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		<title>Google Search Engine Combines SEO with Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SEO Alien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/google-search-engine-combines-seo-social-media/' addthis:title='Google Search Engine Combines SEO with Social Media '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>Google has the ability to increase search engine ranking and it only makes sense that their own users would have the advantage of their expertise. Go figure&#8230; the giant of the search engine world, Google, has come up with a way to incorporate social media with search engine optimization. Their...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://seo-alien.com/articles/google-search-engine-combines-seo-social-media/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/google-search-engine-combines-seo-social-media/' addthis:title='Google Search Engine Combines SEO with Social Media' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/google-search-engine-combines-seo-social-media/' addthis:title='Google Search Engine Combines SEO with Social Media '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><h3><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-5482" title="Google Combines Social Media with SEO" src="http://seo-alien.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/google_logo_200x1171.jpg" alt="Google Combines Social Media with SEO" width="199" height="117" />Google has the ability to increase search engine ranking and it only makes sense that their own users would have the advantage of their expertise.</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>Go figure&#8230;</strong></em> the giant of the search engine world, Google, has come up with a way to incorporate social media with search <a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/901f81b4fd5c3f158377c12a120ae747/engine+optimization" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">engine optimization</a>. Their plan is working and may cause a real upset in the social media world, especially where businesses are concerned.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The primary reason for a business to become involved with social media is to spread the word about what they do and what they are up to in a friendly environment with very little cost to operate.</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>The use of Google Plus may become necessary for businesses to participate<br />
in when they lean toward social media pages.</strong></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Up until now the primary social media outlet has been Facebook. Twitter followed with a unique way of sending messages and receiving news from followers all over the world. Google has now provided an alternative called Google Plus. It’s similar to Facebook in that businesses create pages and enlist their fans to ‘like’ their pages, which creates an instant network that grows larger and larger exponentially.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">Google+ Changes the Game</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The difference in the two is that Google Plus has the added advantage of <a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/1cad484890e65d08be253f8b51fbd3a4/search+engine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">search engine</a> optimization along with the ability to post, blog, show photos, and run videos. Since Google is its own huge search engine, they can rank their Plus users to give them better position.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">PageRank Gets a Tweak</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;">PageRank, a brainchild of Google, allowed Google users to see the very best results in their searches. Since votes for rank relied on a whole page’s vote, that method has needed tweaking, since social media has changed the way we search from looking for whole pages to finding posts, blog entries, pictures, videos, and other smaller pieces of a page that are relevant to what is being searched for.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When that changed, of course Google was quick to change the way they do business, too. They developed their own form of social media page that closely mimics the other highly successful one &#8211; Facebook. They chose not to reinvent the wheel, but to simply make it better, easier to negotiate, edit and publish, and they improved the way each item or post is ranked in their search engine. In fact, they also integrated the Twitter system into how they operate. They have come up with a way to entice business to utilize and seek better search <a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/901f81b4fd5c3f158377c12a120ae747/engine+ranking" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">engine ranking</a> by using their social media option.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">Google is Watching User Habits</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The plan may be to incorporate the Google Plus social media users’ habits into their algorithm for ranking. They have a gigantic data base through AdWords and all of the other arms with which they reach into just about every aspect of the internet experience and they can use that influence to increase search ranking for their users.</p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/google-search-engine-combines-seo-social-media/' addthis:title='Google Search Engine Combines SEO with Social Media' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><p><h3>Related posts:</h3><ol>
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		<title>One Click Will Enable Your Facebook Timeline</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Barnes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/click-enable-facebook-timeline/' addthis:title='One Click Will Enable Your Facebook Timeline '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>One click is all it takes to access the new Timeline feature on Facebook. You’ll have a full week to edit through your page and get it just right before you publish it and take it live. Keeping up with the latest features on Facebook is crucial to your social...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://seo-alien.com/articles/click-enable-facebook-timeline/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/click-enable-facebook-timeline/' addthis:title='One Click Will Enable Your Facebook Timeline' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/click-enable-facebook-timeline/' addthis:title='One Click Will Enable Your Facebook Timeline '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><h3><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3008" title="Facebook Timeline" src="http://seo-alien.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/FB1.png" alt="Facebook Timeline" width="150" height="150" />One click is all it takes to access the new Timeline feature on Facebook. You’ll have a full week to edit through your page and get it just right before you publish it and take it live.</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Keeping up with the latest features on Facebook is crucial to your social media success. When they offer a new way to communicate with fans and friends, it’s wise to check out the process, cruise around and see what it looks like on other pages, and then preview it for your own page. They make it really easy to transform your standard page into the new Timeline interface page.