Category Archives: Social Marketing Tools

Keeping Ahead of your Competition with Google Keyword Trends

By Micah Johnson | Published: Tuesday, January 27, 2009

What are Google Keyword Trends? Google Keyword Trends allow you to see how your selected keyword or keywords (separated by commas) performed over a period of time. Currently, you can view keyword trends both on the Search Volume and the News Reference Volume. However, Google Keyword Trends does not provide you with actual numbers for the [...]

Also posted in Keyword Research Tools, Marketing Misc | Tagged adding keywords, Google AdWords, google tools, Google Trends, keyword focus, keyword research, Keyword Research Tools, online marketing, social media, Social Media Marketing, valuable keywords | 2 Comments

Google Analytics Tutorials

By Micah Johnson | Published: Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Recently, Google has published a whole set of Google Analytics Tutorials on YouTube. These Google Analytics Tutorials include over 11 videos and have over 4 hours of tutorial footage. If you’re like many of our clients, you don’t have 11 hours to spend watching tutorials. However, to make qualified decisions both for your web [...]

Also posted in Marketing Misc, Tutorials, Web Analytics | Tagged Add new tag, analytics, Bounce Rates, Google Analytics, Google Analytics Tutorials, keyword research, site analysis, Tracking Conversations, Tutorials, Web Analytics, web conferences, website content | 3 Comments

Yahoo’s Tools for “Anyone Creating Content”

By Micah Johnson | Published: Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Yahoo! offers a whole slew of free tools for “anyone creating content” (their words, not mine) on the web. Although some of the tools are only related to their companies (like del.icio.us for bookmarking), overall they provide quick functionality to make your blog or web site a little user-friendlish. Y!Q (beta) Y!Q allows you to place [...]

Also posted in Social Media Marketing | Tagged adding content, adding content to website, Creating Website Content, quality traffic, quality website traffic, website content, Y!Q, Yahoo, Yahoo Tools, Yahoo! Actions Buttons | Leave a comment

25+ Tips to Perfect your Social Media Marketing Campaigns

By Micah Johnson | Published: Sunday, January 25, 2009

Social Media Marketing takes time and patience, but when done correctly has tremendous rewards. The following are some ideas and exercises to help you get started in the right direction…

Also posted in Marketing Misc, Social Media Marketing | Tagged blogging, Blogging for business, Business Blogging, marketing, Marketing Misc, marketing research, social, Social Arena Marketing, Social Marketing Tools, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Marketing Tools, Social Networking, soical media | 4 Comments

Learn to Tap Into the Cutting-Edge Trends in Your Industry in 4 Easy Steps

By Micah Johnson | Published: Friday, January 23, 2009

1. Pick an RSS Feed Reader to use. If you don’t have one already and you use Firefox, Wizz RSS is a good add-on that allows you to preview and read RSS feeds within the browser’s side bar. If you are looking for an online-only reader, Google offers one as well (Google Reader ). What’s RSS? RSS [...]

Posted in Social Marketing Tools | Tagged blogging, Blogging for business, Business Blogging, content trends, emerging trends, market research, Marketing Trends, Social Marketing, Social Media Marketing | 1 Comment

URL Redirect

By Micah Johnson | Published: Tuesday, January 20, 2009

When looking for information on URL redirection, most searches turn up these amazingly long blog posts or technical documents with just a couple examples, none of them are a huge help. Instead of all the explanation, we decided to make it simple, and provide a quick reference for URL redirects using Apache and Rewrite Rules.

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Create a Keyword Research and Analysis Heatmap

By Micah Johnson | Published: Saturday, January 17, 2009

Looking for an easy way to visualize your keyword research? In 10 simple steps and Excel 2007, you can build your own Keyword Research and Analysis Heatmap.

Also posted in Keyword Research Tools | 3 Comments

Riding the Wave of Browserless Web Applications

By Micah Johnson | Published: Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Whether you have a full web application or a simple data-collection form, you may want to consider turning it into an Rich Internet Application that will run outside the browser. That’s right, the next generation of web apps will be the ones that you don’t need a browser to use. In fact, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) can [...]

Also posted in Marketing Misc, Rich Internet Applications | Tagged AIR, browserless apps, desktop web aps, eBay, examples, Flex, HomeDepot, RIA, thoughts | 1 Comment

Mind Mapping 2.0

By Micah Johnson | Published: Monday, January 5, 2009

Mindmeister (www.mindmeister.com ) is the coolest thing to happen to mind mapping since, well… since mind mapping software was created. For those who don’t know, mind mapping is a way of outlining your ideas, thoughts and lists into an easy to understand visual. It allows you to group thoughts, attach notes, and define with icons. Personally, [...]

Also posted in Marketing Misc | Tagged building a mind map, critical thinking, critical thinking path, mind mapping 2.0, mind maps, Mindmeister, outlining ideas, review of mind map software, review of mind maps, review of mindmeister, using mind map software, www.mindmeister.com | 2 Comments

A Massive Social Bookmarking Site List (over 300 sites)

By Micah Johnson | Published: Sunday, January 4, 2009

A huge thanks to AJAXflakes.com for compiling (and testing) a list of over 300 social bookmarking sites on the web. These sites are grouped into categories that makes it easy to find the type of site that you are looking for. As an added bonus, the Page Rank and description for each site is also [...]

Also posted in Marketing Misc, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking | 6 Comments