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Facebook Opportunities for Small Business Explained

Alex Sysoef — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:08:39 +0000

The world of marketing is abuzz with social networking sites, namely Facebook. With hundreds of millions of visitors coming to this website every single month, it is no wonder that more businesses than ever are looking to Facebook as a component of their success. It is important for every small business owner that is about to plunge into Facebook to understand these few steps in order to have a beneficial experience with this internet titan.

Prepare Yourself Before You Start

Facebook is notoriously easy to log on and create a page in only a few seconds. While this may be tempting for enthusiastic business owners, it is a much better idea to make a few small preparations before finally throwing up a fan page. It is best to invest a small amount of time in searching through Google for other’s stories on success or failure during their Facebook campaign. Small business owners should also clearly understand what goals they are setting for themselves and their business and how they can achieve these goals through a Facebook page.

Start Slowly, Then Increase Your Workload

Much like those that would create their page as quickly as possible, many enthusiastic business owners hope to invest hours on end in those first few days or weeks. Unfortunately, the positive effects that Facebook can produce will take time to foster and overdoing it during the beginning may in fact be a waste of time. Allowing one’s page to slowly build fans and focusing on small tweaks every week can be a much more efficient utilization of time.

Connect With Your Fans, Contact Them Directly

What really sets Facebook apart from almost any other advertising medium are the useful tools that allow interaction between companies and their customers. Simply receiving a ‘like’ on your page is not enough to garner interest or loyalty in a customer. Contacting each new fan directly with a message is the perfect way to build a lasting business relationship. Similarly, responding to all wall posts directly will keep Facebook users coming back and spreading the word about your business.

Add Only New And Valuable Content

There is a time and place to post funny pictures or anecdotal sayings and a Facebook fan page is not one of those places. While some companies may get away with hourly posts, most businesses are going to succeed by only posting what their customers want to hear. Examples of these would be coupons that Facebook users will have access to, daily specials, changes in business hours, and exciting new products. Selecting a few useful posts is much more effective than spamming.

Setting Up Your Facebook Ad Campaign

Facebook allows companies to direct their advertisements at specific demographics with two forms of ads: pay-per-click and pay-per-view. No matter the style that a business owner chooses to go with, they will be allowed to set a maximum amount that they would like to spend per day and per advertisement. This is another good time to start slow and give the campaign time to grow, allowing owners time to make small adjustments as needed

Creating A Facebook Fan Page

It can be very easy to create a profile page instead of a fan page. According to Facebook’s policies though, this is a quick way to get one’s page and account banned. Another important rule to follow is to never create multiple profiles. It may be tempting to create fake accounts to get those first 25 followers, but this is strictly against policy and enforced quite often.

Don’t Forget To Update

With the fan page setup, an advertising campaign underway, and customers slowly building, all that is left to do is keep the momentum moving. With regular updates and a close interaction with your community, you will begin to see some of the major benefits that Facebook has to offer small businesses.

About Author: Jeff has been blogging since 2007 & contributing on many websites since that time. He is a professional internet marketing and blogging consultant. Jeff is also a consultant and content contributor for Queens condominiums community.

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Tweet And Get it! WordPress Plugin to Build Your Followers

Alex Sysoef — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:17:28 +0000

If you missed the bandwagon departing for Social Network traffic – fear not! Tweet and Get It! WordPress plugin will help you get there quite a bit faster. This small addition to your blog can help you recruit an army of followers interested in getting exactly what you have to offer or share, assuming of course you actually have something to give or share

To see it in action:

[tweegi-button name="Tweet And Get It!"]

Innovation never sleeps and that is why I like WordPress as a platform! If you have a need – more than likely someone else does too and they have created a solution in form of plugin you can install and use!

Tweet and Get It! Promise

Tweet&Get it ! is an automatic process to get Twitter followers in exchange for a downloadable file. Get your shortcodes by setting up your Tweet&Get it ! buttons. Copy/paste the shortcodes into posts, pages and widgets areas. Your Tweet&Get it ! buttons will immediately be available to your visitors.

