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Re: How Voice Search Could Change The Future Of SEO « SEOPressor – WordPress SEO Plugin

Ciaoenrico — Tue, 24 May 2016 11:28:55 -0000

All great points. I have to wonder if/how keyword research will change for voice search. After all, slang changes as fast as the next high school graduation class. We may eventually need something like a SlangWordTracker to figure out how the majority of people are speaking.

That said, if we COULD determine that, creating persona funnels would be a lot easier! Just make one particular flavor of slang send that user down their own path to a conversion!

Re: Honey, I Shrunk the Autobahn: Rick Moranis sings Kraftwerk | Dangerous Minds

Ciaoenrico — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 06:11:55 -0000

I have a digital copy of this album - I would share it, but I think that's still illegal. Sorry.

Re: Why Twitter’s new analytics could turn us all into stat-hungry engagement addicts

Ciaoenrico — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 18:43:32 -0000

If analytics keep someone else from tweeting crap, frankly, I'm all for it.

After all, is the humanity of a tweet really corrupted when someone learns over time that the people following them like one kind of tweet and not another? If so, does that mean one's tweets were done an injustice when they learned no one wants to see their pictures of their lunch every day either? In both cases, something outside their heads told them what they needed to do to be better.

I think the real mistake will come in the form of people bragging about their engagement stats. If twits across the land start sharing, "I just had an engagement day of 15%!" then this analytics stuff really will need to go.

Re: How to Maximize Your LinkedIn Endorsements

Ciaoenrico — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:18:34 -0000

Thanks for the article. I have to wonder though - since it is so easy to give someone a recommendation on LinkedIn, (you can even do them in bulk,) do these recommendations really mean anything?

It feels like a throwback to the del.icio.us days, when if you got enough people to tag your page with the keyword you wanted, the assumption was your page must really have a lot to do with that keyword. Until people figured out how easy it was to game a tag.

Re: 2 Twitter Changes Making Life Easier for Big Brands

Ciaoenrico — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:44:02 -0000

I had no idea how in the minority I was on this - but I have found Direct Messages to be wholly useless, and for a long time. The only time I get DM'd is when someone wants me to follow their Facebook page too, or I get the automated "Thank you for following me!" message so many people think is a good idea. As a result I never read them. I regularly use various DM inbox cleaners to flush all these messages out - and these are from people I AM following!

So this new ability to receive DMs from anyone seems like a march in the wrong direction, at least to me. I had hoped Twitter would allow me to limit who can DM me to, say, a specific list of actual friends I create. Unfortunately, if Twitter thinks my problem up until now is I haven't been able to get enough unsolicited messages from strangers, limiting DMs is way off their radar.

Re: Four Things Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Needs to Improve (Part One)

Ciaoenrico — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:32:39 -0000

My big problem remains this show's deification of state power. "Captain America: Winter Soldier" looks like it's going to address this, so I hope it finds its way into "Agents of SHIELD."

Re: 4 Rules for a Video to Go Viral

Ciaoenrico — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:49:25 -0000

What I would like to know is, exactly when IS something considered, "viral?" Technically, anything that gets shared one time is viral, but of course we're setting our sights a lot higher than that.

So what is that line? Because just saying, "well, you know - when it's popular and stuff!" is the weakest online metric since, "page hits."

Re: 4 Ways This Big Brand Blew It on Twitter

Ciaoenrico — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:46:01 -0000

I guess it depends on the nature of that room everyone's standing around in. If it's a casual BBQ, jumping in and saying, "Well then you're in luck! I happen to sell that thing you weren't talking to me about!" it could be rude. If it's a networking lunch where you know people are pitching business at each other anyway, it's probably fine.

My point is, IMHO, one needs to determine how the audience looks at that room. Sure, a lot of people promote stuff on Twitter, so maybe they should be ready to hear pitches. But if they didn't come to Twitter to be pitched at, they might not be that responsive to a hard sell.

Re: 4 Ways This Big Brand Blew It on Twitter

Ciaoenrico — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:10:13 -0000

Wow - you stay classy, T-Mobile.

I think this does constitute a major goof, but a qualified one. People are now hip to how badly a company can use Twitter. (Like Urban Outfitters offering free shipping for Hurricane Sandy with the hashtag, #All Soggy. Yikes.) By comparison, this seems innocuous.

The problem is if an organization is thoughtlessly tacky in public, people will see the brand as out of touch. Instead of being the silly Hail Mary campaign to possibly get a couple of people to switch carriers, it damaged their reputation with everyone who saw it and rolled their eyes. T-Mobile got on the social medias all the kids are using nowadays and individually spammed them.

If you can't say something without properly thinking out how the message will be received, don't say anything at all.

