Social Marketing

Google has seemingly “slapped” Squidoo by decreasing lens SE results ranking - across the board. I was first made aware of the issue before it hit Income.com or other websites, inside The Immediate Edge, where Ed Dale lovingly coined the “Squidoo Slap” name.
Techcrunch speculates the Slap comes as result of Squidoo’s harboring, and allowing, [...]

Using video marketing to drive traffic to your web site is an online marketing strategy many small business owners and internet marketers are beginning to embrace, with much success. Having a traditional website only allows you to reach those people who first find your website. However, combining video, social networking and some simple [...]

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 [...]

The highly anticipated YouTube popularity software, Tubeinator, is available as a free demo download from Tubeinator.com as of today.
Tubeinator will help you help others find your YouTube videos - avoiding the dissapointment of uploading a videos and waiting for views… only to have them never materialize.
Use Tubeinator to add friends and leave comments on other [...]

This week I’m going to cover a bunch of free or cheap-o ways to generate traffic to your website. The focus will be on Web 2.0 methods, as that’s my forte, but we’ll delve into more traditional methods as well.
First, we all know that giving something for free - a “special report,” a demo [...]

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

Claims made at http://www.socialmediariches.info we’ll review:
“You can make cash by creating and uploading videos!
You can make cash by uploading pictures!
You can make cash by uploading music!
You can make cash by writing on blogs!”
Ya think? We’ll see…
We’re in another “golden age” of the internet. Tons of new startups popping up all over the place. [...]

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 [...]