Social Media Marketing Blog

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BuzzShout is a great place to find out about the latest Web 2.0 startups. Here you can list a site and have it reviewed by the social network. Each review on BuzzShout can be shouted for. If a user finds a review particularly useful, interesting, or just plain hilarious, they will Shout It! This feature makes it easier to separate the good reviews from time wasters. (more…)

MyBlogLog helps create communities of authors and readers of web content. Using this service, everyone who reads a web site or blog can learn about and engage with one another, and in the process take the conversation to a whole new level. (more…)

Tabber is an online social address book that allows you to (among other things) import your contacts, get updates from contacts that are Tabber members, and watch your contacts live information on the web as they update it. One you log in and update your information your friends can search the Tabber database for you, find you, and if you allow them, access the information you enter about yourself. This way if you move or change your phone number, all your friends on Tabber will be alerted of the change. (more…)

An article at brandweek has discussed the results of a recent survey run by iProspect and JupiterResearch. According to the article, one in three Internet users report their purchase decisions are influenced by sites with social content, with Amazon reported to be the most influential due to its customer reviews section. 2,223 people were surveyed in hopes of measuring how consumers use social networking sites.

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The del.icio.us blog has announced the launch of an updated Firefox extension including improvements such as;

• Searching and browsing your bookmarks from directly within your Firefox browser
• Edit your bookmarks within Firefox
• Define which tags to display in the Firefox toolbar

More information on the extension can be found here.

Welcome to the Links and Link Baiting section of the site.  In here we will gather news and information on link building techniques and tactics.  Link building itself seems to appear as the core of any attempt at search engine rankings, however personally I have seen much success without wasting away hours hunting for links.  I feel the with link building it is very much quality over quantity, so my articles will revolve around successful strategies for building quality links from relevant sites for your topic area.

Welcome to the Web 2.0 section of the site. Under this topic we will post introductions to, reviews on, and news about emerging Web 2.0 sites. The aim is to help you find useful tools, learn about Web 2.0 and perhaps even just find some sites to while away a few hours on. Who hasn’t been sent a YouTube clip yet? (more…)

Welcome to the Social Media Optimisation section of the site. Here we will post articles, news, hints, tips and tactics related to Social Media Optimisation. We will begin with an explanation of this topic’s origins and a brief definition from wikipedia. (more…)

Hello and welcome to the primary category for our little blog. Under this category you can expect to find articles, news and information from around the web related to the topic of Social Media Marketing.

We will start things off with a definition of Social Media Marketing; (more…)