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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? new visitors SEO ROI — 96.5%

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

(Seth Godin): Seth Godin suggests ideas that will make social media slowly work for you as an organization. Creating Your Social Media Plan (Outspoken Media): This good primer talks about securing your brand, setting metrics, knowing who you are, setting a presence, engaging, and assessing success.

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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Abusing group invites. And if they don’t accept, don’t send the group request more than once by asking them to join via email, wall post, or Facebook message. Then, you use that number as a success metric for influence. Social news is about reciprocal relationships. Many call this spam.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Wouldn’t the most logical approach be creating a metric that counts a resources popularity by the number of people who actually click on the link, as opposed to click a “like&# button? When contrasted with the StumbleUpon model, the FriendFeeds and Diggs of the world seem to have the process backwards.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. In fact, most of them had already left.

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Why SEO is Easier than Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On the flip side having a strong social media skill set to go along with your SEO skills helps market links, create relationships, and use the available social tools to build out your SEO campaigns. Being social online doesn’t make you an adept social media marketer. This isn’t a post about people skills.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Curiosity – most social media marketers that I know are constantly asking ‘what if… ’ type questions. Curious people are driven to push into new group and solve problems in new ways. Perseverance – building a social media presence doesn’t happen over night.