Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

First, a study of 33 million unique users from Chitika’s network in September showed that visitors coming from Facebook and Digg were more loyal than those coming from the three major search engines and Twitter. Side note: Hitwise, you’re overdue for an updated version of that report!).

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Adam Sherk

JULY 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Buried News Sites on Digg by Adam Sherk on July 23, 2009 It’s no secret that mainstream news sites are experiencing increased exposure on social news sites like Digg. By contrast Telegraph.co.uk

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. 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. Break news. They have to be news-worthy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

Search Engine Optimization Benefits A third, more subtle, reason to “fix your house” is the impact that social functionality can have on search engine optimization. One of the things I look for nowadays when I visit sites is how well they’re integrating their social network presences.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. 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. Break news. They have to be news-worthy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks? I am fascinated by the amount of social networks that I’m part of, but better yet, I’m intrigued to find that I assume different “personas,&# at least in terms of choosing friends (and using the networks), on each social site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

One of the most common questions in social media is – “is it worth it?”. Because of the nature of the marketing tool, each industry differs to the point that people just aren’t sure. Every industry can benefit from social media. 4: Online Driven Companies – Social media can be used to drive traffic to online websites.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Which is why, of course, your business needs a killer social media strategy. In order to tap the potential of this fabulous marketing tool, you’ll want to first determine if social media can meet your goals and objectives. New tools pop up. Social media is changing how we do buisness. Some are great.

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Razor Social

MARCH 30, 2016

Is all that social media activity paying off? There are many things to consider when looking for monitoring tools but the most important thing is that you are monitoring conversations! Listening is just as important as sharing on social media Click To Tweet. The same can be said for monitoring tools. Social Analytics.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Social Media Advertising Building your personal brand is about interacting with others and establishing your credentials. Logging onto social networks only to propagate self aggrandizing propaganda will turn off potential clients. The best you can do is explain it as clearly as possible.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

This is no less true for the world of social networks. Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. Let’s be honest for a second here. The major “Web 2.0″

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Twitter as a tool to communicate during conferences. After attending SMX (I’ll post something on that soon) and SES NY, I realized that Twitter is a useful tool for conferencegoers to communicate their whereabouts or to share breaking news and announcements. Twitter as a marketing tool. What are my top picks?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Twitter went about this in the right way and it’s opened up a host of new applications, tools, and scripts. It’s an absolutely important tool, and it brought an immersion into the site even when I wasn’t on it. All this communication and web socializing takes too much time (even if it is fun).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

After you’re quite certain you’re ready to dig into the social media world and you have formulated a strategy , the latter half of the book will guide you through popular existing tools that can ease your way into social media. You’ll learn: What’s the hype about LinkedIn and how can I use it?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Maybe you’ve set up a blog to run AdSense and earn money from the search engines. That doesn’t mean they can’t be search engine friendly too. A peppering of keywords here and there will help your blog be more visible to search engines. One tool I’ve recently discovered is Scribe SEO. Your blog has to be excellent.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Epic Change’s success obviously means that the tools they used, where the barriers for entry are rather low, are working. Interactions We’ve seen the motivations for Epic Change to get involved in the social media space, but what do they do? They wanted to use media that was free.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

A few months ago, Brian Solis talked about an off-topic pitch about a social network for plants. Somehow, I think nature lovers would be more interested in socializing shrubbery.) Search for blogs via paid tools such as Radian6, TruPulse, and Trackur. Where do they come off doing that? I’m sure you can relate.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

They hear about tools, put forth a miserable effort, and are either too busy or just lazy. With social media, an abundance of resources are at your fingertips. However, without a successful plan and any adequate preparation, your social media efforts will fail. It’s a dumb move, to be honest (I thought it was temporary!).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Reply Robert February 2, 2010 at 6:27 pm You had me when you put more focus on communicating than the tools. Made me laugh when I compared it back to Roberts comment about focus on communicating rather than tools. There is a reason why Social media is called social media. Hope that clarifies. It doesn’t work.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

youtube Portfolio Lateral Action Lifehacker Macgasm Mashable Pistachio: Touchbase Blog Ramblings of a Sysadmin Real Simple Schwag Addict Search Engine Roundtable Professional Bio Spammr from Tumblr Home About Consulting Contact Sitemap Policy Site design by The Other Ben Rudnick.

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2010

Professional networks like LinkedIn. Social networks like Facebook and others. Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others. People visit social networking sites because they want to have conversations that dont involve sales pitches. Well you have two upfront opt.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Regardless of the many years of experience you have in the online space, the ideas behind social media and social media marketing are applicable to everyone. Social media rocks because it’s one of the most amazing tools for “free&# market research. Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

This is especially true of other social networks, especially ones where you were originally untrusted. Social media tools can allow us to grow, can even help us to accomplish great things together (i.e. MrBabyMan , Digg’s top user, was an unknown once. supporting causes), if we are using them with awareness.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Looking for a way to monitor social media activities and results on a tight budget? Want to show the world how social you are with a cool widget on your website or blog? How about a real-time search tool to see what’s being said about your company or any topic of interest right now? Cool Web Tools.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is hard False. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Working on campaigns for several clients and its been a slow haul, especially for a new brand.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 18, 2012

The constant changes are a problem for brands not only due to the expense of keeping up to date, but also because the newest (Timeline) layout has reduced tab engagement.But the most appalling shortcoming of the world’s most popular social network may be how un-social it is. And listens.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

What will the new innovation, the new leap, the Web 3.0 (I Pierre recently launched Social Alerter. He writes a science blog , maintains a set of SEO tools and moderates at Cre8asite Forums. Tagged as: Marketing , social media { 7 trackbacks } Will Business Boldly Go Into The Social Media?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Branding is a result of many things including your blog, your social network profile, your online resume, and how good you are at reputation management, to name a few. Lesson # 5 Use Social Networks. The Social Media Release. If youre googleable, you have a brand, so you should learn to control it. Her subject?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer? What skills, though, do successful social media marketers have that put these individuals above the average (or addicted) social media user, and better yet, above the traditional marketer? That said, such a broad determination means you can be a social media marketer and not know it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Despite the fact that Facebook has the most customizable privacy settings of all social networks (though we could argue with their effectiveness in a whole other post), people don’t like maintaining a “business&# identity on the same profile as their “personal&# (fun?)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

The Quiz The quiz is another viral tool that brings a bit more fun into everyday web browsing. Search Engine Smackdown Which Transformer Are You? Tools Users also like things that make their lives easier. Quiz yourself on relationships or just random trivia and see how well you score.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 18, 2012

The constant changes are a problem for brands not only due to the expense of keeping up to date, but also because the newest (Timeline) layout has reduced tab engagement.But the most appalling shortcoming of the world’s most popular social network may be how un-social it is. And listens.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Thompson of Search Engine Journal has a great article entitled How To Find Industry Influencers. Look at Boring Stats — and Make Them Interesting This has a little to do with the Social Media platforms, but mostly with analytics. Social Media isn’t only Social Networks. Check it out!

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