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Social Networks

Annotated Google Chicago Vacation Map

May 16, 2006

Recently Mrs. GW had to go to the ACCM show in Chicago, so we took the kids along went a day earlier and turned it into one of those mini-vacations. Now before you start unsubscribing thinking I’m going to subject you to the internet’s version of the dreaded family slideshow bear with me a minute. [...]

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Dark Alley’s of MySpace

April 27, 2006

In part II we looked at legitimate Marketing Examples on MySpace however it’s hard to take a complete look at all that MySpace is without acknowledging that it does have a dark and seedy district. There are some adult areas with lots of nudity however as of this writing none of the pages linked to [...]

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Marketing Examples on MySpace

April 26, 2006

I will admit when I first stumbled into MySpace I really didn’t think it was much more than a bunch of horrendously ugly pages with really cheezy music. However if you are willing to dig a little deeper you can find some legitimate companies and organizations who are using MySpace. If you’re ready let’s dive [...]

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Tips for Controlling the Top 10

April 21, 2006

While this strategy is never going to work for anything that’s even moderately competitive it can usually help you score the majority of the top 10 serps for your company name, your clients company name, or the CEO/CFO/COO’s name.
1. companydomain.com
2. profile.companydomain.com
3. Googlebase
4. Google page creator
5. companyname.blogspot.com
6. companyname.wordpress.com
7. squidoo.com/companyname/
8. companyname.newsvine.com
9. spaces.msn.com/companyname/
10. myspace.com/companyname/
Just don’t forget to “water [...]

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Malcom Gladwell, Mavens, Connectors, and Digg

April 12, 2006

So I’m finishing up Malcom Gladwell’s Tipping Point before my trip to Pubcon next week where’s he’s the keynote speaker. Now if you are serious about real marketing (not the push button kind) this book is required reading, you really get an understanding about how viral marketing works. Which leads me to one of the [...]

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Shameless Self Promotion in a Web 2.0 World

February 22, 2006

One of the the common elements of a lot of web 2.0-ish applications is they rely heavily on user generated content. However as I mentioned in my Forums vs Blogs post many people are blogging to keep all of the value of their own work. So why should should any smart marketer give away [...]

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Thinking about Blogs, and Why I Love-Hate Them

January 20, 2006

So after listening to Nick’s Podcast last week I realized what a ding-nut I was being not responding and answering comments people left on my blog, something I am working hard at correcting. Scott (aka Webprofessor) mentioned me today and I’d like to expand a little on what noticed.

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How to Get Your Non Tech Site into Digg

January 17, 2006

Regular readers here know I’m a big fan of social bookmarking or folksonomy websites like Del.icio.us and Digg. However when I mention them as link building tools I get responses like “my sites not about technology or computers”, “my customers aren’t geeks” and even Oilman said “it’s hard to get viral links to a phen [...]

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Delicious Firefox Extension

January 16, 2006

If you’re a del.icio.us user and you use Firefox one extension you really should use the delicious firefox extension. It puts a neat little delicious box and tag icon in your browser address row.

Something I discovered last week is if you highlight text on a page and click the “tag” button it appears in the [...]

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Technorati, Lights Are On but is Anybody Home

January 14, 2006

I was reading Eric Giguere’s Make Easy Money wit Adsense companion blog earlier this week, where he mentioned he was having problems with Technorati not recognizing new posts. I was having the same problem with them not picking up new posts in my [...]

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Nick Wilson Blogging Podcast

January 9, 2006

After listening to my buddy Nick Wilson’s podcast last night I learned a little bit about communities and blogging, and made a few changes. I added recent posts, recent comments, and most popular posts. The last one will probably take a little while [...]

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Technorati Charts

December 21, 2005

Ok who doesn’t love pretty charts, especially when they are about you? Nail Kenedy mentions how to create these in his blog posting. Here’s one about me:

Here’s the formathttp://technorati.com/chart/ + [keyword] + ?size= + [size]
[keyword] works for single keywords, multiple keywords, and URL’s. [...]

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23 Squidoo

December 20, 2005

Ok so I’ve got two modules up in Squidoo, SEO Newsroom, and CSS Guide. One got ranked as high as 269 but dropped back down in the 400’s, the other is in the 1800’s. Right now there are about 120,000 pages indexed in [...]

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Linkedin

October 8, 2005

Nick at threadwatch is playing with Linkedin. If you’re using Linkedin and want to connect just drop me an email graywolf (at) wolf-howl.com

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MySpace Landing Page

July 11, 2005

This is an extremely unscientific test to see how many people clicked on the link in my MySpace profile. To see how many others have done the same looked at the number of times viewed below, thanks for participating.

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