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Death of Del.icio.us Leaves Bitter Aftertaste for Yahoo!

By Kalena Jordan in Featured

Del.icio.us fans worldwide are in shock today with the news that Yahoo has decided to terminate the site, along with Altavista, MyBlogLog, AllTheWeb, Yahoo! Bookmarks and Yahoo! Picks and Yahoo! Buzz.

News broke on TechCrunch this morning after a leaked slide from an internal Yahoo! product team meeting fell into the hands of Eric Marcoullier, who co-founded blog social network MyBlogLog. It has since been removed from YFrog, but the slide depicts three columns titled Sunset / Merge / Make Feature with Del.icio.us, Altavista, MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Bookmarks, AllTheWeb, Yahoo! Picks and Yahoo! Buzz listed under the not so subtle *Sunset* column.

Marcoullier tweeted the slide from his account and then all hell broke loose, with Yahoo Product Manager Blake Irving even threatening to fire whomever leaked the slide.

Del.icio.us fans in particular have been very vocal about the news, voicing their opposition to Yahoo’s decision using Twitter hashtags such as #savedelicious and #delicious and even creating an online petition which can be *signed* by retweeting it.

The product terminations come the same week Yahoo! announced layoffs for 4 percent of its global staff.

Social Bookmarking Services and SEO

By Chris Kaminski in Featured

In building and working with client website design and search engine optimization in Asheville, NC we find fantastic opportunities for SEO through social bookmarking services. Bookmarking was formerly just the process of creating “favorites” or “bookmarks” on the menu bar of one’s browser so a URL can be easily available for future use. But, the favorites function isn’t very effective for finding and organizing a large number of URLs, nor can it be accessed from another computer or easily shared with others. New social bookmarking services filled the void where the browsers left off. Countless new services have appeared to to cover the limitations in favorites and bookmarking, creating low cost SEO opportunities for clients’ websites.

Depending upon the website and the use of such services, social bookmarking can be an excellent way to increase both traffic and conversion rates. Many have found it more effective in the long-run than pay per click advertising, which is ongoing and expensive. One thing is certain, and that is that search engines like the response of real people, so it’s a good opportunity for site owners. The user-created responses of social bookmarking site services are more visible on the web every day.

Instead of using a search engine, you can search popular site like Delicious, Clipmarks, StumbleUpon, Newvine,Digg.com, Reddit,Mixx, Diigo, Propeller and Furl to find results, tag them and store them for later use or sharing. Your search results are determined by what others have found and tagged, and others find what you tag. Many people like the ease of searching and having online storage and sharing of URLs, so popularity grows. The search engine friendliness of these services is a good combination that can enhance your business’ presence on the web.

How to tag your own site: It’s best to make tags broad, and not overly specific. Tag strategically, according to your keywords you’ve recently had evaluated. To be safe, some site owners submit other sites too when they bookmark and tag their own.

Whether you bookmark and tag your site or someone else does, your site needs excellent content, design and function. Many businesses proactively have their sites tagged with a number of carefully chosen bookmarking services. Remember that if people are disappointed in what they find in a site, this may result in no tags or in negative tags. Having a site that brings a positive response is a good thing to aspire to and to organize around. If you bookmark your own site, be aware! The various social bookmarking services have user rules you need to read and follow to avoid being dropped as a member.

Remember, the web is changing in this direction, and your site may be found before it’s ready to be permanently tagged by others. How current is the site, how interesting and current is the content? Do you offer visitors something they like that sets your site apart from others? If you’re ready for both the increased visibility and scrutiny that goes with social bookmarking services, you will be pleased with how well the search engines respond once you or others start bookmarking your site. Many sites lack what an effective website needs in 2010 and beyond. Your site may lack updated code that search engines like, keywords may be too broad or otherwise ineffective, and on-page mark-up may be absent or poor and your site may be dry and uninteresting! If so, get help. Sites like these do not tend to be found easily or attract social media interest.

