Pinterest launches Relatable Pins

Pinterest has now taken the responsibility of helping you find pictures and ideas of anything that you are looking for. It has launched the ‘Relatable Pins’ option for the users feeds. Now Pinterest will be suggesting you about the various areas you are interested in and have pinned about the most.

In an official blog post, the company said, “If you’ve been collecting recipes for your big holiday feast, we might show you a related Pin for fool-proof pie crust, or the perfect double-stuffed sweet potato.” The company will start rolling out suggestions soon which shall start with only a small number of pins.

A user can easily control the type and kind of suggestions sent out to them. This can be done by giving the recommendations a ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’. A thumbs down will remove the suggestion from your pinned ones.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/31/pinterest-launches-relatable-pins/

The Upgraded Google Glass is out

“We’d rather ‘show’ than ‘tell’,” these were the words of the Google Glass team after they revealed the upgraded wearable device the Google Glass. This new device comes with a detachable mono earbud and shall function with prescription glasses and future lines of shades as well.

The new design was presented to the world on 28th October. The device with the upgraded looks and designs shall be swapped out later this year for explorers somewhere around November. The Glass team responded to all of the queries of its fans on Google+.

Once the swapping program begins in November, its fans will have 60 days to register in order to own Google’s latest and one of the most innovative devices.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/30/the-upgraded-google-glass-is-out/

Case Study: Compassion It Essay contest generated 3000+ votes

COMPASSION IT

COMPASSION IT is a global social movement designed to help all people achieve happiness and attain meaningful lives using one-of-a-kind reversible bracelets to inspire daily compassionate actions. The non profit organization was founded by Sara Schairer in 2011. The firm promotes the use of its one-of-a-kind reversible bracelets as a representation of compassion for others.

Campaign Focus

COMPASSION IT launched the contest to develop ideas to create movements to promote compassion that could spread on its own using organization’s own bracelets. The social media campaign focused at generating idea from the community and to explore its potential impact. The organization believed that an idea from the community tends to have high potential impact with high feasibility.

COMPASSION IT essay contest

The “COMPASSION IT essay contest” invited participants to develop an original idea for a movement to promote compassion among people. The participants were required to submit an original idea in the form of an essay of less than 250 words on “How would you start a Compassion It movement with 100 pairs of bracelets?” The participants were encouraged to promote their ideas to attract votes for a chance to win $1,000 dollars for their favorite charity. Thus, an essay contest app, powered by SocialAppsHQ, was installed for this campaign which included the following important aspects:

• Like Gate: The essay contest page was like gated so each participant had to like the page in order to view or post an entry. This helped COMPASSION IT to reach a larger audience and increase their fans by adding newer and relevant members to their Facebook fan page.


• Entry: Each participant had to post an essay in less than 250 words sharing their unique idea to create a compassion movement. This personalized the essay contest, creating a sense of inspiration among page fans and their friends. The participants were also required to invite friends to vote on the entry so as to gain maximum votes.


• Prize: The participant with the highest votes won $1,000 for the charity of their choice. Since the participants were the ones supporting the idea of compassion, the chance to show compassion to their favorite initiative encouraged fans to share generate their and promote it among their friends.

Impact

The essay contest helped COMPASSION IT increase their cause awareness to a great extent. The contest also generated user generated some highly relevant ideas to create a movement to promote compassion in the community.

Entries: 10 participants

Votes: 3,072 votes

The contest was a huge success and was widely appreciated among the followers of the cause. All this was made possible by SocialAppsHQ, an all in one social media marketing platform for your brand.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/29/case-study-compassion-it-essay-contest-generated-3000-votes/

Facebook ads: A Success

According to the Facebook’s Strategic PMD (Preferred Marketing Developer) programme team , the Facebook ads have generated some outstanding results making it a huge success for the company. According to the team, ad clicks, ad impressions and advertisers’ ROI were all higher in 2013 as compared to 2012.

The various editions and manipulations, made in these ads, brought better results and increased the level of trust the brand managers instilled in facebook. According to the study, which took into account more than 131 billion Facebook ad impressions and 4.3 billion social engagements, Facebook ads were clicked 29% more often in 2013, and the ROI was 58% higher than last year. It also stated that Twitter and Pinterest are also responsible for bringing a good amount of referral traffic to retail sites.

