As if Social Media isn't new and exciting enough, there's lots of things going on recenetly and soon in the social media world.  Not only will it shed some light on your efforts, but also integrating more and more with your other marketing mediums especially, Search Engine Optimization.

Facebook just announced that their new insights/analytics is being released for Facebook pages tomorrow, October 6th, 2011.  For our clients, we'll be reviewing your insights more this month and providing you some more detailed information about our successes with our new Social Media Specialist, David Hutnik.

If you haven't seen anything about the new Facebook insights, here's a quick blog on it:  http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/10/03/people-talking-about-this-page-insights/

Impacts on SEO
Squidoo is launching magazines.  We use Squidoo for our SEO efforts to build content supporting your popular keyword phrases we're targeting on your site.  Just recently, they've become #73 in the top websites surpassign Hulu, NBC, or Digg. 

By launching online magazines, Squidoo will give us more power to publish our online content supporting your site and should have a great impact on supportive PR for SEO purposes.

Google+ button is a pretty huge success - A couple Key Announcements:

 "Since introducing the +1 button earlier this year, we now have more than 5 billion impressions on publisher sites a day." Nick Fox, VP of Product Management at Google

And on the enhanced search ads marketing website, the company claims: Our +1 button is being served 2.3 billion times a day all over the web.

That's incredible impressions of the new Google +1 button.  It is so important you jump in the game now and get this implemented on your site.  Give us a call if you still don't have it.  If we just put it in your header we can implement it in less than an hour.

Last but not least - Facebook is launching the new "timeline" profile, which I'm sure you've heard about.  Facebook is testing it out on some profiles so you may already see it,  but it should be rolling out to everyone soon.  It was pushed by a week by the court as there is a potential issue with the "timeline" name and a small Chicago based company.

Also, Facebook is launching their new “Gestures” which means that developers can turn any verb into a button.  Instead of "liking" something, we will start to see "booking", "watching", "listening", etc...  We'll be leveraging this for our customers as well.

Couple new Facebook Stats:
1)  Facebook has now hit 800 Million users adding about 50 million since July; and most are considered active.
2)  Facebook just saw a new record for the most visitors in one day: a ridiculous 500 million!!

If you haven't taken advantage of our Social Media services, now's the time.  Give us a call or contact your account manager for further details!
 

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Today is the last day to enter your photo.  It can be a person, a sports room, your pet.  Once you post or send it in, we'll post all of them in our gallery.  Then, you'll get your friends to vote for you.  The picture with the most votes will win $100 visa giftcard.  Follow us on Facebook for more information!

Now you don't have to wait for a website to put the Google +1 on the site  (though it's our expert opinion that you should).  Google just announced "+1 a web page, anywhere you go on the web."



Right now the button is only available for Google’s Chrome browser and there have been no indications as to when it may show up on other browsers as well.

Among the newest methods of marketing your business are blogs. Compared to some types of Internet marketing, this method is by far one of the most effective ways to market your online business. As online marketing by businesses gets more competitive by the day, it is essential to continue implementing new strategies and techniques to promote your business and ensure you remain at the top in any search results.

Blogs are a good tool for attracting large streams of search engine traffic since blogs are frequently updated and the search engine crawlers do love fresh content. They also act as means of communication and interaction between your business and your clients. The interactive nature of blogs allow for people to comment on issues you write about on your blog, and provide you with valuable feedback.

Another advantage to using blogs is to attract inbound links from other websites. Linking to a blog is easier for many people because they find blogs to be engaging and personal, less threatening, as they speak to their needs. This is an ideal way for businesses to advertise effectively while at the same time optimize their sites for the search engines.

Whatever blog marketing strategy you have selected for your online presence, there are a few basic rules you should keep in mind. First, make sure that your blog is interesting not only to your customers but also to Internet users in general. Secondly, ensure that you put in place tools that make the use of your blog easy and fun -- commenting tools allow customers and potential customers to give instant feedback – social network plug-ins allow users to share your blog on their Facebook page. If you want to reach your clients and potential clients in a more personal way that guarantees you better results with the search engines, then blog marketing is definitely the way to go.