Tweet&Get it ! is seriously recommended to share content such as: Music, Ebooks, Photos, Wallpapers, Promotional Codes, Coupons, Typography, CMS Themes, Videos, Software, Tutorials, Web Resources, Icons, PSD Brushes …

Plugin is extremely simple to use allows you creation of multiple buttons so you can separate each promotion and each give away to see which one is most effective and coordinate your efforts accordingly.

Nothing too complicated as you can see and if you like to test it – feel free to do it here:

[tweegi-button name="Tweet And Get It!"]

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Social Media Optimization

Alex Sysoef — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:31:54 +0000

We generally stick to the basics of SEO- Search Engine Optimization but since Facebook ,Twitter and other daily social gatherings have risen up we need to learn about SMO as well. Without Social Media Optimization we will be left like a pressure cooker without its cap. For blogging it is very necessary to build up a good and sound reputation. And that comes with visitors, traffic and earnings.

These are the three most important meals of any blogger. If any of these are missing he will feel hungry at the end of the day. But as we know about SEO which can be done in following ways:

On-Page SEO.
Off-Page SEO.

In Off page SEO somewhere we add social networking profiles as well. But in this era we need to regard SMO just like SEO. Now the question is why??

Any author or writer would love getting appraises for his work or more and more people following his writings and coming back again and again to read that. If you have 60% traffic from search engine 20% direct and 10% others than you will understand what is the need of those 20 and 10% respectively.

Such Results prove that you are doing good with your SEO but you can do better with your Others or referrals. If you have a group 500 Facebook friends ,100 twitter followers and 100 on other stuff and just 10% of those visit your blog every time you they see an update about it on your Social profile wall you would end up with some 70-100 visitors directly and as mentioned SEO was already doing good.

How to manage this??

There are many plugins available that help you to directly post your updates on your social media profiles also provide some buttons at the beginning or end of the posts for people to share it on their social networking profiles.Here is a list of some of the plugins:

Twitrup: This will automatically shorten the url of the post and post the tweet on twitter.
Word Social: This plugin once synchronized with your Facebook,Twitter and LinkedIn will post your updates on social profiles once you have updated your blog.
Sexy Bookmarks: One of the most known plugin for giving an option to visitors to share your posts on their social networking profiles for publicizing.

You would certainly agree with me that word of mouth is the biggest and best publicity medium. If you can spread the name of your website like viral marketing you can win many visitors. So make sure you do not forget about Social Media Optimization. It is one of the most important ingredients of money making.

Guest Post By: Ashish Sukhija is an online marketer who has been making huge money primarily through Google Adsense and loves to share his SEO knowledge on Technicalsafari and Affiliate marketing tips on Geekshub. Visit for best information on internet.

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Facebook Secrets You Didn’t Know

Monika Mundell — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:08:04 +0000

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years then you will be well aware of the Internet powerhouse that is “Facebook.”

The social network site that let’s you connect with friends, share photos, videos and play games with people all around the world.

In a very short space of time Facebook has gone from being a new and unheard of website, to total world domination. How many people do you know that do not have a Facebook profile?

My guess is that virtually everybody you know will use the site in one capacity or another. This has created some amazing opportunities for the savvy businessperson. You can use the site to generate huge amounts of new business.

Whilst many marketing “experts” will suggest that you simply mass add people to your friends lists and then spam them with CPA offers, there are some much more useful and effective ways of using the site, if you understand the secrets of Facebook.

Here are just a few of them:

Create a Community

By creating a group or fan page that is targeted to a specific niche, you will bring together a community of likeminded people. People who will all have an interest in the subject, and offers that may come their way from time to time.

Something that is often overlooked is how powerful content syndication can be using Facebook. By sharing interesting and informative information with people within your group you will find that those people begin sharing your content with their friends, and that is how viral marketing begins.

So think community, think quality content, and you could find yourself getting worldwide coverage sooner than you think.

Create an App

A very underused feature on Facebook amongst marketers is the mighty app. It is actually fairly easy to create your own Facebook application, and it doesn’t have to be particularly flashy or technical either to be effective.

A simple application that gives “daily sales tips”, or “daily dating advice” in text form, can actually be a very quick and easy way of creating a very large following for your business. If you like the idea of community, such applications can become very popular and go viral very quickly, giving you and your brand massive coverage. If you are not confident in putting an app together yourself then a freelance programmer should be able to do one for you fairly cheaply.

