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Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage.

Adam Sherk

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. For many news sites (especially poorly optimized ones) search engine referrals are still considerably below 20% of total traffic.

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How to Identify Your Own Top Trends of 2009

Adam Sherk

Things that news and content sites should look at include: What terms and content types brought in the most search engine referral traffic? What were your top referrers/trends in Web search, news search, image search, blog search and video search? What sections, special features, individual articles, etc.

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The Most Buried News Sites on Digg

Adam Sherk

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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More Great Internet Marketing Posts for 2007

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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 for Non-Profits: How One Small Charity Makes it Work

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Epic Change considers itself a startup nonprofit organization, and as such, money isn’t in abundance. The organization wanted to build connections in open and transparent communities. They wanted to reach a broad audience to help raise money quickly to achieve their missions. They wanted to use media that was free.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. startups, and more with FriendFeed. What content are they sharing? Take a look at my own page.

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Social Media Insecurity: What to do When Online Activity Affects.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If Bob Smith of some startup created Facebook, the usage would be very different. Reply Tamar Weinberg August 20, 2010 at 5:56 pm Well, no, it wasn’t an environmental thing. It was closed to strangers and for very good reason. But the proof is in this screenshot.