Sujan Patel is the co-founder of Single Grain, an SEO Agency based in San Francisco, CA. Single Grain specializes in helping start ups and Fortune 500 companies with their digital marketing strategy. You should follow Sujan on Twitter.
Pinterest – the web’s latest social media craze, is a great way to build awareness for your blog or website. But as with most social media promotion techniques, your ability to influence others through your Pinterest presence is limited if you don’t have that many people following you in the first place. So today, we’ll share a few techniques that can be effective for building up your Pinterest following. Try applying a few of...
Growing the number of “Likes” on your company’s Facebook page isn’t just a matter of pride. In fact, the social proof generated by an active fan page can be incredibly powerful in building your brand’s authority and engagement. However, earning these votes of confidence isn’t as simple as just asking people to click “Like” on your page. In an age of digital desensitization, you need to do something to stand out – something...
To most PPC marketers, the Facebook paid ads program represents an ideal marketing opportunity. Finally, you aren't limited to targeting your ads based on geographic location and time of day alone (I'm looking at you, Google Adwords!). In fact, if you wanted to run a campaign targeting 16 year old boys in San Francisco who like the video game “Gears of War” you could do it – the Facebook paid ad targeting system is that...
Twitter and Facebook aren’t just for wasting time chatting with your friends anymore – they can also be vital sources of information to be mined when writing your PPC ads! Here’s how these social sites can help you create compelling ad copy: Technique #1 – Use Social Sites to Conduct Market Research One of the best ways to use Twitter and Facebook to help structure your PPC ads is to identify the questions that people are asking...
Sure, no one has a clear crystal ball that can predict what the search engines will and won't do in the future. However, it is possible to extrapolate from their activities over the past few years and identify the trends that are pretty much guaranteed to continue going forward, and that's what we're bringing you today – five clear facts about the future of SEO that we believe will heavily influence which sites that succeed...
One of the most important things for any business is productivity. Business owners need to stay productive if they are going to grow their businesses. They need to inspire employees to remain productive in order to keep profits up and make their employment worthwhile. One simple but great way to stay motivated towards business productivity is to read blogs that inspire you. Here are ten great blogs by young entrepreneurs...
It would be safe to assume that everyone reading this article, is in some way familiar with the popular social bookmarking site Digg.com. You might use it to promote your articles, or maybe you just go to find articles and inspiration for future writing, either way you've used the service. Overtime, having had articles on the front page several times from various projects, I have had the opportunity to notice several good...
Has social networking damaged your social life? A strange question to ponder don't you think? Your sitting there thinking to yourself what is this guy on, thats impossible. But is it impossible, is it so difficult to imagine that social networking in one way or another has had some negative impact on your social life? The fact is, its true, social networking can very well, impose negatively onto your life outside of the...
Anyone that has been writing for any amount of time has become familiar with writers block. Even the greatest writers in times past sometimes spent years in a creative slum, unable to find even the smallest spur of inspiration. Fortunately, we have so much information readily available that we are usually able to overcome this challenge rather quickly. The Internet has proven to be the main source of inspiration for bloggers, as...
Backlinks are the golden path to page rank. Building backlinks however, can be a slow and tedious process every blogger has to face. We constantly find information on the web telling you to “write quality content”, “get involved with social networking”, “establish relationships with readers and other bloggers”. All of these are excellent points and hold a lot of truth, but what if you want to speed up the process? What...
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