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The Battle (and Blending) of Social and Search Rages On

Firebelly

Search engines and social networks are competing (and combining) in a myriad of ways. Many in the blogosphere are calling it a "Facebook killer." Yahoo responded at its SearchSpeak event on Wednesday, saying they had incorporated social features into there email system over a year ago. But if you dig a little deeper, it sucks.

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11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Michael Reply Alex October 10, 2010 at 3:52 am James, Really fantastic post mate – touching on some definite issues that i see are rife in the blogosphere, and everywhere online for that matter. Answers Yahoo! Thanks for the excellent tips. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Go Beyond Blogging – Multi-Channel Marketing via Online Media

ProBlogger

Don’t underestimate any one of them, as they can be far more powerful than the costly methods: Optimize your content for search engines. Many web users refer to search engines to find information. I’m not surprised if bloggers claim that 40-60 percent of their traffic come from search engines. Learn basic SEO.

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5 Simple Online Services for Checking Content Plagiarism

ProBlogger

If similar issues are being discussed in the blogosphere, it is not outside the realm of possibility that some similar content may inadvertently appear—even if the work was made by the blogger personally and not copied and pasted from someone else’s site. You can choose to check your text using Google or Yahoo searches.

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How to Go Beyond Blogging and Harness Multi-Channel Marketing

ProBlogger

Don’t underestimate any one of them, as they can be far more powerful than the costly methods: Optimize your content for search engines. Many web users refer to search engines to find information. I’m not surprised if bloggers claim that 40-60 percent of their traffic come from search engines. Learn basic SEO.

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5 Things True Social Media Experts Do Online

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

There are a few jokes going around the blogosphere right now regarding what it means to be a social media expert. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo! Follow him on Twitter.

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The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Unfortunately, there are simply not enough Jonathans in the world who explictly respond to the PR “pro&# to let them know that their behavior won’t win them any influential friends in the blogosphere. Answers Yahoo! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us