Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

Argent Media has long provided Online Reputation Management services for both individuals as well as for organizations. While we also have long provided Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services as well as Pay-Per-Click Search Ad Management (SEM) — the two staples of Internet Marketing — even from our beginning we have provided Online Reputation Management as […]

Argent Media CEO, Chris Silver Smith, will be speaking at the upcoming Content Marketing Conference in Boston, April 16-19, 2019, on how Twitter can impact search engine optimization, and the overlaps between content marketing management and SEO. Twitter is one of the top social media platforms that provides significant benefits to companies and personal brands, including […]

A couple of weeks ago, internet marketer Joe Hall, announced that he was auctioning off a domain name as a benefit for the son of Michael Streko, a prominent figure in the industry who tragically died on August 11th. We’re pleased to have participated in the benefit auction, and we won the DIYORM.com domain name. […]

My grant from the Chris Smith Institute for Exotic Travel was enough to cover both days of Rocks Digital, the Richardson marketing conference formed by the Voltron-like fusion of the Local Social and the DFW Rocks Social Media Conference. As you may recall, the first day featured, among other luminaries, Shelly Fagin. But even conferences […]

This weekend, I received a grant from the Chris Silver Smith Institute for Exotic Travel and hit Richardson for Rocks Digital, an annual conference discussing all things marketing-y. While there were several clever speakers scheduled for both days, I was particularly interested in hearing from all-around digital genius Shelly Fagin on building community with Facebook […]

Argent Media is currently seeking a Social Media Intern! If you grok all things social media, and want to get hands-on experience in managing online identities for both companies and individuals, please apply today! 

This Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, a gun store in Albuquerque, New Mexico, thought it would be a good idea to advertise a sale tied into the them of the holiday. The Los Ranchos Gun Shop is offering 10% off of accessories with the purchase of a gun today. It’s not unusual for retail […]

This weekend in Fort Worth, I will be speaking at WordCamp DFW. WordCamp is a friendly, unstuffy conference that focuses on everything involving WordPress, which is free, open-source internet publishing software used by more than 75 million sites on the web.  Talks at these conferences range anywhere from how-tos on blogging, to customized software development […]

I’m speaking this week at the Search Marketing Expo (SMX) East conference in New York this week on how to derive Search Engine Optimization (“SEO”) benefits from social media. In the past, this topic has been a little bit controversial. On one hand, people in SEO sometimes tend to think that Social Media is worthless […]

Whenever we have managed Facebook pages for businesses or individuals that are the target for online reputation attacks, I’ve been struck with how odd it is that Facebook doesn’t provide an option to allow all comments to be automatically moderated so that one may review them and approve or disapprove them before being published. It […]

For many small businesses owners, there simply doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day to work on social media along with all the other important aspects of operating a business. Yet, social media is an increasingly important component of online marketing in terms of community interaction, search engine rankings, and proactive reputation management. […]

Earlier this year, I heavily promoted a new search optimization option for business websites — Authorship, also known as the “Author Tag”. For a great many local businesses, this is particularly advantageous. By setting up your personal profile page in Google Plus, and then adding the author tag on your website, your personal photo icon […]

Argent Media is pleased to announce the launch of a new, flat-fee service to provide monthly development and content updates via major social media platforms on behalf of small-to-medium businesses. This Basic Social Media Management Package will provide optimal, high-quality updates in a business’s Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus pages each month. As you may […]

Argent Media recognizes Renee Hall, as Dallas’s first African-American Woman Police Chief!


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  • Sean Fagin: Interesting - I had not thought of this niche in SEO! I might have to try out doing this myself. Ho [...]
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