The Social Search Column I Wish I’d Written
In May, Ryan DeShazer wrote that “Social is the New Search,” and articulated his thoughts on how the adoption and evolution of social media would have a profound impact on traditional search. In that piece, he questioned how Google could remain relevant in a socially-charged world and hypothesised that social channels (Facebook especially) would emerge as mainstream search’s next logical destination.
MediaPost Publications The Social Search Column I Wish I’d Written 19/08/2011.
Twitter Acquires Analytics Startup
Analytics continue to become an important part of Twitter’s services. The company has acquired the cloud-hosted Web analytics application Trendly from Smallthought Systems.
SEO Best Practices For Twitter
Tad Chef explains five common Twitter SEO best practices, describing how to get better performance from optimizing the content, and what to expect as the outcome.
For example, making tweets spread virally is perhaps the most important discipline of Twitter SEO, he writes. So add popular terms and keywords to your tweet to make people want to retweet. He suggests a list of words.
Twitter helps Dell rake in sales
Twitter helps Dell rake in sales | Technology | Reuters.
Still small fry but if as they say the trend is up then we may be seeing more companies jumping on the Twitter band wagon. Manrks and Spencer already offer Twitter and Facebook users discounted products from across their whole range.
