ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

This is a guest contribution from travel blogger Chris Appleford. From the moment we made the decision to sell everything we own and travel the world indefinitely, we wanted to have our own travel blog. But the reality is, just because you’ve decided to travel, doesn’t necessarily mean you should start a travel blog.

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Travel Course Cost SEO 20

Bill Hartzer

MAY 31, 2011

An Interactive Marketing Agency based in Dallas, Texas that specializes in the Travel industry is seeking a new Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Coordinator. – Help identify new linking opportunities by reviewing potential websites to ensure they are relevant to our client and are a quality site. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Engineering Yahoo Skills StumbleUpon 132

Kikolani

AUGUST 2, 2011

Since I’ve been doing a lot of writing on various sites, I thought I would start a monthly compilation of all the posts I’ve done elsewhere so my readers here don’t miss out on all the informational goodies I’ve been sharing! My must have piece of techie gear for Blog World Expo, traveling, and photography!

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ROI Social Media Google iPad 126

Social Media Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

The site has been around for a couple of years but only recently took off. Simply stated, the site is a visual bookmarking tool. If you're not already familiar with it, take a look and see if you can understand what the fuss is all about. Why It Works And really, this approach is parallel to the way I think Pinterest is different.

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Apparel comScore Delicious Posterous 167

Idaconcpts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

When it comes to running a small business or blogging about your recent travel adventures to Spain, anyone who works online understands the need for speedy and effective Internet hosting service. Many hosting company’s will advertise promotional deals to entice you to host your site with them. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Hosting Domain Name Technorati StumbleUpon 131

Bill Hartzer

MARCH 26, 2010

Using a new site called “ Siteminis “, you can do just that. Take a look at how your site might look on various mobile phones: Siteminis’ mobile-optimized web sites offer an interesting solution for major retailers, entertainment and sporting events. – Working across all wireless carriers.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? that are irrelevant or profane), and enable site visitors to share comments back to their social networks without leaving your website. Another Cool Tool To Optimize Your Site Loading Speed by Daily Blog Tips. Create video emails?

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 7, 2011

Check out this great post from John Burnside to get a better understanding of site traffic in general. I am a day trader that has forayed into travel blogging and I’ve been able to start generating $1,000 in revenue off my travel blog in six months. You want to give your site a jump-start. How to focus on quantity.

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Strategy StumbleUpon Travel Reddit 41

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 8, 2011

When I’m traveling around town, sometimes I like to stop in a coffee shop , and get something to drink, or stop over at a local restaurant for a bite to eat. It would be so much easier if there was one site that I could let people know where I am. Share it on StumbleUpon. That’s easier said than done. Tweet This!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 31, 2008

I’ve traveled more than ever before. I dabble in social media sites, particularly Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon. The other site? Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Not so much.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

And I feel a certain solidarity/friendship towards them — including towards Professor Macdonald — as fellow travelers who’ve experienced something in common. How do you think this knowledge applies to site development and marketing? In any case, I can’t see any obvious lessons.

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Social Media Class Forums Microblogging 189

ProBlogger

JUNE 3, 2013

Is there opportunity to build relationships with other sites to see this happen again? did traffic come from a social media site? Here’s just a taste of some of the observations I made on my top 5 most visited posts on the site last month: 1. This was an older post I updated and reposted on the site.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 17, 2012

That’s when I discovered StumbleUpon. In no time flat, StumbleUpon blew Google, which had been Haunt Jaunts’ top referral source, out of the water traffic-wise. Where Google, FB, and Twitter brought in 1,200-1,500 views a month together, StumbleUpon was bringing in 7,000-8,000 all by itself. Not even close.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 26, 2010

While there are many more tools available out there, here is a list of some of the best monitoring tools and sites available that you can use to monitor your brand across the social media landscape. With ReviewAnalyst, you can track, analyze and react to what people are saying about your hotel on the major travel and social media sites.

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Cymfony Social Media Tools SM2 152

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

I met him on StumbleUpon over a year ago and he is one of those kids who never ceases to amaze me; he totally understands social media and his 22 Reasons for You to Blog was even featured in my annual Best Posts of 2009 roundup. Shelby really liked the TV show Jericho , and at the age of 9, started a site called Jericho4Kids.

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Blogger StumbleUpon Communities Journal 241

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives. .&#

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Brands Message Boards Travel Forums 133

Proactive Report

JULY 3, 2011

Media sites that adopt the ‘Like’ button average a greater than 300% increase in referral traffic from Facebook. A colleague of his sees it and adds your video to StumbleUpon and a follower there posts it to Digg. As it travels across the graph people add comments. Source: Facebook, April 2011).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Videos that have a completely unplanned “wow&# element to them definitely travel far in social circles. loved the will farrell piece–I always meant to check out his site, and hadn’t until now. And it’s why Jill and Kevin will definitely forever be remembered in our hearts. Answers Yahoo!

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Video Flash Mob YouTube MySpace 236

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2009

Hopefully we’ll see little David on social media sites in the upcoming months. I’d be happy to send you a copy of my book if you plan on traveling with him (decreases stress and prevents nightmares!). And in case you are wondering, my good friend Sam has set up a gift drive , a totally unexpected but appreciated gesture.

