In each blog carnival I’ll be adding blog posts and articles submitted by my readers and other bloggers from all over the Internet. You should make your own blog carnival submissions now so you can get your posts into the next edition. Click here to submit to the Social Marketing Blog Carnival. If I approve your submission it will appear on this blog and you’ll get a link back to your site. Blog carnivals are a great way to join the online conversation and attract new visitors to your blog.

Here are this weeks submissions:

Taylor Coburn presents Nicks, Scratches And Internet Business posted at Internet Business at ProcessToProfits.

James Lee presents The Awesome Power of Face to Face Networking posted at Online Business Freedom.

Robert Phillips presents How to Create an Audio Product Practically for Free posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY.

Anya Portnik presents The Sales Apprentice 2008: Sales training tips from the hit TV show, the final posted at Gavin Ingham.

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Mert Erkal presents SocialMarker Review - Social Bookmarking Submission posted at www.searchforblogging.com, saying, “SocialMarker helps you spread a link on 47 of the best social bookmarking sites including Digg, StumbleUpon in 15-20 minutes.”

Jill Caldwell presents Solution for A Novice Internet Marketer posted at Jill Caldwell.

George Tzenos presents Tools to help generate traffic to your site articulately! posted at Traffic2MyPage Blog, saying, “tips on how to create articles and submit to 100 of directories”

SEO Genius presents Marketing Articles | 10 Ways to Promote a Website posted at SEO Tutorials - SEO Tips and Tricks - Marketing Articles, saying, “Do you want traffic, social bookmarking sites and a whole load of other tips on how to get it!”

Eric Brown presents WHAT IS SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION posted at SEO TIPS 4 U Blog.

Jill Caldwell presents Squidoo as a Social Marketing Tool posted at Jill Caldwell, saying, “Jill Caldwell is mentoring entrepreneurs on new social marketing techniques.

Carl Ringwall presents Split Test Your AdWords posted at Data SystemsPlus.

Terry Dean presents From a Sale to An Experience posted at Integrity Business Blog by Terry Dean.

Kenton Newby presents Let’s Talk About What YOU Want to Hear About posted at KentonNewby.com.

That concludes the second edition of this blog carnival. Submit your blog article to the next edition of social marketing blog carnival using our blog carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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I’ve seen a growing amount of spam in online social media:

Social bookmarking sites are being overrun with thousands of posts with spammy sites offering no real value. Social media sites are being hit too.  People wanting to increase traffic are filling these sites with content only for 2 purposes: 1 - To scream “BUY MY STUFF” or 2 - To grab links to junk websites. Social networking sites like myspace & Facebook have taken aggressive measures to prevent people from doing automated mass friend adding and blasting huge volumes of messages.

There’s no question that these kind of blackhat spam tactics can really work in the short term, but what are the long term consequences? Should you engage in Social Marketing spam?  Find out in this episode of the Social Marketing Domination Podcast. Press the play button below to listen, or subscribe to my iTunes channel:

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In each edition I’ll be listing blog posts and articles submitted by my readers and other bloggers from around the Internet. You should hurry and make your submissions now for the next edition. Click here to make your submission to the Social Marketing Blog Carnival.  If I approve your submission it will appear live in the blog and get a link back to your site. Blog carnivals are a great way to join the online conversation and attract visitors to your blog.

Here are this weeks approved submissions: 

Manuel Viloria presents $100 Dollars A Day - Manuel Viloria.com posted at Get More Traffic at Manuel Viloria.com.

Steve Oliphant presents Free Backlinks! Woo Hoo! posted at Steve Oliphant’s Musings.

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Breakaway presents The Best Social Media Sites for Link Building posted at Link Building Bible, saying, “I hope this helps people in building links in order to increase their search engine ranking.”

Kathleen Gage presents Internet Marketing - An often overlooked opportunity posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, “Internet marketing can yield great opportunities for virtually any type of business. Unfortunately, many companies miss opportunities by making a few common mistakes. Learn how to avoid these mistakes and have strategies to continually build your business.

