Social Media goes pink for breast cancer awareness during October, and so have I. The month of October was declared “Breast Cancer Awareness Month” in 1985. Think Pink October!
Breast Cancer Awareness, a Brief History
Pink ribbons are often worn to commemorate a survivor or a love one who lost the battle. In recent years, corporations sponsored events, organizations put on races, grocery products were imprinted with pink ribbons. The goal has been increased awareness of and raising of money to fight breast cancer. Many of these campaigns continue. Some are still successful while others have not been. (More about that shortly.)
In 2007, viral marketing expanded reach of this campaign with the launch of television shows dedicated to breast cancer awareness – Deal or No Deal and Warriors in Pink were dedicated to raise awareness of breast cancer.
Social Media has gone pink for October in 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
Michael Martine, the brains and fingers behind Remarkablogger, posted an article, “Recent Blog Launch? Submit Your New Blog Here and Jumpstart Your Blog Traffic!” He welcomes bloggers to post a blurb about their blog with a link and encourages other readers to visit these sites, comment and bookmark other blogs. He’s also asking those for readers who post to link back to his site. Michael, consider it done!
This is not some form of chain linking! I did think “chain mail” when I read:
You Must Participate for this to Succeed
Why? For you to be successful online, you must participate to succeed. (Oh, Michael already said that!)
Announcing Google Trends for Websites! Save gas! NEW Google Trends reduces your need to drive around spying to gain competitive intelligence data. Get FREE access to your competition’s website traffic, geographic information and keywords people use to visit these sites.
Google Trends: Get 5 gallons for the price of 1!
Google Trends for Websites give you valuable data on five competitive sites during each visit.
1. Visit www.google.com/trends.
Look toward the bottom to “Explore…Trends for Websites” as shown:
2. Determine your top competitors.
Suggestion: Choose 4 competitors and your website. That’s 5 gallons of gas for the price of 1, all for free!
3. Determine the “leader” in your niche or your closest competitor. Enter this domain name first in the Search Trends box. The data displayed will be shown based on the first website listed. Vary data by changing the order of domains listed. Imagine your site provides news about cycling…
Example shown above compares trends for cyclingnews.com, velonews.com, pezcyclingnews.com, dailypeloton.com.
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