Content Delivery: Introducing a Simple Way to Get More Subscribers
Blogging is a lot like media publishing: the more people that consume your content, the better its value. This means that you need to control its distribution as much as you can.
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How to Use Google Alerts for Content Marketing: Collect & Store Content Ideas
After all Google's updates, more and more people come to realize that high-quality content marketing is your best bet to secure stable search engine presence as well as the variety of traffic sources (good content does equally well in both search and social media).
12 Most Trending Zemanta Posts from 2012
This is our last post in the series of few looking back at 2012. Before the beginning of 2013, let's look at which Zemanta posts were the most popular this year. Some of them you may have missed or forgotten about. So, check them out.
Link Love Is The Way We Roll
Everyone talks about social these days – it started with social networking, then Fred and Tumblr invented ‘social blogging‘, right after it came the social media. Our online life is predominantly about socially sharing and engaging, but all this talk of Facebook wall and Twitter stream and Google+ is making us forget what social engagement is really about. Surely ‘social’ is about sharing, but [...]
What’s the best thumbnail for this page?
A feature exists that we all use tens of times a day. A feature almost every social startup implements eventually. A feature so neglected not a single library is devoted to it. Thumbnail extraction. Whenever you share something on Facebook or G+, a thumbnail is extracted from the page. Sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes laughably [...]
The uncanny valley of web scraping
Web scraping is one of those “Bah, I can do that in a weekend!” problems. What could possibly be so difficult about going to a website and deciding what the actual content is? Then you try. It doesn’t work. After a bit of digging you realize this is actually a pretty tough problem – but surely [...]
Guest Blog Post: Google Reader and Zemanta’s ‘my sources’ tab; a match made in heaven
Here is another great guest blog post by Todd Lohenry on tools that work great with Zemanta. Google Reader is the killer app for ‘thought leadership’ marketing. It empowers you to create your own virtual newspaper from the sources you trust on any topic. Since only about 10% of American internet users are actually actively [...]
Zemanta Power User: Ted Curran, Instructional Designer
Ted Curran is an instructional designer for a health sciences university in Oakland, CA. He blogs about education technology at TedCurran.net and builds WordPress websites for small businesses at ChimeraDesigns.net. Ted has been using Zemanta since 2008 and has been a big fan. We’re thrilled to have him as one of our users and are excited to to [...]