Link Attack! Social Media Optimization, Blog Awards and Marketing Articles

Online awards are fun, especially when you get to win something. Search Engine Journal’s Search Blog Awards 2007 recently concluded and Dosh Dosh placed first in the Breakout Blog and Best Social Media Optimization blog category.

Thanks a lot to everyone for voted! Performancing also picked Dosh Dosh as the Editor’s Choice for the Most Improved Blog of 2007 at the Performancing’s Blog Awards, which was nice.

Now for some links worth checking out:

Tips for Finding and Securing the ‘Right’ Friends on Digg. Jeff Quipp wrote a great series of articles on how to improve your Digg profile. This is the second post and it talks on how to befriend the ‘right’ users on Digg for maximum benefits.

This post will focus specifically on ‘friending’; meaning finding and approaching the ‘Right’ Friends on Digg since its about quality not quantity. Much as you want the right tools for a job, you also want the right people for a job.

10 Simple Steps to Social Media Success in 2008: Chris has a pretty good list of ways you start integrating more social media into your online marketing plan. I like how he broke down the whole process into actions you can execute.

Creating viral content and promoting it is only a fraction of the equation. You must also strengthen your online footprint and become part of the network. Trying to figure out where to start can be daunting. Follow these ten simple steps and you will be well on your way to being more connected, more plugged in, and more efficient in 2008.

New Social Bookmarking Tool: Brendan recently launched a new mass social bookmarking tool with some cool features I haven’t seen in other tools.

Post Toaster allows you to submit your content to up to 60+ bookmarking sites. It also provides an option to select only sites that are missing the nofollow attribute. Lastly, you can enter up to 4 different titles and 4 different descriptions and Post Toaster will randomly pair them in the submission links.

7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust: Excellent post by Patrick on how to design your website in order to evoke the greatest amount of trust from customers/clients/users.

Designing content whether it be an article, landing page or a website you want to evoke a certain image. If you are selling then hopefully your image has a lot to do with trust. What makes one design more trustworthy than another?

5 Ways To Make Social Media A Part of Everyday Business Strategy: Derek Edmond talks about how social media can be integrated into your daily life. I like the focus on doing little things everyday in order to establish consistency.

Here are 5 ideas that you can use to begin building your social media strategy, without getting yourself in overboard or sacrificing too much of your time upfront. Be warned! Because once you start getting involved and seeing some successes, you may just start realizing that there is a value in social media after all.

Top 100 Internet Marketing Blogs. This list is ranked according to the amount blogroll links each blog receives from other sites. I’m linking to this because I think the blogs on this list are worth reading, especially if you are looking to get into social media, online marketing and SEO.

10 Steps to a Sound Internet Marketing Strategy: Ian Lurie offers some advice on how to develop an internet marketing strategy that makes sense.

Write down the key phrases your customers use when describing your product or service. This isn’t just for search engine optimization – you need to know how customers think of you.

Mullet vs Mulldina or just use a domain?: Tim Nash talks about using different site templates for visitors referred by social media channels. Interesting strategy to explore if you’re doing a fair bit of social media marketing.

With the Mulldina we present the same information but with different layouts, one for our social media users and one for your regular users. The Mullet and the Mulldina are rubbish haircuts but they are a powerful and effective strategy in social media for sites that..want to optimise there social media linkbait to be tailored to individual social media sites.

Last but not least, Skellie starts Anywired, a blog about working and earning money online. It features topics on productivity and web freelancing so check it out and don’t forget to subscribe if you’re interested in learning more.

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