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[juliemarg]

I wanted to update on my experience with social marketing.

I've continued with targeting people with like interests on myspace with great results. I have over 800 friends (isn't that a funny way to describe them ;^D) and have received messages with suggestions on things to add to my website etc. Nice comments, bulletins and private messages. I immediately delete someone if they send wierdo stuff or sparkly messages & spam. My niece (the brilliant 28yr old engineer) advised me to watch out for fembots. These are myspace accounts that are not real people set up to attact webcam subscribers.

I use my real age but have considered saying that I'm 100. I'm getting responses from people of all ages from all over the world.

http://myspace.com/thingsyoushoulddo

I also found a site called squidoo that is fun and easy to use. My site Irish Film Festival was picked as the Lens of the Day and I got some positive vibe and a little uptick in traffic. Best of all when you search on google for Irish Film Festival my squidoo lens is on page one (#9) out of one million plus choices.

http://www.squidoo.com/irishfilmfestival

Mybloglog seems like a networking meeting with all takers and no givers. So far it doesn't feel like a community.

Is it all worth it? I think so. My website traffic is up about 25%. My previous high traffic day was just a little over 600 and this week I went above 800 visitors twice. My logs don't show too much of that traffic coming from the social sites, but I've received a few links and on some of the google servers I'm now a 3/10 on my home page.

Can anyone else share any detailed results?

I think I'll start a new post with this info also - so I can get the squidoo info into the subject line.

juliemarg
aka
the irishlass

[madjohn]

Is Socializer dead now?
I am trying to understand how all this Social Bookmarking works and am a bit clueless - despite reading this and a few other threads.

I have a blog but am I supposed to submit it to these bookmark sites manually? I was going to use Socializer but it's not downloadable.

Help! (or point me to another thread I should be reading..?)

[kgun]

Two updated threads:
SMO:: Social media optimization content and IBL's

For best SEO - Social networking direct links, or 3rd party tools like AddThis ?

Note what I wrote yesterday:
The next is to use JavaScript to streamline the badges.

Here is the solution I made today:

Scroll down to the link in lower left corner with anchor text "My latest social bookmarks".

1. Click the link one time and observe what happens.
2. Clcick the link a second time and observe the difference.

That is a JavaScript JSONP solution. You can not use AJAX, since XHR can, for security reasons, not access data on a remote server.

Importing data with JSON solves the problem.

[erikko]

most social media sites brings massive traffic just like Now Public, Propeller and Magnolia