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Getting started with social media for SEO

Posted on November 17, 2011 by in SEO and Traffic, Social Media

If you have read any of my ebooks, particularly my small business search engine domination ebook you will know I am a big advocate of social media for SEO benefits.

The main reason is simple. The Google algorithm is based to a large extent on sites linking to other sites. But other than SEO companies who really links to other sites anymore? Most people will use social media to ‘share’ as opposed to actively linking to another site from their highly authoritative homepage.

The hard data on how social media impacts on SEO is pretty limited. However it’s my belief that in the future things like social media authority and authorship (how important Google thinks you are as an author) will have a huge influence on your position in Google. At the end of the day Google wants to deliver the best content and the best content is written by people with authority and is shared a lot.

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Twitter hacks for lazy people

Posted on November 1, 2011 by in Social Media

Twitter is a great too for small businesses but it’s also a time thief!

You can literally spend hours on Twitter just reading through posts and hearing about what people are having for lunch. If you put the time in you will be better off no doubt but what if you are lazy like me and you don’t want to put the time in? Here are some of the things I do to automate the Twitter experience a bit.

Note I’m not a huge fan of automating social media but at the same time there are some things that work well for me. They may annoy some people, they may not suit you, but they work for me.

Let’s get 2000 semi-targeted followers – Tweet Adder

There is zero point in being on Twitter if you don’t have followers. People will tell you it’s not about the numbers but if you want influence you need an audience. If you already have an audience somewhere away from Twitter you might find it easy to build one on Twitter but for everyone else you’ll need to hack it a bit.

If your strategy on Twitter is to build a following or spread your message  to as many people as possible then you need more followers. Here is the easiest way you can get more followers on Twitter without doing much at all.

Step 1 – Buy Tweet Adder (affiliate link)

Step 2 – Choose an influential person / business / product / association etc from your industry and use Tweet Adder to add all of their followers to your ‘to follow’ list.

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Using Hootsuite to manage your social media accounts

Posted on September 20, 2010 by in Social Media

Web Circle’s Social Media consultant Ben Beck shows you how to use the powerful tool Hootsuite to perform a number of tasks in managing your social media accounts including:

  • Scheduling tweets
  • Managing Twitter, facebook, linked in accounts through the one interface
  • Creating multiple content streams for easy access to different information,
  • and more

Web Circle use Hootsuite to manage our Twitter account.

*Note if you cannot access YouTube, download the .MOV video file.

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Sending Automated Message to Twitter Followers

Posted on September 15, 2010 by in Social Media

If you have ever wondered how people send those automated Twitter messages when you follow them, this tutorial from Web Circle’s Social Media consultant will show you how.

*Note if you cannot access YouTube, download the MOV video file.

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