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		<title>Why do you need a social media management tool?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jimmoscater</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The facts Social media is no longer a “craze”. We’re less than a decade into its existence, and it has already been linked into just about every other media channel there is. Above all, it’s an essential component to growing an online business. Whether you’re a developer, designer, reseller, or self-obsessed web celebrity, a steady [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The facts<br />
</strong>Social media is no longer a “craze”. We’re less than a decade into its existence, and it has already been linked into just about every other media channel there is. Above all, it’s an essential component to growing an online business. Whether you’re a developer, designer, reseller, or self-obsessed web celebrity, a steady online presence on a variety of social networks is a must.</p>
<p><strong>Is this you?</strong><br />
You like sharing videos on YouTube, but still like to Tweet and post to Tumblr and Facebook while maintaining an outpost on Google+.  You have a strong online presence, but spend far too much time ping-ponging back and forth from network to network, logging in and out. You get a lot of followers on Twitter, but some of your profiles are beginning to collect digital dust from not being tended to. There’s a simple way to avoid this kind of disorganization- a social media dashboard.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.hostnine.com/why-do-you-need-a-social-media-management-tool.html/ning-release-dashboard" rel="attachment wp-att-684"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-684" title="ning-release-dashboard" src="http://blog.hostnine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/ning-release-dashboard-1024x531.jpg" alt="" width="491" height="255" /></a></p>
<p><strong>What’s a social media dashboard?<br />
</strong>A social media dashboard is a tool that lets you manage all your different social accounts in one place. You can post to multiple sites, set goals for campaigns, and most importantly, get a larger view of how your online reputation is doing across different channels. Here’s some of the main reasons why you need to jump on the dashboard train:</p>
<p><strong>Collaboration<br />
</strong>Do you have more than one person handling the social media duties in your organization? With a social media dashboard in your life, you and your team can share a broader view of what’s going on with your brand in the social world, and pool your resources so things get done faster.</p>
<p><strong>Scheduling<br />
</strong>Some dashboards provide you with the ability to schedule posts and Tweets, which can help to amp productivity during busy periods. Take care not to over-schedule, though- too much automated content can sometimes dilute the quality of your efforts and make everything sound too stilted.</p>
<p><strong>Analytics<br />
</strong>As social media marketing budgets have increased, there has been a growing emphasis on the measurability of social initiatives.  What are you doing with your social media campaign? How does it benefit your bottom line? Do you have measurable goals? Social dashboards can help you find out how many people you’re engaging, and provide insight into who follows the links you’re posting, among other things.</p>
<p>Many dashboards also let you can create reports that can help you provide concrete explanations for why a campaign is succeeding or falling on its face. If social media is a large part of your job, and you need to produce actionable insights and results related to your social presence on a consistent basis, a social dashboard application is an a essential component for your day to day tasks.</p>
<p><strong>A great tool<br />
</strong><a href="http://ow.ly/7UitL">HootSuite</a> is a free social media dashboard tool that performs all of the aforementioned tasks, and more. Some of its features include:</p>
<p><em><strong>It’s free</strong><br />
</em>HootSuite costs nothing. You have the option of upgrading to a “pro” account (which eliminates ads and gives the ability to customize reports and profiles), but there’s also plenty of great features in the free version.</p>
<p><em><strong>No downloads</strong><br />
</em>HootSuite is a third-party application that doesn&#8217;t hog space on your computer,  because there’s nothing to download! You can tweet and post without the added hassles of another application gumming up the works on your laptop/desktop.</p>
<p><strong><em>Thorough analytics integration</em></strong><br />
HootSuite lets you integrate your Google Analytics and Facebook Insights accounts into your dashboard, so you can create customizable reports from a variety of different perspectives.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.hostnine.com/why-do-you-need-a-social-media-management-tool.html/affiliate-dashboard-analytics-release" rel="attachment wp-att-683"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-683" title="affiliate-dashboard-analytics-release" src="http://blog.hostnine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/affiliate-dashboard-analytics-release.jpeg" alt="" width="491" height="288" /></a></p>
<p><strong><em>Endless resources<br />
</em></strong>HootSuite also provides a large, diverse archive of video tutorials for users. They cover everything from the basics of using HootSuite to the ins and outs of maximizing your social media efforts. There’s an entire series called “HootSuite University” and a live chat called #HSUchat that helps to steer users towards new heights in social media.</p>
