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Social Network Marketing Carnival - November 19, 2007

Desty — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:01:57 +0000

Welcome to the November 19, 2007 edition of social network marketing carnival.

Doris Chua presents My Take on Technorati Exchanges posted at Home Office Women.

Tiffany Colter presents Reaching more people with your blog posted at Writing Career Coach.

Ralph Jean-Paul presents Meet 7 People in 7 Days posted at Potential 2 Success. Ralph remarks: There are 6.7 trillion people in the world. How many of them do you know? Meet a new person for business or social advancement each day this week.

Marco Richter presents Why MyBlogLog is Good for Your Blog posted at MarcoRichter.net.

Vladimir presents How to effectively use social media sites from a Webmaster perspective posted at Vladimir Prelovac Online!.

Jones Hansen presents Words letters and symbols that catches your attention posted at seo Online marketing blog. Jones remarks: Getting people to notice your writing can be tough, you can so easliy get lost in the crowd, but there are techniques you could use to get people attention

Natasha presents Bebo for writers posted at web stuff 4 writers. Nathasha remarks: An article about how writers can use Bebo to market their books.

Edith presents Why Should You Care? posted at Social Media Marketing Report.

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Social Network Marketing Blog Carnival - November 12, 2007

Desty — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:23 +0000

Welcome to the November 12, 2007 edition of social network marketing carnival.

Ianternet presents Facebook Flyer Pro: Cost Per Click that Hates Me posted at Ian Fernando.

Carol Bentley presents Spreading the word? posted at Carol Bentley.

Amy S Quinn presents 17 Specialty Search Engines Every Web Developer Should Bookmark posted at Virtual Hosting.

Sagar Satapathy presents The Del.icio.us Toolbox: 50+ Del.icio.us-related Scripts, Tools, and Tutorials posted at Virtual Hosting.

Caroline Middlebrook presents Using StumbleUpon To Connect With People In Your Niche | Caroline Middlebrook posted at Caroline Middlebrook.

Marco Richter presents StumbleUpon Experiment posted at MarcoRichter.net.

Jay presents Essential Orkut Tools .. posted at Apu’s blog ….

Abdel Olakara presents Google’s OpenSocial API posted at Techno Paper.

Heather Juma presents Social Networking Helps You Make Friends and Influence Spiders posted at Girls Who Network Lifestyle.

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social network marketing carnival, blog carnival.

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A Blog to Keep Your Eye On: Caroline Middlebrook

Desty — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:17:28 +0000

A gem of a blog that I found, Caroline-Middlebrook.com. Caroline submitted her excellent article on how to connect with stumblers on StumbleUpon for my Social Network Marketing Blog Carnival. I snooped around her blog, looking at other articles, and read a great article about blog commentating strategies.

I’ll probably spend this evening searching thru her archives. Caroline, you gained a reader!

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Desty’s Gold Starred Articles November 7 2007

Desty — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:54:21 +0000

Started off with our theme in social media (with a focus on social network marketing) we go to Vandelay Website Design with What Is Your Social Media Plan? It’s a well written, step by step, explanation on what steps you need to take in-order to take advantage of traffic from social networks (such as Digg, StumbleUpon, etc) and turn them into new readers on a long term basis.

Next we go to Performancing.com and Why Good Bloggers Have an Advantage in SEO. Why it’s a great article from start to finish on how the normal SEO rules don’t apply to bloggers, point number one focuses on social media and how use of those social sites can change the face of a site in a very short time.

Finally we go to the ProBlogger himself for an article on how to manually do a form of social networking with Building Blog Relationships by Monitoring What Other Bloggers are Writing. Darren writes about his early experiences in searching for sites that had problems with their digital cameras (he runs a digital camera blog), read their articles, and gave them suggestions and help through comments. His helpful comments brought those bloggers and readers of those blogs to his blog for their digital camera questions. Building his readership 1 reader at a time.

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Social Network Marketing Carnival November 5 2007

Desty — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:34:57 +0000

Welcome to the 1st edition of the Social Network Marketing Carnival for November 5th 2007.

y528s presents Save an Alien, with Facebook posted at Just Mo. y528s remarks: Reviewing a new facebook app.

Sagar Satapathy presents The Digg Toolbox: 70+ Digg-related Scripts, Tools, and Tutorials posted at Virtual Hosting.

Barry Welford presents Sound Will Drive Mobile Web Growth posted at StayGoLinks. Barry remarks: The Mobile Web is having a rocky start with many challenges including input and control via a small cell phone keyboard. Using the sound capabilities of the cell phone provides a better way to surf the Mobile Web.

edithyeung presents Use Wordtracker to Identify What Customer Wants posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..

Jon Swift presents Facebook Declares War on the Blogosphere posted at Jon Swift. Jon remarks: Facebook deleted my account because I use a pseudonym then quickly reinstated me after an outcry from the blogosphere.

Ralph Jean-Paul presents How to Start Meaningful Conversations posted at Potential 2 Success. Ralph remarks: Have more interesting and engaging conversations by learning the right way to begin them. The way you connect with people can improve your social and professional life. So if you want to improve your overall lifestyle, improve the way you connect with others.

Marco Richter presents Why I love Sphinn posted at MarcoRichter.net.

Facebook, Sphinn, Mobile Web, Digg, Social Network Marketing, Social Network, Social Networking, Blog Carnival

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Desty’s Gold Starred Articles October 19 2007

Desty — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:35:57 +0000

I’m thinking more and more about my new enterprise, so with that in mind, we’ll get down to it.

