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Archive for July, 2008

 July 24th, 2008

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Hello everyone!

What can I say other then phew its good to be back, first off I want to apologize to everyone who visited the site and saw it was Gone! I also want to apologize to my advertisers but not to worry your ads will stay up your time + the amount of time we were down to make up for things.

As to the future of IBB I plan on running it till I simply cannot anymore, IBB is my baby first and foremost out of all my sites and I love keeping you all updated on what I am doing and how we are doing it!

Before this catstrophe of losing our domains happened we were on a record setting pace to making money online this month. Its a little late in the month to break any old records now but we will be posting our earnings later on at the start of next month as we always have!

I also want to thank all my rss readers for sticking with me while we were down! I know it was hard and some of you probably found my temp blog at ShannonLilly.com

Well this is just a quick update to let you all know that I am back, and please note that I will get back to posting daily tomorrow as if nothing had ever happened!

Also watch out for some guest posts on other blogs to spark interest in IBB back up like it was! Thanks once again and God Bless you all!

 July 10th, 2008

What is Web 2 marketing really? There are lots of misconceptions among webmasters on what it is and which the best practices are!

And there is no specific guide book to teach web 2.0 marketing best practices. Everyone is searching for newer avenues and continuously developing on it – like everything else it is an ongoing process. However, before talking about web 2.0 marketing let us make one point clear. Link Building in the traditional way is almost out of date if not DEAD. If you take a look at the recent trends in link building you would find that it is more about “strategic link positioning” rather than just getting links from high PR pages. It is also about implementing strategic SEO, SEM and link building in the development process. It is like posting a link in such a place where others would be able to pick it up easily.

It is more about being visible in as many verticals as possible. And when we talk about strategic link positioning, it necessarily includes branding and viral movement. For the beginners, the word Vertical may sound something new. To put it simply, vertical means different avenues like image, video, audio, local listing, business listing, social media etc.

Do you agree with this?

If your answer is yes, we can move forward to the next level.

Why do we buy something? Do you really think that a ‘buying decision’ solely depends on an individual? Certainly not; something that seems like a simple decision made at that very point is actually a complex evolution modified by different social contexts. In this situation we may also think about another phenomenon – need.

If you think twice, you would see that we often try to justify something as ‘need’ though we can do well without that. For example, if you are hungry, you can buy anything to eat. But why do you tend to buy from McDonald when you can do well with something else. Anything could easily replace McDonald. But does it happen always if you have money!

To put it simply, behavior and tendency of other people in your social context is actually helping you to shape your needs and desires. And thus you are not the only player in this decision making process.

Did you notice that we are talking about McDonald!

So how does it relate to web marketing?

In case of web marketing, the target individual is not a single individual sitting in front of a computer away from his or her social self. If you look closely, web is continuously growing into a bigger and critical social identity – a mixed bag of different cultural zones. To add to this, the same individual may act differently when he or she is talking about films or toothpaste or visiting different websites.

While integrating social media in their web marketing mix, a lot of search engine marketers think that it would get them a lot of visitors and business. If this is the primary reason for integrating social media into your web marketing mix, you are mistaking. The social media will actually create a buzz about you and your product if you can hit the hive properly.

Now how does this buzz work?

The buzz actually creates and modifies the online behavior of your target audience to take a positive or negative action (yes, there is always a risk). This happens just as it would have happened in your locality. The only difference is that, you do not see everyone physically – face to face.

Is that all?

No, certainly not! If bloggers (they have houses in the web to link to you) start talking about you (Oops, you just opened a node), it would also help you in SEO (great links – content based).

 Signature: K. Roy is a SEO content writer and blogs at Odd SEO.

 July 8th, 2008

Well I accidentally decided to change my email address on my DigitalPoint account. I didn’t know it at the time but I guess there system is messed up and if you change your email the account goes into a Moderation Queue and you cannot access your account via pm messages or post to any threads.

I later found out from a mod I know that the only person who can take you out of this queue is the forum owner Shawn Hogan who is never on his own forum but maybe once or twice every couple of months.

Its a real bummer as I did a lot of business through DP and now I will have to find another venue to make money through / offer services and such like I used to on DP. Although this is a big disappointment to me and if I could go back and hit Ctrl+Z I would it also made me realize how I have neglected my own forum and I need to get back to posting and encouraging others to post on my forum.

My forum is at BzImage.organd I thought I would let all my readers know about it! Signup for an account today and post your hearts out because its the kind of forum that DP should be!

 July 8th, 2008

The Twitter Revolution

By Shannon Lilly | 5 Comments

So I have been putting off twitter for some time now, trying my best to ignore it and basically just not even touch it because I have been so swamped with work and blogging here on IBB I just haven’t wanted to.

That has changed… See I decided to go ahead and log into my Twitter Account at: http://twitter.com/infectedbybugs

Now I don’t think I will be one of those twitter nuts who posts an update of there life every 5 minutes but I may try to update it a couple times per day. I am going to try and update it so I get hundreds of followers and I am doing this by simply following others.

We shall see how it plays out but I thought I would give you all the opportunity to follow me. If you follow me I will return the favor by following you!

Thanks and stay tuned!

 July 8th, 2008

Lets face it, when it comes to making yourself known in the blogosphere it can be tough if you don’t either know a lot of people or if you don’t write unique content that everybody just has to have!

Well today I am going to talk about some ways to build your brand and make it last / stand the test of time over years and years to come! I actually got this idea from the new Kung foo Panda movie that black jack did. I have seen the movie 2 times in the regular theaters and once in the Imax, it was such a great movie I enjoyed it all 3 times I went and I recommend you go if you have not!

Basically I got the idea because of how I enjoyed to movie after seeing it 3 different times and still loving it. It brought something to the table known as Jack Black who to say the least is hilarious in this 3d action packed film! 

So it got me thinking…. “How did Jack Black get so big so fast and gain the love of nearly everyone who watches him?”. Simple, he is funny and he has an unforgettable look, no really could you possibly forget what Jack Black looks like? I mean come on he is probablly one of the most unique looking people on the planet and he is funny to boot!

Alright… Obviouslly you can all tell I really like watching Jack Black but anyhow back on topic. You may be wondering how you can build a brand fast, I built IBB fairly quickly over a few months time and now people know me that I don’t even know!

So that brings the question, what did I do?

Today I am going to lay out 2 basic things I did and you can easily do the same and together we can build your brand asap!

Site Mascot Made To Look Like Me: Believe it or not my mascot that was made to look like me is probably the main point of notice for this post. I wanted to mascot because I saw a couple of other bloggers who had them, mainly TUV and Tyler Cruz.

Luckily for you It is not hard for you to get a mascot made of yourself and it won’t cost you no $500.00 like Tyler Cruz’s one did either. Me and my team can do them for you for only $110.00, we can design it to look like you doing w/e you want!

I don’t normally like to plug my services publicly on my blog but in this case it was sort of needed :)

Get Links, Socials & Get To Know Others: Contrary to popular belief creating a brand that lasts is all about connections and a few ways to do that are by getting links from like minded sites or blogs. Getting links is easy, just trade for them and as long as they are somewhat related Google will count them as they don’t have a huge problem with this if done in moderation and as long as you do it to build traffic not PR.

Secondly getting social bookmarks is key to building a brand fast, if you can get on the front page of digg you could build your site or blog to who knows how big within days instead of months like it took me!

Thirdly you need to get to know others in your industry, be nice to others and just talk with them about common interest’s. Try to be polite and do what you can to help them out as long as your not the only one giving, make sure they give back to!




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