If the figures are assumed to be correct, then with such figures, better reach and frequency provided by the Facebook ads, brand managers and advertisers have nothing to worry about.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/29/facebook-ads-a-success/

Obama’s social media accounts hacked

The Syrian Electronic Army claims to have hacked the US President’s social media accounts on 28th October. They had actually gotten admin access to his Twitter and Facebook accounts where they made certain alterations with the links in the tweets and posts to lead the various followers and friends to a 24 minute video that showed “Syria facing terrorism.”

The website BarackObama.com was primarily used by the President during the elections of 2008 and 2011, the SEA group hacked the accounts via the same website. Following are the images if the tweets with altered links.

The group has been famous for hacking social media accounts of renowned personalities, whom they consider to be the opponents of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad .Apparently, the SEA hacked one of the administrator’s email id, using which they gained the admin rights and made the changes.

As of now all the links have been fixed and additional security layer has been added to avoid such incidents in the future.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/29/obamas-social-media-accounts-hacked/

Facebook’s $1 billion offer to Snapchat

Sources reveal that Facebook offered a total of $1 billion to acquire the new and trending, photo sharing app, Snapchat. The reports say that Snapchat’s CEO, Evan Spiegel turned down the offer.

It seems that lately Facebook is unsecured of maintaining its position as a social media giant. Last year, it had offered the same amount to Instagram, another photo sharing app. Facebook has been trying to incorporate many new features into the platform that sound largely as functions similar to those that exist in one or the other platform. It launched the feature of “poke” which like Snapchat allows user to send photos which would disappear after a certain amount of time is largely.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/28/facebooks-1-billion-offer-to-snapchat/

Youtube to begin with music services

Recent reports reveals that Youtube is planning to compete with Spotify with the launch of its very own On-demand music service. The video sharing website also intends to create an app and provide its users with unending numbers to listen and groove.

Like Spotify, Youtube is also planning a free tier and a premium tier to help its users reach out to their target niches better and faster.

There is still no official confirmation by YouTube. However, A company’s spokesperson said, “We’re always working on new and better ways for people to enjoy YouTube content across all screens, and on giving partners more opportunities to reach their fans. However, we have nothing to announce at this time.”

How much the venture shall benefit the platform and bring laurels to it, will be known only once it is set for public use.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/28/youtube-to-begin-with-music-services/

US adults get news from Facebook

According to a research study conducted by the Pew Research Centre in the US, about 80% users stumble upon news over Facebook, although they do not log into social networking site for the same.

According to the study released on 24th October, 64% of U.S. adults use Facebook and about 30% of US adults get news on Facebook. The study also claimed that 4 percent of Facebook news consumers said the platform is the most important way they obtain their news. The social media giant is increasing its parameters and giving its users many reasons to stay aboard with them.

The world’s largest social media site displays a news stream where people and publishers can share news. It has become an easy and an interesting way to gather news and make the most out of it. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are all trying aggregate and share news in an effort to keep people with them. Recently, Facebook said that referral traffic to publishers’ sites increased 170 percent through the past year.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/28/us-adults-get-news-from-facebook/

Pinterest and Getty Images join hands

It seems that Pinterest has been trying to improve user experience on its website. Lately, it has made a number of amendments all pertaining to the increasing space for content and written detail. On Friday, October 25, the company signed a deal with Getty Images, A US based stock photography company. Now, when user will pin an image that already exists on the web, Pinterest will fetch metadata from Getty Images which include description, photographer and date taken. These attributes will appear alongside that photo on the user’s pin board.

In an official company blog post, Michael Yamartino, Product Manager at Pinterest said “One thing we’ve found is that the more we know about a pin, the more valuable we can make it for you. That’s why we’ve been working with partners to get more data into Pinterest to help us make recommendations, make pins more useful, and even offer notifications when prices drop”

Pinterest has regulated the style of its presentation to a large extent. They have implied many new strategies and many new ways to increase the fan base and loyal users to their website.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/28/pinterest-and-getty-images-join-hands/

NBC’s Chief Digital Officer to Lead Twitter’s News Partnership Division

Vivian Schiller, Chief Digital Officer at NBC News is excited to leave her current job and join Twitter as the Head of News Partnerships in 2014. Twitter expects that Schiller will add great values to the company by her extensive news experience and managerial skills.

