Recent Posts Tagged With 'social media'

• Who owns your Twitter account?

  Posted on Wednesday May 27th, 2009 at 21:37 in digg, social media, facebook, twitter

  So here is a legal conundrum.  You’ve been active on a number of social media websites, such as Twitter, FaceBook or Digg.  You have amassed a number of friends and followers and built a certain amount of credibility.  You leave your job – tak...

• Ethical SEO or SEO Spam

  Posted on Tuesday April 7th, 2009 at 12:36 in social media, ethics, reputation, bookmarking, seo scams

  You cannot always believe what you read, and in SEO you have to be very careful.  Take for instance the good folks at OutsourcingforSEO.com .  They repeatedly spam Zoomit Canada with non-Canadian submissions.  I have deleted several dozen accounts...

• Furl Removed From TheBookmarketer

  Posted on Thursday March 19th, 2009 at 08:11 in social media, website updates, bookmarking

  The popular social bookmarking website Furl, one of the originals, has been removed from TheBookmarketer. Why have we taken such a harsh step? Because Furl has folded; it no longer exists. Why have you not heard about it from other social bookmarking...

• The Bookmarketer adds Tipd, Plugim, Plime

  Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 08:06 in blogging, social media, bookmarking

  Financial bloggers finally have a social bookmarking tool that includes Tipd.com, the niche social bookmarking website for financial news. Now there are five excellent reasons to add The Bookmarketer to your blog: 1. It is the most up-to-date socia...

• Twitter Success for SOHO Small Business

  Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 at 10:37 in social media, reputation, twitter

  A lot of small business owners are thinking about social media marketing, but are not sure if or how to do it.  A lot of them have heard about how Twitter tipped the balance in the last US election.  But many business owners still are not sure. Yes...

• Free SEO Book For Twitter Followers

  Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 08:22 in social media, twitter

  ANNOUNCEMENT: I am offering a free copy of Don’t Get Banned By The Search Engines to new Twitter followers. All you have to do is follow me and you will receive a special URL to download the book without having to pay the $40. Why am I doing th...

• Social Media Interview with Danny Brown

  Posted on Monday December 8th, 2008 at 08:06 in Marketing, social media

  Imagine what “social media” might be like in five or ten years… Hmmm…I wonder what Mom has in her fridge…let’s check. I see. Ooh, she has some good stuff. Let’s just send her a message here… “Hi mom. Thinking of doing an...

• The more links on a domain the better?

  Posted on Monday December 1st, 2008 at 11:47 in social media, linking, bookmarking, algorithms

  Dear reader, let me he a heretic once more. We all know, or at least assume, that having multiple links to the same URL from a domain is an exercise in diminishing returns as far as search engine rankings are concerned.  That is to say, if you score...

• Link bait lesson from Matt Cutts

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 18:22 in google, digg, social media, content, linking, bookmarking

  Matt Cutts, Google’s public face for webmasters and search engine consultants, has shown us how to do link bait.  Oops, I mean, how to do really good quality content.  Yeah, that’s what I meant to say. Here is the link bait…I mean...

• Canada finally has social bookmarking

  Posted on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 13:54 in social media, bookmarking, zoomit canada

  If you are a Canadian who enjoys online social networking, you might have spent some time as an orphan.  You don’t find much Canadian coverage at the big US-based social bookmarking websites like Digg and Reddit.  During the heat of the feder...

• Like Digg, but “Canadianer” - Zoomit Canada

  Posted on Tuesday November 11th, 2008 at 14:42 in blogging, social media, zoomit canada

  To all those Canadians on social bookmarking websites like Digg and Reddit who were wondering, “Will I ever see a Canadian story make it to the home page?”… …well, the answer is yes!  In fact, if you rush over right now to Z...

• Now on Twitter

  Posted on Thursday October 9th, 2008 at 09:55 in social media, twitter

  I actually opened my Twitter account several moons ago, but somehow Nancy, our news release distribution expert, convinced me to try using it.  So you can follow us at http://twitter.com/amabaie , where you will find a mix of business and personal ...

• Earlybird Link Building

  Posted on Wednesday September 24th, 2008 at 08:03 in writing, domain, social media, LinkedIn, squidoo, linking, linkvana

  POP QUIZ:  How do you build links to a website that is not yet live? Those who are new to the Web might wonder why you would want to do that.  Let’s suppose your website takes 4 months to develop.  If you build some links to your domain, the...