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I want to share 6 tips that can help you to establish a stronghold on your personal brand. Your account name accounts for more than you think. read more »
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Social media is the equivalent of digital food. It's nourishing, tasty and, for many of us, necessary. However, consume too much and you can get sidetracked and create larger consequences. The good news is you can participate in social media in a wa read more »
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Dan Zarrella writes "I’d like to debunk a myth that has gone on, rampant and unchallenged in marketing circles, especially viral and social marketing, for some time now, but first I feel a few caveats are in order." read more »
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My colleagues and I have a running joke that we all strive towards getting a point where the client does the link building for us. read more »
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Companies lust for the high margins that successful social media efforts can generate. They infatuate themselves with backlinks, page views and opportunities to score major ad revenue. Sadly, they fail to understand just how organic the space has be read more »
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So what’s the key takeaway here? If you happen to optimize for a powerful brand and would like to ensure that no competitors muscle in on your hard-earned brand traffic, start cranking out the subdomains. If you’re really adventurous, create sub-sub read more »
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Lee Odden writes: There are many reasons social media can be a productive marketing channel or platform. Rather than emplying it as a tactic du jour, the purpose should dictate strategy and the tactics used for reaching desired goals. A few common o read more »
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Since I have been playing around with Twitter, I have noticed a trend amongst certain people… all they really use their Twitter feed for is to spam all their followers with their latest blog posts. And when they aren’t giving links to those posts, t read more »
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A few weeks ago I published my Link Attraction Factors report over on Read/WriteWeb and the response was awesome. Never one to get complacent I’ve also developed an XML API version of my link attraction factors title checking tool and a Wordpress Pl read more »
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"To many Internet Marketers,Twitter has become important. Some people may not yet understand, but this may just be part of their journey through the social media learning curve. As with any social media application, site influencers got to where the read more »
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There are many articles and tutorials about how to become a top user and get on the front page of Digg but if your ultimate goal is attracting links, how do you maximize your submission’s potential to gain links? read more »
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Plenty of research has been done via Digg's API to study how stories make the homepage. We know the best time to submit to Digg, and we know the best categories and types of stories (e.g. top lists, how-tos and stories about Digg), but what has neve read more »
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An interview with 5 top power users in social bookmarking and their insights read more »
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Joe Whyte put together this guide on Youtube marketing for videos. read more »
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Dan Zarrella has been crunching some Digg stats and has compiled an extensive report on what constitutes a successful submission. He's organized several charts by cross checking the number of backlinks a story generates by title and description keyw read more »
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I just launched the new member’s system of Votrs.com which allows you to upload your own avatar and background, and edit your previously shortened links. It also allows you to have a shortened user page that shows all the links you’ve posted to Votr read more »
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...."But, what I didn’t realize was that much of my fear of Social Media was keeping me from more success..." read more »
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So for four weeks, David DiMartino ran one of our AdWords campaigns using DKI. The test was simple, he just created copies of every ad in the 200 keyword campaign, and inserted {KeyWord: } tags into the title of each copy. read more »
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The 3 most popular blog posts from the 6 most influential Web Analytics bloggers around – All in all the 18 most popular Web Analytics post of 2007! read more »
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I saw a post on sphinn and digg and I wanted to respond to a few points. Its about applying a method of discussing the effects of media change on society by Marshal McLuhan called a Tetrad. read more »
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On many sites (Digg, Reddit, Youtube) and in many social media savvy communities (Apple fans, Ron Paul supporters) the key motivating factor is often an us versus them approach, with the users as a David versus a megalithic Goliath. read more »
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It happens quickly. Like a savage shark mauling or a crocodile attacking in it's hostile native territory. Digg rape is a scary and real prospect for internet authors and personalities.A pack of fierce and savage nerds, the 'digg' variety are a vici read more »
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There are four functional types of gossip (women's oral tradition), house-talk, scandal, bitching and chatting. Here's how they apply to social media. read more »
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Matt talks about using wordpress for SEO, but this video is also very good for convincing people that they actually need to do SEO for their website read more »
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If Google's allinanchor command still works, then their algorithm isn't nearly as complex as they make it out to be. Don't believe me? Check the data and try it out for yourself. read more »
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