Track Your Twitter Activity & Popularity w/ SEJ Tools

Keeping up with your social media activity may be exhausting. You have to be everywhere at the same time asking and answering questions, expressing your opinion, commenting, etc. SEJ tools feature called “ Personas ” offers a handy way to monitor your Twitter activity and profile popularity: 1. Start by adding a new persona: Go “ Social ” > “ Persona Manger ” and click “ Add a new persona “ Provide your persona details: your full name, your usual user name and password, your website, address and avatar: What you should see then is the summarized view of your persona: 2. Add your Twitter account: See that little link above your avatar that says “Add website”, click it and add your Twitter profile: ( Note: if your login details on Twitter are different from those you provided when adding the persona, you’ll be able to use a custom login information, so don’t worry ). Choose “Twitter” from the drop down list behind the “Add Website” link; Select the login type (either default or custom) and click Add. The tool will login to your Twitter account and analyze your Twitter activity to show: Your friends and followers; Your recent mentions; Your recent retweets, Your recent posts. The stats will be visualized in the form of a graph and a table (where you can compare your daily activity). Your Twitter posting activity: How many replied you receive : How many Retweets you get: How the number of your friends is growing: You will also be able to see daily change (isn’t it encouraging to tweet more?) visualized in a table: Now you can easily monitor your Twitter activity by day and see analyze the effect. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Track Your Twitter Activity & Popularity w/ SEJ

Save Money while you Shop Using Google Checkout

The culmination of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale officially starts the holiday shopping season. So, if you still got some Christmas shopping to do, you might want to do it via Google Checkout. Google’s online payment facility , which supports various online store is offering exclusive discounts ranging from $5 – $20. The promo gig is running until Dec. 17, just about enough to give yo all the time you need to complete your Christmas Gift list. Participating stores include the likes of TigerDirect.com, BlueNile.com and Petco.com. You can check out more great deals at Google Checkout’s deals page and browse Google Product Search team’s top choice of popular products to give you an idea what to get for your friends and family. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Save Money while you Shop Using Google

A week worth of treats for SEO geeks

Welcome ot another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ – I hope you are well and getting well into another week in the trenches. As is the case with most conferences, things were a bit slow out there as the PubCon effect was in full swing. ut have no fear as they’re always good for an announcement or two (Matt had a few interesting ones). Over the last week he spoke about Cafeine going live, page load speed as a ranking factor and the web rchive block as a spam signal (kinda WTF on that one in this corner) Anyway, let’s get on with it shall we?

How Google Social Search Works: Results Featuring A Foremski and A Furrier

Google’s Matt Cutts provides the following overview of how their new Social Search feature works. Google describes their Social Search features as follows: Google Social Search is an experimental feature that enables you to find relevant public web content from people in your social circle, when you’re signed in to your Google Account. For example, search for [ restaurants ], and restaurant reviews by your friends and other contacts may appear more prominently in your results. I have signed up for Google’s Social Search Experiment @ Google Experimental Labs . Google Social Search Experiment And Presto! While logged into my Google account, I found this Tweet this Tweet from Tom Foremski about Furrier in my social only search results @ Google. Social Search Results Furrier Although its not clear to me what if any impact social search results will have on traditional search, with the above type results its obvious Google plans to lead the nascent social circle search segment.

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How Google Social Search Works: Results Featuring A Foremski and A Furrier

Google Rolls Out Social Option in Search Results

Google has just rolled out a new experiment in Google Labs that brings a new option in search results -Social. This new Social results option brings in relevant blog posts and items that were posted by your friends and contacts. The new Social search feature is currently in an opt-in mode, wherein you need to sign up first before it shows up when you are doing search. After signing up, you will see a new search result filtering options at the top of your search results page. Clicking on that “Social” option will bring up all the relevant information published by your friends and contacts. The experiment works with your Google Profile . So, if you haven’t created a profile yet, now could be the right time to do so. To have the feature available when you do your search you must be log-in to your Google account. The feature also considers your Gmail contacts as well as other connections you’ve made in Google network. Take not that you’ll also get these search results when you are doing regular search. What Google is actually doing is to bring them in the forefront to give you more relevant results from people you’re connected with online. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Rolls Out Social Option in Search