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Publisher Survey: Reddit Traffic Way Up, Digg Way Down

Adam Sherk

The rise of Reddit and the steady decline of Digg have been well documented. Has this translated into a significant change in social news referrals for publishers? Anecdotally we’ve all seen Reddit gain in prominence at a time when Digg has struggled to maintain its relevancy. .” million visits in 2009 to 22.7

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Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison)

The Marketing Blog

Home About In the Media Moving One Step Closer to Dream Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study March 3, 2010.10:02 I was just testing uberVU , a paid social media analytics service for doing a comparison between Twitter & Facebook and the results that it shows are quite interesting to say the least.

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Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? by Adam Sherk on October 6, 2010 It is safe to say that most news sites are now experimenting with various forms of user engagement and content promotion through social media.

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4 Steps to Segment Social Media Traffic in Google Analytics

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Given the rise of social media, a common question by newbies to Google Analytics is how to track their social media referrals. Instead of using the domain names or URLs of the most popular social sites (e.g. . “Referring Sites&# shows visits from people who clicked to your site from another site. Tweet This!

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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

While there are unquestionably many ways that social media marketing results can be measured , the debate rages on as to whether it’s truly possible to quantify the ROI from these activities. Some experts contend that because social media activity is rich in metrics , you can and should be measuring ROI constantly.

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Is Facebook Suffocating the Rest of Social Media?

Convince & Convert

consumers engaged in certain social behaviors actually went down, not up. Is this the long-promised social media backlash? Overall, social media usage among U.S. This means that the number of Americans engaged in just about every social media activity was reduced in the past year. How about you?

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. If Google Alerts had been developed with a focus on social media, this would be it. Alterian SM2.

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