100 ideas for a linkbuilding strategy


linkbuilding

Obviously investing in becoming a trusted brand is key to every online strategy.
But what if you're brand is trusted and loved already and basically all you need is getting that website some extra attention?


In that case you have to start some serious thinking on SEO and more particular linkbuilding.
I hand you 100 left field tips for effective linbuilding, some quite obvious, some not quite so obvious.

1. Join local chambers of commerce, they should link to you, and they are usually linked to by .gov sites and .edu sites. Write articles for the local chamber and they will link to you.

2. Rent a managed server and offer to host non profits for free…

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Evert Jan Koning | on 23 07 2010 0 comment(s) | Views: 24373 | Read 326 times |

Social media in Spain: the numbers


Although freshly established in Spain I was really keen on retrieving some relevant numbers on the use and acceptance of social media in Spain.


Not every slide is as compelling as the other one, but to my surprise Tuenti beats both Google, Facebook, and even Twitter by means of usage and traffic.



In the next week to come I'll do my first serious study on the Spanish online communication market.

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Evert Jan Koning | on 05 06 2010 0 comment(s) | Views: 76554 | Read 678 times |

Brands are equal to people


trust marketing

Trusted brands are basically nothing more than manufacturers of goods and services with one extra feature: you dare to suggest them to your loved ones or the ones you respect (not necessarily the same people).

In fact, a trusted brand looks and behaves very similar to the people you love or respect...



Let's have a look at how people behave and why you trust them (or not)...

on time 1. Being on time

Just like your friends, you hate it when they're late don't you? You feel disregarded and even disrespected. It's the same feeling you experience when you take the effort to approach a customer service, a human resources manager or a sales person. And if they don't respond to your enquiry or wish you feel neglected. What…

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Evert Jan Koning | on 12 05 2010 0 comment(s) | Views: 42302 | Read 518 times |

Complete list of Google Analytics tools


Social Media Engagement

Everyone involved in SEO and online marketing benchmarking needs some help in analysing conversion.


Google Analytics is a powerful tool to measure the behaviour of your websites visitors. Not everybody is aware however that there is a huge amount of add-ons, plugins and other tools that combine Google Analytics data with email or search data. In this chart a list with more than 40 add ons to empower your use of Google Analytics.

Some are specially directed to social media optimation.

* Benchmark
* Campaign
* Content Management Systeem
* Dashboard
*…

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Bas van Bokhorst | on 28 04 2010 2 comment(s) | Views: 48746 | Read 1157 times |

How to develop a search strategy


Still, many brands and companies work on search engine optimation without actually knowing anything other than to develop a key word and adword strategy.


It's good to know and understand the full bias of search strategy. And who's better to explain than Google itself. Takes you a small hour but trust me; it's worth your time.

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Evert Jan Koning | on 04 04 2010 0 comment(s) | Views: 61379 | Read 514 times |

The Social Media Cheat Sheet


How do you weigh the potential of social media? Where do you find some good monitoring and analys tools for social media? And hoe do you measure social media investments and ROI?


There's unfortunately no plug and play solution. You will allways need an acknowleged and experienced consultant with at least an 8 years experience on strategy based on indepth knowledge of online communication. A holistic approach is key in this area.
That's a hard condition.

To do a quick checkup on social media some tools can be of some use however.

social media cheat sheet

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Evert Jan Koning | on 07 03 2010 0 comment(s) | Views: 84617 | Read 773 times |

What are social media to broadcasters? (2) The numbers


mediaconvergence

Social media are hot. A bit too hot one might say, referring to the 1 bilion dollar Twitter is said to be worth. Where does that leave television and radio? Can they profit somehow on the emerging media or are the social media a whole different ball game?

An analysis.


Most online guru's refer to old media as 'dead' and impress the media ceo's with fuzzy buzzwords like content aggregation, syndication, and using emerging integrated technologies. Well great, I gather you will say. But HOW exactely is seldom explained by all the social media guru's.

So what is the exact impact of social media for publishers, broadcasters and radio?
The next weeks I will present a complete survey of all crucial aspects of using social media effectively, and what I think is the best strategy to…

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Evert Jan Koning | on 29 01 2010 0 comment(s) | Views: 74608 | Read 633 times |

Update Forrester Technograph


Forrester have just released a new version of their famous Social Technographics ladder, which looks at how people use social media.


Forrester Technograph

As you can see it now includes ‘Conversationalists’:

Conversationalists reflects two changes. First, it includes not just Twitter members, but also people who update social network status to converse (since this activity in Facebook is actually more prevalent than tweeting). And second, we include only people who update at least weekly, since anything less than this isn’t much of a conversation.


For now this just includes US data, and is not reflected in their consumer…

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Evert Jan Koning | on 21 01 2010 0 comment(s) | Views: 60816 | Read 551 times |

The Connected Agency (1)


connected agency

Forrester recently caused a stir with it's report ‘the connected agency’. Peter Kim and Mary Beth Kemp wrote in name of the research company a sharp analysis about shortcomings of ad agencies. These agencies would not be capable to effect the necessary engagement that would bring brands closer to consumers.


Looking back on the Forrester two years later we notice that agencies and media still have quite a challenge in hooking up with the new circumstances. When I wrote about this report back in 2007 I stated that I found the contents rather shallow and easy and I warned my readers not to overrate pull marketing and social media as the 'Holy Grail'.
I was right at that time, back three years ago traditional advertsiing was still very powerful.
I was wrong about saying we should'nt overrated the…

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Evert Jan Koning | on 12 01 2010 0 comment(s) | Views: 62051 | Read 1071 times |

Top 3 Social SEO


What are the 3 most useful surveys of social marketing SEO insights?


I’ve picked 3 of the year based on a mix of metrics such as comments, inbound links, pageviews and social engagement off the blog through social news, bookmarking and Twitter.

Here is my Top 3 selection of social media SEO posts of 2009.

1. Rules of Social Media Optimization

Rohit (vice president for interactive marketing with Ogilvy Public Relations) has written an excellent piece called 5 Rules of Social Media Optimization (SMO). For those involved with the web, we…

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Evert Jan Koning | on 09 01 2010 0 comment(s) | Views: 59909 | Read 705 times |