Twitter and Politics – An Overview

On Friday 22nd May the European and Local Elections were held in the UK, with some surprising, and some less surprising results. Not all politicians seem not to have grasped the potential reach of social media, nor the impact it can have. Let’s Look at Twitter… In late 2013 Twitter was claiming around 15 million […]

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Twitter and Politics – An Overview

Tips for Building a Social Media Campaign

Social media has become a fundamental part of digital marketing for companies in recent years. In this post we share tips on building a successful campaign. Your Social Media Strategy What are you using it for? Too many companies still seem to have a ‘well everyone else has it so we thought we’d better had’ […]

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Tips for Building a Social Media Campaign

If Online Ad Targeting Works, Does More Targeting Work Better?

A former colleague at Forrester Research recently published a study that described his view of the future of online marketing. The study is available to Forrester clients only, but the crux of the argument is laid out in a blog post: Why Google – Not Facebook – Will Build The Database…

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How Local Businesses Can Leverage Twitter’s New Nearby Feature

Twitter has made headlines in recent weeks with the quiet launch of its experimental Nearby timeline, which allows eligible mobile users to discover tweets posted by others in their immediate vicinity, regardless of whether they are following them. This feature is currently available to a select…

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4 Trends Marketers Must Address In 2014: Audience, Relevance, Social & Mobile

Upon revisiting last year’s post on this topic, a couple of our bold predictions flopped and a couple turned out to be more reality than fantasy. Though we didn’t see Apple monetize the search results served up by Siri, we did see ad formats evolve to increase relevance and user…

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5 ways to use Twitter for Community Building

Community Building is a brilliant way to start turning connections into customers. Twitter is a fantastic social network for community building so Sarah Bradley for State of Digital has put together an easy 5 step guide to start increasing your following, building relationships and converting customer using Twitter.

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5 ways to use Twitter for Community Building

Shatner’s Tweet Hints That He May Like Bing Just As Much As Bing Likes Captain Kirk

In a brief exchange on Twitter yesterday evening, the original Captain Kirk gave Bing a shout-out, recommending the Microsoft search engine could possibly enlighten a fellow Twitter user. William Shatner responded “I hear Google pr Bing helps with that problem” after @Andypops1 tweeted…

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Research Shows Only 2% of Social Shares Occur on Google+

Gigya Social Sharing percentagesNew research shows Google+ lags behind Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn in terms of social sharing, accounting for only 2% of content shares.

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Research Shows Only 2% of Social Shares Occur on Google+

Use Twitter Cards For Branding & Local SEO

I’ve written before about the benefits of using various semantic protocols to improve your search engine optimization efforts. Using Schema.org markup and geotagging webpages can help search engines associate your website with online business listings, and a variety of semantic markup types…

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Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – June edition

GianlucaWhat’s been happening in Search this June? Gianluca takes us through the main points

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Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – June edition