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By Sam Langdon on May 31, 2011
I thought this was a particularly pertinent post from Randfish at SEOmoz about the right way to get links to your website: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/dont-ask-sites-for-links-find-people-and-connect The crux of it is: don’t write to anonymous website contact email addresses asking for links; instead join the community (participating with relevant comments on blogs/social media sites that don’t just publicise [...]
Posted in Link Building, Social Media | Tagged Begging for Links, Link Building
By Sam Langdon on March 28, 2010
If you’re new to WordPress, or just looking for some tips on great plugins you haven’t yet come across to help with your SEO, this list is for you… All in One Packs These are handy if you’re new to WordPress and don’t have time to faff, but if you’ve already got plugins in place, [...]
Posted in Content, Link Building, Social Media, Tools | Tagged wordpress plugin
By Sam Langdon on February 24, 2010
I spotted a fantastic quick visual guide for the recommended use of some of the current popular social media sites in an article entitled: A CMO’s Guide to the Social Media Landscape over at CMO.com. Well worth 5 minutes of your time…
Posted in Social Media | Tagged social media landscape
By Sam Langdon on February 13, 2010
Robert Scoble recently called a new mobile tool: Siri “the most useful thing I’ve seen this year”. It glues together a number of different APIs to allow users to potentially find information about pretty much anything, once the right APIs are hooked up, as explained in this interview with Siri’s CEO. This fascinates me, as [...]
Posted in Social Media, Technical Architecture | Tagged connected APIs, Robert Scoble, semantic web, Siri
By Sam Langdon on February 11, 2010
Google announced their new social platform: Buzz this week, to lots of media erm…buzz. It fits neatly into Gmail and with typically easy to use image & video features and a neat location specific mobile web app (not to mention Google’s monstrous size & leverage), it looks set to rival Twitter & Facebook. As Chris [...]
Posted in Social Media | Tagged google, google buzz
By Sam Langdon on January 31, 2010
In 2005 I attended a lecture at the British Computer Society from Prof. Ian Horrocks about the Semantic Web. If you’ve not heard the term before, the Semantic Web refers to the meaning based categorisation of websites and related information using a common standard, allowing websites and the information contained to be found easily. It [...]
Posted in Social Media, Technical Architecture | Tagged HTML5, RDFa, semantic web
By Sam Langdon on January 17, 2010
I spotted the following 10 rather good social media tips on the Panther Interactive Marketing Solutions website and thought they were worth quoting here: What are we trying to accomplish? Are you looking for more leads, more direct sales, greater brand awareness, conversions, or brand engagement? Understanding what you’re trying to actually do with your [...]
Posted in Social Media
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