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11 Reasons You Can’t Ignore Social Media in 2009 | Design And Marketing Blog

2009-01-28T19:01:00.000-05:00

11 Reasons You Can’t Ignore Social Media in 2009 | Design And Marketing Blog

PageRank Use this code to link!

2009-01-19T15:38:00.002-05:00

Don't know how page rank works?

That's OK, for now...

Just use this code when linking to an outside website....for sure!
For viewing purposes....I couldn't enclose in brackets...for web view...so enclose in brackets...

Enclose in these brackets: < >

a href="http://www.website.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linking text

linking text

Also...make sure the linking text has something to do with the website title.

PageRank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOne more tip...don't use this code when linking to posts on your own blog!! Very important.

70 top tips to generate blog traffic

2009-01-13T16:32:00.000-05:00

70 top tips to generate blog traffic: "Traffic is the key to success of any blog and blogger. It is the measure of success of a blog. One of the greatest advices that I usually give to other bloggers is- 'Be involved in building traffic first. Everything else come along with traffic.'

No matter what your objectives as a blogger are, you have to think in terms of traffic and visitors. In today's post I will tell you 75 traffic generation techniques that I learned while blogging.Here is the list-"

How your Tweets and Twitter followers are correlated? [Case Study]

2009-01-13T16:26:00.000-05:00

How your Tweets and Twitter followers are correlated? [Case Study]: "During these one week I noticed some specific type of tweets getting me more followers than others. Furthermore, this has been a repetitive phenomenon ,meaning this phenomenon has been reproducible time and again. This led me to think that there certainly is some correlation between tweets and follower number."

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Twitter Hack: How?

2009-01-06T00:19:00.000-05:00

Twitter Hack: How It Happened and What's Being Done - � MSN Tech & Gadgets - News and Features

TipBase: Get Great Tips Online

2009-01-01T13:29:00.000-05:00

This is a cool site. It is all about sharing tips with other internet users. And these are tips of all sorts, from health to travel to internet and computers.
Example tips include: how to record internet radio, how to quit smoking and even how to sell art online.
Interesting site. We'll see how well it does, as it is only in beta.

Read the NewsFactor review here:
NewsFactor Network | Best Blogs: TIPBASE

No Facebook Version of Paypal Anytime Soon

2009-01-01T13:24:00.000-05:00

Good. All we need is another rip-off version of Paypal that charges transaction fees to pay over the Internet.

I think this would downgrade the facebook brand. Its not their place or their brand.

I'm glad it's not a priority.

Read the story here : News

59 Ways to Get More Traffic, TechnoBuzz.net

2008-12-22T00:32:00.000-05:00

59 Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Blog | TechnoBuzz.net

Weblogian Blog Ideas

2008-12-22T00:23:00.000-05:00

Weblogian Top Secret Ways To Get Sound Traffic For Your Blog | Weblogian-Blog Tips for Pro Blogger And How To Make Money Online

3 Ways to Get Visibility To Your Blog

2008-12-22T00:08:00.000-05:00

3 Best Free Ways To Get Quick Visibility To Your Blog

Increase Blog Traffic

2008-12-21T23:41:00.000-05:00

This is a great list of ideas to boost blog traffic. My favorites include sites you can join and the idea to write a lot of "list" posts because those tend to get the most bookmarks, traffics and DIGGS.

The 10 Best Ways To Increase Blog Traffic

How to get traffic for your blog

2008-12-21T23:30:00.000-05:00

This is a great list from seth's blog:

Seth's Blog: How to get traffic for your blog

Pizza Delivery Via Facebook - WSJ.com

2008-12-19T14:32:00.000-05:00

Is this the end of social interaction as we know it?

Get a pizza.without even leavin facebook!

Pizza Delivery Via Facebook - WSJ.com

MapMyWalk.com - Map your Walks online!

2008-12-18T14:54:00.002-05:00

You can add your mapmywalk.com walks to twitter and facebook and more!

MapMyWalk.com - Map your Walks for Fitness and join our Community of Hikers. Walking Social Network. Calorie Counter, Pedometer, Distance, iPhone, and More.

Yahoo! Inc. Unveils Smarter Inbox

2008-12-18T00:35:00.000-05:00

Yahoo is adding social networking features to its new interface. Sounds good.

But lets hope that Yahoo brushes up its spam filtering too. Those viagra ads in my inbox are driving me a little nuts! And the lottery announcements....I still haven't received my two million from the bank of doesn't-exist-island.

Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release

AOL and Yahoo Show that for Social Media, It's Still Open Season - 12/17/2008

2008-12-18T00:25:00.000-05:00

Plenty of room for improvement in the social networking arena. Innovations still needed....

MediaPost Publications - AOL and Yahoo Show that for Social Media, It's Still Open Season - 12/17/2008

Bebo Launches 'Social Inbox' | AOL Corporate

2008-12-18T00:24:00.000-05:00

Bebo Launches 'Social Inbox' | AOL Corporate

Are You a Facebook Addict?