Think Keywords

It is very rare that I ever see anyone talking about the power of keywords and Facebook.

The site has a huge PR and is loved by Google, thus being spidered hundreds, if not thousands of times a day. If your group, app or fan page is keyword rich (rich, not stuffed) then you have a good chance of showing up somewhere in the SERPS for them.

This is of course dependant on proper keyword research, however with proper homework it is very possible.

With a little creativity, and a little out the box thinking, Facebook can be a great vehicle for generating interest and traffic to your site.

Let’s connect on Facebook today. You can hook up with me by adding me as a friend.
Are you using Facebook for business, or pleasure?

Monika

Monika Mundell is a busy copywriter, digital nomad and lover of the great outdoors. If she isn’t found typing words at her keyboard she is probably enjoying some downtime with her hubby, babies (pet birds), or stuck on some tropical island while cruising the world.

You can connect with Monika on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn where she has been extremely un-busy over the last year. An influx of new followers might just animate her to get her act together.

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Get Linked to LinkedIn

Monika Mundell — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:55:53 +0000

One of the most powerful, and proven business strategies of all time is the system of networking and building relationships.

Building and maintaining a successful business is not something that can be done alone. There are many different elements that have to come together when growing a business, and those different elements will require you to seek outside help most of the time.

Networking also becomes of major importance when you want to generate new business. In order for people to buy your service or products, they first need to know they exist.

By building a strong and diverse network you make it more likely for people who may need to use your service to be able to find you.

If people who are within your network have actually used your company or service before, they may even recommend you to the people in their network, thus giving you a potential for new customers.

Networking Online

Our business generation is extremely lucky in that we have the Internet to aid us in our networking campaigns. We now have access to potential colleagues and customers from all over the world, and all just a mouse click away.

There are some very good websites that are designed specifically for bringing business professionals together in the name of networking. The biggest, best and most successful is LinkedIn.

What is LinkedIn?

Although primarily LinkedIn is a business-networking site, it is actually much more than that. There is a search function that can help you reconnect with old friends or colleagues that may have moved on.

If you are looking for new business then you can advertise your service within your profile, so that anyone who happens to be looking for your type of service can find you.

Lastly there is a great question and answer section that allows you to ask a specific business question. Fellow professionals who wish to pass on advice and help will then answer that question. This part of LinkedIn alone is a hidden goldmine because you could brand yourself as the expert in your niche.

This feature has been responsible for the birth of many successful partnerships.

Get Involved or Get Left Behind

I don’t think anyone can really put together a valid argument against the importance of networking as part of your marketing strategy. A little over two years ago I stated otherwise, but I swallow the humble pill right here, right now, because back then I was burned out, and overwhelmed with the sheer amount of social networking sites.

Today, most people who are researching a business, or looking for a specific type of professional will be looking for them online. That is why your business can no longer get away with ignoring sites such as LinkedIn.

If your business does not have a profile, you can bet that some of your strongest and most dangerous competitors will.

As the online community gravitates even more toward social and business networking, it will soon become impossible to do business successfully without some form of networking strategy.

LinkedIn makes the whole process easy, even if you have little or no experience building a profile online. Millions of people are using the site to actively network with fellow professionals. Are you?

Monika

You can connect with Monika on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn where she has been extremely un-busy over the last year. An influx of new followers might just animate her to get her act together.

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Boost Traffic With Facebook

Monika Mundell — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:27:28 +0000

Are you on Facebook? You should be. Despite the stigma Facebook has as being a social networking sites for school kids it is a powerful ally for your marketing arsenal. Facebook is being utilized by online marketers young and old, and for you to benefit from the same you need be there.

If done right, you can boost traffic to your site with the help of Facebook time and time again. Facebook is the largest social networking sites on the planet and has even outgrown Google’s traffic numbers.

Below are some ideas to help you boost your traffic with FB:

Facebook Ads

Facebook PPC ads are a cost-effective way to market your business. Bear in mind that the TOS are pretty strict and not every type of business is allowed to advertise. Work from home and MLM schemes will find it tough to get approved as there is so much rubbish among them.

Facebook Pages

If you run any business, regardless whether it offline or online based you should have a Facebook Page. You can design them at no cost to you. Once your Page is designed and launched you need to find fans. You can do so by inviting your existing Facebook contacts to take a closer look.

