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USA Today is Web 2.0. OK

Anything Goes Marketing

If you're looking for an example of a website that employs some of the latest and greatest of web 2.0. USA Today has reported a 380% surge in web traffic since it re-built its website last month with over 40,000 more user generated comments. Here are some of the web 2.0 online communities.

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Social Media Success Stories

Anything Goes Marketing

Here is an example of what this looked like on Twitter search : The result was a surge of traffic to my blog, additional Twitter followers, and blog RSS subscribers. The post was then picked up by other social media hubs such as StumbleUpon and Digg which pushed additional traffic along with search engine traffic.

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WordPress Plugins for Marketers

The Effective Marketer

The list is not all inclusive and depending on the focus of your blog you may have to search for that specific plugin elsewhere, but it seems there is an agreement that at minimum you need some kind of SEO and Analytics plugin, and if your blog has enough traffic, a cache plugin is justified. Like Be the first to like this post.

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eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: Start Pages as Environments for Self-Organized Learners

Buzz Marketing for Technology

eLearning 2.0 eLearning, Learning Design, eLearning Standards, Knowledge Management, Active Learning, Blended Learning, Web 2.0, What I like most is the combination of RSS feeds, bookmarks and widgets in one tab (section) according to a context. What is Research 2.0? Functional Architecture of Web 2.0

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Does Your Business do Podcasts? It Should

Anything Goes Marketing

I'll admit that I don't regularly download podcasts via an RSS feed but I do listen to them the odd time. Drive website traffic. Well if you're into online marketing and you're down with web 2.0. If you're doing a real podcast in which you have an RSS feed, new content increases your web traffic.

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Optimizing Your WordPress Business Blog

Industrial Marketing Today

However, none of that can happen until you drive lots of interested traffic to your business blog. However, none of that can happen until you drive lots of interested traffic to your business blog. Optimizing (SEO) your business blog is critical because it allows your target audience to find you in search engines and attract traffic.

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Web 2.0 Social Tagging Sites, Part 3: Special-Purpose Sites

WebMarketCentral

Add URLs with title, keywords and description, vote on the best submissions, and subscribe to the RSS feed or get the most popular links sent to your email account. Their terms of use also explicitly states, "You may not use Wink to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons."

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