Social Media and Web 2.0 Marketing

Learn how to create your social media buzz

Watch the steps, follow the progress...

January 13, 2009 the Social Media & Web 2.0 Marketing site is born.

Each day I'll document the exact steps I take as I attempt to increase the site traffic from zero on day 1

Together we'll learn exactly what works and what doesn't.

What would Seth Godin Do?

01.19.2009 - admin

What would Seth Godin Do? is a recommended Wordpress plugin that uses cookies to establish if a visitor to your blog is a returning visitor or a new visitor.
If they are a new visitor they will get a message displayed on posts suggesting they might like to subscribe to your RSS feed. Returning visitors can [...]

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Syndicate your blog

01.18.2009 - admin

OK, now I’ve set the ping list up & got tagging sorted out. What’s needed now is to syndicate the blog. This takes quite a lot of effort but the results should be well worth it.
There are some automated submitter software programs around that will automatically submit your rss feeds to the blogging directories but [...]

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Social Marketing & the Ping list

01.13.2009 - admin

We’re still on day one but one of the very first things you must do after starting your blog is to update the ping list.
The ping list is a list of blog directories and search engines that get notified when you make a blog. The bigger the list the better chance you have of attracting [...]

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Social Marketing - Day 1

01.13.2009 - admin

So here we are, day 1 of an exercise to see how well Social Media & Social Marketing works. More accurately I suppose that should be how well I can make it work…
I started by installing the latest version of WordPress - that’s version 2.7 & available free from http://www.wordpress.org. I won’t bother going into [...]

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