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Multi-user Wordpress with BBPress Forums: Social Media Marketing
Our new version of MUWordpress combined with BBPress and a few tweaks turns wordpress into a social media community. Imagine the value for a Real Estate brokerage with hundreds of agents launching a community site: see :
We will be rolling out many such community sites: see
http://www.floridacommunitynews.info/
The templates continue to improve.
Google is an Ad Agency, not a library
So many companies view Google as an impartial entity that serves up the best information on the net… but when you sit back and ask yourself the hard questions, a peaceful mecca of online prosperity is the last thing you find.
Google is about domination, acquisition, subterfuge, and even sabotage. I am not saying Google is [...]
Creating a Local Business Networking Group Online
It never ceases to amaze me how poorly planned Business Networking websites are: most do not have profiles for their members, or the ability for the members to create content or participate. If they sell advertising, the prices are rediculously high like print advertising prices used to be when someone actually read print.
In the weeks [...]
Online Video Distribution and Syndication – Veoh, Youtube, Google, Myspace
Video discusses online video sharing sites and syndication.
Social Networking Profile Rant - Personal VS Business VS Publicity
This is my personal commentary on what I think would make a more versatile social networking profile which would combine business, personal and publicity profiles.
Social Network Growth Strategy - Content, Concept or Both?
This video is a rant on what drives members and traffic to social networks.
Facebook Pages and Social Networking for Businesses
I give my take on Facebook pages and how they’re another setup in the right direction.
Business Blogging Tips for Non-Writers
I run into a lot individuals and companies afraid to jump into blogging, because they aren’t natural writers. Here is a video with some tips on how you can use blogs to increase your business even if you’re not a natural writer.
Radio Head, Madonna, and NIN – The Power of Social Media Marketing to Reach a Vast Audience
Social media technology is changing the face of the relationship between the content producer and the content distributor. More and more they will merge into the same group, due to the incredible cheap cost of reaching a mass audience online. This month the first major music artists have decided to drop their labels in [...]
Google’s New Open Social API Will Transform the Web Sooner Than You Think
My take on Open Social:
Open Social is a revolution and I’ve already signed up on the dev list to gain access to the orkut sandbox. Soon everyone will have full access to the social graph across a vast number of networks (everything from linkedin to myspace or plaxo), the difficult task becomes creating widgets and [...]
Social Media Bomb sent from USAToday office injures thousands
Working diligently through the week, contributing reporter Greg Farrell from USAToday probably never realized that his actions would send an impact around the world. In a hurried rush of editorial confusion, Greg succumbed to the pressure of sending along a message that should have been double-checked.
Don’t Be An I’m-A-Realtor-Too Site - Stand Out! Market Your Website With Quality Content
What makes you stand out as a realtor from the dime-a-dozen me-too sites that abound in the real estate industry? Is it the cool graphics? Usability? Layout? These are all important factors, but people tend to pay more attention to them and less to simple components like good content, which can make a big difference [...]
Quickbooks Just Start - Intuit Simple Start 2008
Various companies are experimenting with new ways of using social media. Intuit has jumped into the fray with it’s new campaign to launch the new Simple Start product, with www.iwilljuststart.com.
They are encouraging entrepreneurs to “Just Start” by sharing the motivation, karma, and professional business ideas through a video contest. “The best idea could score $40K [...]
7 Places Yahoo is Winning the War Against Google - Search Engine Wars
It’s common knowledge that Yahoo comes in a distant second place to Google in terms of search traffic, but Yahoo and Google represent a lot more than just search. Here is my list for the web services and properties where Yahoo has effectively out maneuvered Google and is ahead is both market awareness and [...]
Jumpstart your SEO Campaign - Old Domains Improve Search Engine Rankings
Within the Search Engine Optimization community it’s well known that it’s much harder to rank a brand new domain / site than one that’s been around for a little while. Now, much harder does not mean impossible. We’ve ranked sites in 2 weeks to a month for 2 and 3 word searches (see distressed real [...]
Immediate placement on Google with authority links+optimization+syndiciaton in 2 weeks flat
By combining authorship at RISMedia.com, linked to a brand new blog setup, then syndicating the RSS feeds, we have been able to create amazing ranking in two weeks flat:
(line 1,2):
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=foreclosure+specialist+training&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+foreclosure+auction+lists+bellevue&btnG=Search
Anything they write about:(here they are 1,2,3,4,6):
http://www.google.com/search?q=Bellevue+Washington+real+estate+investment+firm
Reality Homes: meet our new Contractor building quality homes with 100% Financing in Oregon and Washington
Our new Contractor building quality homes with 100% Financing for new homes in Oregon is Reality Homes!
Very soon, you wil see their new blog, and their optimized website on page one of Google for this search: 100% Financing for new homes in Oregon ; and for this one: new home builders oregon; new home builders [...]
Remodeling designer in Seattle proves blogs can be beautiful:
Our regular templates did not impress PH Baird, (otherwise known as Pamela Hodnefield) probably one of the most talented custom remodeling designers in Seattle; she wanted a minimalist theme that would show off her work (not to mention to come up on Google for remodeling designer Seattle, remodeling designer seattle wa and others).
So we made a [...]
Web Hosting Contracts- The Hidden Nightmare
At Social Media Systems, we deal a lot with various online projects that cover an entire range of requirements.
As online marketers, this puts us in a 3rd party vendor relation as many times we promote a site that we have not originally created. In many of these instances, we discover helpful, bright, and supportive [...]
Video SEO and Traffic - Early Adapters See Larger Results
The earlier you make the jump to video the larger your initial gains in traffic will be. Eventually, not having video will kill your site - by making it appear to be very old fashion, in the same way looking at a static website of 7 years ago looks now.
We recently added a lot of [...]
Why Your Business Blog Should Absolutely Not Be On Blogger!!
Here are just a few reasons why your main business blog should absolutely not be on blogger.com or really any of the free blog sites.
• Blogger is notorious for spam blogs and blogger has a (next blog) by default
• Can’t upgrade or add features because you don’t control the software.
• Splits link popularity
• Everyone knows it’s free, harder to [...]
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