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Find the button that says ‘Get Timeline’ and click on it (or go to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/timeline"title="Facebook Timeline"  rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook.com/timeline</a>). Don’t worry. You’ll have a <a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/49de6455d8f701f1f73c34d0c763b15b/full+week" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">full week</a> to preview it and to tweak it to your specifications before it goes public. Nobody will be able to see the Timeline pages except you until you are ready to show it off. When it looks like what you envision and is ready to be published, <a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/200e030e01612c651e4af6ff028e8491/simply+click" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">simply click</a> the button that enables the ‘publish now.’ At that point it will be visible to all who visit your page.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">Edit Before Publishing</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you believe that there will be no need to change or edit anything before you go public with the Timeline, simply click the ‘Get Timeline’ button, and then click the ‘Publish Now’ button. It’s really that simple. This is fine for those who just want to change the configuration of your page to reflect the latest options.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To edit before publishing, go to the ‘About Timeline.’ Click on ‘Get Timeline’ from that page. A business presence will always require more care, so you can use your 7 day edit period to fix anything you want to look different, or to give the page a better and more professional look. Use the week you have before publishing to edit the page, set your privacy settings, and make your determinations for which items will be seen by any and all and which will be exclusively seen by your closest friends and family.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">To edit, simply scroll through your page and remove or edit anything you wish to change. A dropdown menu will come up if you roll your cursor over the item you want to change at the upper right corner of the item. Choose the action from the options. You can change or add locations, change dates, or even make certain items disappear or hide.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Some posts can be featured if you wish by clicking on the star next to the pencil icon at the left of the item. That item will become larger and more obvious. When you’ve finished and are satisfied with your edits, simply press the ‘Publish Now’ button and your new Facebook Timeline page will be live.</p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/click-enable-facebook-timeline/' addthis:title='One Click Will Enable Your Facebook Timeline' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><p><h3>Related posts:</h3><ol>
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		<title>Google Plus has Potential to Overtake Other Social Media</title>
		<link>http://seo-alien.com/articles/google-potential-overtake-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SEO Alien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/google-potential-overtake-social-media/' addthis:title='Google Plus has Potential to Overtake Other Social Media '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>The new social media outlet available through Google called Plus has the potential to run away with the social media market. It’s simplicity of operation and maintenance will be a welcome relief after negotiating the others. How can Google Plus possibly compete with the Facebook giant? It’s simple. And that’s...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://seo-alien.com/articles/google-potential-overtake-social-media/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/google-potential-overtake-social-media/' addthis:title='Google Plus has Potential to Overtake Other Social Media' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/google-potential-overtake-social-media/' addthis:title='Google Plus has Potential to Overtake Other Social Media '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><h3><a href="http://seo-alien.com"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5446" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border-width: 0px;" title="Google +" src="http://seo-alien.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/google_plus_logo-150x150.jpg" alt="Google Plus has Potential to Overtake Other Social Media " width="150" height="150" /></a>The new social media outlet available through Google called Plus has the potential to run away with the social media market. It’s simplicity of operation and maintenance will be a welcome relief after negotiating the others.</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">How can Google Plus possibly compete with the Facebook giant? It’s simple. And that’s exactly how they’ll do it. The two are now both considered the best places to do some pretty thorough communicating with all those who may have an interest in your business.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">Google+ Has Awesome Features</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Like Facebook, Google Plus has pages that feature posts, photos, and blog spaces. Like both Facebook and Twitter, you can collect those who ‘like’ or ‘follow’ you and put up pictures and videos to enhance your posts. There is a difference, though. Google’s offering is easier to navigate and edit when categorizing people in your list. On Google they’re called Circles. It’s a paradigm that features an easy drag and drop way of organizing those you want in one category or another, or possibly both. This is where your Circles will overlap.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">Google+ Circles</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Google Plus allows you to use a one click method to place your co-workers and associates in a category, also called a Circle.</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-align: justify;">Your friends would go into another Circle, and family, still another.</span></li>
<li><span style="text-align: justify;">There is no reason to create lists as you would with Twitter or groups as you do with Facebook.</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These often difficult and laborious organizing chores are a thing of the past if you begin to use Plus. While you may still need to keep your Twitter followers and your Facebook friends or fans, the move to Google Plus will be a natural once you attempt to use it.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">Google+ Status Updates</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The other way that Google hopes to snag businesses is by requiring only one click to publish photos, videos, and posts, called status updates. You can choose which Circle to show your items to en masse. Have a photo album of your 1975 high school class reunion and want only friends to see it? Simply click to send it to your Circle of friends and remove the apprehension of what your business contacts might think of it. They don’t need to see your personal items at all unless you want them to.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">Google+ Hangouts</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Another feature of Plus is the Hangout, which will rival, and threatens to overtake the communication guru, Skype. It’s a video chat that allows live communication. With photos integrated through the Picasa photo service your logos, photos, technical drawings, and more will be seen with clarity and be very easy to upload into your page and share with whomever you choose with a click of a button.</p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/google-potential-overtake-social-media/' addthis:title='Google Plus has Potential to Overtake Other Social Media' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><p><h3>Related posts:</h3><ol>
