Hottest Social Media Trends of 2012

The hottest social media players on deck have moved into the batter’s box and are coming out swinging in 2012!  Over the next twelve months, keep your eyes open for this year’s Hottest Social Media Trends: 1.    New Buzz Words – as the ever-expanding online community grows, so does the vocabulary!  Put down “Social Media…

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,…

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…

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…

2 Reasons Google Plus Is Beating And Will Beat Facebook Long Term

Last week we wrote about how to go about getting a Google Plus page for your business. If you weren’t convinced to get one, check this out. You have to get one!   1.  Google Plus doesn’t need Facebook type member numbers to win right now, not even close. Why? Your network dictates a huge…

The Business Of Social Media [Infographic]

74% of consumers rely on social networks to help guide purchase decisions. Wow. If you ever doubted whether all that Facebook and Twitter work was worth, 3/4 of the population just said yes, we use it to decide whether or not we’re buying your product. That was just one of the great statistics in this…

Geosocial, The NBA Lockout, and Infographics Galore

I know that we usually show you our favorite infographics on Fridays, but being that today is my birthday and I personally love them so much, I’m putting a couple awesome ones up right now! Check both of these out, the first is on who is using location based social networks and the second is…

Facebook Feed: Most Recent Is Back!

Remember when new Facebook took away the ability to organize your new feed chronologically? Well, apparently enough people didn’t like it and Facebook has decided to add back the option to sort your news feed by time updates were posted, rather than by which ones Facebook thinks you will find important. This is a slight win…

Social Media Vocabulary: Twitter #hashtag Edition

Twitter has not only given us a slough of new Twitter-based words, it also adds to the growing world of new social media vocabulary with the hashtags that grow out of the network. These are 5 of the most popular trends from 2010 mixed with a couple of our personal favorites. If you’re tweeting, it might…