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100+ Blog Directories and RSS Sites for Promoting Your Blog

Webbiquity SMM

social networking profiles, social bookmarking sites, other bloggers). But two great sources are blog directories and RSS syndication sites. Not only do they provide valuable links, they can also supply direct traffic and help build your RSS subscriber list. Webbiquity B2B Marketing Blog). Feedmap blog+rss.

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The Death of Google Reader: Did Email Kill the RSS Star?

Stay N' Alive

At the same time we see other "social networks" of Google's (Youtube) hitting over a billion active users. Many are even screaming that the death of Google Reader is the death of RSS and the beginning (or end?) The problem is businesses found easier ways to make money and RSS never found a way to fight back.

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The Reality of Social Currency

Direct Marketing Observations

It’s everywhere and sometimes it doesn’t matter what RSS feeds ot Flip Boards or whatever you use to find it, it can slip through the cracks. The interview, conducted by Steve Olenski on Explore B2B was titled: What Twinkies Can Teach Marketers About Comebacks And Social Branding.

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What’s the Right Social Media Scheduling Tool for Your Business?

Webbiquity SMM

IFTTT is not a social media scheduling tool, exactly; standing for “if this, then that” this nifty tool allows you to connect your different apps and channels and create all kinds of automations (called “applets) in a variety of categories. Share the links you post on one social network on a different one, automatically.

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How to Get More Blog Traffic – Real World Data

Webbiquity SMM

The key is a balanced strategy of search engine optimization (SEO), social media, syndication and guest posting. This B2B blog isn’t necessarily representative of all blogs of course, but the trends likely aren’t much different for many business blogs. Looking at data from the Webbiquity blog, several trends are apparent.

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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

They’ve adapted to using online social networks (namely LinkedIn) to identify passive candidates in the last few years and it’s serving them well. But, at the end of the day, they need to generate “leads” that get fed into some kind of offline sales process—just like most b2b [and many b2c] companies do.

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48 Ways to Measure Social Media Success

Webbiquity SMM

Ultimately, as Olivier Blanchard has pointed out repeatedly , social media marketing has to demonstrate an ROI (though he acknowledges the questions have to be made more specific). In the b2b world, the “R” is generally leads (website call-to-action conversions) with some monetary value applied to them. Search traffic. Influence (e.g.,