The role assigned to her will be to act as an intermediary between the social networking website and the various other media houses, Twitter works with on a daily basis. Schiller’s television background should help Twitter increase involvement with real-time news broadcasts during events like Presidential debates.

With recent changes and advancements made by Twitter, television and media partnerships have grown manifold and it requires the expertise of a experienced professional like Vivian to maintain a proper flow for future growth.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/26/nbcs-chief-digital-officer-to-lead-twitters-news-partnership-division/

Youtube Driveway War

When Youtube celebrity Joey Graceffa parked his car right in front of comedian/actor Nate Clark’s driveway, it started the video rift between the two celebs.

Clark had got Joey’s car towed away, after which he realised Graceffa’s status as an internet celebrity. Soon enough a video was uploaded by Graceffa ranted to his 2 million subscriber about the inconvenience caused when his car was towed.

Clark did not like the way Graceffa portrayed that his car had been unnecessarily towed. The actor/comedian responded to the allegation with a video of his own, posted on YouTube stating his reason for doing so. The video has attracted more that 2 million viewers within a span of just 3 days.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/25/youtube-driveway-war/

School puts students under scanner

A suburban Los Angeles school district has put its students under the scanner. The Glendale school district of Los Angeles, California have hired a firm to keep a tab on the student’s social media activities on Twitter, Facebook etc. The firm has been monitoring students’ accounts for indication of violence, drug-use, bullying, self-harm or suicidal thoughts, racism and sexual harassment for a year.

The district has paid $40,500 to the firm for their social media monitoring services. An initial pilot project was conducted on 9000 children at three high schools and a middle school. Among the results was a successful intervention with a student “who was speaking of ending his life” on his social media, said Chris Frydrych, CEO of the firm.

Further many more such cases popped up, dealing with the photograph of a child holding a gun which later was determined as fake. This particular strategy has been adopted by the school for the safety of the children says the school authorities.

This initiative of the district boards might help them understand their students better and handle such instances of deviated behavior.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/25/school-puts-students-under-scanner/

Noticed the banner ads in Google search yet?

Even though in 2005 Google had promised never to start banner ads in the search, it seems that the promise is on the verge of breaking. A few users based in the US could view a large banner like advertisement at the top of the search results page.

Google has been recently experimenting with a limited number of desktop users in the US. The same was observed by Synrgy, a web marketing agency while searching for Southwest Airlines. A sponsored photo of the airlines was seen as a banner with the search results.

With banner ads, it seems that Google ads is now on the verge of a major change.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/25/noticed-the-banner-ads-in-google-search-yet/

Pinterest’s valued at $ 4 Billion

8 months ago, photo sharing website Pinterest was valued at $2 billion to $ 2.5 billion. Today, the company valuation is closing at $ 4 billion. The user base of Pinterest is increasing at a steady pace. It is giving a tough competition to all its competitors and is turning out to be a treat for the brand managers who find it an appropriate platform to market their brand.

The percentage of traffic drove to publishers and the annual increase in the number of visits by users has been the maximum. The social media platform had 24.9 million monthly unique users in september 2013, according to comScore. The number of unique users increased to 50 million if the mobile app users were taken into consideration.

Pinterest has shown a tremendous increase in its business activities and has raised the bar for all of its competitors.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/25/pinterests-valued-at-4-billion/

#GetCovered: An Obama Success Story

The health care campaign by the White House is faring better than any other twitter campaign organised by the Obama people. Obama care is basically a programme to provide Americans with access to affordable health care, improving the quality of healthcare, regulating the health insurance industry and reducing spending in health care.

The #GetCovered campaign on Twitter is for the launch of an online health insurance marketplace by the US Government, is being used more positively than negatively by tweeters, according to a sentiment score prepared using Social Media Monitoring tools.

The Campaign allows uninsured people to share their stories and buy affordable coverages. Though some tweets have mocked the campaign with phrases like, “ #GetCovered with egg on your face”

The campaign did have a significant amount of negative feedback but the sentiments derived speak volumes about its success as compared to any other campaign organised by the white house over the social media.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/25/getcovered-an-obama-success-story/

Rapportive transformed into LinkedIn Intro

LinkedIn comes up with some new mobile products that could transform user experience. This time, they have a new e-mail product which will allow you to get more details about a person who has sent you a mail within the inbox itself.

