Twitter Can Improve Your Search Engine Ratings

Thanks to Andrew Williams of Vac Shop, Mayfield, Newcastle Australia for pointing out this post at Website Magazine.  Search engines Google and Bing (formerly MSN search) announced last week that they’re going to start indexing Twitter tweets.
According to Website, a new eMarketer report (“Social Commerce on Facebook, Twitter and Retail Sites”) “while some e-commerce merchants [...]

Step Away From the Computer

This blog focuses on small business, quality, and social media.  We try to provide an equal balance of all three.  But as I look at the various blogs, podcasts, twitter streams, and other social media that I follow I’m noticing that there’s way too much coverage of social media.  I mean, how many posts about [...]

Five Things to Expect in 2009

They (whoever ‘they’ are) say to start every blog post with an intriguing headline; one that will draw the reader to the post like a moth to a flame. That same ‘they’ will also tell you that people like to read predictions. And, everyone knows that you like lists, So, “Five Things to [...]

Twitter: Be Careful Who You Follow

Last night I was watching John McCain’s speech on television while I tried to catch up on some work.  TweetDeck was running in the background.  The Twitterverse was alive with comments about the speech.  Let me be clear that I don’t follow anyone for political reasons.  Most of the people I follow are social media [...]

Episode 5

Mon, 2 June 2008
Episode 5

Welcome to Mining the Store, the podcast for small business owners who want to mine more gold from their businesses.  This is Episode 5.
There’s no “I” in podcast, so your comments are very important.  You can leave a comment here on the show notes page.  Or, you can email your [...]