<p><strong>A new tool for a new year<br />
</strong>Social media is only going to keep growing into 2012 and beyond, so there’s no reason to succumb to time-wasting traps that hinder productivity. Getting the right tool can make a world of difference for you and your organization.</p>
<p><a href="http://ow.ly/7UitL">Click here</a> to check out HootSuite and take the first steps towards getting your social media strategy right for 2012!</p>
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		<title>WebHost Report Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H9Jen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trusted source for choosing quality hosting providers and services! If you are beginning your search for a hosting provider, you should start here! At WebHostReportCards.com they utilize the revolutionary testing system founded by parent company FindMyHost, Inc. in order to quality control test web hosts and their support and services. The Approved Host Testing [...]]]></description>
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If you are beginning your search for a hosting provider, you should start here! At <a href="http://www.webhostreportcards.com/Search.aspx?id=303">WebHostReportCards.com</a> they utilize the revolutionary testing system founded by parent company <a href="http://www.findmyhost.com/">FindMyHost, Inc</a>. in order to quality control test web hosts and their support and services. The Approved Host Testing Program they have takes the guess work out of choosing a web host and ensures each provider delivers on the services they offer. </p>
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		<title>Tips to Get Your Site on Top of Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H9Jen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hosting Related News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone wants their website to get top rankings on Google. Though it sounds like a far away dream, this is quite possible if you make the right efforts in the right direction. The website should be in top form This means that all your web pages are totally clean and do not have any pointless [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everyone wants their website to get top rankings on Google. Though it sounds like a far away dream, this is quite possible if you make the right efforts in the right direction. </p>
<p><strong>The website should be in top form </strong></p>
<p>This means that all your web pages are totally clean and do not have any pointless flash or animation. The meta tags should correctly reflect what is on them, this includes keywords, description, content and title. And most importantly, your content should be in top form, useful, and informative. All the hyperlinks on each paragraph or each page should work out fine.  </p>
<p><strong>Make the presence of the website visible to Google</strong></p>
<p>In order to get this done, you need at least 35 quality links pointing to your site. Only then will Google even start to take notice of the website. And each of these 35 links should come from different websites. So if you submit to directories, chose the best ones that are high in page rank themselves. Don’t waste your time getting links from sites, that can’t ensure quality listing. That will not really help you.  </p>
<p><strong>Research what Google is actually looking for</strong></p>
<p>Therefore if your content is not helpful or unique, don’t expect to find great favors from Google. A website that has just been put together to reap in money without anything concrete on it will not really get you anywhere with Google.</p>
<p><strong>Keep on working on the website </strong></p>
<p>You have to keep improving your website. Meta tags should be reviewed. Php and html should be pulled up. So not forget to improve the navigation, structure and content of your website. The trick is to update. And this goes for backlinks too. just because your website has figured once in top ranking does not mean that you forget to do the base work.</p>
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		<title>How Web Hosting Aids In SEO</title>
		<link>http://blog.hostnine.com/how-web-hosting-aids-in-seo.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H9Jen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web hosting is in fact one of the most popular services that nearly millions of people use for creating some of their best web sites. Most of the people use these services for creating anything starting from blogs, community sites, personal sites or even e-commerce sites. But most of the people simply don’t know the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Web hosting is in fact one of the most popular services that nearly millions of people use for creating some of their best web sites. Most of the people use these services for creating anything starting from blogs, community sites, personal sites or even e-commerce sites. But most of the people simply don’t know the importance of this web hosting especially when it comes to SEO. One can literally benefit from most of the search engine traffic by simply devising a unique SEO strategy.</p>