LinkedIn Intro is the email product. The iOS app is a transformation of an app from Rapportive, a company that LinkedIn bought in 2012. With the help of this product a user will get certain more details about the sender.

This is the year of new products for LinkedIn. The company also unveiled a new version of its iPad app, and a new version of Pulse, the content curation app that the company acquired earlier this year. The iPad app contains a redesigned navigation bar which shall allow users to personalise and optimise the pages for a more advanced approach.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/24/rapportive-transformed-into-linkedin-intro/

Virtual walking tours of the grave

When there is Google there is nothing to worry about. Google is now mapping the Arlington National Cemetery such that you can pay homage to your fore father from your house itself. Google is using its product, Google Street View, to archive images of the military cemetery and other panoramas which are spread over 624 acres.

The cemetery houses more than 400,000 active duty service members, veterans and their families. Among those buried at the cemetery are President John F. Kennedy, President William Howard Taft and 12 Supreme Court Justices. Google is using the same product it used to map 100 monuments in India and the Galapagos Islands for its street view.

Although the idea and concept might lure a large number of national devotees but Google will only be able to archive the current cemeteries and further additions to them might not be possible. The cemetery houses around 7,000 funerals per year.

The product shall be available by May 2014 which shall also commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Arlington National Cemetery.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/24/virtual-walking-tours-of-the-grave/

LinkedIn’s website goes down

It seems websites are going down every now and then, earlier it was Facebook on Monday which suffered a prolonged outage and prevented users from posting and engaging. On Wednesday, LinkedIn went down which prevented users from properly loading the website and logging in.

Although the company kept quiet about the fact but reports say that there was a likely service disruption owing to which the website wasn’t functioning properly. Later on LinkedIn informed that there were certain issues that needed to be fixed.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/24/linkedins-website-goes-down/

Facebook’s stance on the beheading video

After the ban on posting videos with content that could disturb users in May 2013 was removed by Facebook, a video of a women being decapitated in Mexico was posted on Facebook last week. Following the post were comments made by many users requesting the authorities at the social network to remove the video.

Media houses like BBC and CNN intervened and investigated the issue which had troubled so many users including the UK PM, David Cameron. The PM tweeted on Tuesday that the content could have a negative impact on those who see it.

Facebook’s “Rights and Responsibilities” page lists warnings to users under the “Safety” section: “You will not post content that: is hate speech, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.”

After much chaos and dislike, Facebook has decided to regulate the level of control a user has when he makes a post and when he views it. They have agreed upon adding certain warnings in advance about an image or video’s content.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/23/facebooks-stance-on-the-beheading-video/

Social Voting open for Youtube Music Awards

The first ever fan based global ceremony is now open for social voting. The first Youtube Music Awards will be aired on 3rd November live on the video service itself. The nominees are selected by Youtube based on video views, likes, comments and channel subscriptions since September 2012.

Youtube has created a nomination video for each of the nominee, which fans need to share on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ in order to cast a vote. The entire process of voting and the following procedure has been explained by Youtube in another video made by them.

The programme is to be hosted by musician Reggie Watts and actor Jason Schwartzman. The final day event will include live performances by some of the renowned stars and other celebrities.

The major categories under which nominees are selected are;

1. Video of the year

2. Artist of the Year

3. Response of the year

4. Youtube Phenomenon

5. Youtube Breakthrough

6. Innovation of the year

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/23/social-voting-open-for-youtube-music-awards/

Facebook Referral Traffic Increases

According to Facebook reports, the facebook referral traffic from Facebook to Media sites increased by 170% last year. Andy Mitchell, director of partnerships for Facebook, attributed much of the growth in referrals to improvements in Facebook’s News Feed algorithm. Facebook also disclosed that from September 2012 to September 2013, Time’s referral traffic rose 208%, BuzzFeed’s increased by 855% and Bleacher Report experienced a boost of 1081%.

Encouraging news organizations to post more often will aid a “Trending Articles” feature that seems to be a likely next move for the company.

Facebook took the opportunity to advise the users and specifically the brand managers to post more often and more frequently. The social media platforms aims at bringing as much traffic as they can via media sites owing to the recent competition with Twitter after the launch of Twitter ads.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/23/facebook-referral-traffic-increases/

Twitter to silence its music app

Twitter is planning to bid goodbye to its 6 month old #Music app after giving it a high profile launch.

