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5 Tips for Better Social Business Reporting

Five years ago, social media reporting consisted of showing how make likes, comments, shares, retweets, etc. your client’s social content received, i.e. engagement. Well, social media reporting is slowly growing up and should be called social business reporting.

At the end of the day, clients are looking at agencies like d50 Media to implement integrated programs that impact business in some way shape or form. While sentiment, share of voice and all those other squishy measurements are still widely used in reporting, it doesn’t tell your client’s holistic story.

At d50, we measure lead, engagement, conversation and traffic impact. This approach gives our clients a 360 degree view into their social media presence across channels, how they are performing and what impact they have had on business objectives.

To get you up to speed, here are five steps to help your brand create robust social business reports that can help drive strategy. (more…)

Bad Marketing May Ruin Good Analytics

A few weeks ago, one of our associates received a direct mail piece at her parent’s address. It read: “Congratulations! We heard you said Yes!”

Her parents were curious – was there something their daughter wasn’t telling them about her love life? Was their little girl getting married? No. It was a classic marketing blunder that created discomfort and dissatisfaction.

How did this very creepy mistake occur? (more…)

10 Elements in a Successful Social Strategy for 2012

It is the end of the year and everyone is in holiday planning mode at home while at work we are all putting together our budgets and digital strategies for the coming year. Looking back at 2011 it has been a powerful and upward year for those in the social media space. This year we saw adoption of social media by companies that had been sitting on the fence since everything began. Social media is part of the marketing toolbox and it is here to stay. Many analysts saw this year as the “Year of Social Business” where tools for social commerce and social CRM became important in the role of serving the customer. (more…)

Google Chrome Overtakes Mozilla FireFox

Google Chrome Overtakes Mozilla FireFoxThis November, Google Chrome overtook Mozilla Firefox as the world’s second most popular web browser. According to the web analytics company known as Statcounter, Chrome was able to acquire 25.69% of the worldwide market which surpasses 25.23%. This is an all-time high for the young web browser which launched in 2008. (more…)

Yahoo Site Explorer Explores Oblivion

Yahoo Site Explorer Explores OblivionYahoo! has announced that the company will be shutting down Site Explorer today. The failing search giant is requesting that customers switch to Bing Webmaster Tools so that users can “ensure that their websites continue to get high quality organic search traffic.” While Bing’s tool set does have many of the features that were available in Yahoo! Site Explorer, Bing lacks the back-link data which was used for competitive research by some SEO services experts. (more…)

Matt Cutts Cuts to The Chase on Cloaking

Matt Cutts Cuts to The Chase on CloakingCloaking has been a hotly debated topic since the inception of search engines. Recent discussion has led to Google’s Matt Cutts releasing a Webmaster Help video explaining the company’s policies on the practice. What exactly is cloaking, and how can you avoid entering the high risk area? (more…)

comScore Releases September Search Engine Rankings

comScore Releases September Search Engine RankingsEarlier this week, comScore released the search engine rankings for September. Google once again has the largest share of search queries, with roughly 65.3% of all searches funneling through their servers. This is a .5% increase from the total queries recorded in August (64.8%), showing the company is maintaining strength. See which engines have the highest search volume so you know where to focus your SEO services. (more…)

Google Buys Startup Analytics Company

Google Buys Startup Analytics CompanyGoogle has acquired SearchGrapple, a startup specializing in Twitter analytics. Search Engine Watch reported that the details of the agreement, including the cost, have not been released. With the purchase of this company, Google continues to bolster its analytics prowess. Google will probably use SearchGrapple’s team to build social media management tools for tracking Google+ accounts, or to further improve the services available in Google Analytics. (more…)

Misplaced PageRank Propagates Panic

Misplaced PageRank Propagates PanicChaos explodes on social media feeds! Google PageRank, a crucial SEO services tool, has gone missing from Toolbars across the Internet. Some users have reported that they can’t access the data anymore, while others have not been affected. Has PageRank disappeared like so many of the Google Lab projects? Where has the crucial data monitor gone? How will webmasters monitor the effectiveness of their edits and link building? (more…)

Mashable Uncovers What Goes Into Klout Score

Mashable Uncovers What Goes Into Klout Score

Ever wonder what is factored into your Klout score? Brian Anthony Hernandez of Mashable has managed to get the company to spill the beans as to what is factored into the algorithms that measure social media influence. In an interesting change of form, WordPress has been secretly added to the mix of sites that are used in the algorithms. Keep reading after the jump to see how you can alter your social media management techniques to increase your influence. (more…)