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		<title>Use Affiliate Marketing for Additional Income</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SEO Alien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/affiliate-marketing-additional-income/' addthis:title='Use Affiliate Marketing for Additional Income '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>Affiliate marketing is one way for you to optimize your income. You can use your existing website, create a new one, or use a blog site. You may have heard of affiliate marketing. What is it? Affiliate marketing is a program that allows you to place links on your website...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://seo-alien.com/articles/affiliate-marketing-additional-income/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/affiliate-marketing-additional-income/' addthis:title='Use Affiliate Marketing for Additional Income' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>
<h3>Related posts:</h3><ol>
<li><a href='http://seo-alien.com/articles/succeed-affiliate-marketing/' rel='bookmark' title='How to Succeed at Affiliate Marketing'>How to Succeed at Affiliate Marketing</a> <small>Affiliate marketing is one way for you to optimize your income. You can use your existing website, create a new one, or use a blog...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://seo-alien.com/tips-and-tricks/b2b-marketing-social-media/' rel='bookmark' title='B2B Marketing with Social Media'>B2B Marketing with Social Media</a> <small>Using Social Media to market your products to other businesses is now the ad vehicle of choice for most businesses worldwide. It’s cost effective and...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://seo-alien.com/articles/affiliate-program-money/' rel='bookmark' title='The Best Affiliate Program to Make Money'>The Best Affiliate Program to Make Money</a> <small>Promote a product that is trending, functional, easy to use, easy to sell and has an awesome re-seller program! Are you looking for a product...</small></li>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/affiliate-marketing-additional-income/' addthis:title='Use Affiliate Marketing for Additional Income '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5395" style="border-image: initial; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;" title="Make Money Online" src="http://seo-alien.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/making-money-onine-150x150.jpg" alt="Use Affiliate Marketing for Additional Income" width="160" height="160" />Affiliate marketing is one way for you to optimize your income. You can use your existing website, create a new one, or use a blog site.</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You may have heard of <a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/6e24be611da9b097433fd2a5a0d855d8/affiliate+marketing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">affiliate marketing</a>. What is it? Affiliate marketing is a program that allows you to place links on your website that direct buyers to other companies’ sites. If a sale occurs through the link you specifically provided, you earn a percentage of the sale.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There are literally thousands of companies with <a href="https://www.google.com/#hl=en&amp;q=affiliate+programs"title="Affiliate Programs"  rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/3b981d16cd6d6324abe7c92cd4085465/affiliate+programs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">affiliate programs</a></a> for you to choose from. You’ll apply to those that interest you, or that are similar in genre to what your site is all about, and the rest is automated for the most part. You won’t see instant riches, but you will have the opportunity to create an additional stream of income without doing more than setting up the affiliate’s links on your site. This creates residual income.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You can <a href="http://seo-alien.com/build-your-own-blog-page/"title="Create Your Own Money Making Website with Flex-Squeeze" >create a website</a> if you don’t have one. Add the affiliate links and/or images to your site. Create an information blog that discusses the product they are selling. This should attract attention to the link, and once the link is clicked on by your reader, it’s possible that a sale will be made. Because the customer bought the product by reading your information and clicking through to the product you’ll receive a portion of the sale, similar to what a commission would be.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">These programs are easy to operate once set up. You will do no selling, you won’t collect money for the products, and you won’t ship them. In fact, you won’t do any product handling at all for affiliate sales. You simply attract attention to the affiliate’s link.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">There are just a few steps to affiliate marketing.</h4>
<ol>
<li>You’ll find a good program that helps you to keep track of your <a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/a3d8a68cd60f42a2633321edea0afb98/affiliate+links" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">affiliate links</a> and the income that comes in from each one. Most of them use a dashboard type format that makes it easy to see what’s happening at a glance. Once you are up and running, you’ll analyze your results frequently. This will tell you which campaigns are working most successfully for you and which need to be adjusted for better performance.</li>
<li>Then you’ll create a <a href="http://seo-alien.com/build-your-own-blog-page/"title="Money Making WordPress Themes" >website or blog</a> on which to place the affiliate links.</li>
<li>The next step is perhaps the most difficult. Driving traffic to your affiliate links is best done with a marketing campaign that utilizes keywords and phrases according to their search popularity. If you have expertise in <a href="http://seo-alien.com/the-seo-alien/the-seo-alien-galaxy-package/"title="SEO Alien Search Engine Package" >search engine optimization</a>, you’re all set. If not, you may want to hire someone who does as this may be the most important part of your operation.</li>
<li>The most important part is not to give up! Remember, if it was easy, everyone would be doing. What seperates the winners for the &#8220;gave-uppers&#8221; is the that winners kept going even when they did not see immediate results. Using SEO, Blogging and Social Media are all a marathon and not a sprint.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Make Money with Your Blog from Text Links</h4>
<div></div>
<div>Another popular way that Bloggers with money with their blogs is by adding contextual links to affiliate programs from their existing posts. What this simply does is add links to your text that a keyword sensitive to advertisers and it is pretty seamless. You write your content as usual and the links are added automatically where appropriate.</div>