Learn how really simple Internet Marketing can be.”

Raymond presents Work From Home With Paid Online Surveys posted at Money Blue Book.

Amanda Moore presents Down and Dirty Blog Carnival Submission Technique posted at AMVA - Amanda Moore Virtual Assistant, saying, “Submitting your posts to a blog carnival doesn’t have to take all day. This process will make it quick and painless.”

Amanda Moore presents Reader Question: Are Blog Carnivals Worth Your Time? posted at AMVA - Amanda Moore Virtual Assistant, saying, “Blog Carnivals can be a great way to drive traffic, but traffic is just a small part in a larger picture. Make sure you know all the benefits of participating in Carnivals.”

Patrick Schwerdtfeger presents How I use Twitter and Utterz posted at Tactical Execution, saying, “This post describes how you can use free social media platforms like Twitter and Utterz to build a following and push value to your audience. Simple, free and effective.”

George Tzenos presents Article Marketing - get targetted traffic to your site posted at Traffic2MyPage Blog, saying, “how to gain more inbound one way links to your site using article marketing”

Jimmy Sansi presents A Big List For Improving Article Marketing posted at The Kaizen Business.

Joshua C. Karlin presents Glyphius 2008 Lens posted at Internet Business.

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents 3 Small Tips For Increasing Pull From Your Sales Copy posted at Rebecca Dean.

That concludes the second edition of this blog carnival. Submit your blog article to the next edition of social marketing blog carnival using our blog carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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I’ve officially launched my own podcast to chronicle my experiment and provide another channel for me to teach everyone who subscribes here at Social Dominator.

You’ll be able to listen in and here my audio PodCast using the controls below. Soon you’ll  be able to subscribe through iTunes and automatically listen in anytime you want through your iPod.  Be sure to keep listening because its through a future PodCast Ill even teach you exactly how to set up a PodCast of your own.

*** (added 6/9)I’ve had some questions come up about the podcast and my claim that the site has rocketed to an 160,000 (roughly) Alexa rating. To see this statistic you need to look at the traffic details page:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/socialdominator.com

Look at the 1-week statistic.  The overall Alexa rating you see on the main page is a rolling average over the previous 90 days.  90 days ago the site didn’t even exist and then when it started out it was at something crazy like a 10,000,000 rating.  So to see what a site is actually doing at this very moment you need to look at the weekly or daily stat.

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I’ll also be setting up an iTunes version so you can download it right from iTunes and listen to each episode right on your iPod.

Each episode will cover the progres of my experiment as well as teach you some of the steps I used to pull it all off. I’ll even teach you how to create a Podcast of your own… just like this one!

Each episode will feature a music intro courtesy of: Accelerated Ideas

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Submitting to my blog carnival will make you eligible to receive publicity and a backlink from this blog. I manually review every post and it must be related to the world of Internet marketing and better yet: marketing with social media & social marketing. If I approve your submission it will appear here. links back or track backs are appreciated.

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In each edition I’ll be listing blog posts and articles submitted by my readers and other bloggers from around the Internet. You should hurry and make your submissions now for the next edition. If I approve your submissions they will appear live in the blog and get a link back to your site. Blog carnivals are a great way to join the online conversation and attract visitors to your blog.

Here are this weeks approved submissions:

Jose DeJesus MD presents How to Send Emails that get Delivered and Read posted at Physician Entrepreneur.

Anna Farmery presents What’s Love Got To Do With Social Media? posted at The Engaging Brand.

SEO Genius presents Marketing Articles | 10 Ways to Promote a Website posted at SEO Tutorials - SEO Tips and Tricks - Marketing Articles, saying, “A great article listing some of the best strategies on the internet for marketing a website.”

Stephen Dean presents Going Mobile posted at Stephen Dean’s Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

Hendry Lee presents Making Money Blogging: Profiles of 6 Very Successful Blogs posted at Blog Building University, saying, “My first post in the first edition of the carnival.”

