Laurel Papworth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Digg has changed it’s social networking strategy from spotlighting key influencers who “digg&# a lot of articles to collect followers (crowd gatherers) to news from your friends. The Digg Situation. The new Digg looks, therefore, like a mix of Facebook, Twitter, and RSS. Strangers become friends.

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Influencer Digg Social Networking Communities 85

Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 21, 2010

For example, DirecTV is good at this; JustHost is not.) Toolbox.com , Focus , Ulitzer ) and specialized discussion forums all provide opportunities to respond to questions and demonstrate industry expertise. Post on Google Buzz. Social media provides the mechanism to demonstrate those qualities. Share this on Bebo.

Social Media 191

Social Media Research ROI Technorati 191

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Such was the case for this Digg story , which compared multiple web hosting companies and watched as these hosts handled the traffic spikes that resulted from the Digg effect. Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog.

Social Media 100

Social Media Digg Brands Marketing 100

Kikolani

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Moms, on the other hand, aren’t hanging around Digg or Linkedin. There are so many groups, forums, trends and possibilities that you can easily maximize the possibilities within your area of expertise or interest rather than having to drum up fake enthusiasm for something else. Follow Your Target Market. Who are you selling to?

Trends 142

Trends Social Media Tumblr Campaign 142

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic. He used Twitter to raise money for charity if people tweeted and blamed his cancer.

Crowdsourcing 192

Crowdsourcing scribd Ustream Social Media 192

ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

That’s just one simple example to re-purpose content. A free promotion in one forum may bring hundreds or even thousands of downloads, which distribute your message to more audience. Visit forums regularly. Some forums also accept on-topic articles. Guest blogging, as mentioned above, is just an example.

Marketing 35

Marketing Blogger Forums Syndication 35

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

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.). Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media). Post on Google Buzz. Social Events (e.g., Rich Meyer.

Review 152

Review Social Media Marketing Handbook 152

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

6 Common LinkedIn Mistakes Small Businesses Make, and What You Should Do Instead by OPEN Forum. Anne Field helpfully identifies six common LinkedIn mistakes (and it’s not only small businesses who make these BTW) and the right approach to use instead, for example, overtly promoting your product or service (gauche).

LinkedIn 189

LinkedIn Tips B2B Findability 189

Kikolani

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Increase Traffic and Authority By Listing Your Blog Learn how to increase your blog traffic and authority by submitting your blog to blogging communities and ratings sites, as well as adding your link to social profiles, forums, and links. Social Media. What is PostRank? Your Favorites.

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Postrank Social Media StumbleUpon HootSuite 130

Idaconcpts

AUGUST 18, 2010

Take iPhone coupons questions, for example. Once you have a Buxr account, just ask your question in the forum and wait for replies. Post on Google Buzz. It’s called Twitter search and it is essentially a search engine giving results taken from every tweet sent. You can search for ‘ iPhone coupons ? ’ Share this on Facebook.

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Questions Social Media iPhone Applications 137

ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

That’s just one simple example to re-purpose content. A free promotion in one forum may bring hundreds or even thousands of downloads, which distribute your message to more audience. Visit forums regularly. Some forums also accept on-topic articles. Guest blogging, as mentioned above, is just an example.

How To 26

How To Marketing Blogger Forums 26

Proactive Report

APRIL 22, 2010

If you are not yet vigorously active on Facebook, take another look at what they are up to: depending on whose stats you believe Facebook is either right behind Google nipping at its heels or has already surpassed them in terms of traffic. The Social Media Examiner page is a great example.

Social Media 84

Social Media Content Widget StumbleUpon 84

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us He writes a science blog , maintains a set of SEO tools and moderates at Cre8asite Forums.

Social Media 105

Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

My Bookmarks Digg Del.icio.us My Yahoo Google Stumble Upon. And as individuals, we may want to change our own styles of work -- how we mentor subordinates, for example, or how we react to criticism. The most notorious recent example is Michael Eisner. ); document.write( ); FastCompany.com | Where ideas and people meet.

Company 279

Company Health Care Energy Groups 279

Bill Hartzer

MAY 27, 2009

Demographics (Google Insights, Compete.com, Alexa data, etc.). - News (Google news, Yahoo! Discussions (forums, message boards). Trends are also very helpful for content ideas, on KeywordSmash you can search these all at once, with one keyword phrase and one click: - Google Trends. Google Insights. news, etc.).

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Research Tools Domain Name Yahoo 114

Proactive Report

APRIL 22, 2010

If you are not yet vigorously active on Facebook, take another look at what they are up to: depending on whose stats you believe Facebook is either right behind Google nipping at its heels or has already surpassed them in terms of traffic. The Social Media Examiner page is a great example. Bookmark to: Hide Sites.

Social Media 49

Social Media Content Widget StumbleUpon 49

Myrland Marketing

APRIL 6, 2010

Home About Services Social Media Speaking-Training LMA Contact Subscribe Myrland Marketing Minutes Strategic Social Media: Making Social Media Make Sense THE BEST SOCIAL NETWORK FOR LAWYERS, OR ANYONE, IS… by Nancy Myrland on April 6, 2010 An interesting question was posed on a legal marketing forum of which I am a member.

Social Networking 90

Social Networking Tweetdeck Forums Questions 90

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Social media marketing, SEO, and forum marketing are the great ways to expand your market coverage. What’s a good example of this? There are a few bloggers who are smart and great writers … like you for example, Tamar. Lately, I’ve been creating graphics with screenshots to point out specific examples.

Blogger 250

Blogger Engineering Flickr SEO 250

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums.

