Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008

Posted by Tamar Weinberg on January 5th, 2009

Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008

Today is my birthday, and I decided to give you all a gift that few of you have been highly anticipating for a few months now. My most popular post on this site — probably by far — was last year’s Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007 compilation. I spent about 3 days (and nights) on it (without sleep) and I was quite happy with the turnout. This year, I began starting to write this compilation in the first week of December. The collection begins with posts that start in January of 2008 and have been collected and shared in the last 12 months. Like last year, I’ve grouped them into different categories and written short descriptions on each post. There’s no order to the posts; I’ve used my bookmarks and a variety of social sites and peer recommendations to create this list. I hope this year’s list surpasses last year’s. Let me know how I did in the comments. ;)

Here’s how this works: In the Internet Marketing Best Posts “series,” I take posts that are typically timeless — they’re not confined to a specific event or news occurrence — they’re valuable for the long haul in terms of Internet Marketing and creative strategy. Hopefully, you’ll see that these posts are still relevant in a few years down the road.

These posts range from beginner to advanced with a greater emphasis on the more intermediate posts. I’d argue that if you’re starting your Internet Marketing business with not much know-how, you should check out the 2007 posts; in fact, most may still find them relevant regardless of the skill level.

New for 2008: If your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, we have badges for you!? Feel free to link to this post with the top right hand image, which was contributed by David Mihm who specializes in Portland Web Design. Every post is a winner!

Search Engine Optimization (SEO):

Social Media: Generic Strategy:

Social Media: Strategy for Social Sites:

Twitter:

Sphinn:

  • Beginner’s Guide to Sphinn: Surely there are some of you out there who have never used Sphinn before, but if you are remotely interested in this post, you can imagine that half of the posts I put here were also submitted to Sphinn.? That said, join up and read this Problogger post for some rules of engagement.
  • Top 10 Signs You’re Spamming Sphinn gives you more insights into how to use social news sites properly.
  • Crappy MP3 Sites, Comment Spamming & Enough Already: Danny Sullivan rants about how there are “search marketers” trying to manipulate Sphinn (and other social news sites). He explores examples and shows how hard it is to be a moderator of a site like this. Hey, I hear you.
  • An Analysis of Sphinn: 175 Homepage Homeruns Dissected: This post shows you what people are loving on Sphinn.? It also somewhat correlates to the categories on this post since some topics just happen to be a lot more popular than others.

LinkedIn:

Digg:

  • How to Level the Playing Field with Digg: While I personally don’t like Digg anymore and find that it’s useless for marketers, Skellie think it’s still valuable. (I’d argue “rarely” nowadays.)
  • How I Became a Digg Power User with a 75% Popular Ratio: I got banned in October from Digg with a 67% popular ratio and 278 front page stories and offered very similar tips in 2007, but some people still want to use Digg for this kind of thing.? Personally, I think Digg will ban you when you get popular.? The guy who wrote this blog post speaks from the same kind of experience.

Wikipedia:

  • Using Wikipedia to Reveal Web Traffic Data: Jonathan Hochman writes a piece on how, when using Wikipedia, you can find out about how much traffic a top search ranking will send.
  • How to Overthrow a Wikipedia Result: This is a good tactic but you should use it in moderation!? Don’t get caught!
  • Wikipedia 101 for Marketing: The awesome Todd Defren explains how you can use Wikipedia to market your business.? But as many of you who have attended SEO conferences know, don’t do it from your company IP address or face the banhammer.
  • 3 Awesome Wikipedia Tools and How they Could be Useful: I’ve never really known of any real good Wikipedia tools except for WikiScanner until this post (and this post doesn’t even talk about that IP scanner program).? ? So there you have it — 4 tools for your Wikipedia enjoyment.
  • What to do When Your Company Wikipedia Page Goes Bad: The problem with editing your own company page when you work for the company is that there are moderation issues and biases.? So what can you do once someone adds bad content to that page?? Jessica Bowman tells you how to make the nasties “fade into the background.”

StumbleUpon:

Fark:

Facebook:

delicious:

Flickr:

  • How to Market on Flickr: While Flickr itself isn’t seen as a community that you would market to, you can find out how to become a respected community member AND market your services as well.
  • An Insider’s Guide to Marketing on Flickr: Rohit Bhargava gives some very detailed tips on how you can use Flickr to successfully market products.