Court writes Is a Visitor Is a Visitor Is a Visitor? It has a direct tie-in to the differences between Desty Online and my new project. Desty Online is what I guess you could call a personal blog where I write about businesses. I don’t ask people to buy stuff, we’re more about sharing information and experiences. As such, our revenue model is more hands on, via reviews and advertising. My new project, while very labor intensive in the design phase, should only require weekly changes and updates once per month; it’s revenue model will be purchase based and a commission from affiliates.

A guest post on Bluehat SEO by SEOcracy titled Make $50 dollars a day with Google Custom Search added to my plans for the navigation on my new project. Right now, the navigation for the new site will be search driven rather than a normal blog’s catagory listing. As such, any extra revenue I can draw from those searches is just icing on the cake.

What got the whole new project started? Well I was checking out the advertisement badge for LinkShares (located in the upper right hand side) and found a high profile affiliate. I read through their information and joined up, not really know how I would work it. Later, I read an article on Bluehat SEO titled Affiliate Marketing Through RSS Feeds. I thought to myself, why not create a site for that affiliate that is all about the products, and also take advantage of the scrapers? I’ve seen so many scraps of Desty Online where they didn’t bother to take out my links, so why not get them to work for me? The new project should get tons of scraps due to the keywords to be used.

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Desty’s Gold Starred Articles October 2 2007

Desty — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:56:27 +0000

We start off this week with BONTB’s article Using “You Comment I Follow” to Build Blog Links. A simple to article to build up a nice link count for your blog. I don’t advertise the fact that I use DoFollow beyond my articles. I totally agree with the article’s suggestion that you stay on topic. From first hand experience, I delete what I consider spam comments; everyone does. I don’t go for the comment:

Nice blog. Here’s my site about businesses http://www.destyonline.com

I’m willing to put up with the “nice blog” comment, but when you just throw your non-related url in the comment, uh uh, sorry, not going to happen.

On the related topic of comments, Paul from O’Flaherty Blog give us Spammers Make It Personal. Paul gives an insight into his comment moderation. Given my tactics on comments and trying to turn spammers into readers, if the comment itself isn’t spammy, I’m fine with the URL part of the commentor’s identity.

Performancing.com throws an excellent article titled Why Good Bloggers Have an Advantage in SEO. This is one of those articles that really gets you to thinking. How are you doing in your online marketing? What can you do better? I tend to think in terms of what activity I can do that takes the least amount of time but gives the best in terms of rewards. Time generally tends to be what limits us in our actions.

Another great article about SEO, this time from Strategic Internet Marketing titled Better Rankings by Reconfiguring In-Site Link Popularity. I’m always a sucker for SEO articles. It’s not that I’m dim-witted by any means, but the easier the articles are in making their point and spreading information, the better I like them. Everyone should be interested in SEO for their sites.

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Desty’s Gold Starred Articles September 21 2007

Desty — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:52:23 +0000

Blogging Tips starts off with How to Manage Your Blog Advertising. I also had Host Color inquire about advertising on Desty Online. You can see that they purchased the Home Page top banner. I had been throwing around the notion to create an advertising page for companies or individuals who wanted to advertise on Desty Online, so when I got the email, I wasn’t totally unprepared. I had based my own advertising along the lines of Yaro’s structure on Entrepreneurs Journey. If you or someone you know is interested in some affordable advertising on an up-and-coming blog, check out our affordable advertising page.

Along the lines of that article comes Just Sold 11 Text Links, 3 Banners and Reviews! - How to Sell Advertisements on Your Blog from Carl Ocab. Marketing and promotion are the key. You may have great stats that show you have lots of traffic, but even though you have several advertising options, if no one notices them what have you sold? Upgrading the visibility of your advertising options is always a good thing. It doesn’t hurt that he has a sale going on as well.

Must be an advertising special this week! Reality Wired brings us Text Link Ads: How to Find Post Level Ads That Will Make Your Traffic Soar. James goes over the requirements to buy post level text links from Text-Link-Ads. From a promotional standpoint, if you can buy some post level text links from some of the high profile bloggers such as John Chow, Problogger, or Shoemoney, it could really give alot of bang for your buck. The way I figure it, normal text link ads send out some PR loving while post level links could get you some nice traffic.

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Classic Case of Burn-Out — SEO Fusion

Desty — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:28:43 +0000

Jim Westergren of SEO Fusion fame wrote a very interesting article on his blog as an update on his business. It’s a fairly long article, but very interesting from a business point of view. Jim gives an inside look at to his business systems that should, at the same time, how easy it is to run a business but also how overwhelming it can be.

Jim mentions a four month profit of roughly $20,000. Some will wonder how he could walk away from a two person business that is so profitable. Read his article and you’ll see why. While making money is important, there’s more to life than making money. I totally feel for Jim when he talks about all the things he’s been wanting to do, but couldn’t because the business got in the way.

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Speedlinking Desty Online

Desty — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:35:17 +0000

I’m a busy man.

Between the job, the businesses, and family, I’m surprised that I get 5 hours of sleep per night. That’s why using the Google Reader to manage my RSS subscriptions is so handy. I can log into my Google account from any computer, pull up my reader and scan a few articles when I have the time. Be it when I’m running the anti virus scanner on my mother-in-law’s computer or making videos of the boys on my dad’s computer, Google’s RSS reader is just so convenient!

Yesterday while on the phone, I was scanning the Megit Doshdosh News feed to see what was floating around the ether. I Starred (the way you can mark articles in Google Reader) these articles because they caught my eye. It will be until tonight before I actually have time to read all of them, but I like to share:

Why Warren Buffett Recommends You Invest in Domain Names

7 Easy Steps to Get More Weekend Traffic for Your Website

The Easiest Way In the Universe to Know if You’re Linking to Bad Sites

Evil PayPerPost Trick

Institutional Incompetence?

10 Blogs That I Read

Link to a Competitor

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