WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2008

My Search Engines Blogger David Berkowitz provides an excellent list of specialized search engines to help monitor buzz, find content within blogs, research websites, and find images, video clips and people. A free trial of the software is available here. This is a "must bookmark" post for anyone conducting online research.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Study: Company Blogs Lead Social Media Options by MediaPost Mark Walsh reports that " blogging (is) the most important lead-generation source among social media options, followed by StumbleUpon, YouTube, Facebook, De.lic.ious and Digg " (not a surprising result, considering that those other sites tend to support a corporate blog, not replace it).

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Social Media Social Marketing Web 2.0 Paid Search Agency 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

Google Social Bookmarking and Blog Recommendation Engine by Key Web Data The inimitable Chris Lang explains social features added to Google Reader (such as bookmarking capability and a friends list), why they were added, and how Google will likely use this information (to create a Digg-like system that can't be gamed).

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Social Media Web 2.0 iCrossing Optimization 20

Biznology

AUGUST 20, 2013

Whenever Google administers too much stick, it always eventually “softens” its algorithm in response to very vocal and influential clients (who probably also coincidentally spend a lot of money on Google AdWord ads). Google SEO is the new Google AdWords. Back in the day, Google AdWords could be had cheap.

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Paid Content Google Digg De-duplication 80

Biznology

JANUARY 7, 2014

A majority of my revenue is generated from blogger outreach, namely long-tail and deep-dive, outreach that extends all the way into the thousands of bloggers. As part of the client service work on behalf of my clients I have engaged with many thousands of bloggers over the last decade. Blog wasn’t built in a day.

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Fulfillment Blogger Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency 80

Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. the BMZ) was officially launched a year ago as the first content aggregation hub for leading business-to-business bloggers. For those not familiar with it, the B2B Marketing Zone (a.k.a. Business Blogging.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

70% of bloggers are organically talking about brands on their blog, and 38% of them post brand or product reviews. 35% of bloggers are professional journalists. Frequent best-of contributor Brian Solis shares stats from Technorati showing that nearly half of all bloggers are U.S.-based, Twitter has the fifth oldest.

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Paid Content Stats Social Media Marketing Budget 100

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Another notable Pam Dyer post, this one summarizing a study from online advertising network Chitika which shows that Twitter is the best place to share news: 47% of the outbound traffic from Twitter goes to news sites, vs. 28% from Facebook, 18% from Digg and an imperceptable share from MySpace. 35% of traditional journalists also blog.

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Paid Content Social Media Stats Paid Search Agency 100

Biznology

APRIL 23, 2013

Back in 2006 I developed a strategy of blogger outreach that allowed my to reach out to more than just 25 top-tier bloggers by hand over time but to 2,500-5,000 bloggers. So, what my team and I developed is the equivalent of blogger-brand speed dating. And email sometimes doesn’t quite make its way to the Inbox.

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