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Here Are Few Sites To Help You Bury Negative Posts About Your Client’s websites!!

Posted by Mosaic On January - 9 - 2009

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The Problem….

Have you ever had a client come to you in a state of desperation, asking for help to remove a blog post that ranks for their business name, and portrays them in less than a positive light?

The reality of the matter is that without legal injunctions and the like, the piece (negative post) cannot be removed from the search results entirely. In many cases, legal tactics often have the exact opposite effect to that intended, and bring even more attention to the issue.

The Possible Solution…

Here’s a relatively simple solution that will work a large percentage of the time … We need to bump the negative listing down in the search results to progressively lower positions, reducing the likelihood that it will ever be found. Keep in mind; most people never go beyond the 1st page of search results.

This can often be done by building a profile on various sites. The profile name should be the exact term/phrase that the negative piece is ranking for. Here’s a list of 50+ such sites you can use:

1. Digg

2. LinkedIn

3. Twitter

4. Stumbleupon

5. Facebook

6. Propeller

7. Magnolia

8. Jaiku

9. Simpy

10. Technorati

11. coRank

12. YouTube

13. BlogCatalog

14. Zimbio

15. HubPages

16. Reddit

17. UPCHUCKr

18. BlogMad

19. Curbly

20. Flickr

21. PublicBlend

22. Bumpzee

23. Pownce

24. ViewZoo

25. PeekYou

26. Hugg.com

27. Connotea

28. BlinkList

29. BlogFlux

30. Netvous.com

31. Plime

32. MyBlogLog

33. Giggg.com

34. DotNetKicks

35. Diigo

36. CoComment

37. LiveJournal

38. Faves

39. Indianpad

40. Blogmarks.net

41. MySpace

42. Mixx

43. ZiiTrend

44. FriendFeed

45. MetaCafe

46. Last.fm

47. ZippyVideos

48. Quizilla.com

49. Kirtsy

50. Photobucket

51. Deals

52. Agentb

53. BlogSpot

54. HuffingtonPost

Try it out with a few, and see how long before your profile appears in the search results for the profile name selected. These sites can help protect the reputation from unreasonable ex-partners and others who wish to cause you harm online.

(Source: http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/4-alternative-uses-of-social-media.html)

Takeaways:

Select the strongest 3-5 of those 50+ sites (mentioned above); where strong is a subjective assessment based on many factors. My personal assessment would be:

1. Digg

2. Twitter

3. Stumbleupon

4. MyBlogLog

5. HubPages

Establish a profile on each, where the profile name is the term/phrase the negative piece ranks for.
Get lots of friends on each of those sites. The more the better. It works best if we take an active role and participate. Each friend will result in an internal link back to our profile on that site, making it stronger.
Join groups where possible too … often these will pass link power to your profile as well.
Possibly we can also create a social profiles menu on our site(s), and link to each of these profiles.
Please note … these tactics are by no means comprehensive or advanced. They’re just a relatively quick and efficient means for burying negative online mentions.

Industry Updates, SMO Posts

How To Get Started With Stumbleupon?

Posted by Mosaic On January - 7 - 2009

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Stumble Upon is a social website which allows its users a new way to experience the Internet. Instead of searching for specific items on search engines like Google, Stumble Upon users only have to tag specific personal or professional interests and then ‘channel surf’ the web by simply clicking on a button on Stumble Upon tool bar.

Also, users can choose to tag the webpage they are on or give it a “thumbs up”or “thumbs down” to indicate if they want to see it again. Users can also use the Stumble Upon toolbar as a form of social bookmarking. By surfing the web and tagging or submitting specific websites, each user can keep track of which websites they like and share it with others.

Step 1: Signup for Stumbleupon

Join Stumbleupon and then download their free toolbar. Hit the “Stumble” button and you will be taking to a site in the network that matches one of your interests you selected when you signed up. If you get a site the “Thumbs Up,” it means you like their content and want to see more sites similar to this. If you give it the “Thumbs Down,” you don’t like the site and don’t want to see sites like this in the future.

The more you use the toolbar, the more accurate Stumbleupon will become in delivering the right types of sites to you.

If you find a page that hasn’t been submitted to the network yet, you’ll receive a popup box you can fill out to review it similar to the one below.

Write a short review, fill in up 5 tags (make them general such as business, marketing, etc.). Then submit the site.

Step 2: Use StumbleUpon Regularly

It’s time to start using the tools provided to you. Think community first instead of promotion. You can select the channel you want to stumble through including all, images, videos, popular websites, your friend’s picks, and news items.

Whenever you find great content on a site, submit it with the “Thumbs Up.” When you’re first starting out you may want to do a Stumble Surfing session where you spend an hour or two visiting sites and reviewing them. But you also want to get into the habit of submitting sites while you’re doing your normal work.

Step 3: Build Your Profile and Picture

Click on the “Tools” tab in your Stumbleupon toolbar and choose “Profile Preferences.” Here’s where you enter your personal information, your interests, and your public profile. Upload a small picture of your business brand logo.

You can modify your interests and your profile at any time on these pages. They are self-explanatory so I will not get into details about these pages.

Step 4: Build a Friend’s List

You want to build a list of friends who will enjoy the same content you enjoy…and who are likely to give thumbs up to the same types of pages as you.

To begin building your friend’s list, start stumbling a few websites in your favorite category. Then use the “Reviews of this Page” option in your Stumbleupon toolbar (it looks like a chat bubble) when you find a page you really like.

You will then see a list of all the people who liked that page you were looking at. You can then click on each of their images (notice which images you pay attention to for ideas when you add your own image). Take a look at their profile and the kinds of pages they’ve been recommending. If they match your interests, use the orange button to “Add a Friend.”

You can also click on “His Friends” or “Her Friends” right under their picture and profile to find more potential friends to contact.

Step 5: Write High Quality Content

Write a good step-by-step article on accomplishing a goal or create a list of items your visitors will want to keep and bookmark.

Step 6: Network with Other StumbleUpon Users

When you find an outstanding site or produce your best content, you can also use the “Send to” option built into the Stumbleupon toolbar to notify anyone on your friend’s list about the page. The goal here is to share content you know they will appreciate…and at the same time build a buzz around that specific page.

Step 7: Tells Others about Stumbleupon

If you have a blog, tell your blog readers about Stumbleupon. You can also use the “Connect with People” option at your Stumble home page to invite people you know to join Stumbleupon.

(Source: http://www.terrydean.org/stumbleupon-sends-massive-free-traffic/)

Takeaways:

The more active users who give you the thumbs up, the more traffic you’re generate.
Top performance will not be achieved by you doing the work. It will be achieved by others recommending your content. The traffic you receive partly depends on other users submitting and reviewing your website. I’ve noticed that when other users review or submit a specific post, it usually receives traffic immediately.
Provide your visitors with some high quality content they can recommend to others.
Whenever you see good content, give it a “Thumbs Up.”

Broad Tagging: try using tags that are more general and less specific

Increase the comments on your blog. A blog with a large community will encourage participation, which motivates a reader to return to your blog.

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Largest Social Bookmarking Sites

Posted by Mosaic On January - 6 - 2009

Jan

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Here are the 30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites ranked by a combination of Inbound Links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast.

1 | digg.com

382,792,751 - Inbound Links | 22,578,945 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 10,300,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 124 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 8