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Social Media

Recent Writings on SEO 7

by Barry Adams July 29, 2010

I was invited to join the SEO Dojo guys for their weekly radio podcast, to talk about linkbuilding and SEO for Google News. It was a blast and I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with David and Terry. You can stream or download the podcast here (my contribution starts 40 minutes in): SEO Dojo: SEO Dojo Radio [...]

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Facebook Takes Social Media Marketing Seriously

by Barry Adams March 31, 2010

(This article was originally published in the Belfast Telegraph on 30 March 2010. It’s been modified slightly for this blog.) Last week I received a surprising email from Facebook entitled ‘Your Weekly Facebook Page Update’. It contained an overview of all the Facebook pages I am an admin of, with statistics on the number of [...]

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Use Social Media sites effectively, or not at all

by Barry Adams February 15, 2010

Social media is the current Big Thing, or so we’re told. You have to Tweet! Be on Facebook! Get Linked In! But do you really? Is it necessary to be on every social media site and shout your message as loud as you can in to as many microphones as you can find? Social media [...]

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Free Social Media Marketing Industry Report

by Barry Adams March 25, 2009

I recently wrote about social media and if it’s right for you to start using it as a means of generating more business. This week Michael Stelzner has published his Social Media Marketing Industry Report. This free report is an excellent resource for all who are using or considering social media as a marketing instrument. [...]

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Find Out When Others Are Talking About You Online

by Barry Adams March 24, 2009

Communication is what the internet is all about. The world wide web is one huge gathering of voices, of people expressing themselves in many different ways. People use the web to talk to one another about anything and everything. And they can also use the web to talk about you. Contrary to the physical world [...]

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Are You Ready For Social Media?

by Barry Adams March 6, 2009

Social media is a catch-all phrase that encompasses all websites that offer interactive functionality and user-generated content. Social media ranges from social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn) to video sharing sites (YouTube, Vimeo), social news sites (Digg, Reddit), social bookmarking (Delicious, StumbleUpon) and everything else that claims the tag ‘social’. Social media is often hyped as a [...]

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