Twitter #Music is a service that helps users discover and find new music based on the microblogging network’s activity, the artists users follow and songs that are trending. In addition to its iPhone app, there is also a web version of Twitter #Music.

Although, the app had a strong backup and Twitter to support it, the app was not able to maintain its position among the top 150 apps when Twitter’s video sharing app is ranked at the 15th position overall and 2nd according to the social media coverages. The #Music app has reached the 170th position (as of 21st October 2013).

Twitter is currently in the process of revamping its music team, and that its future focus will likely be on partnering with existing outlets, such as iTunes, Rdio or Spotify, rather than building a separate experience in-house. This makes sense because even if Twitter #Music as a mobile app is a failure, music still has lots of business potential, especially as the company prepares to go public.

When given a close observation it was found that Twitter #Music hasn’t received a UI update for iOS 7, it still lies in the iOS 6 version. Experts say that an in built music app will do much better for Twitter as compared to a separate app and interface.

Music shall continue to be a good business strategy but when incorporated and managed well.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/21/twitter-to-silence-its-music-app/

Facebook Ads are profitable on iOS

Researches carried out by many institutions reveal that Facebook ads on iOS are 1,790% more profitable as compared to Android. The study is carried out by Nanigans, one of the biggest buyers of facebook ads.

“Retailers are realizing significantly greater return from audiences on iOS than audiences on Android,” the report says. “For the first three quarters of 2013, RPC [revenue per click] on iOS averaged 6.1 times higher than Android and ROI [return on investment] on iOS averaged 17.9 times higher than Android.”

The difference in the device analytics has set the various marketers thinking, whether they should target the Android users, iOS users or both. The question mark shall prevail until there are better outputs achieved.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/19/facebook-ads-are-profitable-on-ios/

Google and Facebook are now partners

Google is all set to sell the ad inventories for the social media giant Facebook. The ads will be sold via Google’s DoubleClick Bid Manager, its real-time bidding system. In a few months, marketers will be able to buy ads for Facebook’s Ad Exchange on the platform.

Though Facebook and Google can be considered as competitors but their joint venture might bring certain valuable changes that could sensationalise the social media domain altogether. Earlier, Google and Facebook have worked together using each others features and functions for their benefits.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/19/google-and-facebook-are-now-partners/

Google Street View can help Scientists

Researchers say that the online Google Street View can help the scientists locate invasive species over the social media across the globe. By mapping the various biodiversity rich zones and other native and invasive organisms scientists can derive insights and carry out their further study with ease.

The Google Street View provides a panoramic view of the streets. Recently, Google Street View has offered vistas of many places off the beaten track as well, such as Antarctica, the Galapagos, the Amazon, Mount Everest’s base camp and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

The scientists concentrated on a region about 18,000 square miles large in France that was recently colonized by the caterpillars. They further divided this area into blocks about 100 square miles in size. e researchers analyzed data regarding the presence or absence of caterpillar nests collected in these blocks through either direct observation in the field or Google Street View. They found Google Street View was 96% as accurate as field data.

This has added a great value to the Google Street View and accounts for a better use of the feature altogether.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/19/google-street-view-can-help-scientists/

Google glass to patent the “heart Shape”

The heart shape can now let you share and like pictures on many of the social media networking websites. An added feature to the already advanced and mesmerizing device of Google, the Google glass will now share and like any picture you make a heart shape for with your hand gestures.

Google Glass might also feature the same technology for the hand gestures you make when mimicking a film director. Placing a right-side-up and upside-down L on either side of an object in your sight will be enough to click a picture that you can share.

The full patent has been published in some of the gadget oriented magazines along with a vivid explanation on how the device would transmit the generated images to one or more applications in a network server communicative connected with the HMD (Hand Mounted Display).

Some reports also reveals “Glass to Facebook”, addition of the Facebook app to Google Glass .

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/19/google-glass-to-patent-the-heart-shape/

Frequently asked questions on Social Media - Google to sell Facebook Ads!!

Social Media ventures into many arenas and encompasses a large number of factors which may at times leave its users astonished and spellbound.Social Media over the past one week has transformed into a much more inquisitive platform and more marketers seem to have shifted their interest into this domain. Social Media marketing is making great successes and has proved to be beneficial for all brands as well.

