Archive for April, 2009
Review: TweetDeck
Monday, April 27th, 2009
I have been using TweetDeck for about a week now, and so far I am enjoying it. It is a great way to streamline your social media platforms. I have been using it for Facebook and Twitter and so far it is saving me a lot of time! Using TweetDeck, I can monitor people’s Facebook status updates, and their Twitter tweets in one place. TweetDeck makes a friendly little chirping sound when an update comes in, and all I have to do is leave the program open on my computer.
Already I have noticed that I am much more active on Twitter than I have been because TweetDeck makes it easy to post new tweets to my account as well. I think this is a great program for someone who is overwhelmed with keeping up with the new social media world. TweetDeck is in its beta version, so I am sure there will be many updates and improvements over time, but so far I am quite happy with where it is headed. If you have been daunted by the idea of joining Facebook, or Twitter or both, and having to manage this new social world, I think TweetDeck is a good place to start.
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Get me to the top, please.
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
If you own a website, SEO is one of those acronyms that you hear a lot, and you probably know that your website should have it…but do you know how to get it and what it means? Basically the goal is how to get good old Google, Yahoo etc to show your business in the top rankings. It helps to understand what the main elements of SEO are and how you can actively improve your rankings.
This may come as a suprise to you, but the top SEO boost for your website is calculated by incoming links. Incoming links, means links from other websites that recommend you. It is important to know that search engines also weigh the quality of the link, and it is more useful to have fewer high quality links than tons of links coming from low ranking sites. All in all, lots of links are good, but over time it is best to work on accumulating links from quality sources. It is more important to be linked from businesses that are similar to yours in service and quality. It is also highly beneficial to have links from websites that are well known (and well ranked) for example if a well-established online magazine or newspaper does an article on your business and links to your site. This has been referred to as “link-love“.
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