Traffic For a Year – SEO Efforts, or SMO?

Micheal Martinez is calling us all out today. He says that anyone who gets a substantial amount of their traffic from social media sites should reexamine their title. He says you shouldn't call your self a search engine optimizer if you are spending significant amount of time working the social media angle, including putting social media buttons on your site. From Micheal's post: Social media optimization is another form of Web marketing like pay-per-click optimization, like ...

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Some Of The People Some Of The Time

photo credit: leroialeks Some of you have probably noticed that StumbleUpon users are somewhat antagonistic toward people who are suspected of trying to game the system. Today I saw an amazing example of seeing what one can get away with. While stumbling this evening I landed on ...

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Are You Losing Focus?

photo credit: Thomas Hawk Over the last week I have seen a surprising rush of people in my life "getting" Twitter. It seems that every few weeks there is a little spike in the number of tweets that come in to me. I have a pocket of ...

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Playing The Social Media Game

I have recently been using StumbleUpon more frequently, and for a wide number of topics, and I have found some interesting sites. I also notice that I see certain people that I know from search marketing communities are very active. I might say extremely active. I have to wonder how many of the sites that they put up are legitimately things they like and how many are things that they are connected to professionally. Is ...

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