5 Reasons You Need to Post Video On Your Site Right Now

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Web Design Advice: Videos make for Great Content

Quality content still remains one of the best ways to engage your online audience, but recently the trend has shifted towards video. In fact, Cisco predicts that by 2016 nearly 90% of all web traffic will be video. Video marketing offers a few unique advantages over its written counterpart. Try using both forms of content to give your online marketing the one-two punch it needs. Are you still unsure about video marketing?

 

Here are five reasons you should consider uploading a video to your site right now to propel your business forward (before everyone else does):

Michelle Gilstrap‘s insight:

If you are not using Video, you should consider it. It is the wave of the future, and with smart phones, why not consider doing short videos?

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Why Blogging Matters? #infographic #contentmarketing #blogging

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Whether you have created a website because you own a small business, you want to support one of your hobbies, or you are becoming interested in affiliate marketing, there is one thing that you need that is content. One of the easiest ways you can add content to your webpage is through the addition of a blog. This infographic explains why blogging matters?

Michelle Gilstrap‘s insight:

If you are not blogging, this gives you all the reasons why you should. Giving information to your customers can make all the difference in who they chose.

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9 Tools to Improve Social Media Productivity | Ian Cleary

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Do you find that the daily demands of social media promotion are increasing?

Our time is our most precious asset and social media is great at eating into it! Thankfully, there are several wonderful tools that can help.

Here are 9 social media tools that will help you save time and improve your productivity….

Michelle Gilstrap‘s insight:

This is an excellent article with good tools to assist the busy business owner or social media manager. Thank you Ian Cleary

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Infographic: What Drives Social Media Searches and Engagement?

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As it turns out, social media and search go hand-in-hand…

From Facebook and Twitter, to Pinterest and MySpace (yes, it still exists), social media users are often on the search for… something.

For marketers, understanding the searches that lead to improved engagement is critical.

To that end, Azntaiji Multimedia and SocialRadius have produced a new infographic highlighting exactly what so many of us are searching for.

Michelle Gilstrap‘s insight:

Ever wonder what people are searching for? This infographic will open your eyes. If you have a small business, you might want to be on the social media that can get this type of search by consumers.

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How Social Media Impacts SEO and Site Ranking: infographic

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Search engine optimization has not been dependent on a minimal number of factors for a long time now, such as number of times a keyword appeared on a page, and it continues to become a more complex web of on and off-page factors every month. One of the more recent factors that has had an impact on search ranking is social media.

This infographic breaks down ways that social media influences the visibility of your website in search results, including:

 

Social media can help search engines find and index your content faster Likes, shares, retweets, etc. indicates to search engine that content is new and interesting, often leading to a temporary increase in rankingsYour content will increase in search results for people connected to youIncreases domain authority and the number of inbound links to your website

Michelle Gilstrap‘s insight:

SEO and Social Media why it works and how it helps your ranking. Excellent infograpic.

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A Visual Guide to Twitter

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This infographic provides a visual guide and a brief synopsis of different uses for Twitter.

It includes information about how Twitter can be used as a tool for information, customer service, networking, business management and website management.

Michelle Gilstrap‘s insight:

Good insights into the use of Twitter.

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Mobile Marketing on Pace to Surpass $400 Billion in U.S. by 2015

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The mobile marketing ecosystem is projected to generate more than $400 billion to the U.S. economy by 2015, representing an annual growth rate of 52.5 percent.

Michelle Gilstrap‘s insight:

Mobile Marketing is hiting us in a big way and the growth is amazing. Be ready if you have a business.

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How Your Domain Name Will Impact SEO & Social Media Marketing

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When starting a new website, one of the first and most important decisions you have to make is choosing a domain name. That choice will impact the website’

Michelle Gilstrap‘s insight:

This is a very important post for how your domain name impacts search.

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Facebook or LinkedIn Will Win the Online Social Media Market War? – The Market Oracle

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Facebook or LinkedIn Will Win the Online Social Media Market War?
The Market Oracle
This week, two of the biggest social media sites celebrate their IPO birthdays, but one celebration may be a little more upbeat than the other.

Michelle Gilstrap‘s insight:

Linkedin has made many improvements this year it is going to be interesting to watch

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