<h4>Here Are a Couple You Can Start With</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<strong><a href="http://www.ucontext.com/?aid=8X2K4N8W"title="Ucontext"  rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ucontext</a></strong> &#8211; This is an affiliate program for <strong><a href="http://seoalien.reseller.hop.clickbank.net" rel="nofollow" title="Clickbank.com"  rel="nofolow" target="_blank">Clickbank</a></strong> and will add text links to relative products automatically.</li>
<li><script type="text/javascript">// < ![CDATA[
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// ]]&gt;</script> is another program to add links to your text.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Promoting Your Site Using Social Media</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;Whatever niche your in, provide your followers with informative, relative, consistent </span><a href="http://seo-alien.com/packages/"style="text-align: justify;" title="Professional Article Service" >articles</a><span style="text-align: justify;"> and if you&#8217;re using Social Media, be sure to pay attention to your followers and communicate with them often. Nothing is worse that someone finding your Social Media site with nothing on it but links to your offers. You will find that sharing other relative posts from even your biggest competitors will not hurt your traffic, but actually help it.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/affiliate-marketing-additional-income/' addthis:title='Use Affiliate Marketing for Additional Income' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><p><h3>Related posts:</h3><ol>
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<li><a href='http://seo-alien.com/tips-and-tricks/b2b-marketing-social-media/' rel='bookmark' title='B2B Marketing with Social Media'>B2B Marketing with Social Media</a> <small>Using Social Media to market your products to other businesses is now the ad vehicle of choice for most businesses worldwide. It’s cost effective and...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://seo-alien.com/articles/affiliate-program-money/' rel='bookmark' title='The Best Affiliate Program to Make Money'>The Best Affiliate Program to Make Money</a> <small>Promote a product that is trending, functional, easy to use, easy to sell and has an awesome re-seller program! Are you looking for a product...</small></li>
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		<title>Can You Really Use Social Media for SEO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/social-media-seo/' addthis:title='Can You Really Use Social Media for SEO? '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>Yes, Social Media can be used for SEO, but your Social Media Platform has to be created correctly from the start and you must have a plan! Having a good Social Media Manager that understands SEO may be just what you need. When we are out and about talking to...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://seo-alien.com/articles/social-media-seo/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/social-media-seo/' addthis:title='Can You Really Use Social Media for SEO?' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/social-media-seo/' addthis:title='Can You Really Use Social Media for SEO? '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2564" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; border-width: 0px;" title="SEO and Social Media Marketing" src="http://seo-alien.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SEO-tools.jpg" alt="Google Tools for Webmasters" width="171" height="124" />Yes, Social Media can be used for SEO, but your Social Media Platform has to be created correctly from the start and you must have a plan! Having a good Social Media Manager that understands SEO may be just what you need.</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When we are out and about talking to new businesses, we still here some that do not believe and/or will discredit the ability of Social Media and SEO campaigns to have any real effect on attracting viewers to your website. This may be a result of do it yourself ad campaigns or because many &#8216;pop up&#8217; companies out there make promises that they can’t possibly keep. Frustrated business owners with limited marketing dollars spend money on these campaigns that may not be properly formulated or run and are disappointed with the results, or lack thereof.</p>
<ul>
<li>Social Media and SEO is quite effective when done correctly. All parts of the process must be executed or there will be little success.</li>
<li>The campaign must be based on information gathered and a reading of what competitors might be doing.</li>
<li>The planned posts to the website or social media must then be consistently posted and then monitored for effectiveness.</li>
<li>Complex systems exist that tell SEO and Social Media Managers what works and what doesn’t so they are always tweaking and turning your plan and strategy this way and that.</li>
<li>The internet is constantly changing and one must keep up with the movement.</li>
<li>If your SEO campaign does include Social Media, you might want to try again using newfound information and a reputable professional SEO company that does it right.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Your campaign’s real success will depend on how well you and your chosen SMM &amp; SEO professional run your scheduled entries and more importantly, what your competition may be up to. If the other businesses in your field run regular contests, make consistent blog entries, and provide lots of new information on a constant basis, you will need to keep up with them or surpass them to bring attention to your product or service.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When readers get used to seeing your new blog posts or articles, you must keep it going, don&#8217;t stop! We see too many &#8220;do-it-your-selfers&#8221; that start and abandon. This will not make you look good if you haven&#8217;t had a post in months or even weeks. It takes a little time to grow true followers and when you do, that is when your campaign will start to sing. (See our <a href="http://seo-alien.com/tips-and-tricks/people-fail-social-media-marketing/#.TtYqfmMk6so"title="Why People Fail at Social Media Marketing" >Top 8 Things You Can do to Kill your Social Media</a>)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One of the biggest reasons campaigns don’t work is that posting drops off as the viewers start to get used to seeing them. If you can’t make the commitment or you find that it has become tedious or too much work, by all means, enlist the help of the professionals that have a <a href="http://seo-alien.com/packages/social-media-management-packages"title="Social Media Management Packages"  target="_blank">Social Media Marketing</a> experience and cane develop a plan that includes both your Social Media and your SEO. It’s what they do every day.</p</p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/social-media-seo/' addthis:title='Can You Really Use Social Media for SEO?' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><p>No related posts.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Measuring Your Social Media Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/measuring-social-media-success/' addthis:title='Measuring Your Social Media Success '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>Using social media to advertise your business is the way to do things these days. It is a vast world out there, though, and you’ll need to find some way of measuring your success. It’s just like doing business without social media. You always need to know what marketing methods...