Communities 117

Communities Groups Groups Social Media 117

ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

Before we get started, I just thought I would mention a few Google algorithm changes that you should know about when thinking about link building in 2012. Google’s Panda update. Later, social networks like Digg, Last.fm, and others were affected as well. Google’s Penguin update.

Blogger 42

Blogger Tools Tips Hubpages 42

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

And if this post isn’t proof enough for you, check out Steven’s post relating to the quality of forum traffic , which often have even tighter knit communities than Sphinn. Steven reports that the average user from one niche forum stays for more than 7 and 1/2 minutes! Others want massive brand exposure.

Social Media 100

Social Media StumbleUpon SEO ROI 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

For example, one of my Friendster aliases is Times Square. Social media connections are those I know through a variety of online forums, the blogosphere, Twitter, and the like (but I generally don’t befriend someone immediately; I still give it time). December 20, 2007 at 12:28 pm toodoo » ????? Wonderful job!

MySpace 114

MySpace LinkedIn Facebook Social Networking 114

Viper Chill

AUGUST 28, 2012

For example with PluginID I had huge success with guest blogging as an SEO strategy, and within just 2-3 months I was on the front page of Google for the phrase personal development. Are there active forums discussing the topic. Currently I would describe my strategy as “hopefully Google sees the quality and sends me visitors”.

Adsense 77

Adsense How To Forums Sites 77

The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 9, 2007

Imagine your uncle is in town and he wants to check out the best restaurant around Pitampura for example. Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 3 Comments Filed under Kool Companies 3 Comments Anand August 10, 2007 at 11:48 am The comment section of this blog itself is a demostration of the wisdom of crowds. philosophy&#.

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Web 2.0 Startup SMS Directory 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

If a forum exists for your industry, you should very well be active: you should participate and follow the discussion closely to know exactly what is being said and what kind of feedback you can take back to your executive and development team to enhance your product and to make it better than your competition.

Brands 133

Brands Message Boards Travel Forums 133

ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

For example, guest blogging used to be very effective, but now that a lot of people are doing it and talking about it, it’s no longer as effective as it used to be. A great example of an effective secret blogging club is the DailyBlogTips Retweet Club by Daniel Scocco. Blogging collaboration.

Syndication 47

Syndication Wikipedia eBook Directory 47

ProBlogger

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Let’s take article marketing as an example. Submit your blog to search engines like Google , Yahoo and Bing. Submit your blog to social bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon. Register with few good niche-related forums and use your signature to place links pointing to your blog.

Directory 55

Directory Press Release RSS URL 55

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google. I just found a more useful way to search than Google. It only works for a defined use case, but, in a search market that is 85% going on 90% Google-dominated, this can still be significant. The site that provides a better search experience than Google? 12 Comments. Conclusion.

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LinkedIn Google Directory API 109

ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Grow Traffic to Your Blog Through Guest Posting and Creating Content for Other Blogs, Forums, Media and Events. I hadn’t made any money and then the second year, I started to dabble with some Google AdSense ads on my blog, some Amazon affiliate income. Turn Surfers into Blog Readers by Building a Sticky Blog.

Adsense 51

Adsense Price eBook Blogger 51

Josh S Peters

JANUARY 21, 2013

This includes billboards, commercials, ads, Google AdWords, Facebook ads, paid StumbleUpon posts, sponsored Reddit or Digg posts, promoted Tweets, sponsored YouTube videos, sponsored forum topics, paid wiki entries, etc. Forum (on-site), wiki, Twitter or Facebook page, blog, website, newsletter, apps, etc. accounts.

Wiki 178

Wiki Paid Search Adwords StumbleUpon 178

Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

Google Analytics Before Google Analytics came along there weren’t really that many decent tracking tools available. Instead of waiting around for Google to catch up, you can see what is happening on your website, right now. There used to be a free plan that comes with Crazy Egg but the cheapest option now is $9 per month.

Resources 77

Resources Netvibes Marketing Delicious 77

Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Especially in the day of Google Panda when search engines are trying to rid their index of sites with low-quality content, you need to make sure that guest posts are up to speed with the quality standard of your blog. Google looks down on duplicate content and typically ranks the original publisher first for content anyway.

Questions 167

Questions Adsense Marketing SEO 167

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

I remember sitting in an ROI webinar with New Marketing Labs’ Justin Levy , and he more or less skimmed through 5 or 6 different measuring tools like Grader, and of course, Google Analytics. Here’s a great example: Many Yelp reviews are taken down within a few days of being posted. Put them to good use! Ever wonder why?

Communities 237

Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

So for example, if I wanted to look for sites about organization and GTD, I would type in: [link]. Bookmark from Google Reader. If you’re a fan of Google Reader, then you’ll definitely want to start using Google Reader + del.icio.us. An example for all you productivity junkies might be “tag:gtd&#.

Social Bookmarking 235

Social Bookmarking Delicious Google Reader RSS 235

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

If you’re the frugal type, take advantage of the free alerts from Google, YackTrack , Social Mention , BackType (which gives you alerts from blog/article comments , which other services do not include), and Trackur. Kirtsy is a social news network; there are also forums and even Yahoo! Your investment is merely that of time.

Social Media 278

Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

As a guide to crafting an effective social media policy, you can emulate or combine ideas from one or more of the many social media policy examples now posted online, including the 57 social media policy examples from Dave Fleet or the more than 100 examples posted by Ralph Paglia. Forums and discussion boards.

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Policies Social Media Guidelines Plaxo 180

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

From its humble beginnings as an area on the web development discussion forums at SitePoint , to being spun off from the SitePoint Marketplace a few months ago, 99designs has experienced astonishing growth to become a leader in its market. The site is forum-based and relies on a "design team" (pre-approved designers) to fill out its crowd.

Crowdsourcing 245

Crowdsourcing Software Project Forums 245