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Reddit Homepage Advertising Beta Test Results – What I Got For $40
It’s every webmaster’s dream to go popular on social bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious, and Reddit. A front page feature on any of these sites brings a flood of new traffic – thousands of visits in a single day. Of course, ...
Gasp! Advertising on Twitter with ad.ly & Sponsored Tweets… Is It Okay to Make Money?
With the rising popularity of Twitter as an online social networking and communication channel, many businesses are using the tool in a variety of different ways including the following: spreading brand awareness directly interacting with customers ...
3 Reasons Why Google Needs to Buy Twitter in Order to Survive
As you know, Google is the search engine and controls an obscene amount of traffic on the web. In fact, it’s not uncommon for many users to spend at least 25% of their time online on Google properties like Gmail, Google maps, and news. Wi...
6 Crucial Steps to Prepare Yourself for the Twitter Facebook Real-Time Search Integration
Real-time search is all the rage these days and it looks like it will only get bigger. Just last week, Microsoft Bing announced that it will be integrating both Facebook and Twitter status updates into its search results. Minutes later, Google foll...
A Headline Title Trick to Maximize Social and SEO Traffic - The One Two Punch
Social media is all the rage these days. Everyone wants to get in on the game and promote themselves on networks like Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, and Digg. Social media, when done right, is a proven method of Internet marketing that can send ho...
DiggBar, the Game Changer - 4 Ways Internet Marketers Can React
If you’re a Digg fanboy (or girl) you know that the social bookmarking site implemented a significant change last week that generated a ton of buzz in the online world - the launch of the Diggbar. It’s something so simple yet it has the ...
How to Harness the Power of Twitter in 4 Easy Steps
By now I’m sure you’ve read my case study on how I used Twitter to generate 35,967 extra hits to my site in just 14 days. Want to achieve the same explosive results? I admit that much of the viral content on Twitter currently favors tec...
Case Study: How I Used Twitter to Generate 35,967 Extra Hits to my Site in Just 14 Days
Even with Twitter’s immense popularity and quickly growing user base, there are still quite a few naysayers and skeptics of the social networking site. For example, I still hear that “it’s a waste of time with nothing but useless c...
Twitter SEO - How to Optimize Your Website For Twitter Search
A couple days ago I wrote about the 6 reasons why Twitter is the future of search. With social media and search fusing together, what does this mean for SEO? In other words, how do you optimize a site to perform well on a social “search engin...
6 Reasons Why Twitter is the Future of Search - Google Beware
This past week the tech world was abuzz with news of Twitter incorporating search functionality into its site. What this means is that you can now easily obtain trending data for popular keywords, take a deeper look at the topics people are talking ...
BloggersBase Review - A Different Kind of Social Media Site
Millions of new blog posts spring up each and every day around the web. There’s just so much information out there and it’d literally take someone a lifetime to consume a week’s worth of all of the new blog posts on the Internet. ...
How to Ignite Viral Marketing Campaigns For Your Site
I’m helping to promote the search marketing company I work for at SES Chicago this week and today I had the chance to attend a session called “Igniting Viral Campaigns”. The topic is especially interesting to me because I frequentl...
StumbleUpon is My Biggest Traffic Source, Without Even Trying
If you have a site or blog that you’ve been trying to promote for a long time, you might be familiar with all of the different types of traffic sources - Google SEO, buying links, article marketing, blog comments, guest posts, etc. All of these...
15 Opinions on a Google-Digg Deal - From Sphinn’s Finest SEOs & SMOs
Alright, alright… so the Google-Digg deal that I predicted last week has been broken up and it looks like I need to work on my psychic powers. But that doesn’t mean we can’t continue to speculate and wonder what will happen next in...
The Google-Digg Prophecy - 5 Ways a Deal will Change the Internet
digg_url = 'http://www.winningtheweb.com/google-digg-prophesy-5-ways-deal-change-internet.php'; Could this be it? If you’re on top of the tech news, you know that Digg has been on sale for over 6 months now - actively looking for buyers to...