When it is practiced there are many questions and queries that brand managers have in lieu of these marketing processes. SocialAppsHQ’s social media forum saw range of questions uploaded and sailing in the community. Here are few of them that were asked by the members in the past one week.

Facebook Marketing

1. Facebook App, Auto like and post

2. Google to sell Facebook ads.

3. Do FB Likes really helps?

4. How to check if someone has cheated on "Likes" ?

5. Updating selected users timelines when an event occurs

6. 400000 Fans On my Pages. Can i extract their Emails !\

7. Unpublished Fb Fan Pages Help?

8. Free Tools For Fb Likes??

9. How To Send A Message To All Your Facebook Friends At Once ?

10. New Facebook Insights

11. How To Engage More People In My Fan Page ?

12. Traffic Generation

13. Free Tools For Fb Likes??

14. Sweepstakes tab

15. Get Full User Profile From Facebook Api

16. How To Upload Animated (Gif) Pic On Facebook?

17. Mass Wall Post To All Friends

18. Facebook Homepage Visitor Count

19. What Is Better?

20.How To increase like in your facebook page

Twitter Marketing

1. How do people get thousands of followers on twitter?

2. Twitter Account is Broken

3. What are the ways to engage your twitter followers with instant results

4. Twitter help

5. Twitter Lists & What Are They For?

6. Unable To Join Or Follow With Google Friend Connect

7. Can Hashtags Be Used To Promote My Product?

8. What Is Vine App For Twitter?

9. Twitter Followers Are Not Stable

10. Automatic Twitter posting software

11. How Twitter card Open graph tags good for Twitter?

12. How to Upload Images and Remove URL

13. How many times do you tweet per day?

14. Twitter VS Facebook

15. No 'Mobile' tab displayed (in Settings / Account)

Marketing Tools

1. Marketing tips, SEO and making money online.

2. How to monetize online safety site?

3. How to make more money from ebay?

4. Forum posting in blog commenting to increase traffic?

5. Keyword Research Tools

6. Alternatives to Google Keyword Planner’

7. Google is showing different result when using proxy

8. Synnonmization in Keywords

9. How can I make a Social Bookmarking Website?

10. Good cost per sale advertising network

11. Does Google Sniper 2.0 really work?

12. Ideal number of followers to achieve

13. Want to open a forum

14. Why do internet marketers charge so much for their money making systems?

15. Want to promote my website. Can't start with it.

Google, Pinterest and other platforms

1. When is the Google Smart Watch coming?

2. What is the Google Street View?

3. Is Google selling Facebook ads?

4. Google Glass

5.  What Is Tumblr All About?

6. Does Marketing On Pinterest Help?

7. How do communities on Google Plus benefit?

8. Google + or Twitter : which is better for growing brand name

9. Pinterest followers

10. Google + or Twitter : which is better for growing brand name

11. How to set open graph tags in Google Plus?

12. Is Tumblr a successful platform?

13. Who feels G+ has helped their site?

14. How Google+ growing your business?

15. What is the single best way to get placed highly on Google?

A customised approach to Twitter

Twitter is enabling many new features into the platform to make it more appealing and user friendly for the users. In the early October 2013, Twitter unveiled its first app for the Android tablets. The only feature that was hidden was the ability to draw doodles which can be posted on the Twitter feed.

The feature was not known of until twitter’s blog posted a vine video where an artist was drawing an image and thereafter it was tweeted for the others to see. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1-2014 Edition is the only tablet that currently works with Twitter’s app.

The new Twitter drawings provide users with a little more room for creativity. It may be able to increase the number of images shared on the site, which would enable an increase in the engagements; tweets including images are retweeted more frequently than those without.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/17/a-customised-approach-to-twitter/

Social Media helped him become a senator

The social media has a strong influence on nearly every aspect of life. Cory Booker became a national figure well before being elected to the federal government owing to his effective and large scale use of social media. Termed as the folk hero, Booker has a total of 1.5 million followers on Twitter.

The reputation Booker has earned as a social media enthusiast is because of his constant interaction on nearly all the platforms and his first announcement on YouTube regarding his interest to explore a senate bid last year. He won the Democratic primary for the special election on Aug. 13, posting more than 100 times to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram throughout the day. He and his team were prolific with their social media posts during the election too, focusing mainly on tweets and retweets but not completely avoiding other networks.

