Social Media

Recently Neal Schaffer was our guest on our Digital Marketing Excellence Show. Neal has been a Forbes Magazine Top 50 Social Media Influencer for two years running, is an internationally-known keynote speaker on social media strategies, and is the author of several popular social media marketing books, including his most recent Maximize Your Social: A One-Stop […]

Major League Soccer (MLS) is active on many social media networks, including Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, and YouTube. That is a lot of territory to cover, but the engagement level in all these networks is high. To learn more about MLS’ strategy, I caught up with Director of Social Media for MLS, Amanda […]

In today’s post, we are going to review the data we (Perficient Digital) have assembled on the potential for Facebook activity to impact Google rankings. This is a follow up to the prior study we did to evaluate if Google uses Google+ Shares as a ranking factor. Let’s dig in! Google Visibility into Facebook Likes […]

How Do People Use Facebook? In this survey we polled 325 users to learn about the ways they are using Facebook. We don’t pretend that this represents the entire population, and it certainly does not represent the largest user profiles on Facebook or any business pages. This is intended as a sampling of 325 randomly […]

Back on November 23rd, I put up a post asking people for their best holistic SEO tips, and this led to a very interesting side discussion about the online fate of women who change their names when they get married. My basic reaction to all this is “C’mon Google, this is something you’ve gotta fix!” […]

Many of you know that I have been working for a long time on a study to attempt to directly measure the impact of Google+ Shares on Google’s search rankings. This study has attempted to measure “causation”, not “correlation” – i.e. to see if we could prove some impact on rankings from Google+ shares. This […]

Have you ever overheard a friend trying to remember that actor’s name from that one movie with the scary bad guy or a co-worker hopelessly wondering how to properly sauté spinach and you just want to say “Google it!” but it almost seems too obvious? While search engines provide instantaneous access to information, sometimes we […]

Key Points The goal of News Feed is to show people the most interesting and relevant content to them. As part of the News Feed redesign, Facebook made a lot of the stories bigger and brighter so that people could see the content that they really cared about. In addition to having a top news […]

Key Points Initially when Bing launched social search, they wanted to carve out a distinct space for the social results. Later on it became clear that these worlds were blending together and it made less and less sense to keep them in a separate space. Bing is now indexing 30 times more data from Facebook […]

Key Points Quora is one of the latest networks that Bing has socially integrated into search. Quora helps to disambiguate and make sense of some of the different facets of certain search terms. The goal of using Quora (and other social integrations Bing is doing) is to replicate the very human characteristic of involving others […]

Key Points From The Interview Bing’s goal is to make social signals more valuable by presenting them in a way that actually augments the search experience. Previously, most social information was trapped in people’s heads. Now, they are publicly expressing this information in a way that machines are able to read it and make use […]

The new Bing interface is aimed at bringing you clean and decisive search results while helping you interact with your friends and network for a holistic search experience. In this interview, Stefan Weitz from Bing talks about the functionality of the new Bing, how it came about, and plans for its future. Key Points The […]