David Correll
Editor and Founder of SocialMediaNews.com.au. I also run a Social Media Agency where I do consulting work and Social Media Management. Connect with me: Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook or contact me here. Alternatively, you can send me an email at david@socialmedianews.com.au
5 ways to stuff up your Blog
Everyone seems to be sharing their tips on how to better their blog, but I don’t come across many articles that describe some of the most typical blogging failures. Some of these I have seen directly with my own eyes so wanted to share them with you. 1. Blog owner that stops caring I have […]
Read More | ShareGoogle PageRank Update – May 3/4 – 2012
Google is currently updating the Google PageRank displayed in toolbars and SEO plugins. As many of you know, Google ranks every website in the world from a scale of 0-10 – 10 being the highest/ most authority. A new website always starts at N/A. This measurement mainly depends on your sites Search Engine Optimisation and […]
Read More | ShareNew Organ Donor Option on Facebook
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now urging users to share their organ donor status on Facebook. Whilst many of us are organ donors and have this listed on our Drivers License, having the ability to declare our organ donor status on Facebook will certainly raise awareness of this important medical issue. So far users in […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Offers available in Australia
Finally, Facebook Offers/ Deals is available in Australia. The process is very simple. 1. If you are a physical business and have a Facebook page you should be eligible. 2. Make sure your Fanpage is filled out with your physical location, work hours, about section etc. 3. Some page-owners will now see this new notification […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – April 2012
Today we again report our monthly social media statistics showing the most popular social networks in Australia. We see a continuous trend of new social networks such as Instagram and Pinterest growing fast, while the main players remain relatively steady. There is still much hype about Google+ and we have some updated numbers for the Australian market […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Logout ads showing to Australian Users
It looks like Facebook is rolling out their Logout ads to more countries internationally. Australian users may now see Logout ads when they sign-out of their Facebook account. For example, today I’ve seen this ad a couple times: It will be interesting to track this product in Australia and what sort of advertisers it attracts […]
Read More | ShareFacebook – 901 Million active users
Facebook has just made another update to their SEC filing. Key figures to note: 901 Million Monthly Active Users 526 Million Daily Active Users 488 Million Monthly Active Users accessing Facebook Mobile 300 Million Photos uploaded every day 3.2 Billion Likes and Comments every day To put this in perspective, the number 2 social network Twitter […]
Read More | ShareUse Social Media to boost Real-World Relationships
What I have realised with Social Media is that sometimes we become so focused on the metrics we are not paying enough attention to the opportunities being created. Yes we want more Likes, Followers, Views, Hits etc – but if we are getting real world business relationships and new clients – this is the ultimate goal from […]
Read More | ShareWordPress version 3.3.2 Released
WordPress has just released an update to their WordPress.org software – version 3.3.2. This update fixes a number of security bugs and vulnerabilities. It has been some time since we’ve had an update from WordPress but I am glad to see this is a security update instead of feature upgrades. For me security is far […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Adds Google+1 Button to News
We saw recently Google rolled out a new +1 button for their social network, Google+. Many webmasters around the world have added this button as it can now impact search results for Google web search users, especially people who run Google searches logged in to their Google account. In an interesting move, Yahoo Australia and […]
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