jonhenshaw

As director of an advertising agency that manages social media campaigns, I was recently brainstorming recipes for social media success. Every formula I came up with included personality.

In Social Media, Personality is Key
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One of the resounding themes of this year’s PubCon was a short but profound question: What value are you adding? While it seems like an easy question, having a solid answer to the question can be the difference between success and failure for your s read more »
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The shocking thing about PubCon this year was that a little pink pony took PubCon over all by itself. Kristy Ann Bolsinger, Magical Mistress of the Pony, said PubCon was basically "PonyCon". read more »
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My [Brian Carter] powerpoint presentation and audio from the "Social Media: Big Sexy Buzz" panel. Watch, listen, and enjoy-- click on the green play button below: read more »
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Geographic - Demographic and Traffic Data Revealed:

In recent times I [Brian Chappell] have compiled two interesting Social Network Reports. The Social Network Geographic report and the Social Network Traffic Report. Both reports conveyed some in read more »
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Sugarrae gives insights on how to promote a brand new blog. read more »
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I [Brian Carter] recently wrote some related posts about Tweetbait/twitter viral retweets and monitoring your reputation on Twitter (ORM).

So...

How do you monitor which of your tweets people retweet?

-- What's important about that?
-- Wha read more »
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Jon Henshaw writes:

"I've been to several PubCon conferences in the past, but this year something different happened.

"It wasn't that there were more panels and the speakers were better than ever (which they were).

"Instead, it had more t read more »
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I needed a new plugin to handle all my internal link building efforts, and Smart SEO Links does the job just fine. Directing the flow of link juice around your site is important to pass on authority as well direct readers to posts they wouldn’t othe read more »
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I've been keeping a close eye on the different open source CMS's that are coming out these days, mainly for link building and branding opportunities. If you're a theme designer you're going to wanna read this! read more »
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I’m not at Pubcon in Las Vegas but everywhere I turn I’m reminded that the rest of the world is there. Twitter, blogs and photos are all reminding me that I’m missing a fun and informative event. So what I decided to do is just pretend I’m there. No read more »
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The idea behind Viral Conversations is putting business owners who have a product or service, in touch with bloggers who are interested in reviewing it. The difference between this website and other website review services is Viral Conversations onl read more »
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Website Magazine asked several of the top Internet marketing and SEO experts what their focus would be for 2009. Share your thoughts by commenting below! read more »
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Search engines are getting smarter day by day, technologies are advancing minute by minute, and search engine optimization specialists need to get on board and prepare for the future of SEO. read more »
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In SEO, success is as much about your toolkit as it is about your skillset. Without great tools at your disposal, your ability to get the job done is really hampered. At SMX East this month I presented some of my favorite tools on the “Tools, Glorio read more »
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That's right, Sphinn is now big in Japan. read more »
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The approach to building a social media profile is pretty much the same, its just a different platform and different way of handling what comes your way. I have been using the 3 top social media services for a while and am labeled as a “power user” read more »
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There is a way to build SEOmoz's Linkscape tool without crawling, and I show you how. If I'm wrong, SEOmoz must disclose the Linkscape User Agent, and I explain why. read more »
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In my opinion, good (and I emphasize "good" here) SEO software helps to automate repetitive tasks and is beneficial for the community in spreading SEO awareness and teaching best practices. Here’s what some of the top SEO’s and members of Sphinn ha read more »
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The Customize Your Community (CYC) Wordpress Plugin will help you theme your “backend” Wordpress pages that are visible to registered users to a level that previous “themed login” type plugins haven’t allowed for previously. read more »
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Brian Chappell recorded a screen cast showing Google Adwords being displayed under the 10 organic listings of the SERPs. According to a cited source in Brian's post, this was also tested in 2005 - but newsworthy now that tests resume again. read more »
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Google AdWords Interview on the New Quality Score Changes read more »
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Does Google Changes Rules On Nofollow? Does nofollow still pases anchor text link juice and PR? Read here for full details. read more »
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Excellent tips on creating search engine friendly/optimized URLs read more »
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Google's AdWords seminars continue to get relatively positive feedback from most attendees and Google is now getting more aggressive with a lot more seminars being presented within the next few months – ranging from beginner to advanced courses. read more »
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