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
Facebook Subscriptions Button
Facebook has created a Subscriptions button, which appears underneath your profile picture when viewing your own profile. Think of the subscription button like the Twitter Follow button. You can opt-in to this service, this will let anybody (eg people who you arn’t friends with) subscribe to your updates (follow you). However that user will only be able to […]
Read More | ShareWhat is Social Media?
Over the next couple of days we are going to get back to some Social Media basics. I often receive emails from people who are starting out in social media, and don’t want to be baffled by more advanced SM topics, they want generic definitions. Many users come to this site for basic information and I want […]
Read More | ShareACCC, Small Business, Social Media
New chairman of The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Rod Sims has admitted the organisation has not always engaged the best it could with small and medium sized businesses. Mr Sims has said the ACCC is looking to increase it’s use on Social Media platforms to connect better with the SME market. This is a […]
Read More | ShareBook Give-away on SocialMediaNews.com.au
If you are a Social Media marketer, or just interesting in promoting your own business through social networking sites – then we have a great book give-away for you today. We have 3 copies to give away, book titled: Learn Marking with Social Media in 7 days by Linda Coles. I am reading this book […]
Read More | ShareAlexa Rank under 10,000?
I was researching sites on Alexa last night, mainly looking at highly trafficked sites with an Alexa Rank under 10,000. Normally if you view a website with some traffic you will get to see the following Traffic Rank stats: – 3 Month Average – 1 Month Average – 7 Day Average If you have a […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media sharing impacts Search Ranking
Ok, so this may not be new news to you that Social Media sharing impacts how a URL ranks in search engines. I was checking my rankings in Google today and wanted to make sure I was still ranking for previous keywords I noted down. One particular keyword search I’m interested in is: Social Media […]
Read More | ShareFriday Follow – September 9
It that time of the week for getting extra Tweety #fridayfollow #followfriday #FF #Twitter Our Friday Follows for this week are: http://twitter.com/#!/semiplainjane – new Social Media News author Jane Buckle. You can read Jane’s latest article – Work vs Play: Managing your Professional Image Online http://twitter.com/#!/SearchEngineAUS – Follow our other website SearchEngineNews.com.au on Twitter! Have […]
Read More | ShareImplementing Rel = Author (Simple)
About 1 month ago I implemented Rel = Author on this site, and thought I should share the method with you. You may ask, what is Rel = Author? Rel Author is a way for you to distinguish to the web, Google and other Search Engines who is the author of a particular piece of […]
Read More | ShareDownload the Social Media News Toolbar
We have created a Social Media News Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. We want to connect with our users in the easiest ways possible: – via social networks – email subscriptions – RSS feeds – our forum and are now making a dedicated web toolbar available to you. Why Should you Download the […]
Read More | ShareBing renews Search Deal with Twitter
Bing and Twitter have renewed their realtime search agreement which allows Bing to index Twitter data and Tweets into their search engine. In the past year, Twitter didn’t renew a similar agreement with Google, leaving Google to shut down their real time search engine. This is a good win for Bing, and you can now […]
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