You can also network on similar niche forums on the site to grow your circle of influence over time. As more people take notice of you, they will join your fan club.

Facebook Groups

Joining Facebook groups is as easy as doing a keyword search for a related niche. If you are “peddling” electrical contracting you can join groups with like-minded people to extend your reach. By helping others for free you are likely to gain a steady following of people over time, people who will become your avid readers and eventually your clients.

Install Tracking

When you promote your message on Facebook make sure you use some kind of tracking stats to determine what works and what doesn’t. The easiest way to do this is by signing up for a free bit.ly account. You can use specialized URLs and track how many clicks you get, where the traffic came from and much more. Unless you know what works you will be wasting your time.

Network with Top Marketers in Your Niche

If it is possible to network with top marketers in your niche, do it. You need to understand that you can’t simply send them messages saying “hello,” “great to meet you,” and stuff like that. For you to be noticed by a top maggot you need to offer something; your time, your energy, your support, free work, etc. These guys are busy and they simply won’t respond to every Tom, Dick and Harry who happens to seek their friendship.

Design a Killer Profile

Unless your profile stands out among the competition you will only ever be another number in the crowd. The best way to stand out is to make your profile page in-your-face. Be outspoken, be hilarious, be grumpy, be different. Whatever it takes to achieve this. Today, it is getting harder and harder to be a unique entity because of the sheer number of people who market online.

Having said this, it isn’t impossible. You can put on your creative hat and start thinking about ways to attract people’s attention without being nasty, aggressive or abusive to them.

Have fun!

Monika

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Idiots Guide To Safe Social Networking

Monika Mundell — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:36:31 +0000

Social networking is responsible for having created the busiest website on the Internet. Sites like Facebook and YouTube are attracting people in the millions, and this trend is not set to stop shortly. Despite the popularity of these networks, there are some serious aspects to using them. If you think that’s a matter of common sense, think again, because I can’t recount the amount of times I have seen people offering strangers private information that is supposed to be kept that way.

It seems that social media marketing has left many users with their pants down and their bums exposed. If you want to avoid becoming the next victim of identity theft you should be very careful about the things you share with strangers on the Net. One can never be too careful.

Privacy laws are here for a reason

While you might not feel like reading Facebook’s privacy laws for entertainment purposes, you should at least learn the basics. With whom exactly are you sharing your profile? Do you know who access your latest profile messages, and whether or not strangers can befriend you? You should. It could save you a lot of hassles down the line.

Your personal details should be kept private

What is it with people sharing their birthday online? Come on! Identity theft is rife. If you subscribe to the belief that it is cool to tell the world your full name and birthday, then better get ready to become the next victim. I’m serious, thieves only need a few of your personal details to commit theft of your identity.

In the age of fake identities and online crime it isn’t hard for a savvy criminal to target a vulnerable person. If you share your personal details with the world you can realistically expect to be conned at some stage.

Be wary of strangers

Please don’t share your whole life story with your new Twitter buddies. Unless you personally know and trust a person it is highly possible he is not what he appears to be. Even people you deem “for real” might be someone made up for the sake of conning others, or in some instances to preserve their own online privacy. Keep that in mind at all times when dealing with others.

Think before you post

That drunken photo of you and your mates at the office Xmas bash might not be suited for publication on Facebook. Your boss is lurking, and stunts like these have seen people get sacked and ridiculed. The same goes for videos, text and anything else you publish online.

Assume lurking predators

It sucks having to think that way, but having said this, you better be safe than sorry. Because of the ease in which we can publish and share content with others online the Internet has become a frenzied pool for human sharks; these people stop at nothing to make your life a living hell, and the more they know about you, the easier it is for them to harass.

Your social networking profile isn’t safe; because of weak passwords, third-party software plugins and a lack of awareness many profiles can easily get accessed by hackers. I should know because I recently got very close to losing my Facebook account to a hacker. I had a weak-(ish) password. Thankfully I was able to deter the attack before it became a serious issue.

Needless to say, I now use strong passwords to avoid this sort of problem.

