CATEGORY: Social Media

Reputation management in social media for hotels

A critical part in hospitality sector today, Online Reputation Management regards not only listening and joining online conversation about your brand but also monitoring discussions and build online strategies to create positive content for your brand and eliminate the opposite. Undoubtedly, nowadays, presence in so... read more ››

Social SEO: The importance of social signals for your SEO – Part 2

On the first blog post we covered the  1st part of social signals for SEO  analyzing on how social signals work with the use of a simplified diagram how social signals work on site. This part is going to cover more extensively the off-site social SEO and how analytics can help you identify the impact of your soci... read more ››

Social SEO: The importance of social signals for your SEO – Part 1

There are more than 200 ranking factors that affect –directly or indirectly- your rankings on search engines. Epigrammatically, some of these factors are the keywords in URLs, the title tags, the heading tags (the keywords that are included within the <h1> <h2> etc.), the quality of the content (in other ... read more ››

Facebook Ads: The “Must-Have” List

According to Social Media Today, 91% of social marketers saw improved website traffic due to social media campaigns. Companies should design flexible and well-contemplated campaigns that can adapt to a dynamic and constantly changing social media landscape. WSA present you the check-list to keep in mind before the desi... read more ››

Go Beyond With Original Social Media Content

Quality social media content can set you apart from competitors,  keep your brand in customer’s “top of mind” and enhance your positioning as a leader provided that content is the center of your online marketing strategy. Setting clear goals through different aspects of social media content management is a prere... read more ››

3 Actionable Steps to Analyze Social Media Traffic with Google Analytics

Most likely you have already setup a Google analytics account in order to analyze your website’s traffic. Today we will see together a step by step guide on how to identify, segment and analyze your social media traffic by utilizing the Google Analytics platform.  Identify your socia media traffic sources The f... read more ››

10 ways to increase your Facebook Fans

Facebook is one of the most powerful tools for all online marketers since it enables us to promote products and services by using highly targeted campaigns with relatively low cost. Either you are using ad campaigns or viral techniques, one of the main targets is to increase the number of Facebook Fans of our pages. In ... read more ››

6 Tips for designing and running Social Media Contests

Social Media Contests are great tools with many benefits that enable brands, products or services to gain visibility in social media channels, increase audience & the interaction with them, reinforce brand awareness and finally get genuine inspiration from real or prospect customers. Usually there are 2 strategic goals... read more ››

How to Use Social Media for Crisis Management

Crisis (from the Greek word "krisis" - judgment) is an unstable period that has a starting and ending point followed by conditions of high stress that usually occur along with multiple events and possible risks for the organization`s sustainability or reputation. From communication point of view, a crisis can be described ... read more ››

Basic Social Media Practices for Travel and Tourism Industry

Social media have become an integral part of tourism marketing; they have revolutionized the industry and they have replaced a large part of the traditional communication. This article discusses the most essential practices of social media marketing in tourism & travel industry and explains how they can help you promote... read more ››

The 10 Dos and 10 Don’ts of a Corporate Social Media Strategy

Guides, reports and presentations can be useful tools in order to build an effective social media strategy of highly ROI. But, what if we attempt to extract the essence of the main Do’s and Don’ts that a Social Media Strategist should print and keep in a major place at office? In this article we describe in detail wha... read more ››

Social Media Marketing: How to choose the right online channels

One of the most common mistakes that companies make while designing their Social Media Marketing campaigns is that they fail to choose carefully the online channels that suit best their businesses. As a result they end up investing time, money and effort on networks that can’t help them promote their business and this ma... read more ››

Social Media: A promising new channel or another Internet Bubble?

The last few years Social Media Marketing became more and more popular since many businesses felt obliged to build their own campaigns and explore this new form of marketing. After a while, many companies considered social media a promising new channel that can help them connect with their customers while others considered... read more ››

Google +1 vs Facebook Like: the similarities and the differences

As we discussed on the previous blog post “The new Google +1 button and the Effects on SEO”, the Google +1 button has a lot of similarities with Facebook like. Indeed the idea behind the +1 button is not new to the average user since the bookmark buttons have flooded the web for quite many years. Nevertheless Google ha... read more ››

The new Google +1 button and the Effects on SEO

Google has recently announced the release of a new social button called “+1” (plus one). Similarly to Facebook like button, the new +1 button will allow users to bookmark and share the cool websites, pages, advertisements and search results that they find on the web. The +1 button will start appearing next to the sear... read more ››

