Social Media Marketing Map by Gunnar Bender.

This bit hilarious link was found via @juhotunkelo and @tuija.

Acrobat-PDF warning:

https://share.acrobat.com/adc/adc.do?docid=6607d2a3-8abc-4665-a5c6-80b13aed192c

If it feels difficult to view map online, you can also download and/or print it.

Map was created by Dr. Gunnar Bender / www.gunnardender.de / @gunnarbender

The Top 10 Twitter SEO Tips by Mashable.

Ok. Normally I wouldn't link directly into Mashable.com articles, but this time I'm making exception. Mike Dobbs gives valuable tips how to make your Twitter account and posting SEO friendly.

http://mashable.com/2009/06/25/twitter-seo-tips/

Great article!

How to show recent comments on Blogger.

This is actually really simple and you can do it by using Bloggers own Gadgets, so don't use 3rd party widgets for this one, unless you really want.


First you need to know url of your blogs atom feed, the format is like this:

http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default

then you add new rss-feed Gadget (Feed) and use your comments rss-feed url (Feed URL) on it.

You can modify format (date etc.) of recent comments list and number of shown comments. Change feed title to 'Recent comments' or whatever you find suitable.

Simple? Yep, no coding needed. Just couple mouse clicks and voila.


There is working example on my IMYD-blog:

homemadetubers.blogspot.com/


I found this tip from eblogtemplates.com

Plannning to make Facebook ad campaign?

I recommend to read this article first, short excerpt:

On November 20th I setup an advertising campaign on Facebook for my startup, CloudContacts. The ad setup program crashed a few times but eventually I was able to get the ad running. I selected men and women from 25 to 53 with a college degree as my initial test audience. Facebook told me that there were somewhere about 33 million users for the demographics I selected. Clearly this 33 million number is just profiles they have, not actual activity.

Here are the campaign results:
81k impressions (majority of them in the first 7 days, nearly none since)
6 clicks total for a .01 ctr
$3.23 total spent

Read more + comments:

http://www.centernetworks.com/facebook-ad-campaign-results

Quick comments: Even result for clicks is horrible, I think 81 000 impressions sounds really good. You get your brand on peoples mind and maybe some did later a google search with brand name, instead of clicking ad.

US or whole world is really big market area. I bet facebook ads work better on smaller scale, like example targeted to certain country or region.

Are Digg users actually viewing digged links?

Ok. Many times I have been wondering if Digg users actually view links they are digging. Today I got some kind of proof they don't do it.

This IRAN- Police runs away video got into TOP5 on Digg News section. Right now there is over 400 diggs, but video has been viewed only less than 500 times.

Conclusion: Either Youtube stats are wrong or then Digg users are not really viewing what they are digging. They just digg because others are digging too.

Video clip is over week old, which is really easy to see from Related Videos on Youtube. Original video was uploaded 13.06.2009 to Youtube.

So Digg users digged into TOP5 News something which was over week old. I only can understand this weird scenario by stating that Digg users are not really viewing links they digg. Any comments?

For realtime Twitter pics, check Twitcaps.

Endless flood of Twitter pics.

With Twitcaps you can view and search pics with hashtags. There are plenty of other services for uploading your online pics, Twitcaps is only showing them to other internet users.

What is Twitcaps?

Twitcaps is most easily described as Real-Time Image Search Engine / Browser. Twitcaps allows you to search, browse and capture the latest images posted to Twitter via any of the popular Twitter image services (Twitpic, yFrog, Twitgoo, etc). From the Twitcaps interface, you may capture an image for later use, re-tweet the image on your own Twitter feed, or share the image on any number of social linking services.

I guess Twitcaps is also good way to find new Twitter friends and keyword is real-time. Probably not so much for professional networking, but things related to common personal life, dating or whatever.

For more:

http://twitcaps.com/

Is twittercounter.com broken?

I have over 160 followers on my Twitter-profile, but twittercounter.com badge is showing only 110 followers.

ReTweets are replacing blog comments?

I was just reading one finnish business blog and suddenly I realised that there are tens of ReTweets per post, but maybe not even first blog comment. Discussion on blogs is moving into microblogs = Twitter.

Tip for bloggers. If you haven't installed TweetThis or ReTweet buttton on your blog, do it now.

http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/tweet-this

http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2009/03/how-to-add-tweet-this-links-to-your.html

and so on...

Testing featuredusers.com banner campaign.

I invested 10 $ quite spontaneously, dunno why, maybe too much time on internet and I thought to recycle 6 $ I got from weblo.com :) .

Anyway... I got 1000 impressions for 10 $ and there is still more than 900 left. So far this test had got me 2 new followers.

If you want to try featuredusers.com, please use my referral link:

http://featuredusers.com/referral/jukhau

Banner ads are shown in several twitter focused sites, most of my ads has been shown in twibes.com, secrettweet.com, friendorfollow.com

Good luck! :)


fyi... 7 more to go and I got my first 100 followers @ twitter. I have fairly passive strategy, so I guess it is ok result so far...

The Twitter Bible by Webdesigner Depot, simply amazing!

Webdesigner Depot has made incredible Twitter Bible.

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/the-ultimate-guide-for-everything-twitter/

Allthought it is great info package for anyone just starting with Twitter or already looking for advanced tips... couple critics regarding their post, there could have been more use of internal hypertext. Post is so huge, it takes quite a lot of time to scroll it up and down, atleast there could have navigation for headlines.

But overall... it is really huge and most definitive list so far about Twitter. Big props for people of Webdesigner Depot.

So you want to get loads of hits and comments, write about latest facebook changes.

Facebook made recently big changes to their rss stream, now you can literally see everything. Quizzes, polls, photos, SU thumbings and so on... loads of people are really fed up and they are changing to Twitter.

If you are blogging about social media, web, marketing etc. now it is excellent time to wrote about facebook, because people are interested to read any possible news about changes on facebook layout drama.

Soon all future social media blogging is going to new blog, just be patient, I'm quite busy next couple weeks with other projects.

So you want to get loads of hits and comments, write about latest facebook changes, like I did. ;)


http://mashable.com/2009/03/22/facebook-redesign-revolt/

more mashable - facebook stories... http://mashable.com/category/facebook/

http://www.webpronews.com//topnews/2009/03/19/shocker-facebookers-not-happy-with-redesign