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, [...]

I like blog commenting as a link building strategy. If you can add to the conversation, it’s an easy way to get both human visitors and backlinks.
But what about “nofollow?”
Nofollow is often ignored. Last year, Ben Fisher did a case study to see if nofollow links counted - [...]

The more traffic you have to your site, the more visitors you get, and the more often you are able to expose new people to what you’re doing.
One of the fastest ways to get traffic to your site is by getting outside websites to link to you. When other sites link to you, you [...]

You should go read this interview transcript.  Or listen to the MP3, if you’re so inclined.  After that, go watch Gary Vaynerchuk actually DO his show on WineLibrary.
Learn by successful examples.

I installed BlogRush about 2 months ago, but then didn’t do a lot of updating here, so my initial numbers are skewed.
Since I’ve been back to regular posting, Reese has updated the service to include new analytics, more specific categories and new sizes for the BlogRush widget.
What do I think?
TWO CAVEATS

I hate, hate, hate putting [...]

I made a video last night with the answer to the #1 most commonly asked question people have after reading Social Media Daily.
Also had a few updates to the program, and some INCREDIBLE things to come / in development:

Direct link to the video.

Ed Dale says kind things about my “Social Media Daily” report in today’s 30 Day Challenge podcast!  I am the bees knees, as it were.
Thanks Ed!

I met Brian, the author of the video below, as a commenter on my post about using YouTube to achieve search rank. He showed me link that is an INCREDIBLE example of how to use video in your online marketing efforts without being spammy, sales-y or totally over-the-top, while still incorporating solid direct sales [...]

Lots of opinions, and questions, in my last post about the Social Marketing Checklist. I wanted to thank everyone who contributed to the discussion, and encourage others to read the comments as there’s tons of good advice offered up from other successful marketers.
I also wanted to tell you a little bit more about what [...]