Social Marketing

The best PDF on building website traffic with social media and Web 2.0 is available for free at Social Media Daily. Subscribers there also got a big ol’ discount on my most recent product, 30 Minute Backlinks. It pays to subscribe. Social Media Daily subscribers only get emailed when an update is [...]

If you’re worried that what you’re doing on a social site could be considered spamming, it probably is.
Posting blog comments, forum posts, sending messages, adding written or multimedia content *ARE* what these sites are for - doing those things do not, in of itself, make for spam.
What does make your “conversation” spam is the selling, [...]

Incredible new case study!

(First, sorry I didn’t have time to do any fancy video editing of this thing - I’ve been buried in doing my taxes all day. Yes, I do my own taxes… I’m wondering why right about now…)
I purchased a new domain on 2/24. Ran 30 Minute Backlinks on [...]

About a year ago, I canceled most of my subscriptions to online membership sites. I found I was spending too much time browsing new content instead of working on my own projects. This isn’t to say the sites I was a member of didn’t deliver what they promised - 99.9% did. It [...]

I have several new product reviews in the queue, so if you’re waiting for the heads-up on any of the following, I should have a post up within a few days giving you some more detailed information. I rarely promote products without having first reviewed them.
What’s coming?

Affiliate Silver Bullet - I heard all [...]

Jack Humphrey has been driving me batty though with a comment he left on my “How To Get Traffic From A List Bloggers” post. He wrote:
I think if Duncan knew how we’d be using this and the value of this thing he might think twice about giving it away again!
It is really [...]

Wordpress, or blogging in general, is a perfect entry into social media marketing. The interaction with visitors available just via comments is very Web 2.0, and there are hundreds of plugins that help socialize one’s blog even further.
A few that I use and recommend:

AutoSocialPoster: Automatically submits new posts you write to social bookmarking directories.
Popularity [...]

Got any design skills?
My friend Kidino just opened a MiniSiteGallery.com, which offers free mini site templates for download.
If you contribute a template before Feb. 29, you’ll be in the running for a $500 prize as well as a free copy of 30 Minute Backlinks. Read up more on the contest here.
Whenever you contribute, Kidino [...]

The 30 Minute Backlinks salespage is converting at 3.38% for cold visitors (that’s people who don’t yet know me, aren’t on my list, etc.).  That means if you send 100 visitors, you’ll earn about $169 ($50 commission x 3.38% conversion).
It’s also being multivariate tested to improve that conversion rate.
Tools are available on the affiliate page, [...]

I discussed Blog Rush & Traffic Jam in a recent post, and Andy Beard has followed up with a comprehensive pros-n-cons look at the services from John Reese.  One tool he mentioned was the Blog Rush Click Maximizer plugin for Wordpress.
This plugin allows you to change your post title to something a bit more BlogRush [...]