Social Media Marketing Tips: Six (6) Steps to Getting Your Fan Page Found in Facebook Search

Having a Facebook Fan Page for your small business can be crucial for exposure—that is, if your Fan Page is easily searchable on the social media networking site. Many firms don’t take the right steps to ensure that their Fan Page pops up in the right searches. Just like search engine optimization (SEO), social media…

Leveraging Video for Social Media Marketing

Video is considered the most effective engagement object and considered important for future search engine optimization (SEO) efforts, but it’s also integral to your social media marketing endeavors. Social media marketing harnesses consumer trust in a way that traditional methods cannot—it allows a brand to have a wide audience without having to plan, implement, and…

Social Media Marketing: Can Google Out-Search Twitter?

As we mentioned last week, Google has unlikely competitors in social media marketing platforms. Twitter’s real-time search has forced Google to implement time filtered searches, but even that feature can’t compare to a real-time search that returns results within the second! We questioned how Google could maintain its position as King in Search without the…

The Necessity of Video in SEO

It has become increasingly vital in search engine optimization (SEO) to include video, audio, pictures, maps, charts to engage and encourage visitors to interact with your website. What you should know is these “engagement objects” can affect your page rank, particularly with the advent of universal search. Their search algorithm used to analyze 120 variables…

Search Engine Optimization Tips: YouTube Introduces Demographics Tool

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) involves research, from determining your businesses’ biggest demographic, to knowing their specific likes and dislikes. If you don’t do this, then you’re marketing blind. If you’re doing video marketing, YouTube just saved you a lot of time and money by expanding their Insights for Audience tool to package all that information…

Facebook Voice Chat App Supplements Platform’s Social Media Marketing Tools

Facebook increased its user base to an astonishing 300 million active users by integrating new ideas from companies searching for early adopters. However, these third-party programs often have kinks mainstream users don’t want to deal with. For instance, many of the social media marketing platform’s popular tools are not original. Facebook’s current feed is the…

Social Media Marketing: Twitter to Introduce Geolocation API, 3rd Party Experimental Features

Twitter is a social media marketing platform behemoth that knows how to cater to its users. The basic principle of social media marketing is about connecting with those who use your product or service and forming relationships with them. Twitter is taking this advice and improving its social media platform again and again for ease…

Social Media Marketing: Google’s Fight

September was a whirlwind month for social media marketing news, particularly for social media leaders Twitter and Facebook. While those sites are optimizing their functionality to ring in a larger user base, it seems that search engine king Google has been left out of the picture, perhaps for a reason. Google rose to fame as…

Social Media Optimization: Facebook’s 300 Million Strong Connect

Out of all the social media marketing platforms, Facebook is the one constantly pushing out new features. Earlier this month, Facebook closed down its controversial Beacon service, which tracked user activities on outside websites and reported the information to their friends. The service never caught on, as users were outraged about an invasion of privacy….