ProBlogger

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Make flyers with a catchy title and a description of your blog, and post them on bulletin boards in the entrance to supermarkets and other community buildings. Both search engines and visitors like to see fresh, quality content. Submit your blog to search engines like Google , Yahoo and Bing.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

Remember that link building should not just be solely for increasing search engine rankings or building up PageRank. One advantage blogs have over other websites is the ability to submit to tons of various blog and RSS aggregators. Join communities like My Blog Guest. This should be your immediate goal as well.

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Blogger Tools Tips Hubpages 42

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

As a top Digg submitter, it worked like this: at first, people noticed my heavy community involvement and my participation , and consequently, my submitted stories easily front-paged. The community had to react. There’s no real community in Digg. Most other sites you belong to probably have a bigger sense of community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community. This post is really poetry, as are all his other writings and blog posts. It’s definitely a worthwhile read.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Convince & Convert

APRIL 29, 2014

The SmartBrief newsletters aggregate content every day (at least 10 articles) around one topic, such as entrepreneurship, leadership, or social media, that is applicable to something you care about. If you have an active community on your blog or on one of the social networks, read the comments! Or it could be how Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral). Give them a reason to want to communicate.

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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on July 8, 2008 Share With many individuals finding great success with social media (and as an aside, a basic understanding of search engine optimization ), they immediately consider themselves social media marketers and consultants (as well as seasoned SEOs) and offer to sell their promotional services. Others aren’t.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

A number of large web development discussion communities host contest areas, including NamePros , v7 Network , and Webmaster Talk. The software development community -- especially the open source community -- has long used "bounties" to help lure developers to certain tasks. Think of it as Yahoo! Customer Support.

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Crowdsourcing Software Project Forums 245

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Since then, the students have formed their own vibrant community on Twitter. Extra extra credit would be the use of Yahoo! Ive found out, that it is far too easy to be dragged to only one larger and very live community (Facebook for example) and to forget about all of the rest web 2.0 aggregators. RECENT JOBS. mobile web.

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Class Social Media Web 2.0 Wiki 274

Bare Feet Studios

MARCH 1, 2009

Why have secret judges when you can have the community on the internet get engaged, give you more page views, and do the judging for you? But why is all the info stuffed into a flash file – not indexable by search engines or easily bookmarked much less read by humans? The contest rules page is very last century. Free promo! (he’s

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Tourism Campaign Sites Social Media 40

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

By putting effort into the writing process, you reap the benefits of a community that supports you because you lift them through your words. Search Engine Roundtable is an excellent example of a successful unique blog in a saturated market. People love data, and they love knowing how data can be aggregated to make conclusions.

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Blogosphere Blogger Comments Tips 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

I became a big fan of playing games (bingo especially) at a little hub on AOL called RabbitJack’s Casino , which was considered a unique community within the AOL borders with a close-knit group of people from all walks of life. Today, search engines answer the questions that phone books needed to solve a decade and a half ago.

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MySpace Yahoo Ustream StumbleUpon 101

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

It’s the (Other) Algorithm, Stupid: Understanding DiggRank (Search Engine Land): Muhammad Saleem examines what is known about the Digg algorithm and dispels common myths. 11 Guidelines to Social Media Success (Search Engine Watch): Eric Enge presents his 11 takeaways from SMX Social Media.

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

Yahoo Answers If you don’t want to ask your readers directly what they would like to read, you could browse a popular site like Yahoo Answer s and see what related questions people are already asking. My Favourite thing to use from the list is Yahoo Answers. Never thought of doing that either I have to admit, so thanks.

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How To Delicious StumbleUpon Postrank 77

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye.

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Social Media Facebook Marketing Consultant 167

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye.

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Facebook Consultant Social Media Sites 167

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

Now that Friendfeed aggregates every social site you use (for the most part — they’re still missing some ), anyone can see that you’ve just thumbed up that article on how to find porn behind a WebSense firewall even though you may have done it as a favor to your friend. Answers Yahoo! That’s easy to do.

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Content Privacy StumbleUpon Digg 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

People are flocking to sites like Twitter and Facebook and other communities because they are online communities where they can learn from and hang out with their peers. Twitter is a community and you’re a member of the congregation. The success of a social media marketing campaign strongly revolves around engagement.

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Social Media Klout Influencer Feed 251

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

The initial sentiment was highly negative , and most concluded that the algorithm will penalize users who care much about the community and use it regularly. The math takes time to aggregate.&# (Lesson: Stop noticing things the second that they happen.) Kevin also hinted that this recommendation engine may replace Upcoming section.

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Digg StumbleUpon Communities Upcoming 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

With the initiative for Facebook to be open and to empower businesses to host pages that celebrate their business, offering deals and giving the community the ability to converse directly with the business or entity these pages represent, you forgot about accountability. And now there are Community Pages! Who the heck needs it?

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Facebook Issues MySpace Privacy 277