Bill Hartzer

MashedIn Social Media Friend Finder Application Launched

Social Connections has released MashedIn.com, an application that allows you to identify mutual connections across multiple social networks. MashedIn provides a widget that you can add to a web site or blog where your users can authenticate with either Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn to reveal common connections to the widget ...

Thanks to @oprah and @aplusk, Twitter Now a Spammer’s Heaven

Thanks to @oprah (Oprah) and @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher), Twitter is now the 49th most popular site according to Alexa. In the past 3 months, Twitter's traffic is up a whopping 334.6 percent. But, with the increased popularity, comes the spammers. Unfortunately, though, it just goes with the territory. Whenever you mix ...

Cranberry Launches PeoplePond.com Search Engine Optimization for People Service

Cranberry, a company led by led by Internet visionary David McInnis (formerly of PRWeb), has launched PeoplePond, an Internet service that provides search engine optimized (SEO) profiles and online identity verification services for individuals. It was officially launched to the general public during the annual South by Southwest conference and ...

comScore: Mobile Social Networking is Responsible for Growth of Mobile Internet

A new comScore report out today shows that mobile social networking is responsible for the growth of the mobile internet in Europe. One third of European mobile social networking users access social media sites exclusively. In November 2008, 34 percent of mobile phone owners in Western Europe who visited social networking ...

BrightTALK Hosts Social Media Marketing Summit

BrightTalk is hosting a Social Media Marketing Summit asked me to present. At 2:15pm Pacific Time on October 7th, 2008 I talked about Social Media and Search and how your search engine marketing efforts can benefit from social media marketing. I've embedded my presentation right here so you can watch it. ...

Got a Look-Alike? iLookLikeYou Social Network Launches

How many times has someone come up to you and say, "I know someone who looks exactly like you!" Just yesterday I was at a car dealership and one of the service guys started talking to my wife, just as if he has known her for years. The problem is ...

Sphinn is a Dysfunctional Social Network Because Internet Marketers Don’t Understand Social Networking

Eric Lander has a great blog post about Sphinn. If you have not heard of Sphinn.com, Sphinn is a "News, Discussion Forums & Networking for Search & Internet Marketing Professionals" site. It's Danny Sullivan's social networking site for internet marketing professionals. Since Eric has written a great post and has ...

Digg Down Today and Other Social Media Revelations

For many years now, I have always been a fan of creating custom, unique 404 error pages. I have also, at the same time, been rather annoyed that a site as large as Digg can consistently serve up an error page like the one below. Not only have I been rather ...

Worst Demographic Targeting Ever: Hannah Montana Tickets Given Away on Digg

  I usually do not make it a habit of pointing out badly implemented online promotional campaigns. However, in this case, I could not help but point out one of the worst demographic targeting that I have ever seen on the web. Hannah Montana tickets are being given away ...

PR Newswire and CSRWire Develops Social Network for Corporate Social Responsibility Experts

PR Newswire's ProfNet expert network has partnered with CSRwire.com, the Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire, to form a social network for people who are experts in corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues. This new social network will allow corporate social responsibility experts to congregate and share your expertise with your peers and ...

March 15th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Optimization 4 Comments

How Search Engine Optimization Adds Value to a Website

Most likely, if you have a website for your business, you probably have been pitched by a host of companies about the benefits of Search Engine Optimization. And, as someone who has been actively practicing organic search engine optimization since 1996, I am probably just as qualified as anyone else ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Marketing 4 Comments

Search Engine Optimization: Is Social Sharing the Next Link Building?

I just finished reading an interesting TechCrunch article about how Google has upgrade Google Reader, making it more visual. What's interesting to me, as a search engine optimization expert and online marketer, is not the fact that Google has upgrade Google Reader. It is, after all, pretty cool stuff. No ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Internet Usage One Comment

comScore February 2010 Search Engine Rankings

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, ...
March 9th 2010
Tags: Search Engines No Comments

CheapTweet Upgrades Its Social Deals Search Engine

CheapTweet.com, a major Twitter-based social deals search engine site, has launched CheapTweet Version 2, in celebration of indexing over 5 million deals online to offer users an better social shopping experience. CheapTweet's 2.0 rollout adds upgrades to its core search engine, voting mechanism, and a new look and feature called ...

Search Engine Optimization and Network Marketing: How to Get More Leads

I had an interesting conversation over the weekend with Marvin, who called me to discuss Network Marketing. Somehow we had become connected through Facebook or another social networking website and he thought that since we were tagged as being friends online he believed that that gave him permission to call ...

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