FriendFeed:

  • FriendFeed Can Disrupt Search and Reshape Advertising: Steve Rubel offers his initial impressions of FriendFeed.
  • 25 Different Uses for FriendFeed: FriendFeed power users Michael Fruchter and Louis Gray team up (well, Mike posted the guest post on Louis’s blog) to share some tips on how you can get the most out of this service.? As an FYI, I LOVE FriendFeed (and as another FYI, I said the same about Twitter in 2007 and everyone joined up in 2008.? Just sayin’).? By the way, Louis has a ton of great posts on FriendFeed on his blog and this isn’t the only one.

Blogging:

Viral Marketing:

Link Building:

Reputation Management:

Analytics:

Personal Branding:

Local Search:

Content Development:

Web Development:

Affiliate Marketing:

Domains and Domaining:

AdWords/PPC:

Internet Marketing:

General Marketing:

Best of Techipedia 2008
I typically don’t put posts from my blog in the “Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008″ list, but this year, since I’ve grown a considerable number of subscribers, I’ve decided to give new users the opportunity to read the two best posts without feeling that they need to dig through the archives.? Of course, if you don’t mind reading the other posts I’ve written, by all means, go ahead.? There’s some good stuff there that I’m not highlighting here (including two on FriendFeed, which is a great content discovery and community building tool which simply doesn’t get much love).

Thanks again to the Portland Web Design company for their awesome badges (and to Jill for the idea).? Also, thanks for all your contributions to this series.? Stay tuned for next year’s!

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Happy 2009!

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Comments:

  1. krishna Says:

    Woww. Amazing compilation of all the Links. Nice gift though :). Need to tweet this for sure

  2. Denise Says:

    Thank you for this amazing resource, Tamar. Happy Capricornian Birthday :)

    @DeniseTwin

  3. Bloggeries Says:

    This must of taken forever to find all these bloggeries. Thanks for doing the work for us it’s a great list and even better link bait! ;) Tweeting it now.

  4. Laura Callow Says:

    Happy Birthday!!!

    Great list Tamar. Thanks for compiling and sharing :)

    and once more…

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

  5. Judith Lewis 'deCabbit' Says:

    Holy hand grenades batgirl! You completely rocked there just then! Wow… we knew you were brilliant but I have to say that is one heck of a list genius!

  6. Shana Albert Says:

    I was so looking forward to this post and it certainly didn’t let me down.

    I’m thrilled to be included in a couple here…. thank you so much!!

    Happy Birthday, Tamar.

  7. Jill Whalen Says:

    Well done, Tamar. I missed a lot of these the first time around. Will make great weekend reading!

  8. Ashley K. Edwards Says:

    Happy Birthday, Tamar! Hope this is your most favorite year yet.

  9. Sampad Swain Says:

    Have been waiting for this post of yours for quite sometime. Last time’s post was overwhelming and quite fruitful :-)

  10. Chris Prakoso Says:

    I haven’t started to read the list yet, but I just want to thank you on your effort to compile this list, that must’ve had been very long and painful process.
    Very Much Appreciated !

  11. BarbaraKB Says:

    Always good and always referred too again and again. Thanx Tamar! (oh, and happy birthday)

  12. Mike | PlanetChiro Says:

    Wow, Happy Birthday Tamar! This is one serious resource. Bookmarked and checking the many posts I missed in 2008.

  13. Lisa Ditlefsen Says:

    awesome list Tamar! I will enjoy these gems. Happy birthday!

  14. Corey Creed Says:

    Thank you. Amazing list.

  15. sam Says:

    Thanks Tamar. Now I have my 2009 reading to do. I hope I will end this giga list in time for next years list.

  16. pratt Says:

    Awesome list, Tamar! This is such a great resource, thanks for compiling it all together :)

    Happy Birthday!!

  17. Tiffany Monhollon Says:

    Tamar - Thanks for the roundup! So much here to absorb. I hopped over via Jason Falls’ Twitter - and was so happy to see my linking secrets post included here :) That post has been incredibly popular at my site, and 10 months later is still bringing in a steady stream of StumbleUpon traffic - goes to show you the power of social media tools.

    Thanks for taking the time to compile this list!

  18. Afzal Says:

    Happy B’day Tamar…..It’s the best collection of 2008.

    I think now I don’t need to look at any other source. Thanks for all your efforts in compiling this.

    Cheer’s

  19. Stuartpt Says:

    Wow.

