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
Google+ Pages to get Google Analytics
Over the coming weeks it looks like tracking and measurement tools like Google Analytics will be added to the Google+ social network. This is a good move by Google to provider further tools to businesses using their social network and help them understand the impact Google+ has on their social media marketing. As I have […]
Read More | Share[POLL] Which Social Media site drives the most Traffic to your Website?
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Today we are conducting a poll to see which social networks are most successful at driving traffic to your website. Maybe have a look at your Google Analytics account and see which social media site refers the most traffic through to your website, clients site, or your blog. Every niche is different, some media sites may benefit […]
Read More | ShareInstagram for Android
Finally Instagram for Android is almost here. Co-Founder, Kevin Systrom has confirmed at SXSW that the Android version of their popular photo social network is almost here and in the Androir Marketplace (or Google Play as it has recently been re-branded). Systrom also went on to mention that Instagram has hit 27 million registered users and engagement levels […]
Read More | Share5 Tips to build up your Email List
One thing that is still very much relevant in today’s internet marketing is building a high quality email list. For a long time I wasn’t really interested in building my email list – I thought email marketing was a thing of the past and just concentrated on SEO and Social. How wrong I was. Looking at my […]
Read More | ShareGowalla officially shut down
Mobile geo-location app, Gowalla has now official shut down. We reported sometime ago that Facebook purchased Gowalla - mainly as a talent purchase. Gowalla staff members and CEO Josh Williams have been busy working on the new Facebook Places API. You can see the blog post from Facebook here, which goes on to explain that the API […]
Read More | ShareWelcome to the 1K Club
Today marks kind of a special day for this blog. This will be the 1000th post on the site. I started this blog back in early 2010 and started posting articles in May 2010. Why did I start socialmedianews.com.au? Well there were a couple of reasons: 1. Social Media was starting to gain real traction […]
Read More | ShareGoogle+, 50 Million Daily Active Users, 100 Million Monthly
Google’s vice president for engineering - Vic Gundotra has released some interesting new information to the public about their Google+ social network. We all keep a close eye when Google releases user number about + so we can see growth. Around January 20 their social networking site reached 90 million users. In summary Mr Gundotra released the […]
Read More | ShareTimeline rolls out to Facebook Pages
It’s what many of us have been waiting for – Facebook Pages can now get the Timeline profile layout, similar to user profiles. This will allow companies to bring new creativity to their pages and also down the road will allow for even better app integration. Another key feature that has been released in this […]
Read More | ShareNew Google Privacy Policy
Starting from tomorrow March 1, Google will consolidate the privacy policy on over 60 of their web properties into one single and simplified privacy policy. Google has created a page explaining the new policy here: http://www.google.com/policies/ However several privacy advocates and the public in general has come out expressing their concern about this update, as […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – February 2012
It’s the last day of the month and time for us to report on the Social Media statistics for Australia. We will report on the usual social networks we monitor, but this month will also be including Pinterest as this is getting a lot of attention in Australia and worldwide. Reporting will also continue for […]
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