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An insightful interview with social media expert Shana Albert. read more »
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"It’s been said many times, including by me, that one of the flaws of social media marketing is that the resulting traffic is short-lived. That short-term nature of social media traffic is one of the biggest reasons that social media marketing is of read more »
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If you want to make more money in business, become an expert, get famous, or many other things – the first thing you have to do is learn how to get noticed. read more »
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Some tips for those who think social media requires too much time to bother. read more »
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Tips for small bloggers to help them compete against bigger blogs in terms of attention from social media. read more »
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So you've got a new website, great you're now a step ahead of those without one but a small hop, skip and a jump behind those who have been online for a while. What can you do to catch up with those who already have plenty of traffic, links to their read more »
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This post looks at the issue of whether a blogger should create content specifically to target social media users. read more »
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A look at the challenge of getting social media users to visit more than one page on your site. read more »
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This posts looks at the reasons for creating posts specifically to target social media audiences and it covers the approach that I currently use. read more »
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With so much focus on social media and fostering conversation these days, companies both big and small are trying to figure out the best way to grow communities. Looking around at the number of blogs dedicated to the topic, you'd think there was som read more »
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Relying too heavily on social media traffic is pretty easy for bloggers to do. If you have some time to work on your blog you can go after social media and maybe see a few thousand visitors within 24 hours, or you can work on developing some other t read more »
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With an undisputed command of the search engine market and a jaw-dropping stock price, no one can dispute Google’s dominance online. But this success didn’t come by accident—it was achieved by a collection of important marketing strategies that rein read more »
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"Some bloggers use social media to boost traffic and draw links, but they write off the opportunity to gain subscribers through social media as being unrealistic. While it’s true that social media users are typically less likely to subscribe than th read more »
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This post analyzes some of the differences between the average Digg user and the typical user of a niche social media site, like Sphinn, as well as how this applies to marketers/bloggers. read more »
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"There is plenty of talk online about blogging being an excellent opportunity for the average person to make money online, and I know many Blogtrepreneur readers are bloggers themselves. In general, I agree that there is money to be made for the blo read more »
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While the selection of a web hosting company may not impact keyword rankings, serious server downtime can do wonders for what searchers may see for your strategic keyword search results. read more »
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A look at some of the best sites built on Pligg. read more »
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This post takes a look at the steps a blogger can take to drive social media traffic without alienating valuable subscribers. read more »
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Reasons why diversity of traffic is important, and some simple steps to help achieve it. read more »
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This is a list of some of the reasons to market a website of blog with social media (some obvious, some not so obvious). read more »
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This article takes a look at some of the challenges that come along with social media marketing. read more »
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10 tips for checking up on your site's SEO periodically (with some helpful tools referenced). read more »
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As the search engine race heats up, more and more evidence surfaces to the effect that this year will be the year of search. From Jimmy Wales and Jason Calacanis squaring off at the Digital Life Design conference to Google’s “behind the scenes” sear read more »
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This post looks at some stats from an experiment that involved promoting an oder post with StumbleUpon to generate new traffic. read more »
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This post references and combats a post by Tad on Collective Thoughts. Personally, I think both posts have some valid points. read more »
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