We recommend that site owners have a site review done by a firm specializing in web design, marketing and search engine optimization if your site and search engine placement is not what you need it to be. Are website goals clear? Are the goals what they should be, given what a fabulous website can do for today’s businesses. Does the site code, key word effectiveness, content and on-page mark-up support the site to meet its goals? Social bookmarking, social media opportunities and other efforts will be most successful if the answer to these questions is “yes”

So, give your site a good review and receive the help of an excellent web design and search engine optimization team and learn what will help your site be more successful on the web.

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Chris has been the owner and head designer since 1979. His experience in marketing crosses all media but he seems to have settled firmly into web design and marketing. With his first website completed in 1997 Chris has established himself as one of the leading Web Design Studios in Western North Carolina. Based in Asheville, Lone Bird Studio has a proven record of results and satisfied clients. Check him out at www.lonebird.com

Private Label Rights Traffic Tip

By Craig Breeze in Featured

Maybe the idea of rewriting content around keywords doesn’t sound like your cup of tea. That’s fine – you can still load Private Label Rights content up on your website or blog and pull traffic in like crazy.

How?

By “bookmarking” your site (with appropriate tags and/or in appropriate categories) on the most popular social bookmarking sites. The end result is that you probably won’t get traffic from the search engines but you WILL be pulling in traffic from the high-traffic Web 2.0 sites.

But this type of marketing does not come without a catch

You can’t just bookmark bland content and expect people to visit. What you want your visitors to do is get excited and tell their friends – and in the case of social bookmarking, that means you want your visitors to bookmark and rate your site.

What this means you need to choose your best Private Label Rights content to post to your website or blog. If the content reads like every other article , people won’t bookmark it. But if you use the content that’s well-written or even a little edgy, you’ll have traffic bookmarking and rating your site like crazy!

Bookmarking Tips

To make your social-bookmarking efforts even more effective, be sure to add the social bookmarking buttons on your web pages, so that your visitors can quickly and easily bookmark your site. This will improve your rankings on these sites, meaning more people will visit …and more will bookmark it.

While there are plenty of social bookmarking sites online, you’ll want to focus your efforts on the most popular and high-traffic sites.

You will need to do your homework here, as there are better sites then others to place your article, be sure to include a link to your site or affiliate program with in your article.

As you are only getting your article bookmarked, links will be your key to getting traffic to your site, and unlike submitting to article sites you will be able to included your links here.

As you can see there are many was to get traffic to your site and this is just one of them but be sure to keep track on more of my articles in the coming weeks as we will be including more and more tips to drive that all important traffic and customers to your site.

Just touching on a point we made before please make sure the content you are looking to bookmark is fresh and new and not just copied and pasted, as you want something new that will keep your reader interested, I can not stress just how important this is to your online success.

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To learn more about the benefits of Private Label Rights go to www.profit-with-plr.com Here you will find a complete mentoring program that you can follow at your own pace with nothing left to chance.

Viral Marketing: The Proof is in the Pudding.

By Forrest Yingling in Featured

Many folks today do not realize just how powerful viral marketing is and how much potential it has.  Viral marketing revolves around creating an intense buzz on the Internet. It is a truly powerful concept that causes viral campaigns to spread pandemically around the Internet with a rapid intensity.  If used properly, it can be a very successful marketing technique for your business.

One thing that we can all be sure of is that viral marketing works and it works very well.  In this age of high-speed communications – when a message or video can travel around the world multiple times in a matter of minutes or even seconds – advertisers have to learn to use that to their advantage.  Viral marketing is not just for the big fish either.  A viral marketing campaign does not have to be expensive or expansive and can be utilized by businesses of any size.  The campaign need only be creative, catch the attention of its audience and spread around the Internet like wildfire thanks to people referring others to the campaign.

This referral process has become even easier nowadays with services like RSS Feeds, social bookmarking, AddThis or ShareThis, Twitter’s “retweet” function and Facebook’s “like” and “share” buttons.  You no longer even have to forward an email or send a message, a user of a social network like Facebook or Twitter can simply click on a “Share” link and send the viral marketing material to all of their friends, fans or followers.

