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Best of 2008: Blogging for Business, Part 1

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The prolific guest-blogger also contributed 10 Innovative Blog Business Models —a post detailing 10 methods beyond the obvious (AdWords) to monetize a blog, such as selling educational courses, eBooks, premium content, consulting services (hmm, that sounds familiar) and digital products. Do You Show Appreciation to Your Favorite Bloggers?

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 6

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Unfortunately, several of the largest sites including Digg, delicious, Reddit, Mixx and Mister Wong now partially or completely use insidious no follow links. Top 30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites by Anything Goes Blog A great list of the top social bookmarking sites, with visitor statistics, as of late last year.

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 5

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StumbleUpon and Digg) is "spiky" and doesn't convert well, but supports SEO through the links generated. Among his findings: organic search is the source of both the highest volume and best quality of traffic. Social traffic (e.g. There's lots more red meat for web analytics data junkies as well.

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 2

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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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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 2

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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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Best of 2007: Cool Online Tools

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TypePad Widget Gallery An extensive list of widgets that can be added to TypePad blogs to help promote content through sites like Bloglines , Digg and del.icio.us , as well as add cool features, collect email signups, embed a chat box, monitor traffic, create online polls and more.

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Social Media ROI vs. RONI

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Consider, for example, a tactic viewed by many marketers as extremely measurable: Google AdWords. John Wanamaker 's observation that " “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half” is still (largely) true. Simple, right? Balderdash.