From the category archives:

Social Media

New Twitter Account @graywolfseo

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Now that twitter lists have taken off and are being utilized, and in some cases are replacing RSS readers, I’m going to try to take advantage by experimenting with a new account @graywolfseo.

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Twitter Lists are Teh Awesome

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Now that twitter lists have been rolled out just about everyone, I’m going to actually agree with Robert Scoble and say twitter lists are teh awesome.

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What are You Doing With Your Social Media Traffic?

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While I may have some level of notoriety within the SEO community and internet marketing space, once you step out of that area, I’m a nobody as writer Paul Carr so eloquently pointed out last week. Robert Scoble the original poster boy of blogging, is known far and wide by the tech community, but who [...]

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How to Abuse the New DiggBar for Fun and Profit

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Rule Number one of operating a web 2.0 user generated content website, if you don’t have someone involved in your development process who thinks about how to abuse the system, and put steps in place to prevent it, someone else will publish a handy step by step guide on how to abuse your system …

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Twitter Contests and Incentives – Do they Work

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A few weeks ago I made the mistake of wondering aloud when someone would start offering cash prizes for twitter followers. I had seen people offering physical prizes before, but never cash. A few random people decided to have some fun with me and start saying I was offering cash, so I just decided to [...]

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Web 2.0 Weenies and Bullshit Social Media Economics

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This weekend I watched an amazing video from Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs at a Ted Conference, and what really hit home is how many people struggle to be new media douchebags in a web 2.0 world. If you’re the kind of person who wants to have 50,000 twitter friends, be a power Digg user, [...]

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Skittles Twitter Experiment I Call it a Win for Skittles

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In case you missed it, the official skittles website located at Skittles.com last night redirected their entire homepage to a twitter search for the term [skittles]. I applaud their effort to embrace bold new ideas but their execution leaves a lot to be desired. I thought I’d run through some of them in hopes some [...]

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Is There Really Such a Thing as a Social Media Expert

January 8, 2009

One of the common themes I see recurring in blog/websites articles are “How to use your blog to drive traffic”, “how to use twitter to engage your community”, and “how to use stumbeupon to bring you new RSS subscribers”. In some cases these posts do actually contain some useful nuggets of information,  however as is [...]

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Blackhat Method for Increasing Your Twitter Followers

December 5, 2008

When I started my new website ViralConversations.com, I also started a new twitter profile. Since this was a brand new profile I was able to observe changes easily. As you can see from the screenshot below I am following 42 people but have 43 followers. The extra person who is following me as a person [...]

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Danny Sullivan Naughty or Nice for Christmas

December 3, 2008

My friends over at Disney came up with this video that has the answer Danny Sullivan Naughty or Nice for Christmas

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Breast Cancer, Social Media, and Picnik.com

October 3, 2008

Earlier this week Barbara Boser of 3 Dog Media made a post asking people to turn their avatars pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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Newsletters and Community Building

October 2, 2008

Having been involved in internet marketing for more than a few years, it’s interesting to see ideas fall out of favor only to come back in fashion, specifically email newsletters and true community building.

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Still Think You Can Ignore Social Media, Blogs, YouTube and Blended Search

September 7, 2008

Still think this whole social media, blog, youtube, universal search business isn’t here to stay or doesn’t effect you. I suggest you look at the SERP’s for Vice Presidential Candidate [Sarah Palin]. Not only will you see lots of blended and social media results but take note of the fact that a squidoo page for [...]

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Looking at Fake Social Media Profiles

July 28, 2008

Somewhere in the middle of all the drama last week was a discussion on fake social media profiles, and as usual the white hat zealots were ready to crucify anyone associated with them, claiming they were yet another tool disparaging the SEO and internet marketing industry. Well it’s my profession responsibility to provide some examples [...]

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Lessons in Linkbait and Social Media

July 23, 2008

One way to make sure your linkbait is successful is to pick a subject that you believe in, are passionate about, and that will bring out an emotional response from members of your target audience.
Or you could play it safe and write the 5 ways Twitter is helping web 2.0 businesses.
The first is memorable the [...]

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How to Guarantee Your Stories Will Fail on Digg

July 7, 2008

Here’s a perfect example of how to shoot yourself in the foot on Digg (link)
What’s going to get more attention, clicks, or votes …
“How to avoid laptop loss at the airport”
or
“US Airports Lose Over 10,000 Laptops Every Week”
If you’re wondering why your submissions flounder look at your titles are they more like #1 or [...]

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Hey Robert Scoble and Seth Godin Did You Forget Something

July 3, 2008

So Seth Godin and Robert Scoble talk about a video by Fred. When you look at all the views of his videos he has over 45 million youtube views

Scoble and Seth go on to say how the traffic numbers aren’t important and it’s the quality of the viewers. Umm hey did you guys miss that [...]

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Michael Gray for President

June 10, 2008

Since Ron Paul failed to galvanize the interwebs I’m going to have to step up to the plate

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Really Facebook You Still Don’t Get it Do You

June 8, 2008

C’mon Facebook I really thought we had moved past this

It’s not that I care that you are telling everyone I bought tickets to Kung Fu Panda, it’s that you assume that I want you to by default. These programs should be opt in not opt out out. Yes I know almost nobody would do that [...]

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How to Perpetuate Internet Celebrity via Livetwittering

May 13, 2008

So here’s a new tool for all you twitter people called Live Twittering be sure to check out my event How to Perpetuate Internet Celebrity

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