The first component of the viral marketing process is the actual creative material itself.  Will you use a picture, article, video or text?  Something as simple as the headline of a news article can be viral on the Internet.  If you can think of a creative way to promote your products or services that will strike a chord with people and make them laugh, cry, feel inspired or any other emotion then they will want to share what they have seen, read or heard with their friends, family, co-workers, neighbors or any others in their social circle.  Then the web of content sharing has begun and it’s “gone viral.”  It is truly amazing how fast something can go viral online and spread throughout the world in a matter of minutes.

After you create the viral campaign then you must “seed” it by planting it at strategic places on the Internet.  There must be a distribution network to get your campaign to the masses so you need to figure out what online mediums will work best for spreading your marketing to the masses.  Perhaps you start with making a video, uploading it to YouTube and sharing it with your Facebook friends, your newsletter mailing list and any other contacts you might have.  Then you can use social bookmarking sites like Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. for a further reach.

If you strategically and intelligently use viral marketing techniques in your e-commerce business then you should find them an effective promotional tool.  Viral marketing is a tremendous way to build a ton of links in a little amount of time.  This is great SEO practice for your business and can help you climb up the SERP (search engine results page) in o time!

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Forrest Yingling is the Marketing Director for WebNet Hosting, a Premier Partner Miva Merchant Web Host since 2004.  WebNet Hosting provides reliable, fully PCI Compliant Hosting and e-commerce solutions at the industry’s most affordable prices.

Why Social Bookmarking is a True Success Story

By Frank Breinling in Featured

Social bookmarking has become a true success story that combines the ability to collaborate online with the knowledge of millions and the social dimension of the ever changing Internet. The World Wide Web is far too large and vast to ever allow individuals to find everything they’re looking for on their own. Along comes the search engine to help them.

However, as efficient as the search engines may be for finding something, they can often add hours on to the search process, especially if the correct keywords are not used in the search. Social bookmarking is so unique because it brings the human touch into the equation. They say the Internet has billions of websites. It also has billions of users and many of these users are sharing the sites they view with others. This is what social bookmarking is all about.

Have you ever found a joke or funny story online that you wanted to share with others but didn’t feel like emailing it? Social bookmarking makes this possible. Say you read an interesting story about Brett Favre and you want to share it with your friends at work. If you’re not a member of a social bookmarking site, the first thing you’ll want to do is join one of the many available.

Once you’ve joined, you’ll have a couple of buttons on your web browser. Go to your Brett Favre story and click on the designated button to share the link on the social bookmarking site. A tagging window will pop up with your link in it and space for you to put in some tags or keywords. Here’s where the tricky and important part comes in. The tags are what are going to help your friends and others find your website quickly and easily.

You can put in one or several tags but make them consistent with and related to your story. If you used football as a tag for your Brett Favre story, it would be far too vast to get good results. By using words like Favre, Bret Favre or Favre and a significant word from the article, others wishing to read your story will be able to find it easily.

You may also add significant notes or annotations with your tags to make it even easier for your website to be found. Because articles are tagged or voted on at social bookmarking sites, viewers can easily see which articles are the most recent or most popular.

By tagging your bookmarks as you would for yourself, others will find it easy to find what they’re looking for and in much less time than it would take with conventional search engines. As more sites are tagged, these generated tags are grouped together, making it easy for anyone on the web to find the websites. This is the beauty of social bookmarking, and what’s made it such a success story for Internet users.

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Frank Breinling is a recognized expert in Affiliate Marketing. Here you can grab his FREE Report about Affiliate Marketing Ideas breinling.com, his newest Project about Social Bookmarking you can find here, bookmarketingtraffic.com.

How To Get Started With Social Bookmarking

By Frank Breinling in Featured

You’ve heard so many good things about social bookmarking, you can probably hardly wait to get started with this great service. It’s very easy to get into social bookmarking and will only take up a little bit of your time to set it up.