Booker is currently beating Lonegan 55% to 44%, with nearly all precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press.The Wednesday elections (16th October 2013) have been so much of a test of all of its campaigns and the results of the test will only be declared once the total number of votes and polls are calculated.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/17/social-media-helped-him-become-a-senator/

Google glass, a class above the rest

Google never stops amazing us, it has often come up with devices and softwares that have changed the way society communicates and functions. With Glass, Google has set an altogether different dimension bringing to light some of the features which were once thought to be impossible.

Recently Google started the Glass Explorer Program that was to check the device, an early adopter program available for developers and consumers. Every applicant was to post a message on Google+ or Twitter with the hashtag #ifhgadglass and few of them were then invited to attend a conference in New York.

The explorer program took place in last week of October, 2013 where students had 10 minutes each to pitch their Glass app ideas before a panel of expert judges, comprised of startup founders and professors, who offered constructive feedback.

The glass allows its master to take pictures, record videos, share what he sees, get directions to particular destinations, speak messages and even translate your message into different languages. The device is light and strong and can be handled easily.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/17/google-glass-a-class-above-the-rest/

Twitter becomes a part of the New York Stock Exchange

Twitter is set to become a part of the NYSE rather than the tech-friendly Nasdaq whose mismanaged handling of the Facebook IPO resulted into a loss of $10 million.

Twitter has already filed to be a part of the stock exchange. Twitter took in $422.2 million in revenue that is 106 percent from revenue in the first nine months of 2012, but its net loss also increased 89 percent over the first nine months of 2012.

Unsurprisingly, mobile continues to be the company’s biggest source of advertising revenue, 70 percent of it comes from mobile, up from 65 percent last quarter.Twitter posted revenues of $422.2 million and lost $44 million.

via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/16/twitter-becomes-a-part-of-the-new-york-stock-exchange/

FAQ on social media from past week

Social Media ventures into many arenas and encompasses a large number of factors which may at times leave its users astonished and spellbound.Social Media over the past one week has transformed into a much more inquisitive platform and more marketers seem to have shifted their interest into this domain. Social Media marketing is making great successes and has proved to be beneficial for all brands as well.

When it is practised there are many questions and queries that brand managers have in lieu of these marketing processes. SocialAppsHQ’s social media forum saw range of questions uploaded and sailing in the community. Here are few of them that were asked by the members in the past one week.

Facebook Marketing

1. What is the difference between facebook PVA and not PVA accounts?

2. Why can't I purchase Facebook Ads?

3. multiple social media accounts

4. How to delete profile without deleting fan page.

5. How to increase facebook likes

6. Web pages in Facebook fanpage

7. Facebook APP Problem ?

8. How to Post Link with picture on other's fan page

9. Page visits

10. What are the limits for posting in Facebook done by an app ?

11. What is Facebook Insights??

12. Share events on group feed

13. how to promote own site with FB

14. Wordpress Autoshare

15. trouble with facebook API

16. what are the best ideas for an effective Facebook campaign?

17. How to change the name of my Facebook page?

18. i want to know more about the sweepstakes tab on facebook

19. how can i increase facebook likes

20. What are Facebook plug-ins?

21. How can I create a Welcome tab with non-fan and fan-only content?

22. When a page likes another page does it affect the total number of fans?

23. Should we create a Facebook page linked to our own account or separately?

24. How do I publish my tweets to my fan Page?

25. How effective are Facebook ads?

26. How can I check back links of my competitors?

27. Is it worthwhile posting in Facebook groups?

28. How to make Money Through Facebook ?

29. Making a facebook page private

30. Facebook Hashtag API

Twitter marketing

1. How can twitter marketing benefit my business?

2. Can hashtags be used to promote my product?

3. How many times per day do you tweet on twitter?

4. Are my tweets visible to all my followers?’

5. Are there any limits to the number of people I can follow on Twitter?

6. Does twitter help you to rank a website?

7. What are vote contests on Twitter?

8. What is vine app for twitter?

9. why follower reduce day by day

10. Can I Hold a Small Sweepstake on Twitter?

11. 140 Characters, Are They Enough For You?

12. Auto Retweeting

13. Searching in Twitter Feed

14. how can i derive the traffic from twitter.

15. Unable To Join Or Follow With Google Friend Connect

16. How to see private or block tweets ?

17. automated @reply?