Don’t be a social media sloth

You know, the kind who uses the same crappy and weak password for all his logins. Instead use unique passwords and make them hard to guess. A strong password should be made up of a combination of digits, letters and symbols and not words.

I hope this short guide to social media security has helped you see the bigger (more private picture).

Monika

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10 Ways to Measure Social Media

Alex Sysoef — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:41:36 +0000

2009 was the year many individuals and businesses dipped their toes in social media. 2010 will be the year where people look for ways to measure social media. Social media measurement however can be a little tricky.

Where do I start?

The best place to begin would be to figure out what you are looking to accomplish from using social media as an online marketing vehicle. Are you looking to build your network, broadcast messages, create community around your brand, drive traffic to your website or blog, or perhaps you just dove in with little thought or strategy? Having these questions answered will greatly help you determine what success in social media is and how you can measure it.

Below is a list of ten tools you can use to measure social media.

Web Traffic

This is a basic but important way to measure social media if one of your goals is to increase traffic to your website or blog. Social media traffic referrals can be quickly measured using your favorite web analytics tool. Figure out which sites send the most traffic and also what type of content is successful.

Advanced Segments

Google Analytics has a pretty powerful feature called Advanced Segments. This allows you to group certain types of visits together in your data. This can come in handy when you are measuring traffic and conversions from social media. For example, you can create a custom segment for Twitter and Facebook. This will enable you to bring in these segments when you are analyzing your data so you can better determine various things like amount and quality of traffic from social media. Digg might send the most traffic but visitors from Twitter may convert better. Advanced segments can help you determine all this.

Leads, Conversions and Sales

This ties into some of the other mentions I made in regards to using your analytics for social media measurement. Track referring sites all the way through your funnel to see which networks are sending traffic that generates leads that convert to sales. Use this data to influence where you spend your time and efforts online.

Facebook Insight

Facebook pages come with an insightful (pun intended, I know, bad, right?) panel called Insight. This panel shares data on fans, interactions and quality of your posts. Graphs make viewing this data a breeze. Graphs display information such as total number of fans, unsubscribed fans and how they grow over time. Facebook is also kind enough to share demographic data of your fans.

Links Clicked

Another simple way of measurement is to look at the data url shorteners provide. There are many of them but my two favorite are Hootsuite’s ow.ly and bit.ly. Both tools shorten your urls and keep up with how many clicks your links receive as well as information on location of the people clicking on your links. This information is good because it can quickly uncover useful information such as which content people are interested in and what times of the day people are most likely to click on your messages.

Blog Subscribers

You can quickly keep an eye on your growth of your blog’s subscribers. Pay attention to subscription spikes in relation to your social media activity.

Facebook Insight

Facebook pages come with an insightful (pun intended, I know, bad, right?) panel called Insight. This panel shares data on fans, interactions and quality of your posts.

Graphs make viewing this data a breeze. Graphs display information such as total number of fans, unsubscribed fans and how they grow over time. Facebook is also kind enough to share demographic data of your fans.

Links Clicked

Klout

Klout is a tool that measures your reputation and influence on Twitter. What I like about Klout is it measures your TRUE REACH, not just the number of followers you have. True reach is defined as “the size of your engaged audience.” They subtract out bots and those accounts that you have nothing in common and no interaction with. Another cool feature is knowing your “amplification ability.” Amplification ability is defined by Klout as “This is the likelihood that your message will generate retweets or spark a conversation. “ This is good stuff here. 20,000 followers are no good if you have no influence or engagement. Twitter gives you the opportunity to amplify your message beyond your direct network, thus enabling your messages to go viral. Measuring your Twitter success by these metrics can prove valuable.

Twitter Analyzer

Twitter Analyzer is another robust tool used for measure your Twitter profile. Like Klout, it can help you get a better handle on your influence and reach and much more. What is cool about this tool is it gets very detailed down to the day and individual followers which provides great insight if you spend a little time looking through it.

Socialseek

Socialseek is a desktop application that enables you to quickly and easily track your brands mentions through various channels in social media. It checks tweets, blogs, videos, photos, and events on any topic, in your city as well as hot topics, news, stars and even your brand – all in real-time! They have a mobile app as well. This tool can help businesses stay on top of what people are saying about their brand and better react to negative chatter. Reputation management is important, especially for brands. Social media can help or hurt you and knowing what is being said and who is saying it is valuable information.