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://seo-alien.com/articles/measuring-social-media-success/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/measuring-social-media-success/' addthis:title='Measuring Your Social Media Success' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/measuring-social-media-success/' addthis:title='Measuring Your Social Media Success '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2961" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; border-width: 0px;" title="Measuring Your Social Media Marketing" src="http://seo-alien.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Social-Media-Marketing-Explanation.jpg" alt="Social Media Marketing" width="152" height="182" />Using social media to advertise your business is the way to do things these days. It is a vast world out there, though, and you’ll need to find some way of measuring your success.</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It’s just like doing business without social media. You always need to know what marketing methods are getting you the best results. Which ones give you the best return on your marketing budget’s investment?</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">Attaining and Retaining Fans</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Important things to know include how to attain and retain fans on your Facebook pages. What method do you use to get ‘fans’ and what are you paying someone to get them for you? How many of those fans do you need to turn one sale? If you need 100 sales per month to achieve your set goals, you must have enough fans to reach that goal. If it takes 1,000 fans to turn one sale, you’ll need 100,000 fans to reach your goal. This is quite simplified as an explanation of course, but it gives you an idea of what you need to know and why those numbers may be important.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You’ll also need to know what it cost you to get your 100,000 fans. If you paid someone to get them for you, and there are people out there that have made a new living doing just that, you’ll subtract that from your profit. It will be part of your investment in marketing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">These kinds of numbers are critical to your successful social media campaigns. Professional marketing experts can do this for you. You will have someone in your corner that understands how to attract attention in the social media arena. They should be able to tell you about your ROI where the specific campaigns are concerned.</p>
<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>The value of the average Facebook fan is estimated to be worth $9.56 per Fan</strong></em><br />
<span style="font-size: 10px; text-align: left;">Source: <a href="http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/11/new-study-says-average-facebook-fan-is-worth-956.html"style="font-weight: bold;" title="Facebook Fan Value Study"  target="_blank" rel="nofollow">SocialCode</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">There is great technology available that can analyze that data and break it down to exact keywords and phrases used in your marketing campaigns. Attracting attention to your business and website is the ultimate goal here, while making the best use of your marketing budget.</p>
<h4>Social Media is Free,..but</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;">While social media may be free, the art of drawing attention of potential buyers of your product is another story. Yes, the social pages, texts, tweets, and blog posts may be free, but making critical analysis of your methods is not. It’s important to know what’s working and what isn’t.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Most business owners are already busy with their product and development. It may be a good idea to <em><strong><a href="http://seo-alien.com/packages/social-media-management-packages"title="Social Media Management Packages"  target="_blank">hire a pro</a></strong></em> to track and analyze your ad campaigns for you.</p>
<h4>Tools to Measure Your Social Media Marketing Success</h4>
<ol>
<li><strong>WordPress Statistics:</strong> This is available as a simple free plugin that is available for WordPress users to measure and compare your progress.</li>
<li><strong>Google Analytics:</strong> This is another free tool that provides a vast array of statistics. Now you will need to get the code from Google (just Google “Google Analytics” and apply) and once you have been provided the code, embed it in your blog.</li>
<li><strong>Bit.ly:</strong> This tools measures statistics for your Twitter bit.ly shortened links and displays elements such as:<br />
    -Which countries are clicking on your shortened links on Twitter and the percentage<br />
    -Which links on Twitter are getting the most clicks</li>
<li><strong>TwitterCounter.com:</strong> This is a simple tool that can provide basic statistics on your twitter follower growth.</li>
<li><strong>Facebook Insights:</strong> Facebook Insights provides Facebook page owners and Facebook platform developers with metrics around their content by understanding and analyzing trends within; User growth, User demographics, Consumption of content, Creation of content.</li>
<li><strong>Linkedin Search Results:</strong> Determine the number of times your Linkedin profile has appeared in a search via the “Who’s viewed my profile” section.</li>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/twitter-long-years/' addthis:title='Twitter Has Come a Long Way in Five Years '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>Using Twitter can get you a great deal of social media attention, as those who use it tend to use all of the other Social Media formats as well. They are generally good at ‘spreading the word. Using Tweets as communication has become mainstream and expected among those who are...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://seo-alien.com/articles/twitter-long-years/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/twitter-long-years/' addthis:title='Twitter Has Come a Long Way in Five Years' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/twitter-long-years/' addthis:title='Twitter Has Come a Long Way in Five Years '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-513" title="Twitter Has Come a Long Way in Five Years" src="http://seo-alien.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/twitter-one.jpg" alt="Using Tweets as communication has become mainstream" width="121" height="121" />Using Twitter can get you a great deal of social media attention, as those who use it tend to use all of the other Social Media formats as well. They are generally good at ‘spreading the word.</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Using Tweets as communication has become mainstream and expected among those who are young, electronically connected, and creative. It is one of those kitchen table ideas that has grown into a company that could be sold today, just over five years after its inception, for somewhere in the neighborhood of eight to ten billion dollars. There has to be something useful about in some way if Google and Facebook would each be willing to pay such a huge price tag for it.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Since Google and Facebook are so interested in Twitter, you might think very seriously about getting on board if you haven’t already. This is a very real way to get your message across. It must be.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>The largest percentage of Twitter users are in the highest income bracket.</li>
