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Looking to monitor your brand online? You need social media alerts

Date: 2nd August 2010
No Comments Related Categories: Freebies, Tracking, reputation management
Google Buzz
social mentio -online brand monitoring

Just a quickie – we’ve recently been using a fab free service called Social Mention that not only offers real time search for the places your name or brand is appearing, but also analyses those mentions for tone and meaning. Find out if the talk about you online is negative, positive or neutral!

They also offer daily Social Media Alerts, which are like Google alerts but for a variety of social media applications – again it’s free and well worth checking out if you want to see where you’re being talked about.

67 SEO Pointers for Blogging Beginners – a free guide

Date: 23rd June 2010
Comments: 21 Related Categories: 299 Steps, Admin posts, Articles, Blogging, Bonus Tips, Freebies, Google, Key Phrases, Musings
Google Buzz

3D Team Leadership Arrow ConceptLots of the questions I get on Twitter and Facebook relate to blogging and SEO, and as I was typing up a quick and dirty guide to SEO Blogging for a client, I mentioned it to someone else and they asked for a copy. Then I mentioned it on Twitter and others asked. So I tidied it up a (little) bit, put it in PDF format and here it is :)

It covers:

  • Thinking of what to write
  • What not to blog
  • How much should I write?
  • How do I get people to comment?

Recommended Wordpress Plugin – Facebook ‘Like’ Button

Date: 23rd April 2010
Comments: 7 Related Categories: Blogging, Freebies, facebook
Google Buzz

Since Facebook announced that they were offering the functionality for website oweners to have 'Like' buttons on their non Facebook content, the race has been on to develop a plugin.

We've found two so far.

  • Facebook Like Wordpress Plugin V1 (link goes directly to zip file) – this puts a Like button at the top or bottom of your posts (we've put it at the bottom( of ours as you can see). You can change the size and a few other options, which makes this one our favourite. You can find out more about this plugin on this blog post written by the creator.

Recommended Wordpress plugin: Google Buzz button

Date: 5th April 2010
Comments: 1 Related Categories: Blogging, Freebies, Google
Google Buzz

buzzI have to be honest and say that I’ve not paid huge amounts of attention to Google Buzz until recently. I mean I’ve played with it and I like it, but a lack of time has meant I’ve not used it particularly well. It’s just too easy to feed in my Twitter stream and hope for the best. Lazy, huh?

So I decided that I’ll try harder with Buzz over the next few weeks, and work out how to use it in a way that’s different to blogging and different to Twitter – my instinct tells me it’s somewhere in the middle of the two, practice should help me to help my customers use it in an effective way.

Get more fans for your Facebook fan page – post 1 of 2 today!

Date: 24th March 2010
Comments: 8 Related Categories: Free Listings, Freebies, Social Networking, facebook
Google Buzz

We’re on a bit of a Facebook Fan page mission here at NikkiPilkington.com – it seems that all of a sudden we’re building Fan Pages for clients large and small!

We love to see what others are doing with their Fan Pages, and with this in mind we’ve created the Here’s My Fan Page Fan Page!

Join as a fan, and post details of your fan page so other fans can find it! We’ll spotlight selected pages, post some of the on our other Fan Pages, and generally try to help you out with the gaining of fans.