Hot stuff I’ve read about Social Media & Marketing, & SEO in the past week. Also, bonus cat video for the week ;) Enjoy!

Social Media & Marketing
  1. How to Optimize Your Content on Twitter. Akshay Brijkrishnan shares 8 simple tips to tweeting efficiently.
  2. What do Zombies & Community Building Have in Common? What happens when you put a community builder and a zombie fanatic in the same room? A zombie community mash up. Geno shares really awesome insights on how the Zombieland survival rules can be applied to your community.
  3. The Marketer’s Biggest Mistake. You’re not selling to yourself, and your buyers don’t automatically just like you (even though they’ve clicked “Like” on your Facebook page). Chris Brogan offers 3 ways you can avoid making the ultimate marketing mistake.
  4. 15 Facebook Marketing Tips & Tactics. 15 ways you can take your Facebook marketing beyond just the “Like”.
  5. 23 Tips to Engage Me After Facebook Like. So I “Like” you. Now what? Another great resource on how you can take your Facebook Marketing beyond the “Like”.
  6. 8 Brands That Have Found Success on Facebook And What You Can Learn. There’s no better way than learning by example. Learn what makes The Pampered Chef, Restaurant.com, Oreo, Vitamin Water, Boloco, LOFT, 1-800-Flowers.com and the Brooklyn Museum so successful on Facebook.
Search Engine Resources
  1. The Ultimate Link Building Resource! Kissmetrics has compiled the ultimate link building resource. Everything you need to know about linkbuilding for SEO is right here!
  2. How Mobile Searchers Are Changing Keyword Research. Keyword research for SEO is still super relevant now, but for how long? Interesting perspective on the future of keyword research for SEO now that mobile search is in the mix.
  3. Redefining Unique Content. Among SEO practitioners, duplicate content has been a major topic that keeps returning. And advice has typically centered on the need to develop unique content for your website. With Google’s Panda release, however, there’s a need to redefine how we think about unique content.
  4. 30+ Tools to Automate Link Building. Link building is one of the most tedious tasks in SEO. And in the bad old days, many tools that claim to “lessen the link building burden” indulge in some really spammy blackhat activities. Here are some 30+ tools that take the best of the old ways, and make them even better. You’ve got tools for contact research, link management, relationship markets and some other tools that help you with the tedium of emailing your prospective contacts. Enjoy!
Cool social media tool for May: Timely


Timely (by FlowTown) claims to analyze your past 199 tweets and come up with the best times to Tweet for optimal response / views / retweets. I don’t know how accurate their calculations are, but one thing I love about Timely is the ability to just chuck tweets in (if you connect it to your bit.ly account, it automatically shortens your links too) without the hassle of scheduling! Super simple interface, and fast Tweeting.

 

 

BONUS: Sleeping Kitties!
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