Social Media

How to Know When You’ve Asked Too Many Friends to Like Your Facebook Page

Filed in Social Media by Matt McGee on January 6, 2014 0 Comments
How to Know When You’ve Asked Too Many Friends to Like Your Facebook Page

My wife got this alert over the weekend when she did some binge-inviting for her real estate Facebook page (which has been underutilized for a long time). That’s how to know when you’ve asked too many friends to like your Facebook Page. 🙂

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Optimizing for Twitter People Search: Does a Keyword in Your Name Help?

Filed in SEO, Social Media by Matt McGee on December 4, 2013 2 Comments
Optimizing for Twitter People Search: Does a Keyword in Your Name Help?

As you probably know from reading some of the recent posts in this space, I’ve been enjoying using GlassAlmanac.com as a guinea pig for some SEO and visibility experiments/efforts. A recent experiment has focused on Twitter search result visibility. I don’t have any incredibly deep insights to share, so move along if that’s what you’re […]

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Local Search & Facebook: A Few Changes

Filed in Local Search, Social Media by Matt McGee on July 9, 2013 1 Comment
Local Search & Facebook: A Few Changes

An update to my previous post on what local search looks like in Facebook’s Graph Search: Facebook has started rolling out Graph Search fully to US users, and over the last six months, there’ve been a few changes in how local businesses show up in Graph Search local results. The primary change that I’ve noticed […]

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Twilert (Twitter Alert Tool) Relaunches, But It’s Not Free Anymore

Filed in Social Media by Matt McGee on July 1, 2013 4 Comments
Twilert (Twitter Alert Tool) Relaunches, But It’s Not Free Anymore

I mentioned a tool called Twilert a few months ago in a post I wrote about using Twitter as a listening station. It’s a great service that lets you setup Twitter alerts based on keywords, Twitter usernames and more. And it was free. Not anymore. 🙁 Well, technically there’s still a free option, but it […]

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Most Internet Time is Spent on Social Media, Experian Says

Filed in Social Media by Matt McGee on April 17, 2013 3 Comments
Most Internet Time is Spent on Social Media, Experian Says

Social networking is (again) the activity that internet users spend the most time doing. It’s been this way for a few years now, and Experian’s latest report confirms it’s still the case. Experian says that, in the U.S., 27 percent of every hour spent online is spent on social networks and forums — that’s about […]

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Facebook, Like Google, Does Feet-on-the-Street Outreach to Local Businesses

Filed in Social Media, Statistics by Matt McGee on April 15, 2013 1 Comment
Facebook, Like Google, Does Feet-on-the-Street Outreach to Local Businesses

Maybe I’m the last to know this, but Facebook is doing feet-on-the-street outreach to small business owners in the U.S., and has apparently been doing them for the past year or so. The latest one happened on Saturday in the small town of Dixon, Illinois, as part of the community’s monthly Second Saturdays event. There’s […]

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