Hello blog fans and welcome to the second of our “Top 5’s” where we give you the best articles from the last 14 days. Today we will be looking at how the benefits of a strong social engagement can lead to better e-commerce performances and also how to improve your SEO in fewer than 100 steps.
Let’s dive straight into it with James Altucher’s article on “How to get 100,000 Facebook Likes for your blog fan page” posted on techcrunch.com. In the post James documents how in only a month, yes a month, he went from around 9,000 likes to 100,000. A pretty impressive haul for 30 days I think you’ll agree. The last time I saw a growth in Likes similar this one was the “IKEA Monkey” a few months ago but he had an unfair advantage in that he was a monkey in a coat and therefore what’s not to “Like”?
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Next we have “Using Google Analytics to power and effective Q and A strategy” from Joshua Unseth who posted this brilliant article to SEOmoz.com. Joshua goes through step by step the methods to “grab an extra 5,000 unique visitors each and every month. That's a huge boon for an ecommerce site.” If you have an e-commerce site and want to get unique visitors up then I strongly suggest taking a look at this article.
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Another post to help your social network engagement is from Ryan Deiss, “3 Easy Social Engagement Tactics”. This short post is great if you want a quick helping hand and a boost in your social media interactions. Posted on DigitalMarketer.com Ryan Deiss gives some useful advice and as always structures the post in such a way that anyone could relate to it.
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If you’re looking to improve your SEO and need some inspiration then look no further than this, “96 Quick SEO Wins – What can you do with an hour?” This post by Kevin Gibbons gives you a lot of different avenues to go down and whilst some are better than others the overall takeaway is good. It’s worth spending a few hours reading a researching the different methods for your e-commerce site.
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Finally I leave you with this heart warming article which I first saw on mashable.com so the credit goes to Camille Bautista. “Woman Finds Birth Parents Through Viral Facebook Post” it pretty much does what it says on the tin, not much to do with SEO, online marketing or e-commerce but this post highlights just how positive an impact social media can have.
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