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Social Media Web 2.0 Digg MySpace 112

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

He says, “The use of Twitter was mainly for the brevity and ability to drive traffic to our blog and booking site rogersmith.com. The word of mouth has traveled, because Pamela Slim learned about the hotel from Jonathan. Brian explains that “conversations are happening and it is up to me to either be part of them or not.&#

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Viper Chill

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Secondly, I like to incorporate personal updates into my sites and the end of these posts allows me to do just that. Overall Traffic Visits : 11,744 Pageviews : 20,903 Avg time on Site : 2 mins 01 seconds In case you wonder what I think about these stats then…I don’t. That’s my job.

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Report Alltop Case Study Adsense 45

ProBlogger

JANUARY 28, 2011

Blogs about travel and blogs about sports. When I rebranded my site, HomeToHeather.com, to be more of a personal blog, I knew that I was going to have issue expanding my readership because of my content—it’s a mom blog. I’ve had a small bit of success with traffic from StumbleUpon but not enough to keep the site growing.

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Sports StumbleUpon Fashion Eventful 44

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Then and Now In the good old days, say from the 1850s onwards, marketing was mostly a one way “communication&# : companies advertized their wares via local media like newspapers, magazines, and traveling salespeople. Social Media sites give us a tool to accomplish that. and your phone will visit the related Web site.

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Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Viper Chill

JANUARY 1, 2010

Especially when I am doing very, very little in order to promote this site (apart from writing the best articles I can, of course). I do very little work to market this site (which probably shows) but it is at the top of my priorities right now. I’ve always known it was a great site on which to promote your work.

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Report Travel NoFollow Sites 50

Viper Chill

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I said from day one that I would do a case study of this sites’ traffic for one year, and that’s what I’ve done. Let me take and ask a question: How long does it take to be recognized their position in serps and backlinks to a site common? Also, sometimes Google can move your site around a lot until it settles.

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Report Software Case Study Directory 70

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

and StumbleUpon 51 Comments. and StumbleUpon. Why would you check back to Tim’s site everyday to see if he’s posted when you can be updated only when it happens? If you’re utilizing Delicious and StumbleUpon correctly, both later in this article, all the important stuff will come back to you.

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Tips RSS StumbleUpon Google Reader 263

Viper Chill

AUGUST 4, 2010

After selling most of my small affiliate sites towards the end of 2009 and ending my partnership on a number of other jobs, I’m now only working on a very small number of websites. This means that for the first time since I re-launched this site, ViperChill is one of my top priorities. It’s good to be back.

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Blogger Software eBook Project 71

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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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 26, 2012

One of the best examples of how this overabundance has done harm is with daily deal sites. Two of the most successful companies in this space are StumbleUpon and Flipboard. I use Pocket to view these articles from my phone during my down time like when traveling on the bus.

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Social Media Aggregator Flipboard Google Reader 218

Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

If your content does not offer value in one way or another, people will simply not visit your site. Darren has been kind enough to let me write on his site multiple times so I decided to list him first here. It is unsurprising that Copyblogger shares a resource on this topic, seeing as this is the theme of the site.

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Analysis Real Estate Blogger Resources 76

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

is an excellent system for archiving your favorite information from across the Net, tracking hot topics, and discovering new and useful sites. It allows you to quickly and easily add sites you like to del.icio.us So for example, if I wanted to look for sites about organization and GTD, I would type in: [link]. Travel planning.

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Social Bookmarking Delicious Google Reader RSS 235

Viper Chill

MARCH 3, 2010

Besides sharing how many new feed subscribers I’ve gained and how many pageviews this site has had, I also reveal the top traffic sources and referring keywords to ViperChill. I have absolutely no goals for this site (which is why I think it’s doing well) so don’t mind if the traffic goes up or down.

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Report StumbleUpon Travel Sites 68

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 19, 2011

Great content naturally attracts links, but Matt Malden points out ways to go beyond that by blogging, sending a regular email newsletter, using Twitter, social networks, YouTube and other sites to expand your online presence. Social Media Affecting BtoB Buying Behavior by The Proactive Report. The best 159 social websites by Populair.

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Tips Press Release Reputation B2B 179

Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I love travelling but I really feel like I need to stay in one place to give me the best chance of making my massive aims a reality. I don’t rely on this site to make money; I simply enjoy writing here. You can find my reasons for doing so over here , where I also revealed that I received a mid five-figure sum for the site.

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Report StumbleUpon Travel Case Study 64

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Home the browser Campaign 2008 News & Politics Arts & Life Business & Tech Health & Science Style & Shopping Travel & Food Sports Slate on NPR Video PRINT DISCUSS E-MAIL RECOMMEND Facebook MySpace Mixx Digg Reddit del.icio.us Michael Agger posted April 16, 2008 Hulu Hoopla Is a new site the future of television?

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Nielsen Pluck MySpace Study 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Be Creative Facebook confines you to its site and its feature set, but clearly we can see that they do have a pretty rich feature offering. Just recently, Facebook made the switch from “Become a Fan&# to “Like&# to make the site more universal. Offer different content to your different audiences. We have about 90 fans.

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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 30, 2014

It’s a virtually essential channel for consumer brands, particularly those in fashion, food, interior design, crafts, and travel. So, if Pinterest makes sense for your brand, product or blog, how can you use the platform most effectively to drive more traffic to your site? But the site was founded by three men.).

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Marketing Crowdsourcing Social Networking Hubspot 191