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JULY 16, 2008

Blog coverage helps increase awareness, build credibility for your brand, and helps with SEO. Digg , Sphinn or Searchles ). Yet many PR people stumble badly when reaching out to bloggers, with blog outreach efforts a mix of good, bad and ugly. In contrast to bribery, focusing on respect and readership creates a win-win situation.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 10, 2009

Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Digg 243 33,433,760 +51.2 These sites use the insidious "nofollow" tag, so they have no SEO value. 8 LinkedIn 14 11,246,726 +137.4% 8 Plaxo 1,440 2,629,043 +144.7% 7 Friendster 47 1,454,029 -20.0% 7 Naymz 12,476 522,953 +93.2%

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WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Many a SEO Company has tried to manipulate the results to their benefit. Many journalists cruise techy social media sites such as Digg and Reddit looking for interesting stories to cover and link too. Google ranks its results based on several hundred quality signals.

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 5, 2009

Create accounts on social bookmarking sites like Wikio , Mixx , Digg and/or StumbleUpon. Social Tagging SEO Practice. Upload company-related photos—you, other executives on your team, your building, your products, screenshots (if there is any software component to your product), your logo, etc.—to to photo-sharing sites like Flickr.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 27, 2009

7 Strategies to Invite More People Into Your Audience by Problogger Social media rockstar Chris Brogan details several strategies to not just grow your blog audience, but also attract the right kind of readers (these do not include getting on the first page of Digg).

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 26, 2007

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% Overall, Web 2.0 sites didn't drive a large amount of direct traffic (depending on the B2B site, Web 2.0 The percentages shown below are the proportion of total Web 2.0 7) Ma.gnolia 5.3% tags: web 2.0,

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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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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

How can online video help with SEO and online reputation management ? Domains for SEO and Reputation Management by Search Engine Journal Loren Baker describes how to use a.tv If you are planning to use these for SEO, check for do-follow status first. Which social bookmarking sites have the most clout? Take Advantage of.TV

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Three conclusions from this: 1) The effect of social tagging on B2B website traffic, even for thought-leadership content, is primarily a short-term bump in the traffic growth rate (though there are some positive long-term SEO effects as well). This pattern was similar over several B2B websites tested.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Social media email signatures can also include elements like AIM name, Digg page, Sphinn profile and Ning group. YouTube, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Second Life: about 20% of Web 2.0 Here are a few notable examples of Web 2.0 Hackathorn The email signature of the president of Bolder Technology, Inc.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 29, 2007

Although Alexa is notorious for its lack of precision, as documented by GigaOM , SEO Book , BloggingStocks and others, it's still useful as a rough guide to website popularity. Digg Alexa Rank: 88 del.icio.us Here are the rankings for 42 Web 2.0 social tagging sites, according to Alexa.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2008

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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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. Here are several more key SEO insights provided by King: Wordtracker's fee-based tool goes beyond free keyword tools by tracking what it calls a keyword effectiveness index.

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WebMarketCentral

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 4, 2008

Use social media to enhance your SEO efforts and build your business? For example, here's the review of Sk*rt (that link wasn't working when I last tried it BTW): "This is another site that is almost a direct clone of Digg. How can you generate lots of high-quality links in just half an hour per day?

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2007

social tagging site, sort of company-sponsored version of Digg. tools, social bookmarking, B2B, SEO, Profitimo, Anything Goes Marketing, Larry Chase, WebProNews, Digital Telepathy, Paul Dunay del.icio.us One intriguing concept is to build your own industry-specific Web 2.0 tags: Web 2.0

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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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WebMarketCentral

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. I figured for sure such a post much already exist, but when a Google search on "SEO for mommy bloggers" came up empty, I decided to fill the void.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

An alarming number of once-respectable social bookmarking sites—Digg, delicious, Mister Wong, Reddit, Mixx, Bibsonomy, Jumptags, Faves, Yahoo! Tags: SEO Practice. It's a way for site owners to say: "I'm happy to use your content to build my traffic, but not to reciprocate. I don't want anyone to think we're together."

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 31, 2008

of total site traffic in the last year (search drove 78% of visits; the two are related as SMO can help drive SEO results to an extent). The WebMarketCentral Blog - Top SMO Sources of Referral Traffic Technorati - 6.05% StumbleUpon - 2.15% Searchles - 1.75% Facebook - 1.07% Digg , del.icio.us and ma.gnolia —about 1% each.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Propeller At first glance, Propeller look like just another Digg clone or YASN : a social bookmarking site where you can post links, vote on them, comment, and share them with friends or a group.

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