News I Choose

I probably read more marketing blogs than the average person. But that’s my job. I read and keep up on things that you don’t have time to. Which, I hope, is one of the reasons you read the Friday Traffic Report!

Here are some posts that have really stuck out for me recently. If I have done my job, some “aha” moments and inspiration are in store for you today!

1. “3 Secrets to Massive Online Marketing Success” - Sonia Simone, Copyblogger
2. “Why No One Links to Your Best Posts (And What to Do About It)” - Jonathan Morrow, Copyblogger
3. “Using AideRSS to Help Identify Hot Topics to Cover On Your Blog” - Very cool RSS research tool! Problogger
4. “Social Networks Get Down to Business” -Big business is spending cash on social networks at record highs this year, eMarketer.com

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Tags: blogging news, social marketing, social networks, top blog posts

Targeted Traffic From Social Networks…

I’ve been completely floored this week by the way MyBlogLog.com has taken off.

Sometimes it seems like a big company has to buy in to really get the current community to explode! And it has.

My MBL network has grown a lot this week and everyone seems to be posting comments on each others community pages like mad now.

My traffic from the MyBlogLog.com community has tripled this week just from participating and surfing over there.

If you are a blogger and you aren’t in the MyBlogLog world yet, you best get stompin’! And don’t forget to join the Blog Promotion group as your first order of business.

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Spicy Page is also really taking off. It is really fun to watch new communities grow. And I like helping them do it.

It is a blog voting and popularity community. People who sign up seem to be surfing through the other members and commenting on other blogs, usingthe system to discover new content in the blogosphere.

I like the neat twist they put on the community system and I can’t wait to see what they do with the video hosting tab which is still under construction.

My traffic from SpicyPage.com is going up and I am getting new readers and subscribers from them.

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I will have a list of all the new social networks I’ve discovered soon. Things are definitely going vertical instead of just large, general communities.

For instance, I found a new story posting place like Digg, but just for marketers and marketing content. It’s called PlugIm.

This site is sending me daily targeted traffic just by posting my posts and articles there for readers to pick up.

Make sure you take some time soon to “get social.” My stats are up across the board from taking a bit of time each day to interact with neat services like these, so it is time well spent.

Tags: blog promotion, mybloglog, plugim, social networks, Social Power Linking, spicy page

Social Media Optimization

SMO is way better than SEO!

Problem is, how do you optimize your site and content for social media? That’s a question we try to answer with new ideas every week at Content Desk.

Here are several great ideas and tips for optimizing your site for social networks to get more links and more traffic.

Tags: blog promotion, seo, smo, social media optimization, social networks, Social Power Linking, tagging

MySpace Advertising

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More information on [tag]Myspace advertising[/tag] and the potential for marketers and promoters to take advantage of over 100 million users and fans of Myspace.

Yaro Starak wrote a great post on his blog “Entrepreneur’s Journey” about the things to consider about this monster site and the young demographics.

I believe far too many small shops are ignoring the potential to grow with [tag]Myspace[/tag]. Blowing off 109 million networked people out of hand would be a big mistake, no matter what the demographic, without thinking deeply about how your business might become hip enough to get attention on Myspace.

Starak states:

“MySpace has a high value because of it’s massive userbase, which in turn provides a potentially rich source of advertising income (let’s just say its $580 mil purchase price included a lot of money for future potential). Given the audience is a young demographic it’s a very lucrative market for advertisers.”

I believe many people are mistakenly ignoring [tag]social networking[/tag] sites like Myspace because they don’t understand the culture and see no immediate potential.

Many marketers are stuck in a model of [tag]marketing[/tag] that does not allow for change this radical in nature.

But it is high time the smarter marketers take a look at opportnities in the social networking world because the stats and studies show that the effect they are having on the web is extremely profound.

Tags: marketing, myspace, myspace advertising, myspace friends, social networks, Social Power Linking