While we often hear about mainstream sites like Facebook and Twitter, there are literally hundreds of social networks out there.

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Do Social Media Marketers Need to Fear Social Saturation?

On Jan. 4, 2012, Unruly Media announced a $25 million Series A investment from Amadeus Capital Partners , Van den Ende & Deitmers , and Business Growth Fund .

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Unruly Media Raises $25 Million; Funding To Fuel Global Social Video Expansion

Industry research firm comScore released their search engine market share report for the month of October. The report continues to illustrate what consumers already know. Google is dominating search engine market share

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Google’s Performance Presents Case for PPC Opportunities

Have you seen the potential of SEO but are struggling to convince your boss or colleagues? You are not alone.

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10 Stats to Justify SEO

SEO can no longer afford to ignore social. Search engines are increasingly investing in trying to map a business’ online social presence; as Duane Forrester from Bing explained at PubCon last week, consistent social engagement sends a clear signal that a website is a legitimate ongoing business, not just another fly-by-night content spinner.

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You Got Your Link Building Chocolate in My Social Media Peanut Butter

Admittedly there is probably a bias of opinion both in myself and in many of the readers at ReelSEO, but I am going to attempt to approach this subject objectively to find out if all websites can benefit form video content. I decided that the best way to do this would be to ask 5 friends who love to stitch me up to pick a website each that they think it would be difficult to create a video about. I would then have to come up with a way for the site to use video that would enhance their website experience for the site visitors. Unfortunately, as you will see below their challenges were pathetic or ridiculous so in search of a real contest I bid you to enter a website URL into the comment box for me to find a way that they could leverage video to make their site fulfill it’s purpose in life better.

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Small Business Video – Can All Websites Benefit From Video Content?

Network executives are already canceling new fall shows like ABC’s Charlie’s Angels and NBC’s The Playboy Club, raising the question of what role social media plays in the success of a TV show. The New Media Minute did some digging to see if these shows scored in social buzz, and also looks at a new Nielsen study linking online buzz and higher ratings. Plus, cable networks such as WE tv and Oxygen have indeed found a link between social media and TV show performance.

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Can Social Media Save TV Shows – Social TV & The New Media Minute

Last month we talked about Machinima’s foray into the genre known as Tommy Wiseau, with the cleverly titled The Tommy Wi-Show .  Wiseau, the modern-day celebrity manufactured by irony, his movie The Room navigating the midnight-screening territory of The Rocky Horror Picture Show , has a perfectly-tailored channel on YouTube to continue this tour of oddball lack of skill.  The Tommy Wi-Show garners a fair amount of viewers, thankfully not as much as Machinima’s other original series going on right now, RCVR , which at this point can be declared a bona fide hit. The Uninspired Structure of The Tommy Wi-Show There have been three episodes of The Tommy Wi-Show thus far.  Each of them has Wiseau suddenly finding himself on a spaceship, where an alien on a TV screen tells him that he needs to play a video game and “score points,” or something, for research, or whatever it is that aliens do.  The alien, voiced by Brock LaBorde, is that typical alien voice, like someone with harp strings for vocal chords broadcast through an oscillating fan, or for anyone who knows what “Mini-Me,” Verne Troyer, sounds like.  In the first episode, we find out that the aliens, after tireless searching, have found Wiseau to be the best video game player on the planet.  Here’s the first episode, in which Wiseau stumbles through Mortal Kombat : Click here to watch the video. This would be hilarious, to those who are familiar with Wiseau, if he actually was good at playing video games, or at least given the appearance that he’s good at them.  Yet, in each episode, we find that Wiseau is not very good at games, to the point that we wonder if he’s ever played one or knew what one was before agreeing to be on this show.  Every game he’s played, he doesn’t know the controls, gets frustrated, calls for the alien to come help him, makes some strange Wiseau-esque comments (probably the draw for some) and then he is sent merrily back to Earth after playing the game poorly for a couple of minutes

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Machinima’s Tommy Wi-Show An Exercise In Bad For The Sake of Bad

It’s time to start thinking about Search Marketing Expo, specifically SMX East 2011 , in New York City. Programmed by the minds at Search Engine Land, including Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman, SMX 2011 promises to be jam-packed with insight, advice, and the latest search marketing news and information.

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Save On SMX East 2011 With Discount Code From ReelSEO

I’ve written extensively about bounce rate on my blog over the past several years, including how to lower your bounce rate, blog bounce rate, homepage bounce rate, etc., but I’ve never written about how it’s connected to SEO.  Bounce rate is an incredibly powerful metric that can tell you a lot about campaign performance and the quality of your content in a very short amount of time.  If you’re not that familiar with Bounce Rate, it’s the percentage of visits that arrive on your site, visit no other pages, and then leave. Those visitors simply visit one page on your site.  From a conversion optimization standpoint, the more you can lower your bounce rate, the more opportunity you have to convert visitors.  But although bounce rate optimization is extremely important, it’s not the focus of my post today.  Instead, I want to focus on how bounce rate impacts SEO, and specifically, how ACTUAL bounce rate affects SEO.  More on the distinction between bounce rate and actual bounce rate soon.  First, let’s quickly explore an introduction to quality content from a search engine perspective. Cutts, Forrester, and Panda Over the past few years, there has been a lot of debate (and confusion) about whether bounce rate is a signal that the search engines use to determine quality content.  Matt Cutts has probably been asked this question ten thousand times, and has referenced bounce rate when answering some questions about ranking factors.  You can check out the part of the video about page speed to see what I’m referring to.  Then with the rollout of Panda, an important algorithm update that targeted low quality content, bounce rate and other quality signals entered the spotlight

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Actual Bounce Rate vs. Bounce Rate, and Why the Difference Matters for SEO