Category Archives: Social Media

5 Ways to Optimize Your Social Pages for SEO

Search engine optimization (SEO) is when you purposefully write and create digital content so that search engines more accurately represent your company, and understand your services, reputation, and credibility. Social media doesn’t always help your website SEO because few search engines and social platforms work together to translate your Facebook page fans, for example, into an amount of popularity or credibility that is linked to your website. How you craft your social pages still matters for SEO, however, and there are five easy ways for you to optimize your social pages to boost your digital reputation. Continue reading

Responding to Online Reviews

Many online reviews won’t make the difference between a slow day and standing room only, but there’s no doubt that they can noticeably help or hurt your sales. There’s no shortage of funny stories about business owners responding to negative reviews, too. But somewhere between the good reviews and the bad, the appropriate responses and the funny ones, there is a good strategy for your online review policy. It all starts with one golden rule. Continue reading

Picking Your Social Media Wisely

social media networkIt’s pretty easy to get overwhelmed by social media options. Some sites seem to come and go so quickly that they never have a chance to gain footing, or you only hear about them when they’re already in decline. Of course Facebook is the heavy hitter, and YouTube is hugely popular but often disregarded as social media because of the reliance strictly on video content. Twitter always makes its way into the conversation, but it continues to be used by a relatively smaller number of users and may be unnecessary for businesses. Don’t get us started on the big changes for Google+. With all of that in mind, how do you decide where to focus your social media efforts? Continue reading

5 Steps to Start Content Curation for Social Media

Content curation is a phrase that marketers often use to talk about sharing content that you didn’t create to your social media. As you probably know, sharing content on your website via a blog or landing page requires you to be pretty original about what you write so that you aren’t plagiarizing or violating copyrights. Sharing on social media is much easier, however, and doesn’t require any special citation, paraphrasing, or extra time spent researching and writing. Continue reading