BlipSnips is now Captimo! A.nnotate What is Google AuthorRank? #infographic #SEO What is Google AuthorRank? #infographic #SEO For the average writer, marketer or content producer, AuthorRank presents a great opportunity for personal branding, but also makes us individually responsible for the quality of work we produce. Evaluating the quality of content is Google’s job, and moving into the future it’s clear Google seeks to evaluate the substantive quality of authors. Some Facts Google+ is Google — Larry Page Google has filed patents regarding trust agents Google is already using Social Metrics to rank sites Google wants quality Content — Google Panda Google is weaning itself off Links — Google Penguin AuthorRank, of course, wouldn’t be a replacement for PageRank, but would be used to inform PageRank, therefore enabling Google to rank high-quality content more appropriately. We have seen impressive results with content that has the rel=author attribute attached to content, now Google is looking at attaching AuthorRank to that Author that published the content.
Storyful NoodleTools A Marketer's Guide to Nailing the Timing & Frequency of Social Media Updates Here's the thing: Social media timing matters. In 2011, HubSpot's Dan Zarrella conducted extensive research on the topic of social media timing . He examined a database of more than 100,000 accounts to determine what timing and frequency resulted in the greatest outcomes for social shares. Determining Your Optimal Frequency It's every marketer's concern: Am I over-communicating? The General Guideline Don't crowd your content. How to Find Your Personal Sweet Spot The right frequency for you depends a lot on the concentration of content in your audience's stream. Week One: Schedule your shares two hours apart, as HubSpot recommends. Determining the Best Time for General Engagement After you get the frequency down, you'll want to take a look at which days -- and time of day -- work best for generating activity and engagement with your posts. Twitter: Late in the day and week are the most retweetable times. Next, look for trends in the posts that generated the most clicks.
NewsPin.co Commentpress ¶ 1 CommentPress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph-by-paragraph, line-by-line or block-by-block in the margins of a text. New in CommentPress 3.8: select some text and comment specifically on that selection. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog. Use it in combination with multisite, BuddyPress and BuddyPress Groupblog to create communities around your documents. ¶ 2 CommentPress Version 3.8.x (known as CommentPress Core) is now available for download at the WordPress Plugin Directory, and is compatible with the latest WordPress standalone and multisite versions. ¶ 4 CommentPress Core merged all the previously separate plugins into a single download, and provides a default theme when it is activated.
10 striking conclusions of the Social Media around the World 2012 study Today InSites Consulting published the third edition of its study “Social Media around the world” in collaboration with data and sampling partner SSI and translation agency No Problem!. More than 7,800 respondents from nineteen different countries took part in the new survey and this article presents the study’s ten most striking conclusions. The entire study can be downloaded free of charge via SlideShare. 1. More than 7 in 10 surfers are active on social media, which translates into more than 1.5 billion social networkers worldwide. 2. Most of the participating countries have seen a significant rise in the use of smartphones over the last twelve months. The rise of mobile internet is pushing the use of social media to new heights. 3. New social network sites will find it extremely difficult to carve out a niche in the market; the majority of consumers are quite happy with the sites they are currently using and they have no intention of expanding their social media use. 4. 5. 6. 8. 9.
CurationSoft Content Curation Software list.it What is Google+ Really all About? What is Google+ Really all About? Google+ is Google’s Social Network, or at least, that is what we all think it is. It is Google’s effort to push out Facebook and to be the biggest not just in search, but also in social. If you listen carefully to what Googlers are saying you will get some nice insights into what the intentions from Google are. Note: this post has been edited since it first was published in July 2011, just after the launch of Google+. It wasn’t even ready, why launch? It was a remark made often jut after the launch of Google+: “Why did Google launch Google+ now? Bradley Horowitz, one of the leaders of the Plus-team, told AllThingDigital: “We’re calling this the Google+ project for a reason. Google is going places with this project. Google has been known to test their stuff “in the wild”. “We test stuff, and when it works, we put a lot more emphasis on it.” In the months since the launch we have seen a lot of additions to Google+ which have improved the product. G+posts more
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