<li>About one third of those that Tweet make upwards of $100k per year.</li>
<li>The lowest percentage of users being in the $0 to $30k per year income bracket.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The demographics are quite interesting and don’t necessarily reflect what might be assumed to be the largest or most prolific user group. The largest group by age is not much of a surprise, as that covers the group most likely to have grown up with technology.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>The 18-34 year age group comprises nearly half of all Twitter users with the next age group being 35-49 at 24%.</li>
<li>Nearly half of all Twitter users have no children, though ¾ of users are clearly within the standard common age group for bearing children.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">With the income bracket leading the pack at over $100k per year, one might gather that this is a good way to network and quickly get your point across. Promoting your business or service can be done easily and quickly, with just a few well placed and well written Tweets per day going across the airwaves.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;">Twitter Users are Well Connected</h4>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The polls show that those who are most likely to use this form of social media are the ones who tend to use all of the other forms of social media as well. They are ultra connected as some might say. So it makes very good sense to get your message out there because if you catch a Twitterer’s attention, your blog post, picture, video, product, service, or whatever you want to promote could take off and become ‘viral.’</p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/twitter-long-years/' addthis:title='Twitter Has Come a Long Way in Five Years' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div><p><h3>Related posts:</h3><ol>
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		<title>How Good Are Backlinks From Article Sites?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SEO Alien</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/good-backlinks-article-sites-directories/' addthis:title='How Good Are Backlinks From Article Sites? '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>Has the Value of Links From Article Directories Been Diminished? A year ago, we would have agreed that building quality backlinks was arguably one of the most important part of Search Engine Optimization. Article directories were a good way for webmasters to promote their websites. Article and Web Directory submissions...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://seo-alien.com/articles/good-backlinks-article-sites-directories/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/good-backlinks-article-sites-directories/' addthis:title='How Good Are Backlinks From Article Sites?' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/good-backlinks-article-sites-directories/' addthis:title='How Good Are Backlinks From Article Sites? '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-4494" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; border-width: 0px;" title="Social Media Links" src="http://seo-alien.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/social-media-links.jpg" alt="Social Media or Backlinks?" width="166" height="166" />Has the Value of Links From Article Directories Been Diminished?</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">A year ago, we would have agreed that building quality backlinks was arguably one of the most important part of Search Engine Optimization. Article directories were a good way for webmasters to promote their websites. Article and Web Directory submissions with high Pageranks ultimately helped your site by increase exposure and traffic and Pagerank because of a backlink from a another site with a high Pagerank&#8230;.. a year ago.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So today, we must ask ourselves, what is more important, the all important backlink, or your Social Media Links?</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Google&#8217;s Panda Update Changes the Game</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Google made it perfectly clear. They are trying their darnedest to punish sites that use black hat SEO techniques. Backlinks from directories are not as important as the quality of the information, how it is written and how it is shared.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">(Source: Google Blog) “<em>This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites – sites which are low-value, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites – sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on. It is important for high-quality sites to be rewarded, and that’s exactly what this change does.</em>”</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;So Where is the Best SEO Juice?&#8221;</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It is our educated theory that links from <a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/4b03b58db24bf89ed06019c1df9a28a3/article+directories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">article directories</a> are no-where near as powerful as they once were. Most article directories are notorious for the amount of low-quality content they contain. They’ll accept articles from just about anyone – regardless of how poorly written the articles are. That being said, despite being smacked down by the Panda update, EzineArticles has consistently had the highest quality standards among article directories. And after Panda, they’ve tightened their quality standards even more and maybe, because of that they may bounce back.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Social Media has Changed the Game</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">With the explosion of Social Media, the share, the like and the re-tweet could now be trumping the ever important backlink. Though, at this time, Google will deny that they use Social Media likes and shares in their algorithms, though anyone using Google Analytics can see that Google keeps track of all the likes and shares.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Even though we still get well over 80% of our traffic from Google and not Social Media, we feel strongly that their is a direct correlation between the two. For example, if you can get 100 more visits from Social Media sites to your website or blog, it has to help your Search Engine Ranking. For the most part, the traffic from Social Media is very targeted traffic, thus will stay on your pages longer. It just has to help.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Several months ago we stopped posting to <a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/f49d4b7ab30d373cde451f7337fcd12e/article+sites" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">article sites</a> and submit our content directly to our blog, share it on Social Media and as a result, it hasn&#8217;t hurt our traffic nor our Pagerank by not having the backlinks from high Pagerank article sites. In fact, the contrary has occured, it has helped our Pagerank.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sharing <a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/448024c5ceae14d277e0438b0dfcce62/quality+content" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">quality content</a> in Social Media, in our opinion, is the equivalent of a good backlink. By sharing high quality content from people with a high <a href="http://seo-alien.com/articles/social-media-influence/"title="What is Your Social Media Score?" >Social Score</a>, it will help get YOUR image and message sent through cyber-space quickly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">We have said it before and we will say it again;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">&#8220;<em><strong>In the very near future backlinks, keywords and key phrases placed in content, while important, will no longer be the gold standard in optimizing content.</strong></em>&#8220;</p>
