{"id":13820,"date":"2012-08-23T15:08:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T13:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/dont-belive-the-lies\/"},"modified":"2012-08-23T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T13:08:42","slug":"dont-belive-the-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/dont-belive-the-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Belive the Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><\/p>\n<p>It is people like this that make me angry \u2013 first of all they send me unsolicited e-mail and secondly they lie, lie, lie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The e-mail reads:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s a fact: more people find out about your business on Facebook or Twitter than on search engines. Making these sites work maybe tricky for you, but it\u2019s business as usual for us. Let us improve your visibility and enhance your image. It\u2019s part of our complete Internet Marketing package. We\u2019ll be more than your friends \u2013 we\u2019ll be your partners.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>I am not going to bother answering direct but will give the idjut a peak into MyPE\u2019s figures for the last two weeks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Social Media sites such as Facebook and Twitter sent a total of 5 259 visitors to MyPE.<\/li>\n<li>Search Traffic sent 61 223 visitors to MyPE \u2013 46 880 of those came from Google.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So you know where you can take your \u2018facts\u2019 and insert none too gently!<\/p>\n<p>By the way \u2013 those Google visits are the result of hard work to make sure that MyPE gets \u2018follow\u2019 and \u2018index\u2019 links from relevant sites. Social media sites DO NOT tell search engine bots to \u2018follow\u2019 or \u2018index\u2019 links from them to your site.<\/p>\n<p>All you are doing is making the man rich when you slavishly believe that Social Media is the be all and end all of your marketing campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook and Twitter are just like the free community newspapers \u2013 only good to be used as reading material and the occasional emergency wipe in the home of the big white bowl.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom Automatic -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is people like this that make me angry \u2013 first of all they send me unsolicited e-mail and secondly they lie, lie, lie. The e-mail reads: It\u2019s a fact: more people find out about your business on Facebook or Twitter than on search engines. Making these sites work maybe tricky for you, but it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-13820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}