Aaron Klemow presents The Ultimate Blend- How Blendtec Crafted the Perfect Viral Ad Campaign posted at Life is Overpriced, saying, “How to create a viral campaign using online video.”

That concludes the first edition of this blog carnival. Submit your blog article to the next edition of social marketing blog carnival using our blog carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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We accept a single post per edition on any topic related to social marketing.  It can be about how to use social networking to promote a website or business. It can be about using Social Bookmarking for traffic and SEO value.  It can be about video marketing on sites like YouTube.  Or it can even be about using social media sites like Squidoo or Hubpages for marketing.

Click This Link To Submit To The Social Marketing Blog Carnival 

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Here’s my latest YouTube video:

My Timing Could Have Been Better

One of the things I’ve run into this week is extremely bad timing.  This whole project came down at the last minute so I couldn’t really plan when I was going to do it.  Unfortunately, the holiday weekend here in the US really messed up my timing.  I really wanted to keep working on this through the 3 day weekend, but family comes first.  So instead I had some fun with my wife and my boys. We went and saw Indiana Jones and did some other fun stuff.  Have you seen it yet?

Anyway… on to more serious stuff: I’m back on the project and able to start promoting the site again.

SEO Progress So Far:

So far I’ve been setting up profiles at the major social networking sites, bookmarking & pinging my profiles (if you don’t know what pinging is be sure to watch the video above) and adding friends at the sites like FaceBook & MySpace.

My subscriber list is starting to take off and incoming traffic is building.  I’m getting traffic coming from Google as well as dozens of other sites.

Another key point has been my video promotion. Always make sure you attract links to your videos (or at least your profile on the video sites).  This REALLY helps.  I also have been promoting my videos on the social networking sites and in my profiles.

I’m not going to get into too many specifics quite yet, but at the end of this experiment anyone signed up to this site will get all the inside data.  I’ll give you EVERYTHING.  Im even considering throwing in some of my scripts or WordPress plug-ins that my programmers made for me.

As always, I really want to hear from you!  Comment below and tell me what you think of my experiment or my results.  Ask me anything.  I’ll do my best to answer here.

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I really started my promotion of this site on Sunday night or Monday morning. So at this point I’ll call it 3 days of work on promotion.  What do I have to show for it?  Let’s see: 

1. This blog is now indexed in Google & bringing traffic from Google search engine results.
2. My social networking profiles are beginning to get indexed & bringing this site traffic.
3. My Social bookmarking pages are starting to get indexed & bring traffic.
4. People are talking about this site on social media sites.
5. People are beginning to notice this blog & someone even wrote a blog post about my launch.
6. My YouTube video is getting many views and is bringing traffic to the blog.
7. My video is also on many of other video websites promoting the launch. These pages are also indexed in Google & getting traffic.
8. There are now 49 51 subscribers to my email list (I know it’s not 1,000’s but it’s a good start for 3 days)
9. FeedBurner says that people are starting to subscribe to my blog directly through RSS (Really Simple Syndication: A technology that lets you share your blog posts) NEWSBREAK: Just since writing this I’m already up to 134 RSS subscribers on FeedBurner!
10. I’m starting to get friends and followers at the various social networking sites. (If you are a member of any of the sites listed in my site down on the below right hand side… go add me as a friend so you can watch what I’m doing over there)

I’m just getting started… there’s a lot more to come!

So far I’m just laying the groundwork. Setting up profiles at many social networking & social media websites.  I’ve made a few bookmarks, but mostly just have been setting up the profiles and working on getting them indexed.  If you are a member I’ll be recording additional videos and writing up exactly what I did & how I did it.  You’re going to get everything, all my resources and any special “secret” tweaks I do to pull it all together.

So make sure you subscribe at the top right of the SocialDominator.com site.  Just fill in your name & email address then hit submit.  Do it now before you forget :) you don’t want to miss out on all the behind the scenes data!

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