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12 of the Best WordPress Guides, Hacks and Plugins of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Angela Bowman shares her “clean and simple list of the plugins I use most often on my WordPress sites&# for SEO, feeds, forms, security, Twitter and more. Robyn-Dale Samuda offers guidance on navigation setup, image tagging, sitemaps, permalinks, plugins and more for search-optimizing a WordPress site or blog. WordPress SEO.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Explain your goals and establish clear guidelines for any mention of the company on social media sites. She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.). Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.).

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Look to Yelp and Forums When you get beyond social networks, the heaviest concentration of influential impressions is on ratings and reviews sites (32%), followed by discussion boards/forums at 29%. Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. Good stuff.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I do this only occasionally, however, as my friends/followers on each site don’t have much overlap. I have a few goals set up, including visits to my speaking page; visits to my consulting page; time spent on the site, etc. Anyways, my delicious account and I thank you for all this great info! I implement bit.ly

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Cloud Jacking: 7 Steps to Dominate Your Niche

Viper Chill

If you’re lucky, the top sites in your industry will be bloggers. Even if you’re not going to start a blog, authors of these sites are very often the influencers online and with real people behind them, you have someone to engage with. If there are tons of blogs in your niche, would people benefit from a forum?

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Social Media Strategy: 10 Experts Reveal Their Secrets

Viper Chill

Or, how when I worked with Bacardi we drove so much traffic to their site that we took down their servers. Facebook After recently surpassing Google as the most popular site in America and closing in on 500,000,000 monthly unique visitors, Facebook has huge amounts of traffic that you can ethically leverage to grow your business online.