2008-12-17T00:06:00.000-05:00

The website beatingaddiction.com has a section for facebook users. In case you are someone who checks your notifications fifty times a day. Or hour.

Are You a Facebook Addict?

Twitter, Facebook, Digg: Can You Join Too Many Networks?

2008-12-16T12:03:00.003-05:00

Remember when some people had thousands of friends on MySpace and it was....just to many? Well maybe this will hapen for Twitter, DIGG and Facebook users too. Best to be careful, yet still active on these sites. Too many, too soon can tangle your networks. Don't you agree?

Full article here:

Twitter, Facebook, Digg: Can You Join Too Many Networks?

Twitter Account Suspended? You're Not Alone.

2008-12-15T21:13:00.000-05:00

My blog buddy recently had his thriving twitter account suspended due to "suspicious activity". This was because a number of users flagged his account. For no good reason.

Twitter needs to start reprimanding users who flag innocent twitter users.

I see that there are a lot of accounts put on hold. Many may not be correctly blocked.

And many users may not know what to do and just quit using their accounts. This then leaves thousands of orphan accounts that are seemingly still 'active' users. I hate following someone only to the notice "account suspended due to suspicious activity."

My blog buddy emailed twitter and explained that he had a surge in members and that was it. His account is fine now. But I hope twitter looks into this issue of orphaned accounts and bad flags...

Blog This! Button, For Anything!

2008-12-15T21:02:00.003-05:00

Wow this is awesome!

I have been raving about the Blog This features on DIGG and HUFFINGTON POST. But I found a link to let you BLOG THIS in blogger, where ever you are!

CLICK HERE AND YOU WILL BE A HAPPY BLOGGER:

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41469

Twitter Gets Official

2008-12-15T18:07:00.002-05:00

Wow, twitter is getting quite the backing.

Maybe we will soon be tweeting our votes in elections. Maybe not.

Check this out:

"Michigan GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis decided to throw his hat in the ring to head the Republican Party, he announced his intentions on an unlikely forum: Twitter."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/12/gop.technology/index.html

Easily Blog Your Own News Comments!

2008-12-12T10:00:00.006-05:00

Wow this is cool.

I came across an interesting feature on The Huffington Post today. It allows users to easily blog their written news article comments.

Simply create an account on THP. Then whenever you post a comment or her site you can check off an option to..

BLOG the comment!

An article backlink will be posted on your blog, along with your full comment.
The post will be seen immediately.

You can always add your own photo and edit the comment in blogger/your blog interface, later.

So cool.

See an example of a post I did HERE.

Another example below.

Using Twitter To Remote Control Your Home

2008-12-12T09:38:00.002-05:00

Twitter has so many uses that are yet to be discovered by its users.

For restaurants, they can tweet events, daily specials or even the current 'crowd' at their location.

Retail stores can tweet specials, coupons and even private twitter fan sales!

Bloggers can of course tweet their blogs using Twitterfeed.

And professionals can tweet about their business news, great for PR.

And green tweeting?
Well you can even get healthy tips tweeted to you as seen here: http://twitter.com/lunchboxbunch

About Environment
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Yelp 101. Are you a Yelper?

2008-12-11T20:38:00.007-05:00

Yelp is a great way to gain traffic to your blog or website.

No matter what topic you are trying to promote! (You don't have to have a 'foodie' blog to get some foodie fans.) I mean, who doesn't read Yelp reviews?

If you are not a Yelp.com fan, hop on the Yelp train my friends!

Yelp is a high traffic site. A lot like facebook, only it is all about reviews and opinions.

(You have an opinion right?)

So, how do you get Yelp to bring you traffic?

Create and account.

Write at least ten reviews. Make sure that they are funny, smart, cute, creative, brutally honest, or all of the above.

Then start networking! Follow a few yelpers. Get some yelp friends. Compliment other yelpers reviews.

Before you know it, you will have your own little social ring on yelp.

TIP: Review high interest things. Review the popular restaurants, services and shopping destinations in your city. When someone searches for "Katz's" in NYC. You want to make sure that your review is there. And that once they read your review they will be so impressed that they click on your profile and see all your stats...

....including your website or blog address.

TIP TWO: Join in "Talk" conversations. It is a great way to get people to review your profile.

That is the goal. You want people to see your profile and thus click on your link. Thus creating more traffic, more fans and more customers for your brand. Whatever it may be!

ENDING POINT: Yelp is mostly about DINING REVIEWS. And EVERYONE eats. You don't have to be writing about food on your blog or selling a food product to be on yelp. ANYONE can yelp. And guess what--its fun. And more often than not, yelpers are pretty accurate with their reviews.

Yelp.com is a great resource for reviews, and for some social networking bliss.

Check out my profile and reviews on YELP.