Followers, Fans and Popular Front Page Stories

Another way to measure social media is by simply looking at the number of your network. Monitor the growth of your network across each social media profile as well as any of your content that becomes popular on these sites as well. Be sure to track the quantity and quality of your network.

There are many tools available now to help you measure social media and look for many more to pop-up through the course of the year. What tools and methods do you use?

About the Author: Zack Hanebrink is an online marketing professional and publisher of Online Marketing Mashup, a blog that provides tips and resources for all aspects of online marketing.

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Importance Of Planning For Social Networks Failure

Alex Sysoef — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:23:07 +0000

With so many conversations these days targeting importance of doing social marketing to promote your blog on sites like Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed I feel I have to talk about…

Importance Of Planning For Social Networks Failure

Image by emiemar via Flickr

In fact I think I should say INEVITABLE failure! And no, it doesn’t necessary mean that the site will go down but rather a more simple variation of failure – it will fail to deliver the results you are used to seeing right now and if you don’t variate your promotional efforts – it will drug down your blog with it!

Social Marketing Works…

It will deliver great results if done properly and responcible probably for about 40% if not more of the entire traffic I get to my own blog. And I’m not even overly active on the social web.

Social Marketing is one of your best friends and should not be ignored! But it should also not be a single source of the traffic!

And here is why:

Social Marketing requires constant active participation in order to deliver the results worth talking about. Yes, it is great for delivering instant gratification and send waves of the traffic even to a brand new blog, get it indexed faster and boost its authority – but in order to do so, it requires that you have active profile on social networks. And by active I mean interactive profile, where you hold 2 way conversation, engage people and not just push your own message and agenda. Can be very time consuming!

Social Web is constantly changes and you have to constantly adopt in order to get best results from social marketing. Everybody wants to be the Next Facebook or Next Tweeter and people constantly look for a new interaction. You have to follow the lead and establish commanding presence at each new site, in order to benefit, even if it is destined to fail a year from now.

Social Web is unpredictable. I always compare traffic I get from my social marketing to throwing a stone into a water – I know it will generate the wave if properly done but can’t predict with 100% certainty that those waves will actually reach my blog as I expect or turn into a destructive tsunami forcing you to defend your reputation. Social Marketing is a skill only a few truly posses and many pretend to – I’m one of those who openly admit my naivete in that area, although I manage to hold my own, although don’t ask me to explain how!

I can probably provide even more examples but I hope you get the point!

Don’t Rely On Any Single Source for Your Blog Traffic

Diversify Your Traffic Strategies

As I have already mentioned – social web works and you must take advantage of what it has to offer! But you should also never ignore the basics that never stopped working:

Search Engine Optimization
Blog to Blog Marketing (commenting, guest posting)
Forum Marketing
Article Marketing
Video Marketing

Add at least those listed above and you simply can fail when the social web fails. And if you need a great service to automate those efforts – I can recommend one provided by Willie Crawford – Push Button Traffic

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Twitter Search Overrun By Spammers

Alex Sysoef — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:33:35 +0000

Today I attempted to use Twitter Search tool only to discover that Spammers managed to overrun it with Spam based on trending topics. I don’t like to be a doom and gloom but it doesn’t look good for twitter ability to control it.

Basically tool became unusable!

And here is what I mean…

Take a look at image below:

As you can see on screen shot out of 7 comments only 2 appear to be a valid Twitter Stream and one of them is in Spanish (I think) – making the search unusable. Looks like spammers identify Trending Topics and then simply post spam messages and include all the trending topics in it to ensure they get as much exposure as possible.

I’m interested to see how Twitter will handle it as this can effectively shut down their Search Tool.

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Add Only New And Valuable Content

Setting Up Your Facebook Ad Campaign

Creating A Facebook Fan Page

Don’t Forget To Update

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Facebook Pages

Facebook Groups

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Design a Killer Profile

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Assume lurking predators

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Where do I start?

Web Traffic

Advanced Segments

Leads, Conversions and Sales

Facebook Insight

Links Clicked

Blog Subscribers

Klout

Twitter Analyzer

Socialseek

Followers, Fans and Popular Front Page Stories

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