Viral Marketing Visualization to Explain Twitter ReTweets

I couldn’t find a graphic visualization of the Twitter Retweet so I made one. The criteria I needed to clearly show include: 1. Clickthroughs NOT Readers 2. Retweeters 3. 2nd Generation Retweeters 4. All events over time I would have included Tweet readers who did NOT click through but that would have just been too [...]

Maximum Number of Facebook Friends You Can Add Per Day or Hour

OR, How to have as many Facebook friends as Lady Gaga: “You’re Adding Friends Too Quickly. Your Account Will Be Blocked” For many reasons including trust, rapport, history, and familiarity, my last post mentioned that 1 Facebook friend is worth about 22 Twitter followers. So now, if you set out to amass a large Facebook [...]

Twitter vs Facebook Social Media Marketing: CTR Effectiveness and Conversion Rates

After almost half a decade of Twitter and Facebook being around, nobody seems to clearly understand the pros and cons of either for use in marketing. In fact, I started Googling for a competitive matrix that compared all the key web marketing factors applied between Facebook and Twitter. I Fail. So I just built one [...]

Google Adwords vs Facebook Pages Advertising: Which has better CTR and CPC?

When Google first bought the contextual advertising system that later became Adwords, it made them a billion dollars fast. And it was worth it. Google’s credibility was an eternity further ahead than Yahoo’s and All the ads were matched to your search. But in reality, where they made most of their money is that the [...]

How to Double Your Page Views Instantly

I really could fluff up this technique and tell you stories and anecdotes or what not but it’s such a simple tip that I’ll just get to the point. Everyone knows that major blogs try to double their pageviews by breaking up their posts into 3 parts. But in doing so, they loose 90% of [...]

Google: How to Jump from Page 2 or 3 to Page 1

Lets say you’ve already done everything in your power to get to page one of Google on a given search term. And you failed. If you got even remotely close, I have a master’s Google ranking trade secret for you. Google not only weighs the quality of the inbound links to your site to determine [...]