5 Must Read Blogs For Social Media Marketers
March 30, 2008
If you are looking to market your website on social media sites, reading these blogs is a great place to start: in order to succeed in social media you need to understand it properly.
For lack of a better way to organise the blogs, the most popular according to Alexa are at the top.
Mashable is the most popular social media blog on the net, offering all of the latest news on social networking and social software. You can find out about which social sites are getting funding, new startups and you get the odd gem such as 7 ways to create your own digg clone.
Alexa Ranking - 2,038
Technorati Authority - 12,589
Dosh Dosh was established in December 2006 and is authored by popular digg user Maki. The blog offers in depth articles about social media marketing, internet marketing and making money online. A fantastic recent post offers 12 must have tools for digg users.
Alexa Ranking - 10,023
Technorati Authority - 8,199
Social Media Trader was launched in December 2007 and is authored by Nick Christensen and Chris Woodley. The blog offers really great information about social media websites. They recently published a three month overview of social news and bookmark popular topics, excellent statistics for all social media marketers.
Alexa Ranking - 109,130
Technorati Authority - 129
Soshable was launched in January of this year and is authored by popular digg user JD Rucker (oboy). The blog offers articles about all of the major social news websites, tools and marketing tips. In a recent post how digg is dropping the ball, the author talks about how the quality of stories getting promoted on digg is diminishing due their anti marketing/SEO efforts.
Alexa Ranking - 120,216
Technorati Authority - 87
Muhammad Saleem is the no.2 digg user and an all round social media expert. On his blog he talks about the different social media communities and offers his expert opinion on all the latest goings on. In a recent post he talks about how reddit has hit the nail on the head by giving all of the sub-reddit posts a shot at frontpage success.
Alexa Ranking - 125,835
Technorati Authority - 403
Other social media blogs you should read include Techipedia, NowSourcing, Social News Watch, Socialmedia.biz, Social Desire and Social Media Optimization.
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