<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Tips to Help Your Social Media Score and SEO Efforts</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Using Social Media will help you in the Search Engines, we are convinced of it. Here are a few tips that will help you get the results.</p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li>Create a solid foundation for you Social Media with complete profiles that describe exactly what you do.</li>
<li>Share, Like, re-tweet high quality and not garbage.</li>
<li>Surround your Social Media self with users that have a high Social Media Score.</li>
<li>Post quality content that is relevant to your site and relative to your followers.</li>
<li>Stop selling and start sharing!</li>
<li>Do NOT over automate your Social Media.</li>
<li>Avoid <a href="http://seo-alien.com/tips-and-tricks/beware-of-auto-submitting-programs-for-backlinks/"title="Auto-Submitting Programs for Backlinks" >Auto-submitting Programs</a> for backlinks.</li>
</ul>
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		<title>ZILERGY Products &#8211; Business and Social Media Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/zilergy-products-business-social-media-solutions/' addthis:title='ZILERGY Products &#8211; Business and Social Media Solutions '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>Zilergy is a product within a product. Looking for a  simple, effective tool to market like a pro? Zilergy is any marketers dream! Zilergy is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing tools for Marketing, both online and off! Zilergy combines all the major marketing tools for today and tomorrow....</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://seo-alien.com/articles/zilergy-products-business-social-media-solutions/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/zilergy-products-business-social-media-solutions/' addthis:title='ZILERGY Products &#8211; Business and Social Media Solutions' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Zilergy combines, e-Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Management, Text Message Marketing, Webinar and Video sharing, list building and so much more in one easy to use dashboard that you can access through any computer, wherever you are.</p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">If you answered YES to any of those questions, you need to look at Zilergy!</div>
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		<title>What is Your Social Media Influence?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/social-media-influence/' addthis:title='What is Your Social Media Influence? '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>&#8220;Remember when the most valuable currency on the internet was your domain name? Now it is becoming more about your  Social Media Influence.&#8221; So what is &#8220;Social Media Influence&#8221;? The term, social influence is vague in nature. Without getting lost in all kinds of theories, allow us stick to the basics. In...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://seo-alien.com/articles/social-media-influence/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style" addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/social-media-influence/' addthis:title='What is Your Social Media Influence?' ><a class="addthis_button_linkedin"></a><a class="addthis_button_scoopit"></a><a class="addthis_button_delicious"></a><a class="addthis_button_folkd"></a><a class="addthis_button_email"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://seo-alien.com/articles/social-media-influence/' addthis:title='What is Your Social Media Influence? '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.zilergy.net/seoalien" rel="nofollow" title="Zilergy - The all-in-one Social Media Dashboard"  target="_blank"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4196" style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;" title="What is Your Social Media Influence" src="http://seo-alien.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/stay_connected-450x258.jpg" alt="Determining Social Media Presence" width="178" height="102" /></a>&#8220;Remember when the most valuable currency on the internet was your domain name? Now it is becoming more about your  <em>Social Media Influence</em>.&#8221;</h3>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So what is &#8220;Social Media Influence&#8221;? The term, social influence is vague in nature. Without getting lost in all kinds of theories, allow us stick to the basics. In general, let&#8217;s recognize that Social Media has two main areas:</p>
<ol>
<li>fans, followers linked to you (newsletter subscribers, twitter followers, fans of your Facebook page etc.)</li>
<li>reactions you get from them (comments, mentions, retweets, backlinks etc.)</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">You may think that measuring ones social influence would not be that difficult, we mean, it is not difficult to measure your Likes on Facebook and re-tweets on Twitter. However,  the size of a social site does not necessarily have anything to do with the strength of the influence. When gathering data, it is important to look beyond simple counting and look at how engaged people are with the content that you are sharing with them!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Google has mastered it on the Search Engines, more people used Google in the United States in 2010 than any other Search Engine. (<strong>May 2010</strong> - <em>Yahoo</em> handles around 15% of search queries, <em>Bing</em> around 9% leaving <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/060710-tech-argument-search.html" rel="nofollow" title="Google gets 71% of all searches"  target="_blank">Google only %71.00 of all U.S. searches</a>)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Why should you care?</strong> Your social score will become more available and important to everyone from banks to vendors. You will be able to learn things about the people you interview before you hire them and potential clients will look at it before deciding whether or not to give you a call. At this moment over <a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Online-Product-Research.aspx" rel="nofollow" title="Online Product Research"  target="_blank">55% of people research online</a> who they are doing business with. If you’re buying a car, do you check Facebook? Do you read up on Kelley Blue Book values and check the company website for every spec, from horsepower to miles per gallon? What about music? Do you check Top 10 radio charts or scope out what your Facebook friends are actually listening to on a site like Spotify?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When it comes to social media and it&#8217;s influence, we all have questions, we want to know things like:</p>
