Latest SEM news Jan 17 2010

Here’s what’s happening in the world of Search Google does change the real time search results based on your word order. If you want to be found for: red wine, make sure you tweet using both red wind and wine red. Possibly in 2 different tweets. How to turn personalized  search off if needed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKuG2M6R4VM&feature=player_embedded …

SEM News Jan 14th 2010

I have a few things to talk about today in this rainy and gray Thursday morning. Let’s go: Page size limit and Google News Bot I have just heard that you need to have your articles/PR/News to be under 256k to be indexed by GoogleBot and included in Google News. Something to  pay attention to. …

Links building in 2010 – what works now

Lots have happened in the year 2009: real time search, twitter and facebook surpassing google in terms of traffic, pagerank sculpting, google new algorithm caffeine, personalized search and much more. Let me give you some recommendations for the year 2010 and beyond: Careful with easy to manipulate links like blog rolls, sponsored themes and paid …

Social Media Optimization

Social media is not just about getting on Facebook, Twitter and adding friends like there is no tomorrow. Social media is about building a community of trusted followers. Not hard sells. That approach doesn’t work. One of the benefits for the community is that, since it is based so much of user feedback, companies with …

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18

Real time search feed on your site or blog: pretty cool – http://sency.com/feed.php # Michael Moore rocks !!! # How to measure social media conversions (4) – Twitter: Number of retweets, qualified followers (i.e.: human follower, not bots).   # How to measure social media conversions (3) – Videos/Photos: Number of views, subscribers, friends, comments, …