Social Media

Welcome to the Social Media Category page!

Social media and social networking are terms we see everywhere nowadays, both in Internet Marketing and also among the general population of the web. This is what makes it so important, the amount of people using the many social services, and the huge potential that exists within each and every one of these social websites. There are so many excellent and unique ways of building your brand and making your website and company highly visible on the internet. No matter what industry you are in there is a social site that you will be able to fit into and be recognized, it is just devoting the time or budget towards this special area of marketing. Sometimes it may take a bit of creativity, especially if you are in a tough niche, but it can be done. One of the other great things about getting your name and your content out there into the social communities is the many great natural backlinks that can come along with it, as well as the communities of likeminded people that can also become aware of your website and your brand. Here we will discuss trends and topics we feel are important for you to know if you plan on venturing into the social world.

Search & Social Weekly Wrap-Up 10/2

October 2, 2009

Google Wave now in Beta
Google released it’s newest (and most ambitious) product to beta testing this week to 100,000 lucky participants.  Google wave is an online collaboration medium that incorporates email, wikis, blogging, and everything “web 2.0″ into a single UI.  Reviews are starting to emerge, and it looks like for us “techy” folk, [...]

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Search & Social Weekly Wrap-Up 9/25

September 25, 2009

We’re BACK!  It’s busy-busy-busy, over here, but the web won’t wait for anyone, so let’s just get right into it, shall we?  A lot has happened since the last weekly wrap-up, so here’s the best of it:
Google’s Fast Flip – the Jury is out
Jury is out for Google’s new Fast Flip product.  Essentially Google News [...]

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Social Media Weekly Wrap 7/31/09

July 31, 2009
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Social media is amazingly powerful and social networking sites have been growing at unbelievably fast rates, and they are also starting to replace some mainstream news sources and even the search engines for some people. The fact of the matter is that many social networking sites, mainly Twitter and Facebook, are breaking many news stories [...]

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Social Media Weekly Wrap 7/24/09

July 24, 2009
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This week was no different than any other week in the world of social media, so that means there was a lot going on and lots of big news. With so much going on every week it is impossible to list everything, so here is a list of some of the social media news that [...]

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SEOFAQ – A New Series

July 23, 2009

So this is something new here at WDYGU, it’s a series of articles that I’d like to help use as a reference.  Somewhere to tell a current or potential client… “Hey you know what?  I’ve got a perfect place for you to find an answer for that………. my blog!”
I think that I’m going to call [...]

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Social Media Weekly Wrap

July 17, 2009

Social news sites and all of the other social networking sites are not going anywhere, in fact the communities are growing everyday and many of the top news stories worldwide first break in these social networking communities. Every week the social communities are buzzing with many big stories. Now, every Friday, we’ll bring you [...]

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Social Networking, What's the Big Deal?

May 14, 2009

You hear the words being mentioned all the time and there are so many companies taking advantage of the social network uprising. When done properly they are finding great success with it because it gives them a way to better interact with their customers. People like communication, information, and honesty, and social networks give business’s [...]

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Digsby, will you marry me?

April 29, 2009

I’m a Firefox kind of guy. Long before IE7, I was in love with the functionality of multiple tabs in the same window. I was introduced to Firefox by Todd when we first started working together some years ago. I was lustful for all the add-ons, and I relished the rapidly vanishing programs cluttering my [...]

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Welcome to WhyDontYouGoogle.Us

April 12, 2009

Welcome to our website and blog! We are officially open for business and ready to take on the world of SEO and Social Media!
For those of you who don’t know us, we are two former link ninjas & SEO specialists: Todd Heim and Shawn Rosko. We’d worked at WeBuildPages with Jim Boykin for [...]

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