<ul>
<li>Who are the people we should be communicating with? And where are they?</li>
<li>How do we know what we’re doing is working?</li>
<li>What is <a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/170aac93c8252da43386d6a47c7cf22e/social+influence" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">social influence</a> based on and do we have any?</li>
<li>Aren’t there tools out there to help us figure this out?</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Another question we would have to ask is, &#8220;Would your <a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/901f81b4fd5c3f158377c12a120ae747/social+media+influence" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Social Media Influence</a> be in direct proportion with how well you rank on the Search Engines?&#8221;. You would have to think, respectively, that one would result in the other.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and others, impacts organic search results. It helps your content organically “float” towards the top of <a href="http://www.ucontext.com/cbhop.php/4517/0/1cad484890e65d08be253f8b51fbd3a4/search+engine" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">search engine</a> for the keywords or key phrases you hope to be found for. Companies like Google, like ways they can measure the influence of websites they index. Instead of pulling up content based on the most keywords or links relevant to the search, they now filter out the more important content: the content created by real influencers on the topic within the social realm.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8220;Social Media, it&#8217;s letting people know who you are, what you do and how you&#8217;ve helped others.&#8221;</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Fortunately there are tools, some better than others, to help you determine your social influence, understand what is working and what is not. Equally as important, it will help you find others in your marketing niche that have a high Social Influence and by doing so, it allows you to connect to the right people and places allowing you to improve your social media strategy as a whole.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1302" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; border-width: 0px;" title="Social Media Infuence" src="http://seo-alien.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/SeoAlien3-with-satellite-300x300.png" alt="Social Media and Search Engine Optimization Tips" width="78" height="78" />One of the valuable tools on the <a href="https://www.zilergy.net/seoalien" rel="nofollow" title="Social Media Marketing Tools"  target="_blank"><strong>ZILERGY</strong></a> dashboard is called <em><strong>the &#8220;Listen&#8221; feature</strong></em>. The Listen feature allows you to search like no other Search Engine, Zilergy currently measures trending topics from any one, or all of the following Social Media Sites:</p>
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<td style="text-align: left;"><strong>Google+</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: left;"><strong>Reddit</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: left;"><strong>Delicious</strong></td>
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<td style="text-align: left;"><strong>Twitter</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: left;"><strong>Facebook</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: left;"><strong>News/Blogs</strong></td>
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<td style="text-align: left;"><strong>Images/Video</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: left;"><strong>Forums</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: left;"><strong>Custom Feeds</strong></td>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">One of the many results that will populate after you search a phrase, is a &#8220;Social Influence Score&#8221;, that will be a ranking from 1-100.</p>
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<div id="attachment_4210" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 460px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4210   " style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid;" title="Zilergy's Social Media Influence Score" src="http://seo-alien.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/social-score-450x57.jpg" alt="Social Media Influence Score" width="450" height="57" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Social Media Influence Score</p></div>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>ZILERGY&#8217;s</strong> <strong>Social Media Influence Score</strong> measures influence based on the ability to drive action. Every time content is created in Social Media, it is being engaged and influenced by others. The <strong>Influence Score</strong> uses data from Social Networks in order to measure:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>True Reach</strong>: <em><strong>How many people you influence</strong></em>- Your True Reach is the number of people you influence. We filter out spam and bots and focus on the people who are acting on your content. When you post a message, these people tend to respond or share it.</li>
<li><strong>Amplification: <em>How much you influence them</em></strong>- Your Amplification is how much you influence people. When you post a message, how many people respond to it or spread it further? If people often act upon your content you have a high Amplification score.</li>
<li><strong>Network Impact:</strong> <em><strong>The influence of your network</strong></em>- Your Network indicates the influence of the people in your True Reach. How often do top Influencers share and respond to your content? When they do so, they are increasing your Network score.</li>
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<p>As a Business owner, Search Engine or Social Media marketer, how valuable would that type of information be to you? You know almost immediately who the major players are and top trending topics on Social Media in your marketing niche. This will allow you to retweet, post comments, reply to comments and directly communicate with people interested in your product or service.</p>
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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Ultimately this will create more profile backlinks and visibility. As a result, you gain valuable Social Media traffic from specific targeted arenas.</strong></em></h4>
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<p>Remember when the most valuable currency on the internet was your domain name? <strong><em>Your social score is next</em></strong>! The people involved early in the social internet will be the first to benefit. High social scores will be sought as will people who hold them. How many people share the blog you post will count towards your total social score. Links shared by people with higher social scores will count more than links from those with lower scores.</p>
<p>In the very near future, Keyword and key phrases placed in content, while important, will no longer be the gold standard in optimizing content.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Proprietary Business &amp; Social Solution Products</strong> &#8211; <a href="https://www.zilergy.net/seoalien" rel="nofollow" title="Social Media Marketing Tools"  target="_blank"><strong> ZILERGY</strong></a> has the ultimate all in one e-marketing system!</em></h3>
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