The Fundamentals of Building and Managing Your Community
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Social Media
From growing your audience to advanced content promotion to building your brand, the importance of social media to digital marketing can't be overstated. Whether you've been in the game from the very beginning or are just starting to wonder how social media tools can apply to your own professional life, the resources on this page can help you reach the next level.
We've hand-picked some of our favorite pieces of content to get you started with learning about social media marketing. Once you’ve studied those, check out the most recent Moz Blog posts about social media below.
Social Media Competitor Analysis: The Complete Guide : A detailed breakdown of how to analyze your social media competitors for a better understanding of your consumers, and to help grow your brand.
How to Turn One Piece of Content into Multiple for SEO : A simple guide to scaling your content publishing output and providing value to your audience.
How Social Media Trends Can Influence Your SEO : Actionable steps for taking advantage of social media trends and building it into your brand’s digital marketing strategy.
Social Media, Influencer Marketing, and SEO : In our free SEO Learning Center, we'll show you how social media, influencer marketing, and PR play a role in search engine optimization.
Creating a Social Media Strategy : The key to success is to have a plan. In this video, you’ll learn how to lay the foundation of all your future social media work.
Most Recent Articles on Social Media
Influencing Social Awesomizers with Personalized Content
Earning a mention by a social "awesomizer," someone with with hordes of followers and a powerful voice in their industry, can boost even the most niche business to the forefront of social buzz. Our recent experiment shows you how.
Is Your Industry Boring? Use Instagram to Make Your Company Stand Out
A common misconception about Instagram is that it only works for brands selling physical products. This popular belief is induced by the hundreds of apparel companies and retailers generating most of the branded content on Instagram. But B2Bs, startups and service providers can market themselves on Instagram too. This article lets you know how. Instagram is a powerful storytelling platform. Good storytelling increases your brand value for stakeho...
Changes and Trends in Social Media in 2013 - It's Evolving Every Day!
It's no surprise that Social Media is constantly changing and growing to match new technology trends. This post outlines some of the changes we've seen to the major social networks this year.
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A Comprehensive Guide to Facebook Ads - A 30 minute Crash Course in Facebook Advertising
Facebook is the largest social network, with over 1 billion monthly active users on desktop and 600 million monthly active users on mobile. If it were a country, Fa...
Competitive Research: 6 Tips For Getting Social & Audience Metrics For Your Competitors' Sites
Measuring traffic and social metrics for your own site is easy – just take a peek in Google Analytics for a wealth of traffic, conversion, and social data. Analyzing your competitors' blogs isn't so easy, but it is important. Proper competitive analysis can lead to new content ideas, better outreach, better guest posting opportunities, insights on marketing, and other helpful data that can improve your marketing ROI. In short, if you’re not analyzing your competitors’ websites, you're missing out.
How to Live Tweet Like a Pro
Those of you who follow me on Twitter have probably noticed that I live-tweet the conferences I go to. Extensively. Some people love it, some people hate it - but if you want to start live-tweeting for yourself, here are some things to keep in mind.
Creativity, Serendipity, and Championing B2B: An Interview with Adriel Sanchez
Adriel Sanchez, Sr. Director of Demand Generation at SAP, talks about creativity, serendipity, championing B2B, and what social media campaign he thought deserved more love.
Using Your Secret Stalking Skills to Grow Your Business Through Social Media
In the business of Internet Marketing and Social Media, there is a lot of stalking done in efforts to target our marketing message or put our brand in front of the right people. Getting your demographics right and then finding those people online, who are freely putting most of their information out there for all to see, is the simplest and most affordable way to get the most leverage out of your brand and content.
Why 2012 Was the Year of LinkedIn Changes: The Pros, the Cons, and the Why-It-Matters
As we move forward into the New Year, taking a look back at LinkedIn can help you and your company analyze how to go about making changes to your own website, what navigation and usability changes worked (and didn’t work) for the public, and on a different note, how your company can fully take advantage of LinkedIn and its new advancements.
Social Media Curation Guide
Social content curation is an important building block of your inbound marketing strategy. In today's post, Gianluca Fiorelli shares his tips for preparing and executing your social content curation strategy, along with his favorite tools and thought leaders in the space.
How to Identify an Online Community for Your Business
When you’re getting started with building a community around your business, you aren’t really starting from nothing. You can leverage the people, blogs, knowledge sources, and communities that already exist and are relevant to your business and industry, and go from there!
Social Authority: Our Measure of Twitter Influence
Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Social Authority, our metric of Twitter users’ influence. There are plenty of vanity metrics out there, but Social Authority offers something compellingly different!
How To Cheat Your Way To Eyecatching Facebook Ads
This post will look at Facebook ad images and understanding why particular ones stand out so that you can apply the lessons to your own Facebook campaigns. At Trialreach I do a lot of multivariate analysis of Facebook ads and it is important to learn from what is working on other ads to feed my multivariation beast.