yet? I sure am. It seems Twitter has [...]

Social Media: The End of Days for SEO

4 January, 2010 (02:50) | Social Media | By: admin

Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! That’s the sound of your dreams of being a Celebrity SEO Blogger like Aaron Wall or Michael Gray going straight out the window – and you can’t do anything about it!
Fellow SEOs it’s time to brush up those resumes – you all (including me) are going to be out of jobs very [...]

Twitter Bans 370 Passwords

28 December, 2009 (23:03) | Social Media | By: admin

Twitter has learned a valuable lesson in security and is apparently taking a stronger stance on security by banning 370 simple to use and simple to guess passwords – all due to a security breach earlier this year.
Here’s the full list of banned Twitter passwords, via TechCrunch:
1. 111111
2. 11111111
3. 112233
4. 121212
5. 123123
6. 123456
7. 1234567
8. 12345678
9. [...]

Chris Brogan: What I Want a Social Media Expert to Know

28 December, 2009 (19:49) | Social Media | By: admin

Chris Brogan is the President of New Marketing Labs and another of my my favorite bloggers. He wrote an interesting post that I couldn’t resist to re-post with some snippets.
The subject relates to the social media industry along with the factors that every one who uses Twitter claims to be a social media expert… Chris [...]

Twitter in Plain English

19 December, 2009 (16:48) | Social Media | By: admin

This is a good video for those still struggling to understand the reasoning behind Twitter.

Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army”

19 December, 2009 (16:23) | Social Media | By: admin

Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/17/twitter-reportedly-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/
Yesterday was quite a wild ride for me… I started the day out by joining a clients Christmas Party’s  and later rolled over to the Arvada DNote to see one of my favorite local bands; Wendy Woo so I missed all the action with the latest and greatest from Twitter. Here are a few [...]

Twitter is down again

7 December, 2009 (22:22) | Social Media | By: admin

Update: it’s live  again…
It’s official Twitter is down again, here is the latest update…
Brief Downtime:
We briefly experienced a very high rate of errors due to the same underlying problem as yesterday. We are working to permanently resolve this problem.

SEO: Top 10 people you should follow on Twitter

7 November, 2009 (16:08) | Google / SEO, Social Media | By: admin

If you are big into SEO here is my top 10 list of people you should follow!
[P.S Follow me too - @ Scottsdale SEO]

Matt Cutts @MattCutts
Aaron Wall @AaronWall
Jeremy Schoemaker @Shoemoney
Jill Whalen @JillWhalen
Adam Lasnick @thatadamguy
Michael Gray @GrayWolf
Search Engine Land @sengineland
Rand Fishkin @randfish
Danny Sullivan @dannysullivan
BruceClay @BruceClayInc

There you have it – now get following!