3 Ways To Find Out How Influential You Really Are

When Google made social network influence important to SEO a while back, they kicked off a trend of making your own relative influence online and in social media sites like Facebook and Twitter more important. Thankfully there are some great services out there for measuring influence and we’re going to look at 3 that measure the influence of your Twitter handle,…

Local Marketing: Who Nearby Is Talking About You?

When you begin to tune into social and dig for those key conversations and influencers to share your content with, it might be important to sift down to a particular geographical area.  If you have a Real Estate business in one city, you want to look at all of the relevant tweets in your area,…

Monetize Your Blog Or Website: 3 Easy Affiliate Programs

You have a website, maybe even some decent traffic. You don’t necessarily sell a physical product, but people visit you for information or entertainment and you want to turn that into a little bit of cash money. Well, luckily there are a couple great programs for doing just that. Not everyone can work out a…

Guest Post | How To: Create A Great Password

by Kelly Batke at Faronics In my previous post on passwords, I posted the 25 worst passwords of 2011. If you didn’t see any of your passwords in that list, that’s good news. But chances are you’re reading this article because you’re nervous that your password may not be strong enough. While some websites are starting to provide an…

OpenSiteExplorer: Which Of Your Links Are The Hottest?

OddDog has a way with SEO, so when they told us about Open Site Explorer, a tool built by SEOmoz, we listened carefully. Getting links to drive the rank of the pages on your site is a must. But, all links are not created equal, some links have higher value than others. This means if…

3 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Doing A Contest Or Promotion On Facebook

1. Why A Contest? 7 Reasons “Social media contests are red. hot. Everyone seems to be doing them.” – telltenfriends.com If you’re not sure there is a good reason for you to do a contest, here is a great piece looking at 7 solid reasons a contest done via social media can be a great…