Re: The Iron Man 3 Cast Talks Terrorism and the Future of the Franchise

Ciaoenrico — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:51:31 -0000

Don Cheadle is in this twice? Man! That's a lot of Don Cheadle!

Re: Google adds a new Settings app to Android devices

Ciaoenrico — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:58:56 -0000

On the point of turning automatic check-ins on or off: Not exactly. While I admit it might just be my device, everytime I uncheck this option, after I save this setting, back out and come back in, it's checked again.

Re: RIM stock jumps thanks to reported Samsung deal

Ciaoenrico — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:14:16 -0000

What would REALLY be interesting is if Microsoft OEMs got so bent about the Surface tablet, they turned to BB10 for their tablets instead.

Unlikely? Maybe - but come on, it would be sweet to see RIM come back by eating Microsoft's lunch!

Re: Virgin Mobile’s iPhone 4S sums add up

Ciaoenrico — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:39:17 -0000

The one major drawback of the contract-free iPhone is that you're still bound to Virgin Mobile whether there's a contract involved or not.

Let's say you have a VM iPhone, and one day you decide you want to walk away from them. Fine, you won't have to pay any exit fee, but you will have a $650 paperweight that is useless unless and until you return to Virgin Mobile.

You're still tied to a carrier - it's just a different kind of rope.

Re: For Social Media Marketers, SEO Is Much More Popular Than PPC

Ciaoenrico — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:58:38 -0000

This might also be true because so many social media marketers used to be full-time SEOs. I remember looking at del.icio.us as a possible source of inbound links before deciding they were crap for that - but the potential for directly reaching consumers was there.

Paid search, on the other hand, is like asking 100 women off the street to have sex with you: You get slapped 99 times, but that 100th one... It's not exactly the kind of mind frame you need for SMM.

Re: Social Media Pet Peeve – Drive-by Venue Mayors

Ciaoenrico — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:04:17 -0000

Well, thanks for the link! ;)

Re: Groupon demand almost finishes cupcake-maker

Ciaoenrico — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:20:32 -0000

Fair enough - I've never heard "custom" used like that before, as it really looked like she was hoping for more "customers." If that's correct, so be it - there are two errors that need to be looked at. If this were just someone's dopey blog, I wouldn't have bothered. It isn't, though, so I thought the author might want to know.

And like everyone else, no, I have nothing else better to do. Thank all of you for taking time out of your busy schedules to reply back.

Re: Groupon demand almost finishes cupcake-maker

Ciaoenrico — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:35:52 -0000

There are a couple of spelling errors in this.

“It's been an absolutely nightmare,” she said. (should be "absolute," unless this is what she actually said.)

" hope to gain new custom out of the deal" (should be "customers.")

"to inform potential customers that the deal in no longer available." (should be "the deal IS no longer available.")

Re: Google Plus Traffic Drops, 1269% Gains Erased

Ciaoenrico — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:29:24 -0000

Exactly - and temporary. I guarantee you that Bieber kid's going to end up on whatever incarnation of "Celebrity Rehab" is on the air in 15 years. That'll be about the time teenagers ask their parents, "Twi-what?"

In the meantime, I think G+ will continue its slow build.

Re: Google Plus Traffic Drops, 1269% Gains Erased

Ciaoenrico — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:36:16 -0000

But I think we all knew that massive bump in traffic at the beginning was temporary. Nothing gets that level of activity and sustains it, certainly not something that isn't even finished yet.

Re: Google+ Fixes the Stream Jumping Problem

Ciaoenrico — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:50:32 -0000

That really is a smart solution!

Re: Conde Nast Spins Out Reddit, Without Letting Go

Ciaoenrico — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:12:27 -0000

It's telling that Reddit isn't one of the options available to republish this post. Sure, it shows up in the blanket "Share" link - but next to garbage like Plaxo and Orkut for God's sake.

Re: Google+ invite received, we go hands-on

Ciaoenrico — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:45:24 -0000

I've been trying to send people invites for hours now. Still no dice getting them out. (Sorry.)

Re: DM Whacker

Ciaoenrico — Sat, 28 May 2011 21:34:51 -0000

You'll need to switch to the OLD layout of Twitter for this to work properly apparently, but once you do it works fantastically. (And fast - I had sent DMs going back a couple of years, and it cleaned everything in less than a minute.)

Re: 7 Social Media Lessons From Phil Collins

Ciaoenrico — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:30:36 -0000

Good points all - if followed correctly, I bet anyone can be like Phil Collins.

Oh, wait... ew...

Re: Adult Swim Video : Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! : "Living" with Dr. Steve Brule.

Ciaoenrico — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:38:42 -0000

Was going to share this on my Twitter and Facebook profiles, thereby delivering more traffic to this video and possibly others on your site, but... nah, I don't want people I actually like to be forced to sit through the big dumb asshole-ish ads that play first.