Facebook Fan Pages: 7 Dos and 7 Don’ts for effective Community Development

As Facebook Fan Pages are considered a healthy starting point for social media engagement, more and more companies are searching for the best practices to adopt in order to build up the desired profile. This week we share some Dos and Don`ts for your Fan Page community development focusing on the savoir vivre of this med... read more ››

The Top 10 Internet & Search Marketing Trends for 2011

As the year comes to a close, we share with you our insights related to the Internet & Online Marketing trends of 2011. We examine closely the most important trends from the SEO industry to Social Media & Location Based Marketing and from Mobile Marketing to Email Marketing and Budget Allocation. Of course there is ... read more ››
Google uses data from social media sites (video)

Google uses data from social media sites (video)

As we saw in a previous article, an interview of Danny Sullivan revealed that Google and Bing use social media buzz as a Ranking Signal. Today Matt Cutts, head of Google`s Webspam team, replied our question concerning the issue with a Video. He confirmed that Google has changed the way that evaluates Social Media links a... read more ››

The Highlights and the Review of LeWeb 2010 conference

On December 9th, the biggest European Internet conference, LeWeb, has successfully been completed. Since we had the opportunity to attend the event, in this article we will share with you our views, our thoughts and the highlights of the conference. Generally LeWeb can be considered a successful conference. It was efficie... read more ››

Twitter & Facebook links affect SEO on Google and Bing

Few days ago Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, published a very interesting article which confirms the suspicions of many SEOs: Social Media buzz does affect the organic rankings of Google and Bing. As we recommended in a previous article “How to Speed up Search Engine Indexing”, social media lin... read more ››

20 ways to increase the number of your followers on Twitter

Twitter is one of the most popular social media networks where users are able to meet others with similar interests, find experts of a particular field, learn about the current trends and share useful articles and websites. A recent well known quote describes exactly the difference between Facebook and Twitter: “Facebook... read more ››
Social Media Campaigns on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & LinkedIn

Social Media Campaigns on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & LinkedIn

This week the free Online Marketing Lesson of StayOnSearch is about Social Media. The course starts by explaining why Social Media networks have been heavily evolved the last few years and afterwards it focuses on the most popular social media networks (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn) that can be used in order to... read more ››

Using Local Search and Location-Based Marketing to promote your business

The 7th free Online Marketing Lesson of StayOnSearch is about Local Search. The author explains why the local search is becoming more and more important and shares few tips on how to optimize our local business listings (complete profile, proper categories, business proximity, local reviews, listing verification etc). In ... read more ››

How to Build Strong Relationships On Social Media

Building strong relationships with other people is the key factor of success for every social media campaign. As we saw in previous articles (12 Tips for developing a Successful Twitter Campaign & 7 tips for launching successful Social Media Campaigns) social media campaigns require time and effort and by being honest... read more ››

Social Media Case Study

The Social Campaigns should be designed according to the organization’s objectives. In this article we will share with you the actions and the goals of a real life example that can help you understand how social media can be used in order to promote your brand. The subject of this case study is the social media campaign... read more ››

Is Search Engine traffic the best traffic you can get?

As an SEO professional you have probably spent hours of work trying to fine tune your SEO campaign and increase your organic traffic. Since SEO is a game of inches not miles, every single change could make a difference and thus much time and effort are invested in such campaigns. So the question is, is search engine traffi... read more ››

7 tips for launching successful Social Media Campaigns

Companies get more involved day by day in Social Media networks in order to stay up-to-date and to reach their target audience effectively.  In this article, we discuss some practices that should be avoided and we suggest alternatives that can help you plan and execute successfully your Social Media Campaigns. 1. Don’... read more ››

The Social Media best practices for Businesses

Social Media can be a powerful way to increase brand awareness, monitor your business reputation and offer better services. Nevertheless, using Social Media as part of your marketing strategy is not as simple as many people think. In order to have better control and better results with your Social Media campaign, build a ... read more ››

12 Tips for developing a Successful Twitter Campaign

Twitter is one of the most popular social media, that if it is used correctly, it can help you drive quality traffic to your website or blog and build a loyal group of supporters. In this article we will focus on how to build a successful twitter campaign, how to maintain and increase your followers and what you should do ... read more ››

Successful Marketing campaigns in social media to target women

Recent studies point out that women use social networks more than men; indeed, Facebook & Twitter female users reach 57%, Flickr’s 55% and MySpace 64%. Following those results, one thing is certain: the future of social media will be focused on women, and businesses wishing to promote their products or services wi... read more ››