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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.

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Digg: Your Privacy is an Illusion

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Nearly four months later, the social features appear to be here to stay. As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. But are they secure? Thanks for fixing incoming shouts.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

by Tamar Weinberg on July 8, 2008 Share With many individuals finding great success with social media (and as an aside, a basic understanding of search engine optimization ), they immediately consider themselves social media marketers and consultants (as well as seasoned SEOs) and offer to sell their promotional services.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The newsletter, which was sent within the first week of the month, would include new research findings from surveys conducted by research groups such as the Pew Research Center, new discoveries from a marketing firm’s eye tracking study, or data that was recently culled across a multitude of SEO agency case study reports.

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s a lot noisier without risk factors involved: it’s harder to really follow every single Plurk from a person, whereas in Twitter, you can read everything in one page (as you can see, I’ve primarily exercised caution with my Tweets). It’s called social media marketing, not MySpace marketing.

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Data Mining: The Ultimate Guide to Niche Analysis

Viper Chill

I’ve found this to be a tool that satisfies my curiosity more than anything else, but when it comes to SEO research, it can be interesting to see if any webmasters in your industry are operating their own little ‘link farms’ You would be surprised how many I’ve found, even after Whois checking for verification.

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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Specificity is why SEO blogs exist in great numbers. It’s why we can find social media blogs in the thousands. The blog was born from my experiences discovering a new healthy lifestyle after battling alcoholism for many years. If there’s an interest in a subject matter, there’s probably a blog.