Viral Marketing Expert Reveals Twitter Facebook and Google Secrets

200 Facebook Friends Generate 4,400 Twitter Followers Worth of Traffic

2010-07-05T17:21:00.000-07:00

There are several reasons why one Facebook friend is worth 22 Twitter followers. If you didn't know the pure traffic potential of both social media networks, you'd spin your wheels on one side by investing the same amount of effort into each network.

For starters, Facebook status updates move much more slowly than Twitter's time line stream does. The average amount of time your Twitter post stays visible to the average user who follows about 130 people is 1 hour. On the contrary, since Facebook friends don't post nearly as often, your Facebook status message will be visible for about 12 hours to all of your friends.

If you don't believe me, just login to Facebook and see the time stamp of the oldest friend update. There are many other factors to consider when deciding which and how to invest your marketing horse power. The below video hits all the issues in detail. If you have any questions, ask them in the viral marketing forum

Gaming Google Adwords Adsense - Viral Web Marketing Los Angeles

2007-06-24T10:20:00.000-07:00

Most business models are based on a product and service. Then the execs sit around and figure out how to bring it to market. In the new web market, a smarter business model is built off of marketing with viral nature. If you can establish a consistent replicatable flow of traffic, then build a product around that traffic instead of trying to build traffic around a product. That's what my friends at Reverse Phone Directory .com did.

Engadget Boingboing Gizmodo - Viral Web Marketing Los Angeles

2007-06-24T10:19:00.000-07:00

If you get on the front page of any of the big 4 blogs, you've instantly hit the jackpot. PR Firms and Ad Agencies around the world pay large "gratuities" to people who know and have relationships with the editors of Engadget, BoingBoing, Make, Gizmodo, Slashdot, Netscaps and the Top Digg Users. If you don't know any of these folks then get to know the editors personally. Comment on their work consistently over 60 days. Send them stuff. This is how it's done in the record industry. This is how it's done in every industry.

I know these guys. I'm not saying that they'll publish what ever you request of them. But it sure does raise the likelihood that they will actually look at what you submit to them over the millions of other submissions.

Digg API Tips - Viral Marketing Los Angeles

2007-06-24T10:17:00.000-07:00

We all know about the importance of the DIGG API. It lets the public submit stories FOR you. Trouble is that if a submittor doesn't have a lot of friends, you're out of luck as your story will likely only get a couple diggs. Don't despair. Wait a month, revise the story, and you can resubmit it yourself.

As far as the most effective places to put the api, create a phbbb forum, create a blog, put the api in your signature of every forum you join, and put the link to "MY #1" in the signature of all your emails. Digg will love you and you'll get massive inbound links. A True Win-win.

PhpBB Forum - Viral Web Marketing Los Angeles

2007-06-24T10:15:00.000-07:00

The beauty of a forum is the simple fact that every new post creates a new webpage. If you just put a text link on the footer template your forum, every new post creates another text link for you. Let the public build your links FOR YOU.

Gaming Blogs - Viral Marketing Los Angeles

2007-06-24T10:14:00.000-07:00

First of all, I hate / abhor / reject / refuse / and fight blogspam. Blogspam dramatically reduces the usability of the web and basically turns perfectly good blogs into the equivalent of a new blank wall on the border of two inner city gangs' turfs. I strongly advocate using the above technique to leave valuable helpful or entertaining comments. Besides, if you don't you'll just get deleted and waste your time anyway.

Gaming Youtube - Viral Web Marketing Los Angeles

2007-06-24T10:12:00.000-07:00

Ok, the title is misleading. You really can't game Youtube. This is more about how to maximize youtube's features for link building and traffic. Just remember to embed videos that show up in the Youtube search results for the SAME TERM you want from Google. Remember, Google owns youtube so the algorythm is identical.

Digg Competitors Netscape - Viral Web Marketing Los Angeles

2007-06-24T10:11:00.000-07:00

Digg's biggest competitor is Netscape. Technically, it is Slashdot but since the nature of the two sites is largely different, let's just say it's Netscape. The beauty of netscape is that you can add endless number of friends whereas Digg only lets you add 4 friends at a time. Adding friends is crucial to your Netscape User PageRank and Digg User PageRank. Dont just think about boosting pagerank for your website. Boost pagerank for EVERY page associated with driving traffic to your site. More on this later...

Gaming Del.icio.us - Viral Web Marketing Los Angeles

2007-06-24T10:10:00.000-07:00

I love del.icio.us. It lets you offer auto online bookmarking to your visitors, it tells you who bookmarked your page. It even tells you how many people bookmarked your page. Use it. Then add the keywork you want to target several times by simply modifying it with hyphens. So if you want the number one spot in google under "credit cards" then do "credit cards credit-cards low-interest-credit-cards" etc... But BEWARE there's a point at which you'll trigger google's keyword stuffing filter so consider yourself warned.

Gaming Netscape - Viral Web Marketing Los Angeles

2007-06-24T10:09:00.000-07:00

Gaming netscape is completely different than gaming Digg. Top Digg users exclusively digg from their "FRIENDS SUBMITTED" page. Netscape, not so much. But netscape does allow you to instantly boost your pagerank by adding endless friends. Just make sure you use your new pagerank to the full by always tagging your entries with 5 tags using the same words with hyphens to modify them.

Gaming Digg 2 - Viral Web Marketing Los Angeles

2007-06-24T10:01:00.000-07:00

This concept is simple. Assuming you have a product you are selling, until you get to page one of google under the keyword you want, accept DIGGS as an alternate form of payment. Then, when you traffic blows up from hitting page one of google, simply stop accepting diggs in leu of payment.

Gaming DIGG - Viral Web Marketing Los Angeles

2007-06-24T09:58:00.000-07:00

Tip: To instantly get massive numbers of Digg Friends, just submit top stories from nyt.com physorg.com and theonion.com. Why? simple. Be the first to submit from these sites and your post will be thrown in the faces of thousands of others who try to submit after you saying "THIS TOPIC IS ALREADY SUBMITTED" then, they'll digg it and add you as friend. Try it out.

Raising Page Rank Google Toolbar - Viral Web Marketing Los Angeles

2007-06-24T09:52:00.000-07:00

Tip: Download Google Toolbar and read the pagerank of all your sites. This gives you an indication of what links have the most relevance power.

Link Popularity and Page Rank - Viral Web Marketing Los Angeles

2007-06-24T09:49:00.000-07:00

Remember: Linkpopularity is ONLY important if you get inbound links from RELEVANTE High PR Websites.