Grateful Dead Facebook Page: Great Use of Interactive Content

April 20, 2011
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Thanks to Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead we know that the band’s approach over the years offers useful insights for marketers. But how is the organization itself doing with social media today? Based on a current promotion on the Grateful Dead Facebook page I’d say they’re doing great. In support of the release of [...]

Which News Sites Have the Most Keywords in Common with eHow?

April 19, 2011
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eHow is back in the news after claims it was hit hard by latest expansion of Google’s Panda update and subsequent denials from Demand Media. Articles like “How to Pour Water Into a Glass Cup” make it difficult to dispute eHow’s reputation as the poster child of content farms. But in terms of keyword targeting, [...]

Google Page Speed Ratings One Year Later: News Sites Range from Up 27% to Down 73%

April 4, 2011
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The launch of Google’s Page Speed Online (which allows users to get Page Speed scores without installing a browser extension) reminded me that it has been a year since I looked at the page load times of major news sites. So I thought I’d go back and see if there have been any performance changes [...]

Can Publishers Harvest Social Media Intent in a Meaningful Way?

March 30, 2011
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Many publishers are now doing a good job of developing social media strategies for brand awareness, content promotion and user engagement. And they’ve made good strides in utilizing social media monitoring and measurement to better understand user behavior and quantify the success of their efforts. But is it possible to extract user intent in a [...]

Social Media News Releases Get 3x More Media Coverage

March 24, 2011

Social media news releases have lots of advantages, and what’s not to like? They offer a clean, simple format that encourages companies to be clear and succinct. While multimedia content can be added to any press release, SMNRs are much more likely to incorporate images and video. It is easy share and repurpose the information [...]

Is Using Facebook Comments Good for Publishers?

March 7, 2011
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There were some interesting posts over the weekend from Steve Cheney and Robert Scoble on whether utilizing the Facebook Comments Box plugin kills or in fact increases user authenticity within on-site commenting. TechCrunch also shared that comments are down but quality is up since implementing the system and they’re going to stick with it for [...]

PRFilter Shows Press Release Buzzword Abuse Still Prevalent

February 22, 2011
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Press release search engine PRFilter came out of beta last week. It aggregates press releases from 10 wire services and distribution services and pulls them in directly from 60+ technology and media companies. Users can filter by specific industries, countries and time periods and create personalized accounts for further customization. It seems to work fairly [...]

eHow and Mahalo: How Many Keyword Variations is Too Many?

February 9, 2011
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In reading a Search Engine Land article about Jason Calacanis’ remarks during “Ending the Content Arms Race” at Signal LA this passage caught my eye: Calacanis shows a “How to cook a turkey” page on Mahalo which he says has tons of good video content, then decries it has to compete against 17 different articles [...]

Super Bowl XLV: Packers and Steelers Battle it Out on Twitter

February 3, 2011

Who will win Super Bowl XLV, the Green Bay Packers or the Pittsburgh Steelers? Vegas gives the Packers a slight edge but most people think it could go either way. Last year after winning my Social Media Super Bowl the New Orleans Saints went on to win the actual game. So this year I thought [...]

The Huffington Post’s Kim Kardashian Tag-o-Rama

February 2, 2011
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While on The Huffington Post yesterday I couldn’t help but notice the large number of tags they’d added to a couple posts on the Kim Kardashian photos in W Magazine, and the rather “interesting” terms being targeted. First on Kim Kardashian: W Magazine Showed ‘Full On Nipple’:

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