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Best Blog Posts on How to Get ReTweeted
Want your tweets to go viral on Twitter?
If the secret to going viral on Twitter is to get retweeted, these blog posts from renowned bloggers, Internet marketers, and social media experts should get you started on the right track to creating the kind of Twitter content that will have your audience practically begging to retweet you! (how’s that for hyping it up?)
So you can hit the ground running with some good, solid, how-to-go-viral information, the first set of posts explore the more practical and creative elements of how to get retweeted.
And if you’re anything like me, you always need to know “why” things work the way they do (could be the engineer in me). If that’s you, the second set of posts will give you a good solid grounding in the science and theory of getting retweeted and going viral on Twitter.
So without further ado, here’s how to get retweeted.
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Continue reading...Why the Quest for Higher Search Engine Rankings Almost Never Makes Sense
Seth Godin on his blog today talks about signaling strategies - essentially the mental shortcuts people take when deciding which products or services to buy or which politician to vote for. Things like big expensive billboards, being on the New York Times best seller list, and celebrity endorsements all send strong signals to the marketplace to “buy this product!” And of course marketers know this and will work hard to game the systems and distort the signals.
One major form of signaling that I deal with every day is in the form of search engine rankings.
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Continue reading...Web Design SEO Tips - Build a Search Engine Ranking You Can Be Proud Of
Planning to launch a website? Have you (or your designer) given any thought to how your web design might affect your search engine rankings?
Register for our FREE 7-part web design for SEO course - delivered instantly to your email
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Continue reading...How to Get Google AdWords Conversion Tracking on WordPress
Getting the dreaded “Verification Failed” message when trying to add AdWords conversion tracking to your WordPress blog?
Look no further! Here’s a simple fix (a little bit of a hack) that will get you tracking Google AdWords conversions on your WordPress pages in no time flat.
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