A Week In Social Media: 12 Articles You Shouldn’t Have Missed

There are so many blog posts about social media marketing every day it is not easy to keep up. I consider keeping up with industry blogs as part of my job and I spend a great deal of time early in the morning reading blogs and forums while I work.

Right to the point, there were enough good social media marketing articles last week for me to make an entire post listing them, and I guarantee you will get something from each of these posts if you are interested in social media.

1. How To Write Posts That Set StumbleUpon on Fire Here is an absolutely great post by Skellie over at ProBlogger. There are some good gems in here if you are using SU in your marketing efforts.

2. 10 Qualities A Social Media Marketer Should Have – With his first of two entries on the weekly top list, Esteban outlines 10 qualities any social media marketer should have.

3. How To Use Yahoo! Answers Part 3 – Part 3 of a great series on how to leverage Yahoo! Answers for traffic and exposure.

4. Social Media Pitfalls – 5 Lessons Learned -Jordan Kasteler shows us 5 Social Media Pitfalls including abusing self promotion and not considering submission timing. Jordan has it right when he says “karma comes full circle when it comes to social networking”

5. Social Media – 6 New Friend Acquisition Strategies – Jeff Quip teaches us how to evolve with the social media sites to attain more friends, as they evolve into better sites.

6. 10 Simple Tips to StumbleUpon Success (That I Wish Someone Had Told Me About) – 10 more solid StumbleUpon tips.

7. Diggbait, Linkbait, Flagship Content and Authority – Chris Garrett explains bookmarkable vs. authority content and much more in this in-depth post.

8. Building Relationships – 10 Ways To Get The Most Out of Social Networking Sites – “Have a clear purpose” and “Don’t follow the leader” are among these top 10 tips to getting more out of your social networking sites from Lifehack.org

9. 9 Tips for Planning a Social Media Marketing Campaign – Esteban teaches you how to set real goals, set targeted people and define your strategy for planning a social media marketing campaign.

10. The Inconvenient Truth About Social Media Marketing – Aaron Wall on why social media traffic doesn’t convert, and also when it can work for you.

11. The Ten Commandments of New Social Media – Meet the ten commandments of new social media – my favorite ones are “thou shalt particiapate in the conversation” an “Thou shalt not snivel”.

12. StumbleUpon SEO Haters Don’t Know They’re SEO’s – An interesting article comparing search engines to stumble upon.

There you have it. I’m sure there are some I’m missing but these were the ones that stood out to me. If I have missed a great social media article from last week feel free to post it in the comments.

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