Signing Up For Your Account

The first thing you do is set up your account and install the button on your toolbar. You have a choice of different bookmarking sites to choose from. Some people start off with just one while others sign up for several different sites to see which one they like best. Now that your account is all set up, you can begin searching the internet for all your favorite websites you’ve wanted to save and share. Once you get to the website you want to save all you do is click the button.

When you click the button, you either will get a small pop-up window or be taken to their site where they’ll ask a question or two regarding the website you’re trying to save. The information may already be filled out for you depending on the site. You’ll be asked to provide a tag, which is similar to a keyword.

Tags

The tag is how your friends will find your link. You have your choice of using one tag or several tags, which will make finding your links even easier. For instance, if you’re on a website about the Minnesota Vikings, you tag may be “football” and “vikings”. By using more than one tag, your site can be found in more than one way.

Some social bookmarking sites use a “tag cloud”, which is a list of different tags and the most popular ones are in bolder and larger fonts than the not so popular ones. Tag clouds make it easy for you and others to quickly find the most popular bookmarks.

Finding Websites Left by Others

You’ve just learned how easy it is to set up a social bookmarking account and share your websites with others by using tags. What many don’t realize is that social bookmarking is also great for helping you to see what others have that might interest you.

The internet is a huge place with well over 30 billion different web pages. If you had to go through all of them to find what you want, this would probably take much more time than you have! Social bookmarking makes it easy.

Suppose you were interested in reading a good book. You’d ask other people their opinion and rely on their recommendations. This is also what you do with social bookmarking sites.

All you have to do is type in what you’re looking for and the most current and popular articles and websites will pop up for you. You searching has been drastically reduced. If you find that a particular user has repeatedly submitted stuff that interests you, you may want to add them as a friend. Making friends is a popular part of social bookmarking sites and is a great way to share your interests with others.

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Frank Breinling is a recognized expert in Affiliate Marketing. Here you can grab his FREE Report about Affiliate Marketing Ideas Affiliate marketing Ideas , his newest Project about Social Bookmarking you can find here.

Social Bookmarking versus Social News Social Bookmarking

By Frank Breinling in Featured

Social bookmarking is when you go to social networking sites and post your link for others to see. Not only can you post your favorite websites for others to see, but you can also go there to see what kind of interesting sites have been left by others. Almost any topic of interest can be found through social bookmarking. Their search engine tool allows you to type in what you’re looking for and have it instantly before you.

Social News

While some social bookmarking sites are designed for sharing links and all sorts of topics of interest, other sites like Reddit, Digg, and Propeller focus more on the news-related topics like sports, politics, technology, and similar topics. You’ll often find bloggers on these sites discussing some new current event or a breaking headline.

How Can I Benefit From Social Bookmarking & Social News

Search engines are great. There’s no doubt about it. They can provide us with information about almost any topic we’re looking for. The bad thing about search engines, though, is that when you type what you want into the search engine, you’re going to get so many results back, it’s difficult to find what the best site to view is. It can take literally hours to find what you’re looking for with search engines.

Social news and social bookmarking sites let you specifically focus on exactly what you want to see. Because new stuff is added all the time, you’re going to find the most current information as well as the most popular right on top. Many of these sites offer viewers the opportunity to vote on articles and links. If you’re looking for something on roses, you may find five different articles.

Four of the articles may only have a few votes whereas the fifth one may have a hundred votes. You can assume that this is the article that’s going to be the most interesting to you. If you were to put the word roses into a search engine, you’d have thousands of results to browse through.

Social bookmarking and social news sites can save you a lot of time.

The same can be said about social news. If you’re looking for some late breaking news about your favorite actor, search engines may not have the most current topic on top, but you’ll find it right on top in social news sites. What begin as a way to share your bookmarks and links with friends has turned into some fantastic social search engines.

