Social media is changing and evolving. In essence, social media sites like the search engines of 8-9 years ago, are growing up. They're learning from their mistakes, and are constantly improving.

Source: NWCreation.net
Of course, this constant evolution means that users of social media must too change and adapt to the fluid landscape.
For anyone hoping to get [...]

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Is social media in danger of becoming more about the social than the media?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how social media had an increased propensity towards group think due (unintentionally) to it's design. This got me thinking, how could the design of social media sites change in order to minimize this [...]

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Def'n 'Addiction Marketing' – Pronunciation [uh-dik-shuhn mahr-ki-ting]:
A strategy used by companies [read Digg], whereby a product or drug [read front page appearances] with near instant addictive properties is given away free or very inexpensively on the first few ocassions until the victim is addicted. Prices [read level of difficulty] are then raised, demand having [...]

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Credit: Geek and Poke
For the visually impaired: a cartoon with 3 people is shown, depicted two friends wanting to pick up the 3rd friend.
Friends: "Hi, we're about to drink a beer in a bar. Do you wanna come with us?"
Friend: "I have thousands of unanswered emails, I have not Twittered today, I have to [...]

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As first times go, everyone remembers theirs. My first encounter with a social media site was with Flickr. Seeing as this was my first, I’m not sure why I took so long to write about it in this series, other than to say that, from an SEO perspective, Flickr is not as sexy as [...]

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…and now here it is for everyone to see!
Leading digital world measuring company, comScore, Inc. released a report today announcing the major trends in U.S. Internet activity last year.  A great article on CNNMoney.com actually goes into some really good detail on who the top-gaining properties were for the year as well as site categories, and [...]

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Today is a very rare interview on the SEP blog, but one I felt would be very worthwhile having. Rob Kerry (aka EvilGreenMonkey) is the Editor of Sphinn, and one of Danny Sullivan's right hand people!

Rob and Lisa
Lately there has been some ruckus on Sphinn, and of course I piped in and gave my two [...]

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00:00 – Digg goes down for maintenance. When it comes back, something has changed…
01:00  – The Digg Algorithm has Changed
"Digg went down today for a short time.  The results may be that many diggers will go down for a long time."

12:15 – Two Diggs One Cup
"Digg has pretty much taken a crap in a [...]

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Update available here
If the Blu-ray copyright issue is any indication, a storm is a brewing over at Digg.
A storm that has users up in arms.
In the course of an hour, during which Digg went offline on Wednesday (Jan. 23), Digg has strengthened changes which make it harder for a story to go popular.
Used to [...]

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Affiliate Marketing today is so much more than what it used to be, when simply having someone place your banner on their website to drive traffic was the norm.  Back in the day, your banner would catch someones eye, they would click on it, and you would pay the person displaying your banner for each [...]

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