As it approaches one billion users, Facebook has evolved from a site where friends and family share photos to an online marketing juggernaut rivaling Google. So, as Facebook continues its never-ending stream of changes, what are the current and emerging best practices for marketing on Facebook? How can Facebook be used to support an SEO strategy? Find the answers to these questions and many others here in 26 more of the best Facebook marketing guides of the past year. Facebook Marketing Tips & Techniques. ” Facebook Checkups and Check Lists. MORE >>

Discover how to accomplish all of the tasks above and more using some of the coolest free and modestly priced social media and web tools released in the past year or so. Cool Social Media Tools. slick tool with free and fee-based options for creating graphical email signatures, adding interactive buttons and even tracking click-throughs from the different elements of your email signature. This tool makes unfollowing non-followers easy. free tool for finding the relative influence of any Twitter user. powerful people search tool. Other Cool Web Tools. MORE >>

For a small business, the successful use of social media involves a bit more than simply “liking” a few things on Facebook. Luckily, there are a ton of programs out there that can help you manage your social presence and promote your company without losing your mind. If you’re running a small business, here are 5 tools that are definitely worth a download. Monitoring your company’s Twitter presence can be a pain, especially if you use only the default search tool to study your mentions. Guest Post by Alicia Ranch-Traille. 1) Monitter. MORE >>

Let’s look at five great social media tools to ensure you attract a relevant audience to your blog posts. SocialBro is a social media management tool.  Action:  Consider SocialBro or similar tools to work out the best time to tweet. Getting your picture displayed as part of the search results is called Google Author and can help to not only get people to read your post, but it also helps readers to connect and become more familiar with you so that they will recognize your posts immediately going forward. Find Relevant Keywords Using Google Keyword Tool. MORE >>

simple tool like Google Alerts would pick up most stray citations. The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. rapidly proliferating collection of tools are being developed to meet the need. You can find a list of more than 150 social media monitoring tools here or close to 200 here , but—that can seem overwhelming. If I overlooked your favorite tool, leave a comment below. No more. UberVU. MORE >>