Five Favorite Stumbles of the Week, Vol. 5
By Joe Ferry on Oct 17, 2008 in Featured | comments(2)
Weird week of Stumbling. Almost every worthwhile stop had to do with Search Engine Optimization and Social Bookmarking. If that’s what’s hot, then that’s what we need to know about, right?.
Enjoy!
- Social bookmarking continues to be a huge opportunity for marketing and PR professionals. Figuring out how to make the best use of these tools can be quite a challenge. With more than 50 sites to choose from, where should you concentrate your efforts? Buzz Gain offers its choice of the top 10 Social Bookmarking sites to focus on. WorkConnexions answers key questions about social and business media while you can figure out how to convince your old fogey boss that social media is the way to go at ReadWriteWeb.
- Making sure your website or blog is optimized for search engines is an ongoing process. At “Thou Shalt Blog,” check out 15 SEO Tools for Beginners that will help you stay on top. The Big Oak blog offers a way to check a webpage’s SEO quality.
- We’ve all been faced with the frustration of trying to email large files. Even Gmail’s generous 20MB attachment limit is sometimes not big enough. Life Hack Magazine analyzes seven ways to send huge files. All are free; some have paid premium services that eliminate ads or increase upload speeds.
- Nothing subtle about this one. Derek Halpern, author of Prevential, a blog about “Success, Money and Business,” offers 15 tips on how to become incredible. I especially like no. 9 on his list: Use Fear Constructively. Do you know what drives me to wake up everyday and improve myself? I fear mediocrity. I fear being average and I do everything in my power to avoid it. Incredible people will not settle for less than incredible.
- Finally, just for fun, here’s a site that tracks the history of truth in cigarette advertising. Amazing what they got away with back in the day.
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