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Are You a Digital Landowner or Sharecropper?

Waxing UnLyrical

Is a Facebook page really worth more than your own website? You only have to think back a few years to MySpace to see why you should not build on someone else’s digital land. Some recovered because they saw the writing on the wall early on, and moved back to their own domains. Is this the smart way to go though?

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Why Bing And Yahoo! Still Matter

Small Business Mavericks

Bing is more closely aligned with Facebook. You can push your Bing rankings higher if you have a strong Facebook network and promote your links to your Facebook friends. however, seems to be more interested in domain names with age. Google has its own social network with Google+. This is very important.

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Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Their domain name Their post type – length, frequency and value. Their Domain Name Another great thing to analyze from these blogs is their domain name. I personally believe that your domain name will affect your blogging career and how people look at your blog. All this info.

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It’s All About.SOCIAL

The Realtime Report

How many of us remember MySpace? The beauty of a.SOCIAL domain, as opposed to another one, is that it evolves with you. This means that www.yourbrand.social can redirect to your brand’s Facebook today, Twitter tomorrow and the social media platform of the future the next day. By Bill Glenn. How about Xanga? – Bitly.

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Report: Social Media Responsible For Only 3 Percent of Web Site Visits

Bill Hartzer

Certainly if this is the case, and social media web sites like Twitter and Facebook are only bringing 3 percent overall traffic to a web site, then clearly web sites owners need to take a look again at their overall ROI from there web site’s referring traffic. . Social media scored just two percent of the vote. -

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The Importance of Social Media in a Successful Marketing Campaign

Kikolani

Say the word “Facebook” in nearly any part of the world and it will be recognized. What may come as a surprise, however, is that while 66% of all companies have a Facebook page and 51% have a twitter account, a mere 16% say that their marketing efforts have been fully utilized and integrated into their existing campaign strategies!

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What You Can Learn About Social Media Marketing from TLC

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Around that time, though, I noticed that TLC was promoting Foursquare as Facebook within their TV programs. I elected instead to go to their Facebook account with the hopes that perhaps my luck would be better there. What about their Facebook wall? Again, Facebook was eventually cleaned up.) And I waited. I was wrong.