Posts by Kristi Hagen

Facebook is a fickle mistress when it comes to getting fans to comment and share on your wall posts. The good news is there are some tricks of the trade experts use to boost customer interaction. The good folks over at Linch Pin SEO created a great infographic that is a cheat sheet to help you increase interaction.

We've shared this infographic below to show you how easy it can be to tweak even the smallest aspect of your posting to get the boost you need to be noticed. If you're looking for more advice on your Facebook content creation and promotion then be sure to check out these...

If last year was as busy for you as it was for us here at SearchEngineNews.com then it was a blur of Panda/Penguin updates, traffic ups and downs, Google Plus Local crashing onto the scene, a mass of link pruning and oh yeah all that other stuff that didn't revolve around your Internet Marketing!

Because of all the noise we live with daily, I know the importance of stepping back and quietly reviewing the year that has past. While I was doing that reflection (as the Chief Editor of SearchEngineNews.com) I went into our analytics and looked at the articles that our members - YOU - voted as most popular by reads and return visits. I've gone ahead and listed then below for your revi...

Social Media is officially here to stay and in some instances that's not great news. Especially if the article published by The Daily Dot announcing the birth of Hashtag Jameson, a baby girl weighing in at 8 pounds is true.

The story has been reported by a number of sites and even got a mention from Stephen Colbert when he tweeted.

"A couple has named their baby 'hashtag.' What a great name, said his siblings Lycos and http://Pets.com"

If that's not proof enough that it's time to embrace social media, consider the fact that

All of us here at Planet Ocean have decided to start the New Year (and our 16th year in business) off with a bang, so we're launching our completely re-imagined membership experience to you with the January edition of SearchEngineNews.com.

To get more of the details about the site before its official Beta launch on Monday, January 7th check out this quick 3min video message:

If your business is now listed with Google+Local then congratulations. However, before you stop to celebrate and catch your breath be sure that you've taken the time to see where you stand with your customer reviews.

As you may already know, many of your customer reviews probably didn't make the transition for any number of reasons and we can feel your frustrations - believe me. We also know that pain. The important thing is to move on and see the bright side of this shift. Your competitors also lost a large piece of their reviews so you are not behind and now is the time to get ahead!

On the flip side - if you're still struggling with your listing, need a little help troubleshooting issues or just want to r...

As a business owners in today's markets ALL we hear about is different Internet Marketing techniques with the hottest (and sometimes flash in the pan) techniques at the tip of everyone's tongue. Sometimes it's something you've never heard of or just when you thought you knew what it was - it changed! I'm thinking about things like:

• Pinterest business profiles
• Google+Local

Once again, Google has targeted low quality sites in their latest update. This round of changes went after Exact Match Domains (EMD) with low quality content specifically. Since this has already been a portion of the recent Penguin and Panda updates, it really didn't take many by surprise.

In the past, exact match domains were the holy grail for webmasters. No matter the industry, if you could get a domain that had your top keywords, you automatically got a rankings boost. So if your business sold real estate in Boston, landing www.bostonhomesforsale.com would be an amazing find. Oh, those were the days :)

However, in Google's war against low quality content even an exact match domain