Maryland Social Media

Social Media Monday (Vol. 5, No. 5)

March 2, 2015

SEO and the importance of a Responsive Website

If you are one of the agencies dragging your feet in our state website redesign efforts, you may be damaging your agencies reach in more ways than you even know. Migrating your current site to our new responsive template will increase your Google Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on a desktop and most importantly, on mobile devices. As you can see on the following chart, mobile usage has surpassed desktop usage at last.

Now is the time to adopt the new responsive design template. Beginning April 21, Google will increase the ranking of sites that are mobile-friendly. This Google initiative targets mobile friendly websites being searched from mobile phones. Make sure your site rises to the top and get onboard with the Maryland State Responsive Design Template.

Learn how at doit.maryland.gov/webcom/Pages/Standards.aspx or contact DoIT at dlwebcom_doit@maryland.gov

VOTE for @StateMaryland and @MDMEMA for the first ever Golden Post Award!

Two of our digtal platforms have been nomintaed for a Golden Post Award and voting continues through March 12th. Please encourage your followers to vote for these accounts every day until the contest ends. Thanks so much for your support!

Use this link for more information: http://blogs.maryland.gov/vote-for-maryland/

Extend Your Reach By Sharing Your Campaign Information Here

Remember that Social Media Monday is the place where you are able to share important agency campaigns with your fellow state social media managers. Many of our communication teams are unable to carve off funds for social ad campaigns so our combined reach becomes a powerful tool to gain organic reach.

Send me the details of the campaign along with links and suggested posts as early as possible so that we can disperse the information early and often.