Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

6 Sure-Fire Tactics to Re-Ignite your Linkbait

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Do you ever think you’ve wrote the perfect viral piece, only to see it flop on Digg and other social sites? Or that because your content didn’t ‘make it’ there’s nothing else you can do?

I’m not one of these social media marketers that simply write about the topic (sadly, there are a lot of them), I work with some of the biggest companies in the world: consistently driving huge amounts of traffic. Today I’m going to share the exact methods I use to help promote linkbait even after it might not have done well initially.

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Written by Glen Allsopp

July 21st, 2008 at 7:50 am

Posted in Social Media

Interview with Fark Founder, Drew Curtis

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When I wrote a post about the ‘Definitive Guide to Fark and Getting Mass Traffic‘, the last person I expected to comment on the post was the founder of the website itself. I emailed Drew in private to let him know that none of the traffic stats there were from spamming the site and nor was it encouraged, just to keep things on good terms.

I also asked if Drew would be interested in doing an interview and to my surprise, he seemed very keen to answer my questions so that’s what we have today. Following are someĀ  pretty interesting stats and intelligent responses.

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Written by Glen Allsopp

July 7th, 2008 at 9:00 am

Posted in Social Media

One Thing All Successful Blogs have in Common

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When you focus on trying to make something a success online, it’s common for you to look at other similar ideas that are doing well and try to work out why that is. However, it can seem that there are so many different variables which will been replicating or bettering success will be seemingly impossible.

Due to their being over 200 million blogs and hundreds of thousands started daily, it may surprise you that there is one common factor to all successful blogs that I’m going to share with you today.

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Written by Glen Allsopp

July 1st, 2008 at 6:48 am

Posted in Social Media

Definitive Guide to Fark and Getting Mass Traffic

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When Fark has the ability to send hundreds of thousands of visitors to a site every single month, I’m surprised that more people haven’t written about how to leverage traffic from the site. Perhaps the main reason is that people don’t understand Fark or that it isn’t really a ‘news voting’ community.

Nevertheless, there are ways to leverage traffic (lots) from the site that I’m going to show you today. First, let me share with you what Fark is all about.

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Written by Glen Allsopp

June 16th, 2008 at 6:30 am

Posted in Social Media

How to Get Traffic from the top Social Media Sites

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With so much great information out there, I wanted to provide a resource that allows people to understand how certain social media sites work and what are the best ways are to leverage their traffic.

With that in mind, I’ve put together this list of only the best articles which cover marketing on Youtube, Facebook, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Twitter and Digg.

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Written by Glen Allsopp

June 12th, 2008 at 3:12 am

Posted in Social Media

7 Things I Implement in a New Blog Design

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With the new focus on a future of full-time blogging, I’ve been working hard on the look of ViperChill and on the look of another blog that I will be officially launching sometime next week.

I’ve designed three websites from scratch in the last week and a half so while everything is still fresh on my mind I wanted to take a look at the types of things I include and my reasons for doing so. Hopefully, if you agree with any of them you may be able to tweak your current design to include them or keep a note of this post for a future re-design.

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Written by Glen Allsopp

June 9th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

Posted in Social Media

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