Social Marketing

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 [...]

The best kind of traffic is targeted traffic.
It doesn’t do you any good to have a bunch of people interested in losing weight coming to your blog if you write about internet marketing.
There are two websites online that are for internet marketers, by internet marketers who’s main goal is to send you targeted, quality traffic.   [...]

A new update to the Wordpress Plug IM Vitebox plugin is available today, you can download it here.
When a users’ template used Wordpress’ “the_excerpt()” function, it’s disables javascript.  Since the Votebox IS javascript, that lead to nasty code being displayed in Category & Archive pages, instead of your nice votebox.The plugin has been updated to [...]

An update is available to the Wordpress PlugIM Votebox plugin.  This update allows you to customize the position of your votebox.  Find it here.

Smart tshirt designers are taking advantage of the Digg uprising over “the numbers”. There’s got to be some tech conference coming up one would be given uber-cool status for wearing these Digg / Numbers Revolt shirts to.
What to learn from this?
Keep an eye on your market - any news, however insignificant to the [...]

I’m super-stoked about this!
The WP-PlugIM Wordpress plugin is available, so anyone can drop it in their ‘plugins’ folder and have a shiny PlugIM votebox on their posts (see upper left of this post for what it looks like).
Your blog readers do not have to be registered at PlugIM to use the votebox and they [...]

I submit my blog posts to all the social bookmarking & “story submission” services out there.  It’s another method of Web 2 organic traffic generation, and the backlinks at those places that don’t use “nofollow” don’t hurt either.
So, submitting to Digg, Reddit, etc. is all good, but for actual traffic to my site?  PlugIM is [...]

There’s been a lot of talk in the blogging and IM world recently about spamming & etchis (but then again, isn’t there always?).
That said, the comment thread on this post got me thinking about the issue.
Think about MySpace (or other social networking sites) “spam.”
You immediately have a scenario in mind of what constitues spam on [...]

Do you remember the big rush to grab Squidoo URL’s?  After Tiffany Dow came out with her excellent Squidoo report, every internet marketer on the planet got on Squidoo and tried to snap up their keywords.
And more power to ‘em!   Squidoo is where it’s at for backlinks to your own sites, as well as creating [...]

Pay-Per-Post got $3 million in VC, perhaps the pay-per-digg model will follow suit?
Ed Dale posted about his prediction for 2007 to be the year of buying and selling websites. I see VC money popping up all over the place and think it’s a great time, if you’ve got a clever idea, so get a [...]