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MAY 12, 2010

They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly It’s going to be their big coming out party on the social media front! It’s going to be their big coming out party on the social media front! Fan ratings & reviews?

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

While having lots of site visitors may give your ego a boost, traffic alone doesn’t pay the bills. The real key, of course, is attracting qualified traffic to your site. If you’re selling veterinary supplies, it won’t matter much if your blog is popular with attorneys or foodies. Add social media landing pages to your site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Internet marketing strategies vary depending on the nature of the blog, brand, or business and alter with accordance to their physical and digital size and their particular niche. Let’s imagine your blog, brand, or business operates a wide variety of social media from the likes of Facebook and Twitter to StumbleUpon and Instagram.

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JANUARY 24, 2012

But as BizSugar has grown over the last couple of years, it’s also become a small business networking site where business owners can discuss issues, get and give advice, and gain insight into the ins and outs of running a small business. Actively Manage the Site. Learn to Use the CMS. makes sense for BizSugar.

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

Sure it is great to be everywhere, but why not put full effort into a few sites you enjoy and see what happens? Dan Schawbel from Personal Branding Blog is great at this. Sharing with your network something they created (a valuable blog post for example), a product, cause, whatever it might be. A marketing firm? Schmoozing.

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APRIL 10, 2012

Apart from a great how-to on starting up a site, it highlights the growing trend to buying websites rather than starting from scratch. Like Patrick, anyone who’s tried starting a site from scratch will know first-hand how much work it can be to attract and retain an audience. It’s a sign of the times!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

web sites, images, videos, etc.) When I was having some issues adding the commenting system to my web site, I was able to quickly get a response from the JS-Kit team and their users. It also allows you to share your bookmarks on other social networking sites. Evernote allows you to clip anything (e.g.

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MAY 18, 2010

You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested. Commenting, posting blogs and inviting conversation allow customers to connect with you and your brand.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 13, 2011

You can build all the links you want, but if your website isn’t optimized, Googlebot won’t be able to crawl the site properly. Even having two pages on the same site with duplicate content will get your site penalized. Before getting started, run Xenu Link Sleuth to check for broken links on the site, and fix them.

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JULY 17, 2012

Use the Disavow Links tool to submit page, directory, or domain URLs that may contain links to your site that seem ‘unnatural’ or appear to be from spam or low quality sites. This new feature can be easily found in the Configure Your Site section of the navigation. Click on “Configure my Site”. Click on “Disavow Links”.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I see this seminar as a blog. At the end of the semester, I only know a couple more people from the blog than I did at the beginning. How do you think this knowledge applies to site development and marketing? What tasks are more important to developing a popular community versus developing a popular blog?

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MARCH 12, 2015

It was originally posted on The Shelf’s blog (which by the way, is amazing), but I wanted to amplify its lessons because this post is oh-so-great. We had a blog for our little quilt business, and every six months, we used to participate in a quilters’ blog-hop, where about 20 quilters would each send traffic to one another.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

If you’re tweeting about your latest blog post or sharing a new product on Facebook or Google+ then visitors will be coming to your website and showing up as traffic. These people may blog about your company for example and give you a relevant link back to your site. Tracking Social the Proper Way. or facebook.com.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Therefore, you should treat it as such when corresponding with others professionals on the site. Keywords are always important because you want to rank as high as you can to help increase traffic to your site. Inactive and outdated sites don’t add any value to your profile; as a matter of fact, they remove value from your profile.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

They don’t read 20 blog posts and comments. In a recent campaign, I was reached by a social media agency about a topic that was totally irrelevant to my audience and would never be something I’d blog about. I blog and comment too, however; 1. Nobody has EVER sent me a pitch that I blogged about here.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

Facebook isn’t just a social networking site; it is a way of staying on touch with people around the world, a place to bring people together and building communities, and a tool for sharing information. The partnership of Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, his COO, has been hugely important in growing the site as a successful business.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Just like it’s not uncommon for someone to click the “Digg&# button on Digg without ever visiting the site. Advertisers aren’t going to pay a content producer if they aren’t getting traffic to their site, and certainly other revenue streams and models will be affected in the same manner.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Communities, social news sites, and online sharing can be leveraged to build a site following. Tagged as: brands , clients , hotels , restaurants , samir balwani , social media { 3 trackbacks } SociaLNK – We link and listen to your customers » Blog Archive » Social Media : Is It Worth It For Your Business?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 17, 2012

