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Social Networks

Kevin Federline, the Super Bowl and Blogging

February 2, 2007

When I speak with clients about blogging one of the key point I try to stress is that they should try and not only write about their niche, but try to take advantage of and tie into current events. The more widespread and front of mind the news or event is the better. To illustrate [...]

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Data Gathering from Blog Widgets

January 19, 2007

When Yahoo purchased MyBlogLog many wondered, was it a good deal, and why exactly was Yahoo paying so much. For those of you who’ve never bothered to check your stats or wondered what all the fuss is about I’d like to point out a few points.

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Why Do People Submit to Digg – Reason #7

January 15, 2007

Muhammad Saleem who runs the Mu Life (an excellent blog for anyone playing in the social bookmarking playground BTW) has nice post on 6 reasons why people submit to Digg. However like a lot of people he misses out on #7, which can have far more benefit in the long run.

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Going Viral to Build Defensible Traffic, Part II

January 12, 2007

In my initial post Going Viral to Build Defensible Traffic, I posted some graphs showing how going viral built up my RSS subscribers. Yesterday I pushed out another viral post that did WAY better than I planned on it doing.

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Going Viral to Build Defensible Traffic

January 9, 2007

Late last year Darren Rowse on Problogger had a post about How to Build a ‘Digg Culture’ on your Blog. The post discuses how going viral can increase your reader/subscribers over time which build in long term defensible traffic. The graphs he used were hypothetical but accurate. Last week I created the situation so thought [...]

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Why the Digg Community Hates You

January 6, 2007

Jason pretty much nails it on this one, and if really want to understand social communities, not just abuse them you should read his post Will digg die the death of 1,000 cuts?

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Ghost Riding the Whip – Insurance Linkbait

January 4, 2007

One of the things I hear a lot is how do I do link bait for a boring industry like <insert industry here> . All you really need to do is think out of the box and go with a trend.

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How to be a Dirty Digger

December 20, 2006

Ok I’ve been carrying this post around in my head for a while and am I’m finally going to spill it, here are my tips on how to completely screw your competition in a web 2.0 social media world.

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Going Viral in a Social Web World

December 16, 2006

Two events caught on in the social seo web world today and I’d like to take a look at each them.

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I’m Ticked Off

December 15, 2006

I’m ticked off that no one’s ticked me yet. Damn it what’s a guy got to do to get some love around here, follow the banner if you want to tickme and join my group if you want.

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Netscape.com Butchers Profile Pages to Jack up Page Views

December 13, 2006

I’ll admit it I’m a regular Netscape.com user and I think their system is much more feature rich and user friendly than Digg, or should I say it used to be …

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What is a Compilation Post

December 13, 2006

I came across a post today that was actually pretty interesting. I’ve been trying similar things but I think this execution was really good, for lack of a better name I’m going to call this a compilation post.

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Social Bookmarking Extentions

December 8, 2006

If you play on Digg or Netscape and use firefox you may tfind these two new extentions pretty cool. They help you keep up with your friends activities, seeing stories they submitted and voted for.
Netscape Friends’ Activity Sidebar
Netscape’s Digg Tracker

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Tag Spam

December 8, 2006

If there was ever any doubt that spam has invaded tagging and technorati it was disolved last night. I logged into technorati and this was the list of tags I was presented with:

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CNN Doesn’t Get The Web or Viral Marketing

December 5, 2006

So I come across a story on CNN about how a toy company used YouTube to create a Viral/Word of Mouth Marketing Buzz for a new remote control helicopter. Did they embed a youtube video … did they even include a link to any of the videos … did they even include a url in [...]

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Bad Behavior at Netscape

December 4, 2006

I fully expected things to change over at Netscape when Jason left, but man things are getting really harsh over there. I’ve talked with at least half a dozen or so people in the past week who have had accounts banned. Some have even had entire account histories wiped out, and have been banned form [...]

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Getting Buried in Digg, Not as Bad as it Sounds

November 30, 2006

Without any intervention on my part my post on What’s one Digg Worth got submitted to Digg. I didn’t plan this story but it dropped in my lap so I’m running with it. It’s absolutely the goal when working your own stories for them to stay up as long as possible, the longer they’re up [...]

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What’s One Digg Worth

November 29, 2006

Back in October I conducted a little test to see what the value of making it to the homepage of Digg was actually worth, here are the results:

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Michael Gray

November 28, 2006

Well some search engines seem to be having a hard time with the whole date/trust thing so let’s see what happens in two weeks (starting serp)

Michael Gray
Michael Gray on Squidoo
Michael Gray on 43 People
Michael Gray on 43 Things
Michael Gray on 43 Places
Michael Gray on Allconsuming
Michael Gray on Wikipedia

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Thanksgiving Dinner with Pictures

November 24, 2006

While this post isn’t technically about SEO that doesn’t mean you might not get a few ideas on how get more out of some social media tools by reading about my Thanksgiving Dinner

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