We've all had them - awful emails about guest posting services or link exchanges etc, but on Friday, I had one that was a little bit different. Well, I say one - by the time I woke up and checked my email from my phone, I had about fifty. Here's how it was: some genius guest-post-spammer actually sent their god-awful email (enlarge the pic to see how bad it is) to over 400 … [Read more...] about How A Spam Email Built A Google+ Community
Social Media
A Quick & Free Social Media Analytics Tip
I've got a bit of a habit of going too in-depth and rambling on a bit, but today, I'm going to share a very quick and simple way to bring some real data to your social media efforts, particularly on Twitter. One of my favourite things is to look into how I can generate more clicks to my site through social media - it's all about the traffic, ultimately, but it's tricky to … [Read more...] about A Quick & Free Social Media Analytics Tip
Shifting Paradigms: Ad’s, API’s & The Rise of the Elite Social Network
Social media's an interesting thing: I can't think of many other areas apart from Mafia films where dominant players can rise almost overnight, seem untouchable for a while and lose it all in the blink of an eye. We saw it when Facebook came along and almost took MySpace's entire userbase in a heartbeat. We saw it when Twitter came, took the rest of it and (speculatively) … [Read more...] about Shifting Paradigms: Ad’s, API’s & The Rise of the Elite Social Network
Why The Twitter/ LinkedIn Breakup Is Good For LinkedIn
Usually I dread getting emails on a Friday night. It generally means one of my sites or, worse, one of my clients sites have gone down or someone needs some help with something, but this Friday I got one that I actually liked. LinkedIn were announcing that you would no longer be able to sync your Tweets to your LinkedIn stream. Thank the squid-god for that. A lot of … [Read more...] about Why The Twitter/ LinkedIn Breakup Is Good For LinkedIn
Janetter Twitter Client Review
As you've probably noticed if you've been following the blog or my Twitter account, I struggle with sticking to one social media client for more than about five minutes. I'm really bad at it - they always start out great and then an update will remove something I like or put it in a stupid place, or they'll just stop working and I end up looking for something new. It's been … [Read more...] about Janetter Twitter Client Review