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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 5

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Use Facebook fan pages to help with SEO? In Facebook Adding 'Fan' Pages To Public Search Listings , Mark Walsh of MediaPost provides additional detail on this announcement and its implications for marketers. tags: social media marketing Facebook fan pages SEO? How can you make a big splash in social media without a huge budget?

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 4

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Facebook Lets Users Open Up Profiles by MediaPost Online Media Daily Mark Walsh helpfully outlines the recent changes Facebook has made to its privacy settings, though noting that " profiles opened to everyone, however, will still not turn up in searches on Google or other outside search engines. "

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 2

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Of the hundreds of Facebook applications available, which ones are best for business? Top 10 Business Applications for Facebook by Duct Tape Marketing Of the 1,000+ Facebook apps built thus far, only a very small number—perhaps a couple of dozen or so—have value for B2B marketers and PR pros. Social Tagging.

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Social Media ROI vs. RONI

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Tools like HubSpot do a great job of quantifying social media leads, but still have some last-click bias. You have no way of even accurately identifying all of those points of exposure, much less assigning a value to each one.

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 2

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Study: Company Blogs Lead Social Media Options by MediaPost Mark Walsh reports that " blogging (is) the most important lead-generation source among social media options, followed by StumbleUpon, YouTube, Facebook, De.lic.ious and Digg " (not a surprising result, considering that those other sites tend to support a corporate blog, not replace it).

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Twitter Twaddle, Part 1: What Twitter Is and Why It's Cool

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sites fall into one of a few increasingly well-defined categories, such as social bookmarking (Digg, del.icio.us, Searchles), social networking (LinkedIn, Facebook) or file sharing (YouTube, Flickr, podOmatic ). Most Web 2.0 Twitter, however, stands alone. Okay, there's also Pownce , but Twitter is better.) tags: Web 2.0

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Twitter Twaddle, Part 2: Best Practices, Tools and The Future of Twitter

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The brilliant Mike Volpe of HubSpot takes a different approach to offering his advice in 5 Things On Twitter That Annoy the Crap Out of Me. Twitter Tools Similar in concept to Facebook applications —but different—Twitter has spawned an industry in clever little tools. Get your "score" from Hubspot's TwitterGrader.

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