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Social Marketing beats SEO?

Friday, 14 September 2007 by Paul O'Brien

It is an important question these days. My own article “The Algorithm Apparently Killed Jeeves” reached the homepage of digg, bringing down my servers with thousands of hits a minute. While such traffic growth is rarely sustained beyond a day, the buzz, links created to your site, and broad reach awareness generated are immeasurably valuable.

Published in Blogs & Blogging, Social Media, Vendors / Agencies

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Digg Hostile Takeover

Wednesday, 02 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

The definitive web 2.0 news directory was inundated with users lashing out to Digg’s catering to industry. With the cracking of HD-DVD encryption codes, the movie industry has been stumbling over themselves with cease and desist letters to prevent sites from redistributing the key. Related articles were removed from Digg resulting in dozens of seemlingly

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Published in Social Media, Web 2.0

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A Little Digg Will Do Ya

Monday, 30 April 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Clocking in at 465 diggs yesterday, SEO’Brien went down for the count, unable to handle the hundreds of hits per second. My apologies to those that tried to reach the site, I’ve moved the server to a different host and we’re alive and kicking again. Here’s the article Not About Self-aggrandizement This experience made me

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Published in Change Log, Insights / Research, Social Media, Web 2.0

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Digg This! – A Solution to the Black Market of Paid Diggs

Thursday, 05 April 2007 by Paul O'Brien

I’m a capitalist and believe that economies create markets based on demand. With the proliferation of advertisers willing to pay for placement in social bookmarking and networking environments, it is no surprise that a black market has developed to support the demand for paid social media optimization. New to the space is Subvert and Profit

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Published in Social Media, Web 2.0

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Get Paid to Search

Friday, 16 March 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Let’s keep Friday interesting shall we? Anyone remember AllAdvantage? I admit I tried it, earning mere cents for the hours that I spent surfing the internet (granted, I still do that without earning anything). The concept was simple enough, getting paid for doing something online: reading email, surfing, visiting specific sites, or signing up for

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Published in Fun, Search

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Get paid to Digg

Monday, 02 October 2006 by Paul O'Brien

Some folks may not like it but Usersubmitter.com has gone the way of PayPerPost.com and is paying users to enhance the community. Earn $.50 for stories you Digg or pay $20 plus $1 per Digg to get some juice for your own content.As for me, I’m on the fence, sure its questionable but no different

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Published in Fun, Social Media

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