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Sex Sells, Especially on Digg!
The old saying “Sex Sells” never gets old, even in the world of social media marketing and Digg.com. Recently I’ve been noticing a trend on...
Facebook Classifieds Launched – Everything You Need To Know
Facebook Classifieds – in partnership with Oodle – is now live, and just in time. As the end of the year approaches and students get...
Redesign Your Website To Become Web 2.0 : Quick Tips
The term “Web 2.0” can be defined in two different ways. First, the new emergence of the web since the last boom of the .com’s...
Spoken Word Versus Written Word
People often underestimate how much is actually lost when spoken word appears in print. A statement can be interpreted several different ways depending on your...
Google Acquires Internet (Parody)
Phillipp Lenssen over at Google Blogoscoped published a fake press release that is dated a bit over 10 year in the future titled: “Google Acquires...
CBS Scores Viral Hit with “Robin Sparkles”
The CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother has scored big wins on MySpace and YouTube by weaving storylines from the show online. Their first...
The 10 Largest Social Driven Sites
For many people, Digg is the definitive source for driving traffic to their content or services. And if they don’t have success with Digg, life...
Pay For Diggs : Subvert & Profit
Another ‘black market’ Pay Per Digg operation has opened up which claims that its users will not get banned from Digg. Subvert and Profit claims...
Reddit Adding Interactive Advertising & Ad Voting
Steve from Reddit announced Wednesday on the Reddit Blog that Wired & Reddit will be adding advertising to the Reddit interface. Part of the reason...
‘Portalization’ of MySpace
An article in the eMarketer newsletter today predicts that the “four big portals” (Google, Yahoo!, AOL, MSN) are grabbing an increasing share of online ad...
Pro-Obama Hillary Clinton ‘1984’ Video Posted on YouTube
Someone has posted an anti-Hillary version of the famous 1984 Apple Super Bowl commercial on YouTube which ends with the message : “On Jan. 14,...
Digg & the Power of Commenting on Blogs
On Saturday a story from Search Engine Journal on GMail storage space made it to the front page of Digg, resulting in : Over 2,500...
Yahoo Japan Launches Digg Clone : Minna No Topics
Yahoo Japan has launched their version of a social news sharing site with a Digg-esque feel; Minna No Topics (Everyone’s Topics). The service lets Yahoo...
del.icio.us adds Tag Descriptions
Tagging has become the ultimate way to externally describe a web site using metadata. Services such as YouTube, Flickr, StumbleUpon, Yahoo! MyWeb and del.icio.us use...
Welcome to the Social Community for Search Marketers
and who is MBL, DIGG and what-not anyway? The MyBlogLog hype is pretty much over by now it is also not everything as peachy with...
Google ties up BBC for YouTube
The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube to allow 3 channels to showcase short clips of BBC content. This news comes hot on...
What Diggers (Did) Miss Out On
Dave Naffziger posted a list of 183 Sites and Blogs of the Alexa’s Top 10,000 that are banned from Digg.com. Now it seems that the...
Social Media Linking & Email Spam Requests
Being a website publisher, I receive my share of mass emails asking to join linking networks or trade sitewide links with other sites. Generally, as...
Build Super Links and Traffic With StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon, the web surfing social network, is hands down a long term traffic builder for blogs, online businesses, and Web 2.0 services. For a quick...
Burrito Project : First MySpace Impact Awards Recipient
MySpace.com has announced the first winner of the MySpace Impact Awards which recognize people and organizations “making a difference in the world†through MySpace. MySpace...
Wink: Now a Better Social Marketing Tool
Besides its new people search functionality Wink seems to be a pretty run of the mill social search engine. Once Wink users login they can...
Search Marketing & Social Media
Yahoo has been on the social media track for over a year now, with Flick & del.icio.us acquisitions leading the way to the socialization of...
Introduction to Social Media Optimization
Social Media Optimization (SMO) is a new term that was recently coined by Rohit Bhargava and has since been taking on life of its own....