WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Back in May of this year, I reported the results of a test of the impact on B2B website traffic growth using Web 2.0 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.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 7, 2010

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via natural search results. This gave birth to a whole industry centered on optimizing search results for a given term. For B2C or B2B Marketers this was a huge revolution. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook.

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 7, 2008

A while back, I posted the Alexa rankings for 42 popular Web 2.0 There simply isn't enough traffic to support 100+ social media sites, although "social media" is defining the market a bit too broadly. del.icio.us , Digg , Furl , Backflip ), community ( MySpace , Searchles ), networking ( LinkedIn , Facebook ), etc.

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 16, 2008

Social media (blogs, podcasts, forums) and social networking sites ( Digg , del.icio.us , StumbleUpon , Searchles , etc.) New Social Sites Cater to People of a Certain Age by The New York Times Noting that Web 2.0 Vascellaro, Sermo, INmobile, AdGabber, New Social Sites Cater to People of a Certain Age, The New York Times, Web 2.0,

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 10, 2009

Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Facebook 5 73,787,766 +159.0% Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Facebook 5 73,787,766 +159.0% 8 LinkedIn 14 11,246,726 +137.4%

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 22, 2007

Technorati Like a set of power tools for bloggers, Technorati lets you claim your blog, add tags to make it easier for people to find it, monitor your blog's popularity, place an "Add this to my Technorati favorites" Web 2.0 Zimbio Web 2.0 Digg is monitored by Google Alerts , which further increases your blog's exposure.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Many journalists cruise techy social media sites such as Digg and Reddit looking for interesting stories to cover and link too. These include: Huge amounts of traffic, brand building and of course the all precious “backlinks”. Tags: Web 2.0 Social Tagging.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 6, 2009

How can you maximize your results through social bookmarking sites like Digg? How to Level the Playing-field With Digg by Skelliewag How to game Digg to get your content onto the front page, by building and utilizing a grassroots network and selectively targeting power users. Tags: Web 2.0 Social Tagging.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Unfortunately, several of the largest sites including Digg, delicious, Reddit, Mixx and Mister Wong now partially or completely use insidious no follow links. Tags: Web 2.0 If you are planning to use these for SEO, check for do-follow status first. CFOs are the most skeptical (yeah, another shock). Social Tagging.

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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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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 18, 2008

7 Reasons Why Niche Social Media Outlets are Better Than Digg by AjaxNinja After noting that "Digg has an immense amount of traffic and getting landed on the front page will send a tsunami of new readers to your blog or website, but getting onto the front page is incredibly difficult.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Social Bookmarking Sites like Digg , del.icio.us , StumbleUpon , Mixx and Searchles are great places to spread the word about your own thought leadership content as well as, and even more importantly, positive coverage your company gets from other bloggers, journalists or analysts.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

That is the value to me of Web 2.0 That is the value to me of Web 2.0 That is the value to me of Web 2.0 j Deborah L Maue Social media = Web 2.0. Deborah L Maue Social media = Web 2.0. Deborah L Maue Social media = Web 2.0. Two of my friends were too.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 15, 2008

StumbleUpon - A recent post cited StumbleUpon as the best social media site for driving B2B Web traffic. Not only it is easier to gain attention on StumbleUpon than many other bookmarking sites, the tail of traffic is much longer. Indeed, it is currently the reigning champ for promoting many types of Websites.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 31, 2008

I've written previously about which social networking/tagging/bookmarking sites seemed to work well at driving B2B traffic, but have collected significantly more data since then. This is based on the past 12 months worth of traffic data for this blog and for the WebMarketCentral marketing portal site. and ma.gnolia —about 1% each.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Six killer ways to boost blog traffic and revenue via social media , October 6, 2010 have some blogs that generate considerable traffic. This one is creating moderate traffic. Unskewing the Web: Curators as filters , October 11, 2010 Image by prettyflower via Flickr. This is my final post on the skewed Web.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

So we do also need to know whether the "best" sellers (like IBM sales staff who blog) are getting down and dirty with this digital stuff, or should we just leave 90%+ of UK sellers on the phones and in the traffic jams (where they belong!) - and get on with some more "marketing"? 237 posts from The Drama 2.0

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

And, we can’t overlook the act of commenting on other blogs in the hopes for reciprocal traffic. PR Tips for Startups – The Director’s Cut [link] The State of the Blogosphere 2010 « Netcrema – creme de la social news via digg + delicious + stumpleupon + reddit [.] Please, disconnect auto syndication.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Whats Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008. I used Yahoo Pipes for filtering RSS on Web 2.0 At the same time, some of these feed filtering services are doing some rather cool/useful things, like sorting by keyword or identifying the top posts in a feed (based on how many comments, diggs it got,etc).

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I a short period of a month, he abandoned the outreach campaign because, although it started to build traffic to his site, it didn't result in a huge increase in sales. He has a very small start up consumer product company – has a FB page, a Twitter profile and hired me to do some outreach work.

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