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JUNE 3, 2008

Aaron Goldman recently wrote a nice series on Google killers, more Google killers, and Even More Not-So-Natural-Born Google Killers on the Search Insider blog. And of course Charles Knight at AltSearchEngines devotes his blog entirely to this topic—see his take on these new contenders in Site605.com

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APRIL 6, 2009

How can you maximize your results through social bookmarking sites like Digg? Learn the answers to these questions and more here in some of the best blog posts on social media marketing and optimization of 2008. blogs), community interest and links, all of which are built through social media participation.

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AUGUST 1, 2007

After blog and trade press mentions, social media and social tagging sites such as Digg and del.icio.us Other Viral Promotion Tactics Trade shows – promote your viral content (microsite, video, blog etc.) social media, YouTube, Insight24, iTunes, Digg, PRWeb, technology forums del.icio.us in your booth.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

If you can make the time commitment, start your own blog. At the very least, look for opportunities to write guest-posts and/or get interviewed for blogs related to your industry. You can link to other blog posts, published articles, white papers or other informational content your company has produced about the topic.

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JANUARY 16, 2008

Social media (blogs, podcasts, forums) and social networking sites ( Digg , del.icio.us , StumbleUpon , Searchles , etc.) present exciting new possibilities for marketers—but are also a potential minefield that must be navigated carefully to avoid doing more damage than good to your brand. David Bankston del.icio.us

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APRIL 15, 2008

With those tweets, you can sprinkle in a link to your latest blog entry or a special feature offered by the company. Rather than starting a blog and tirelessly plugging your entries on Digg or Reddit , you should use the sites above to create long-term business contacts and continuous traffic.

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JUNE 26, 2007

Based on two months of testing across a half-dozen B2B websites and blogs, these Web 2.0 sites added 1% to 3% to total traffic—but had larger indirect benefits on traffic, such as through blog exposure and SEO). 5) Digg 6.5% Technorati is only for blog promotion, but it is the Google of blog promotion.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

email signatures: Twitter page, LinkedIn profile and blog link: these are the most popular social networking elements, used in about half of Web 2.0 email signatures include buttons for StumbleUpon or "add this blog to my favorites" on Technorati, links to a company's online videos, and/or the sender's Second Life name. signatures.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

It seems like so much of what is written about search engine optimization (SEO) assumes that you're writing a blog post, or a news story, or the next great "how to" article that's going to be syndicated far and wide on article marketing sites. It simply can't compete with the latest Britney-Spears-abducted-by-a-three-armed-alien type story.

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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 12, 2009

However, the most advantageous aspect to performing well in social media is that many people who frequent the sites are webmasters and blog owners. Many journalists cruise techy social media sites such as Digg and Reddit looking for interesting stories to cover and link too.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Find the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts on social media marketing from this year so far. Find the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts on social media marketing from this year so far. practices, blogs and more.

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APRIL 29, 2007

Digg Alexa Rank: 88 del.icio.us social tagging phenomenon, so if this topic is of interest to you, you won't want to miss this blog over the next few weeks. ** Terms: Web 2.0 MyWeb Alexa Rank: 1 An anomaly right off the bat -- this reflects Yahoo's ranking as whole, not specifically MyWeb.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

That experiment showed that tagging B2B thought-leadership content on social media sites increased traffic growth for B2B websites by 50%, and on a B2B marketing blog by more than 100%, over 60 days. The traffic change on this blog, however, showed a much different pattern. social tagging. So—how do the numbers look six months later?

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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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MARCH 3, 2008

Here's a list of interesting and useful tools to help you convert files, find content, promote your blog, and add content to your website, among other activities. File conversion tools Still running Office 2003, but need to convert the new XML-based formats from Office 2007 so you can read and work with them?

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MAY 3, 2007

Third, I got an email from Shawn Henry of the Britopian Marketing Blog , a highly engaging blog devoted to SEO, social media optimization and online marketing. Among Shawn's posts was a link to an interesting SEO'Brien piece on paid Digg-ing and the black market for the unscrupulous use of social tagging.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

As Loren explains, "The simplest (way to create a video domain) is launching a Wordpress Blog and then embedding your YouTube, Google Video or other video sharing service commercials on the blog, one for each post, with a unique title tag and description for each post. CFOs are the most skeptical (yeah, another shock).

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 30, 2009

If someone actually uses your brand or product name in a Tweet, blog post or elsewhere, and there's only the sound of crickets coming from your corporate HQ, it makes your firm appear out of touch and unresponsive. Measuring only the final click, and giving all of the credit for the lead to your text ad, distorts what's truly happening.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

sites fall into one of a few increasingly well-defined categories, such as social bookmarking (Digg, del.icio.us, Searchles), social networking (LinkedIn, Facebook) or file sharing (YouTube, Flickr, podOmatic ). You see, the human mind does not really think in blog and article form. Most Web 2.0 Twitter, however, stands alone.

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MARCH 28, 2007

related; blogging, tagging, photo sharing etc. This listing of 53 social bookmark sites ( BlinkList , Digg , RawSugar , etc.) Many of the sites are also, not surprisingly, Web 2.0-related; They also link to Ludwig Gatzke 's even larger Web 2.0 logo collection here. Second is InfoPirate's Search Engine for Social Bookmark Services.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Search, Social and Direct Traffic by ProBlogger Darren Rowse provides a detailed analysis of his blog visits from various sources—which, given the obscene volume of traffic his blog draws, is probably fairly representative of blogs in general. Social traffic (e.g.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Get the answers to these questions plus learn more about the largest and the fastest-growing social bookmarking and social networking sites in this installment of some of the best SMO blog posts and articles written so far in 2008. How 30 minutes a day can result in 250 inbound links by Search Engine Marketing Exposed Anthony Kirlew , a.k.a.

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MARCH 2, 2009

The blog posts cited here, some of the best of 2008 on the topic of link building, provide guidance on how and where to obtain valuable external links. How To Actually Get Links From Your Linkbait by SEOmoz This post offers three strategies for getting links from your content even when it doesn't make the first page of Digg.

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 23, 2009

While much of the material here is well-covered in blogs and other books, even experienced SEOs are likely to find a few new ideas here. Use social networking to get high-value links by contributing content and tagging links on sites such as relevant industry blogs, YouTube , Facebook , del.icio.us , Yahoo! Buzz , Digg and Photo.net.

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MARCH 31, 2008

Harry Hoover at the THINKing blog recently asked his readers this question and posted some of the responses. This is based on the past 12 months worth of traffic data for this blog and for the WebMarketCentral marketing portal site. The WebMarketCentral blog: referring sites had far more impact, drawing 27.4%

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NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Included here are some interesting new tools for getting more out of search, reflecting your personality on Twitter, collaborating with teammates online, writing blog posts more efficiently, accessing your home or office desktop PC from the road, and more. The company also offers tools for both displaying and buying online ads.

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JUNE 30, 2008

He likes Ning , Digg , del.icio.us , Reddit , Facebook , and Lee LeFever's In Plain English videos. It can help monitor what's being written about your company, product or service, and help you pick up on which bloggers to follow.

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JUNE 10, 2008

At last week's Blogging for Business conference , Shannon Johnson of the What About Mom blog mentioned that someone should write a post about search engine optimization (SEO) for mommy bloggers. Blog name: this is the one piece of text that will ALWAYS be with you, so choose it carefully. So where should you start?

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia (among the worst nofollow offenders ), "The nofollow HTML attribute was originally designed to stop comment spam on blogs. Blog readers and bloggers were well aware of the immense problem. But today, Akismet solves the link spam problem on blogs. I don't want anyone to think we're together."

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