<p>Even before getting a hosting plan you may simply be interested in getting a domain. If you already have a domain name you may be considering of registering it with some of the other host. You can even try registering with one of the host by paying $10 for around a year’s time although some may even be much cheaper. When speaking of SEO we all know that URL and domains are very much important because when these spiders simply come crawling they would in fact index your pages.</p>
<p>So if you are in fact having one of the most unique domain name that matches your URL which is simply designed best, then you start being visible in the eyes of most of these SEOs. Some of the features of the web hosting also does benefit the SEOs efforts to a much greater extent. Optimization for some of the most targeted search is certainly very much effective as most of the host present today simply offer a number of tools that may in fact help with the research in choosing some of the best key words for your site.</p>
<p>Most of these also provide with a handy web application features. These keywords also give you with the graphical statistic about the type of traffic your website may be getting. It in fact provides the complete details like when visitors come and also from where these visitors come. It also shows the spider that visited your site. A number of companies do offer a free service for SEO along with free marketing and tools. Most of the web packages are simply loaded with most unique tools.</p>
<p>Web hosting simply plays a very major role in SEO as most of the results simply depend upon the hosting company. It certainly plays a crucial part as it emphasizes more on the quality work than quantity work. Here cost of the service certainly does not make any difference. You may even find a number of hosting services that are in fact cheap and better. So before looking for any services you need to keep in mind that it is actually the fate of your rankings what you are talk about.  You fate simply lies in the hands of some other company that is watching you.</p>
<p>This is the relation where only trust counts. So perform your research and rush to the services which may not harm your page rankings and make your visibility much better is what you need.</p>
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		<title>Importance of Social Networking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H9Jen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may be having a number of friends and your friends may be having their friends who in turn may be having friends! It can in fact be so on and so forth. This pattern of friendship can thus be called as a network and in more specific terms social network. But the important thing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You may be having a number of friends and your friends may be having their friends who in turn may be having friends! It can in fact be so on and so forth. This pattern of friendship can thus be called as a network and in more specific terms social network. But the important thing is that this pattern of acquaintances and friends are simply not with you as they just happen to be with you. Most of them are in deed a part of your life as you may be sharing many things in common with them or you may be having the same common interests.</p>
<p>This same concept can also be applied in this virtual world of what we call as internet. In fact there are a number of communities that are present all over the information superhighway which were certainly build with an aim of the interest that are usually shared by each and every member of this network. In earlier days when internet was not so common, these type of social networking may certainly have been a way to meet a number of people who simply share some of the common interests. But with the development of internet this pattern has certainly become one of the most powerful tools for your business.</p>
<p>Ever since man had learned to communicate with each other he has been socializing in his community. Till date all of us are simply bound by this system as all of us do have fiends. So your group of friends can be called as your social network. And when you meet certain new people you make new friends and you develop a network of friends that share same interest. So most of the people who understand the importance of this can certainly consider this as an opportunity and take advantage of this. You can in fact develop a world of trade and business. Most of the companies and firms who simply share the same interests tend to forge tie with each other with an aim to strengthen and develop their business.</p>
<p>So if this concept works offline then it is sure that it will also work online. Internet is a global business center. All the citizens of internet and entrepreneurs have in fact seen the power of this social networking tool. Most of them have also mastered methods to utilize this concept to most of their advantages. This in simple terms can also be called as business book marking which in fact is the variation of social book marking. It simply utilizes all the power of social networking online and applies to their business. It has in fact proved to be very effective for a number of big and small businesses alike as businesses can be conducted on a global platform.</p>
<p>With the help of such social networks your business gets the strength to reach millions of other people online. But just like the networking in the real world the basic principles does in fact apply here also. People should have the same interests because this interest is what actually connects you with others and them with you. So if all simply goes on well then a giant partnership can be established.</p>
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