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Frank Breinling is a recognized expert in Affiliate Marketing. Here you can grab his FREE Report about Affiliate Marketing Ideas at breinling.com , his newest Project about Social Bookmarking you can find here, bookmarketingtraffic.com.

The Simple Secret to Getting Traffic from Sites LIke StumbleUpon

By Tinu AbayomiPaul in Featured

Some people get social media right away, but can’t really articulate why. Other people will never get it no matter how clearly it’s spelled out to them. In discovering why this is, I realized an important point.

There is one major, simple secret to driving traffic via social media, from which all the other strategies, tactics and secrets originate.

Everyone knows this reason on the surface, but few truly and deeply comprehend it. And yet having a real understanding of this is the key to more partnerships, visitors and engagement.

The secret to benefiting from social media is simple. Social media is about relationships.

Not necessarily friendships.

Not always community.

Relationships.

From how the content relates to the person reading it, to how the information gets spread from person to person, why people vote for some stories and not others. Relationships to people, relationships between you and the content you read. Not just the fact that those relationships build community but how.

Every problem with social media has a solution that is based in fixing or forming a relationship.

Take a site like StumbleUpon. Why are some people hostile to one submission, but thrilled by another, on the same topic, sometimes even about the same issue? You’ll probably find the answer in

• Whether or not the submitter has found a niche community within the site and is respected/liked within it
• The connection or lack of, that the story has to the group that’s reading it
• The relationship of the submitter to the site being submitted (sometimes it’s considered okay to submit your own stories, sometimes not), or
• The relationship of that site to the story or the StumbleUpon community at large

You could go on forever, but if you go deep enough, you’ll find a relationship that needs to be fixed, formed, featured, or forgotten.

That’s not to say that if you don’t build a relationship, you won’t get traffic from the popular high traffic sections on a social news site. On the contrary, your first submission may get voted right into the popular section and stay there, for all I know. But on some level it will get there or stay there based not necessarily on just your content, or your network, though these are major factors.

So much of it will depend on relationships we mentioned – not just between people, but between content, even between people and the content they read. By that I mean that attempting to force technology information on people who are interested primarily in classical literature is never effective.

It seems like this goes without saying, but how often do you come across people who try to market their business to everyone on Facebook?

I like to think of social media web sites as a club where I’m not on the VIP list. Depending on that club, I might have to stand on a line and wait to see if I’ll have the privilege of joining, or if I seem cool enough, I might be let in.

It’s partially on that basis that I chose the clubs I go to, when I dress the part of a jazz vocalist, no matter how much I like metal, I won’t seem like I will relate to the crowd inside.

Yeah, it’s about relationships. Not just friendships – your friends may not be enough to keep you popular in StumbleUpon if your content sucks. If you can understand how relationships work, between people, between people and what they do, and why they relate to some stories and not others, you’ll likely do well, better than anyone who tries to figure out how to game the system.

Kind of like in business.

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Tinu is a website promotion specialist who teaches traffic generation to entrepreneurs and builds custom traffic systems for larger companies. You can currently get a free chapter of Social Media Success Strategies without entering your email address.

7 Social Media Tactics for Explosive Results in Your Business

By Tinu AbayomiPaul in Featured

First, let’s define the term Explosive Results for our usage.

A standard social media campaign helps spread the word about you and encourages other people to as well.

An explosive social media campaign has inherent viral exposure, inspires community driven communication, helps make the web a better place, and even brings joy to people, however fleeting.

When you share in social media, if your goal is just to get more people to see your links, you’re on the right track, but at the same time, you’re limiting your potential. You may think that getting explosive results from social media will take more time, energy and money, but this doesn’t have to be the case.

Why Social Bookmarking?

By Tinu AbayomiPaul in Featured

And I thought to myself: “Um. Why not?” Since I’m not really sure what they meant by that, I’m going to assume that this person mean “Why should I use social bookmarking in my business?” – with a full understanding of all the risks associated with “assuming”.

I figure that if you’re reading this, you have that question, or a similar one.

There are three reasons.

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