18. Twitter Followers are not Stable
19. Twitter Lists & What Are They For?

20. Twitter api problem

21. Phone signatures on Tweets

22. How to Create a Long Banner Across Twitter Page

23. Linkedin Marketing

24. Twitter Advertsing Credits ?

25. How Do You Delete Retweets on Twitter?

26. How to stop fake followers

27. Twitter or Facebook Popular?

28. Looking into sdvertising with my Twitter Account

29. What is the best Twitter followers Exchange website?

30. How can I get Twitter Trends onto my desktop?

LinkedIn Marketing

1. How does interaction on LinkedIn differ from interaction on Facebook?

2. What is Linkedin marketing after all?

3. What is the best practice for marketing a product or service in linkedin ?

4. How are discussion gropus created on Linkedin?

5. What are hidden contacts in linkedin?

6. I find Linkedin marketing difficult. Is it same for all?

7. Is there something new on Linkedin?

8. What to do next?

9. How to add my LinkedIn profile to my Facebook page?

10. Tracking competitors on LinkedIn

11. how to put a video on the homepage of a linkedin GROUP page

12. What kind of CTR are you getting on LinkedIn?

13. LinkedIn Adverts

14. Is linkedin offering something new offlate?

15. In real terms how do we market on Linkedin?

16. Videos on Linkedin

17. Linkedin Marketing

18. Linkedin Marketing?

19. How are experts suggested?

20. Categories on linkedin

21. Linkedin Marketing for big brands

22. Is it suitable for all brands?

23. Marketing a service

24. How to reach out to professionals?

25. Is it gaining pace?

26. How to get people follow my Linkedin page?

27. Anything new?

28. Are there any linkedin marketing masters out ther?

29. startups and linkedin

30. Does Linkedin have the option of posting promotional videos?

Marketing Tools

1. Removing Google Crawl errors

2. Guest blogging allow Google authorship ?

3. What is URL optimization?

4. Is Someone Aware Of Something Extremely New That Has Come In Social Media?

5. Other Than Facebook Campaigns What Are The Other Marketing Tools?

6. What is the use of Post Planner?

7. About Guest Blogging.

8. how can i get traffic to my site

9. Email sending software or service

10. Email sending software or service

11. How to spread my new website??

12. What should your marketing budget be?

13. How to start earning money from your blog?

14. How do you get people to stay active! Tell us!

15. I'm new to internet marketing, some tips would be great

16. Great ways to share/market your website for free

17. Website disappeared from Google

18. How do you setup your sub links

19. How to check back link of a inner page?

20. What keyword density percentage is better for my website content page?

21. Suggest Best Software For Backlinks

22. How to promote a technology event OR a tech festival?

23. Is there a way to know how many likes i had in december?

24. How to use slideshare.net for marketing my brand?

25. Search Engines search

26. Content Seeding

27. Powerpoint Presentation (PPT) Sharing Site List

28. What is the best way to submit lots of articles?

29. Does keywords ranking help to improve PR of a website?

30. how important is content genertaion?

Google, Pinterest and other platforms

1. Pinterest followers

2. Google + or Twitter : which is better for growing brand name

3. Have you ever banned on google Plus?

4. How to set open graph tags in Google Plus?

5. Google Hangouts?

6. Is anyone using google+ for business?

7. how to use google+ ?

8. how to add google plus tag to your site

9. Facebook , Google+ or Twitter

10. can i have two accounts in google plus or must use 2 browsers like facebook ??

11. How Google + Circles is useful in marketing?

12. What's the difference of + and follow in g+

13. G+ better than FB Like for SEO ?

14. Grow your circles !

15. How to associate my domain's email to Google + profile?

16. Is Tumblr a successful platform?

17. Problem linking website to google page

18. How Google + Circles is useful in SEO?

19. What is the single best way to get placed highly on Google?

20.  How to Add Pinterest button on tumblr blog?

21. What are pinterest unfollow limits?

22. Get More Follower At Pinterest.com

23. How to associate my domain's email to Google + profile?

24. Do you Google+ plus your own site's articles?

25. Who feels G+ has helped their site?

26. How Google+ growing your business?

27. Ho do I increase my Circles

28. An Idea to Increase Blog Traffic

29. Pinterset branding

30. Account Recovery