tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18986964286514097802012-01-18T23:30:55.152-05:00Ideas for the Arts and BusinessKory Livingstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11557278901088179740noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1898696428651409780.post-78694678354962643932011-06-13T11:24:00.001-04:002011-06-13T12:06:47.331-04:00

Social Media Strategy Today will conclude my examination of Dan Zarrella's book on social media. Monitoring This is an ongoing process. Use  tools that allows you to search for your name(s) & product names, and then subscribe to the search(feed) results via RSS. Search Set up account on Google Reader with these feeds. Monitor your industry,niche & competitors keywords as well. Here's a list of

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How search engines work [pt ii ] Semantic Connectivity This is an added advanced,advantage to help with: i- figuring out keyword phrases ii- figuring out relationships of text on high ranking pages iii- finding pages with relevant themed links iv- finding which keywords to include on a page The source for this information is highly technical,but the principles used are basic. Search engines try

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How do Search Engines Work ? A Preview Software programs called spiders/crawlers visit all the web pages on the internet, to read/interpret their stored data. The pages that show up with the engines search results are termed  search engine results pages(SERP).The SERP is divided   into sections,  see fig. 2-1 below. 1. Vertical Navigation, includes images,news, videos,maps etc. 2. Search

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The Anatomy of a Search  The continuation of  my SEO research, based mostly on "The Art of SEO, Mastering Search Engine Optimization"by Eric Enge et al This information is valuable for anyone who owns a website, from musicians & artists, to accountants & retailers...any type of businesses. There are about a trillion pages on the internet that Google knows of. A company named Jupiter released a

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12 Interesting Facts about Internet Searches Taken from  " The Art of SEO, Mastering Search Engine Optimization"  by Enge et al 1.    4500...is the number of searches performed every second, of every day2.    2900 ( 65%)...is Google's search market share3.    1 second...is the normal time it takes for search engine to respond to an inquiry4.    50-50 almost... the percentage of searches done by

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Microblogging via Twitter   Today I'm looking at chp. 3 of  "The social media marketing book", by D.Zarrella. Microblogging is a form of blogging that limits size of each blog. Twitter limits blogs to 140 characters, so it's a good tool to announce news, events, new blog posts etc. Here's some research that Dan did on Twitter 1.Using your first & last name as a handle is good, but if you have

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Today I'm looking Dan Zarrella's "The Social Media Marketing Book",where he talks about getting links to your website, by searching for industry related blogs and then becoming acquainted with these bloggers by responding to their posts.When you respond to posts, (either positively/negatively) you can usually put in a link to your site. I did some extra research into links, and here's what I

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My First Love, My Only Love Here's a custom made I song, I wrote for a bride's wedding a few years ago. She wanted it done as a special gift to her husband on their wedding day. She had it playing as she entered the church walking up the aisle, with her father, hand in arm,to meet her future husband,as he stood at the alter waiting for her . Of all the songs I've ever written,this tune is one

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Establishing  Measurement Systems An SEO project needs to establish a measurement system, so it can track its' results and measure its' success. In order to accomplish this task, you need to have the correct measurement systems in place. Many web hosting companies include web analytics software with their service. One of my goals of this blog is to understand, interpret and respond correctly 

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My Blog Themes   I have 5 different websites and therefore my original concern was that  I'll be spending too much time blogging. Has anyone else dealt with this challenge? Please share your solution. What I've decided to do is to design 3 separate blogs that serve all five of my websites. I use my primarily website korylivingstone.com to land music gigs as a   pianist and band leader.

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Part 3 (What Luck!) Just by chance I happened to stumble upon Charlie Rose on PBS yesterday. I've never seen him before. His guest was Chris Anderson, the curator of the TED Conference.(http://www.tedconference.com)The subject was human communication in general, with special emphasis on the internet. During the interview, Chris brought up a very interesting point when he reminded us that people

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PART TWO (Getting My Feet Wet)According to "THE ART OF SEO, MASTERING SERACH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION" the internet has forever changed, the way man creates,publishes, distributes,finds information & resources . All organizations & individuals need a webpresence, and in turn need search engines to bring them traffic. Search EngineOptimization is the "key to success" in the web economy.Project #1

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I want to tell you a true story about marketing & advertising.Several years ago, when most advertising/marketing effortswere still done via print media, I met a marketing "consultant"who guaranteed to refund my money in full, if I didn't get atleast a 200% return on the fee I would pay him to conduct amarketing campaign for my company.He even took me out to lunch in his attempt to woo my

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As a result of my last entry "Has your website become a money pit"?,I decided to do a little online research on the state of science & technology in India.I visited India's Ministry of Science & Technology, & discovered thatIndia has come a long way since her independence from the British in 1947.India has become one of the strongest countries in the world in terms of scientificmanpower,

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Has your website become a money pit?Are you fed up with your webmaster's lousy service? Tired of paying inflated prices to maintain your website? "Guru.com"... to the rescue of all small business owners! I've stumbled upon this great little international website that just may be the cure for all,if not most, of your internet business/problems.The keyword here is "international". At "

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A million what ?A million copies of my new cd, "DREAM HARBOUR".Hi Everyone:The music industry talks about a million seller but does that mean 1,000,000individual copies, or $1,000,00 worth.Maybe someone could fill me in on this.Regardless, I'm going to accept the former definition as my challenge for this year.Can I do it alone?Absolutely not!Can I get an international record conglomerateto do it

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Hi EveryoneToday I'll tell you how I became a songwriter. It was a long time coming...notthat it took a long time to learn how to do it, rather it took a longtime for me actually realize that I have always had this ability.My story begins way back in elementary school. Remember when the teacherwould make the class write English compositions? ...what a bore...especiallywhen the topic always seemed

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This is officially my 1'st post, on the 1'st of spring/08 .I never thought I had the knack of turning my thoughts into words.Writing lyrics was something that only " truly magically blessed people"had the ability to do. In a future post I'll tell you how I made the miraculousshift from being a "composer of instrumentals" to becoming a "songwriter".This blog is intended to share with you, the

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