Twitter Branded Business Pages Offered to Exclusive Group

• By: John E Lincoln
• Categories: Social Media Marketing, Social Media Optimization, Twitter
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SEO Inc. reported on the possibility of branded business pages appearing on Twitter sometime ago. Those rumors have proven to be correct as Twitter branded business pages are now being offered to a small beta group.

According to Twitter, “We are thrilled to launch the new enhanced profile page exclusively with 21 advertising partners and select charities and individuals.”

Some of the profiles being offered this exclusive opportunity are @AmericanExpress, @BestBuy, @bing. However, keep in mind you’ll need to use the new version of Twitter to see these enhanced profile pages.

New Twitter Tabs: Twitter Discover, Twitter Connect, Twitter Me

• By: John E Lincoln
• Categories: Social Media Marketing, Twitter
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Twitter is pushing the envelope yet again with a new design and functionality.

“Today we introduce a new version of Twitter. We’ve simplified the design to make it easier than ever to follow what you care about, connect with others and discover something new. You’ll see this new design both on Twitter.com and mobile phones, so that you’ll have a familiar experience any time, anywhere. We’ve also updated TweetDeck to be consistent with this new version.” – Twitter

The new Twitter design and functionality looks similar to the Facebook Timeline in many ways. First, feel free to watch a video on the new design and functions, then we will explain them.

Twitter Home Tab
This is where you can see the Tweets from your followers.

According to Twitter, “It’s now easier and faster to see the information that matters most to you. Immediately access your favorite features from the left-hand side. Photos, videos and conversations are embedded directly in Tweets so you can see the whole story at a glance. And now everything in Home will appear consistently across computers, iPhones, and Android mobile phones.”

How to Use the New Gmail Video

• By: John E Lincoln
• Categories: Google
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Did you know that Google has completely redone Gmail? Exciting! The new Gmail scales to fit in your screen, it has advanced search functions and even has a bunch of new bright colors that tell you what to do. In this video you will learn how to use the new Gmail.

How to use the New Gmail

How to Get your Google+ Page Ranked in Google+ Direct Connect

• By: John E Lincoln
• Categories: Google, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Optimization
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If you don’t know about Google+ Direct Connect is please take a second to read about it. Now that you have done that, we would like to introduce it as yet another thing to integrate into your social media strategy and really Internet marketing strategy in general.  Getting your Google+ Business Page featured in Google+ Direct Connect can generate traffic and increase your Google+ following.

How to Get Listed in Google+ Direct Connect

The Google+ Direct Connect search engine presents a whole new SEO tactic. Luckily, the rules of this optimization tactic are a little simpler that that of a full scale typical search engine optimization project (at least they seem that way at this point). Google+ Direct Connect optimization is based on similar characteristics to internal Facebook search engine optimization. Let us explain.

New Google Bar to Enhance Search Navigation

• By: John E Lincoln
• Categories: Google, Search Engine Optimization
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Today, Google announced a new way to navigate Google, the new Google bar. The new Google bar is easy to use, big and bubbly. It’s everything you would want in a easy, modern day navigation. What’s more, it has integration with Google +. This has just been released, so we do not know if it will have implications on search engine optimization or social media marketing yet. However, we will be testing and watching closely.

Watch a Video on the New Google Bar

Why Online Video Can NOT be Ignored by your Business

• By: John E Lincoln
• Categories: Social Media Marketing, YouTube
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With all the hype surrounding Facebook people often forget about YouTube. A recent report by comScore suggests this is the wrong thing to do. In this post we will cover important points from this recent comScore study and show you why YouTube is not a social media site to be ignored.

According to comScore, Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property in October with 161 million unique viewers and reached a record high of 20.9 billion videos viewed.  Not surprisingly Facebook.com ranked second with 59.8 million viewers.