It took eight months and hundreds of pages of documentation to get us back on both sites. Google has integrated star ratings from consumer review sites like Epinions or Biz Rate – but only sites with four out of five stars or greater results get an extra line in AdWords with their star ratings. Let’s start with Yelp.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 15, 2008

Matt McGee over at Small Business SEM has compiled his own list of the “best posts of 2007″ in a site with a brilliantly and cleverly chosen title, the SEMMYS (Search Marketing Emmys). I’m pleased to announce that I will be judging the category on Blogs and Blogging along with Michael Gray. Thanks, Matt!)

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I’ve personally taken this concept so far that I now have a pretty new box at the end of most blog posts which highlights other bloggers that I enjoy. Plus, if you know anything about how blogging works, you should know that no blog is a competitor. Ignore the pundits who try and tell you how to blog, Twitter and network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

I was fortunate to have the help of James Duthie, a serial guest blogger from Online Marketing Banter , a blog on social media, marketing, and more.? Gab Goldenberg and Steven Bradley came to the party and donated their site stats for analysis, thereby providing three data points for observable trends (along with my own site).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

If you don’t respond to comments on your blog or Facebook posts, it’s like walking away from a person in mid-sentence when he is asking you a question. If you offer to plug someone in a blog post, do it. No engagement. Exhorting people to connect for no reason. No way for fans to publish content. Like this post?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Once they find out which sites you visit, these companies can target you with relevant advertising and spam. Warning…some of these e-mails may look like they are from a legitimate site. Each site has a variety of privacy settings to help you with this. Christopher regularly contributes to Amsterdam Printing’s blog.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. But there’s a lot more to media than just these social networking sites. This shouldn’t come as a surprise.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Personal , Social Media > How Do You Network on Different Social Sites? How Do You Network on Different Social Sites? by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks? Are you the same?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Blogs can also convey information , share ideas , and chronicle important lifetime milestones. And if they don’t have a blog? Here’s some more food for thought: Every blog post or negative review costs you thousands of customers. Do you think it’s harder for people to rant about your screw-ups?

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JANUARY 25, 2008

and obviously more recently sites such as Digg. If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. The story announcing Heath Ledger’s death was made popular with 13 minutes of submission to the social news site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

Hey, this is a confessional blog post, and I totally hear you. In fact, it made for a few months of vehement blog posts about Digg on this blog that were hugely controversial but also incredibly well-received by the impacted community members. Most other sites you belong to probably have a bigger sense of community.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Every product or service has a product life cycle, and despite the popularity of social networking in this day and age, even social network sites have a product life cycle scenario. Varghese is the CEO of Social Media Outsourcing company Bobtweets.com , a social media consultant, and author of the blog www.twitterblogpost.com.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

The background of their site indicates that their Twitter presence alone is being manned by 5 employees (more seem to be active on their Twitter account, so their background may need to be updated), but they’re lost about how to really reply at all. Again, this is a big brand.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Here are a few sites and services that can help you directly sell through social media. For example, you might have launched a Twitter account hoping it would drive tons of customers to your e-commerce site quickly. When we hear the phrase “social media&# we tend to think of the Web and sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Digg.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

That means actually using the site for my homework and being very candid on the Quizlet blog about direction and ideas. I think people really feel a connection when the site’s owner is also one of its biggest users. We see sites become successful all the time. This blog is written and maintained by Tamar Weinberg.

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JULY 1, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Industry News > Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them by Tamar Weinberg on July 1, 2010 Share Inspired by my recent post on How Young is Too Young? ,

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AUGUST 14, 2009

After leveraging guest posting on a blog to successfully get more followers on Twitter, Stacey found Twitter to be a necessary addition to her social media strategy. The Epic Change team uses its blog to expound upon its mission and to share and spread ideas. It’s emotional content in whatever media you express yourself best in.&#

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APRIL 10, 2008

For your blog, any URL will do, and if you are writing for a blog with multiple authors, FriendFeed parses through the authors and only features blog posts written by you. You may have stumbled upon a site a few hours ago, and now you’re actively Tweeting. What can you learn about me?

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