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Gooruze; Do we really need more Marketing Social media websites? I tend to be a social butterfly because, well, country living affords me time to wander the web. I don’t know if I have more time for Social networking or Social media sites - I can try though. I think only Lyndon (who’s actually a SMM Bot in my opinion – ha ha ha) could have the time to feed them all. For those looking to get some more Internet Marketing social love going on check out the new kid on the block over at Gooruze and the write ups by David Wallace and Andy Beal
Oh and in the spirit of fair play, there are always detractors and nit-pickers out there right? Some Wingnut believes there is ‘potential’ for the site and Terry Howard believes that Gooruze needs to go back in the oven.
Semantic Search; Yeah I know, ‘there goes Dave on about semantics again’ – and you’d be right. The gang over at Kango have brought in search architect, Huanjin Chen, used to be the search architect at eBay. as well as natural-language search scientist, Boris Galitsky to fine tune the online travel search aspects in Kango does semantic search To link or Not to Link; Wiep, over at one of my more favoured Link Building Blogs, brought up something I have been known to talk about now and again - Should U ever stop building links? Show me the money; Have you ever wondered if the flow of new advertising dollars would keep up with all of the websites popping up that are trying to generate revenues from that same ad cash? I have. It just seems unsustainable from where this web Gypsy is sitting – on that note I give you; Ad dollars flood Web, but will they go far enough? - not that Google is worried and at 10 Billion in the first half of 2007 there is plenty to go around eh?
How to kiss ass to build traffic off-blog; at least that is much of the substance in this article from this grumpy guys perspective. If it’s kissing up to top industry bloggers or pandering to social media sites, puckering up seems to be the favourite activity of many of these folks for ‘How to build traffic off-blog without spending a dime.
Quickies; The FaceBook traffic story; is the traffic at Facebook actually levelling off? Maybe, but there is more than one way to approach data as there is More to the FaceBook traffic story. Orkut V FaceBook? Aaawww C’mon! I was reading about Google’s social networking plans Inquiring minds want to know! Have you ever wanted to look up the domains people own ? Anti-Facebook; If you are feelin mean and nasty but still love Social Networking – then try HateBook - Bruu ha ha ha ha... Still the King of the web; Google tops Feed reader and Social Bookmarking rankings Employment Perks; Google staffers can promote their own RSS feeds – another great reason to work for Google Speak softly and carry a Big Blog; Seth Godin asks - Is viral marketing the same as Word of Mouth? DAMMIT; We all know how much I HATE LISTS…. So this one really gets me; Top 10 reasons why ‘Top 10 Lists’ are so popular. Dats it fer now fine peeps - play safe!
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