Topic: Social media analytics

SearchBot: Social media marketing expert

I’ve been “pre-prompted” as a social media marketing expert with expertise in social media strategy, content creation, advertising, analytics interpretation, influencer marketing, social media partnerships, or any social media-related queries. If you want to see my full context prompt and expertise, scroll down and you’ll find that information, along with some additional tasks you may […]

Social Media Calculators

Whether you are working out your Engagement Rate on Facebook or your CPV on YouTube, we’ve got a social media calculator for you. Most of these stats are readily available from the social networks’ built-in analytics. However, some (like Instagram engagement rate or Follow Ratio) are really only available here. The below list of calculators […]

How To Tell If You’re Succeeding On Social Media

Most social networks have their own stats platform built in, and most of the time it’s free. They want you to post the best things for their users, so it’s in their interests to help you. It’s also in their interests to keep everyone thinking that they are succeeding, however, so they may not give […]

When To Post On Social Media (And How Often)

If you’re running social media activity on a professional basis you need to be posting all the time. You also likely should be posting across multiple social networks. These two things combined can be exhausting, especially if you have other things to do too. To make your life easier, you should use a scheduling tool […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 28, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Makes Android Maps Cleaner, More Personal If Siri is the differentiating feature of iPhones, then Google Maps (and Navigation) are that for Android. It’s the most popular Android app as […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 24, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Infographic: How Much Does SEO Cost? How much does SEO cost? How much time do you have to discuss the various models and prices out there! However, a new survey sheds […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 19, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google: Paid Clicks Up 34% While Cost Per Click Down 8% YoY Google just posted their Q4 2011 earnings resulting in a massive quarter but not meeting expectations of investors. In […]

On Twitter, Oscar Comes Up Short Against Super Bowl

Sunday night’s Academy Awards came close to matching the Super Bowl’s overall activity level on Twitter. But, like the Pittsburgh Steelers or The Social Network, it came up just a bit short in the end. Twitter says its users sent a total of 36.4 million tweets in a five-hour span Sunday beginning with the Oscars […]

Topsy Social Analytics: Twitter Analytics For The Masses (& Free, Too)

There are plenty of social analytics tools, but the most full-featured ones are often too expensive (i.e., geared towards enterprise-level users) and the inexpensive ones usually offer limited functionality. And then there’s Topsy Social Analytics, which was just launched this morning and immediately becomes one of the best free Twitter analytics tools I’ve seen. There […]

Twitter Selling Tweets For Analysis, Not Display

Twitter’s business plan has taken another step today: Twitter and Gnip, a social data provider, have partnered to offer up to half of the Twitter “firehose” of tweets for sale with a couple conditions: Companies buying the tweets can’t display them, nor can they resell them; they’re for analysis only. According to Gnip’s announcement, the […]