BrianCarter/social media

In his recent post at SEOmoz, Tom mentioned submitting to (niche) social media sites as an important step of any link bait (once you get past your link bait roadblock):

* you get links from social media sites (which is good in any case);
* you get attention of the community of people who are interested particularly in your topic (which means more comments and new loyal readers);
* you get more links (if you are lucky and smart enough) from people frequenting those social sites;
* you get more social media connections (outside SEO niche) which means more help in the future.

As director of an advertising agency that manages social media campaigns, I was recently brainstorming recipes for social media success. Every formula I came up with included personality.

In Social Media, Personality is Key

How not to pronounce an amazing new palabra which combines workaholic with twitter and twitterholic!

Get Google Rankings from Twitter, TinyURL, and Tumblr

I wanted to test the power of Twitter for ranking on unique keyphrases... how easy would it be to get top 10 rankings for unique non-competitive phrases, and how quickly? I was curious about this because I've seen so many social media sites come up in the top 10 or top 20 for various keywords, whether in the socia media profile's name, or even in just text content.

I also wanted to test the power of tinyurl's custom alias urls for ranking.

The Funniest Introduction to Twitter... Ever... In the history of the entire freaking world (audio mp3)

So my CEO and I are talking to executives from professional associations about how they can use social networking for their membership. I suggest they use Ning, and it has updates, like Facebook status updates or Tweets, so I bring up Twitter....

BIG mistake.

Well not really, it was funny... listen in--> A Funny Audio Introduction to Twitter

From the page: "How to monitor your online reputation on twitter with summize, iGoogle, and feed readers."

"One way to expand your Twitter universe is to include people with similar interests by using Summize (you could use Tweetscan to accomplish the same goal)... I hope it helps some of you that are still on the fence about Twitter to at least give it a shot by finding folks to connect with that may interest you and vice versa."

"I suppose you could call it brown-nosing, but I see it as research- what are some of the most popular tweeters twittering about, mostly?

Here are tweetclouds for:

1. DoshDosh - think thank digg love
2. TheJustineSane - she's "watching" a lot of stuff
3. BarackObama - he's always "heading" somewhere
4. JasonCalacanis - something about some site called "mahalo"?
5. Robert Scoble (Scobleizer) - a "people" person
6. Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) - likes to post, twitter and talk to scobleizer
7. Guy Kawasaki (guykawasaki) - sure says "thanks" a lot"