Posterous has been acquired by Twitter!

If you have used Posterous then you might already know how critical business and marketing tool it was for any internet marketing or a casual blogger. Today I received an email saying that Posterous has been acquired by Twitter. This is in a way great news for the Posterous owners but not sure how it would turn out to be for the users.

I’m thrilled to announce that Posterous has been acquired by Twitter!

The opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn’t be happier to bring our technology and expertise to hundreds of millions of users around the globe.  Plus, the people at Twitter are genuinely nice folks who share our vision for making sharing simpler.

Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption. We’ll give users ample notice if we make any changes to the service. For users who would like to back up their content or move to another service, we’ll share clear instructions for doing so in the coming weeks.

10 Essential Items to Include in your Social Media Plan

Setting up a social media plan is a large undertaking that can take a lot of time to really perfect, but it is essential if you plan to grab a large audience for your money website. Knowing what to include is the most important part of a social media plan and this article will show you the 10 best things you need to add. Without these essential points your entire plan can fall apart, so take notes and do this thing right.

Baseline Numbers: Take account of how many visitors and followers you have at this very second. It doesn’t matter if you have a somewhat popular account with 100 visitors a month or a sparse two followers. You need to know these numbers so you know if your social media plan is really improving your social spread or if your marketing is falling flat. Use this number as a constant comparison between now and in the future.

Goals: you know you need to get more people to your social media account and you know you want them to go to your money website. However, this is where most businesses stop. For starters, have a specific number in mind. For example, make a goal for 10 percent more visitors at the end of the week. This gives you another metric to gauge success or failure.

Using Twitter to Strengthen Business Relationships

Probably, the biggest reason why organizations and business professional flock to social networking sites such as twitter is the fact that it endows endless possibilities. Of which building better, stronger business relationships holds really high significance. Not many would realize but constant use of twitter can help business people strengthen their association with their customers and flourish their business. If you were not really convinced with the correlation between the two, then this might be the best time to get so. Following are such aspects that reflect how using twitter can improve operations and build better business relationships. Read on to incorporate twitter successfully as part of your marketing strategy.

1: Twitter is free

There’s no doubt that twitter has been enabling people to stay connected to what matters the most for them. But what may really please professionals is that the site can be benefited from in all the ways for absolutely no cost. You can conveniently communicate with potential customers and share your intuitive ideas without having to force your pocket. You can effortlessly take advantage of twitter and strengthen relationships with others professionals within the industry or a certain geographic area with nothing to lose.

What is Facebook Timeline Feature all about?

Facebook officially launched the latest Facebook Timeline feature on 15th December and it seems to be a huge change to the face of the Social networking giant and the way it is going to be used. On 15th they rolled out the Timeline to all its users and it was declared released! Now on your profile is going to look more life like and it is going to be open to the entire world to see what all is changing in your life!

Once you have activated your Facebook Timeline, you will have exactly7 days to tweak the look and privacy to your taste until it goes live to the entire world to see. Its critical to note that once you have activated the Facebook Timeline  feature, there is no way to revert it back to the old look, hence be sure what you really want before you make the choice.

Here is the Official update page from Facebook team on the Facebook Blog where loads of people have started requesting a roll back, but we personally feel that its  a great change. it again depends on ones personal choice and Facebook should have a roll back option active to cater users who really aren’t impressed!

A Review of Twitter’s New Look

Twitter rolled out its new look today to the Internet and I must say it looks very impressive and the effort to make the entire system simpler is visible clearly. The new design looks organized, simple and rich in graphic and styling! The major achievement is in organizing everything you need right within your dashboard even without a single click.

The Top Navigation: The top navigation has just 3 simple tabs  - Home, Connect and Discover. These three tabs summarizes all thats required from a parent navigation by allowing you to connect and discover stuff from your Twitter account.

Widgetized Design: The new look is more widgetized and now it has become easier to spot stuff that you are looking for. The famous 140 characted new Tweet box has now become a simple widget box that makes it easy to type a quick Tweet from your sidebar.

FaceBook Powered Search Engine Optimization for Google Search

As a webmaster, am sure you already know the conventional methods of SEO by link building and optimizing the content on a web page. Today I am excited to share another observation or rather a finding that could change your perspective on the modern day SEO.

Last week the internet was buzzing with the Thanksgiving sales and deals being searched by millions of people around the globe trying to secure a good deal. As this was a trending topic for the black friday day, I decided to spend some time to research on this to take home something useful as the data sample was huge! To my surprise, I found that when you do a simple search for the best Black friday deals for several products or product categories, the search result page (SERP) was dominated by Facebook pages and not really the web pages!

Lets do a real case study:

If you observe the below search string on Google search on the day of ThanksGiving Eve for a Canon 7D camera, I was surprised to see that the top three results generated are nothing but a Facebook Page and this page does not seem to have much activity but still it was successful to overthrow other “web pages” with the same content.