    Awesome work Tamar - thanks for putting in the time to compile it and share it with the rest of the SEO geeks out there.

    S

  20. Sonny Gill Says:

    Can’t wait to dig deep into this fantastic list. Thanks so much!

    Sonny

  21. John Ellis Says:

    Great Job.

    Thanks for putting this all together.

  22. Craig Says:

    Excellent resource. Thank you for posting — it’ll take us till 2010 to read through them all!

    I hadn’t seen Seth Godin’s post re: viral yet, so that (so far) has been the most interesting link in the list to me.

    I would love for “viral” to be redefined. It means something very specific, and most people say “viral” when they mean “organic” or “grassroots.” I think it’s been used so badly for so long, though, we may be stuck with what we’ve got. More ruminations about this over here:

    http://www.lohad.com/?p=2215

    Happy New Year!

  23. Niels Schuddeboom Says:

    Thank your for this great resource! Happy Birthday!

  24. Dave Dugdale Says:

    I like how you placed the badges at the bottom of the post. I am sure you will get a lot of links out of this article. Nice work.

  25. alejandro Says:

    WOW you rock with this post!! amazing congrats.

    Happy Birthday by the way :)

  26. Sonia Simone | Remarkable Communication Says:

    Man, when you overdeliver, you really overdeliver, don’t you?

    Awesome stuff, I’ll be poking through these all day.

  27. steaprok Says:

    Happy Bday Tamar! Extremely informative and extensive post. you have highlighted a lot of great articles I had not seen ,thanks for the hard work.

  28. Matt Siltala Says:

    Tamar - Happy Birthday! You know we are geeks when we do this kind of stuff on our birthday huh? This is a great list, and thanks for including my local marketing post along side some of the most amazing articles and other bloggers online!

  29. Udi Drezner Says:

    Great List Tamar!

    Thanks

  30. Ann Smarty Says:

    Quite a few mentions of mine - I am honored! Thanks for reading me and for compiling those awesome lists!

  31. Michael Pranikoff Says:

    Thank you Tamar!

    Usually on someone’s birthday, it is that person receiving the gifts - and not someone giving this great gift!

    Thanks,
    Michael

  32. Meg Strout Says:

    Great job with all of these links! I look forward to reading more of your posts!

    Meg

  33. Ann Smarty Says:

    Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :)

  34. René Silva Says:

    Definitely the post of the day, it is an awesome list, happy birthday Tamar!

  35. pavneet Says:

    great post tamir,

    a great compilation of links. this post was a real treat. you really know wat we want.

    n hey read some thing on http://www.makemyweek.com/ along the same lines(best internet posts of the week). i loved that 2.

    I look forward to reading more of your posts!

    and happy birthday tamir

  36. Mercy Says:

    Great post and overwhelming resource.

    Thanks and Happy Birthday!

  37. Hugo Gill Says:

    Happy Birthday Tamar! What an excellent post. All the best for 2009.

  38. Michael Gass Says:

    Tamar,

    This is a fantastic resource list. Thank you for all of the hard work in developing such a comprehensive resource list for internet marketing. I’ve already provided a link from my blog, FUEL LINES as a resource for my audience, small-to midsize advertising agencies and PR firms.

  39. Andy Komack Says:

    Tamar - great list and a definite bookmark (because there is no way I’ll get through all of this even after two passes). Thanks for including me here. I continue to follow you on Twitter and look forward to reading more from you in 2009.

    - Andy

  40. Derek Edmond Says:

    Awesome list and thanks very much for including me & our company as part of these resources! Here’s looking to an even bigger and better 2009!

  41. Lee Smith-Bryan Says:

    Hi Tamar, thank you for listing my blog entry on 7 Social Media Websites and their Impact on SEO. It truly is an honor to be mentioned alongside some extremely talented people.

  42. Lauren Says:

    This is such an awesome list of resources! Thanks so much for this. I can’t wait to share it!

  43. Shari Voigt Says:

    Happy Birthday, Tamar!
    Thanks for putting this comprehensive resource list together. I’m thrilled to be a part of it! I’ve found several highly useful links in each category - will be sure to bookmark and share.

  44. Jason Bartholme Says:

    Happy Birthday, Tamar. Thanks the for all the reading material. I need to do some catching up.

  45. Linda Sherman Says:

    I am bookmarking, passing on by email and tweeting this post. Excellent work Tamar. It certainly shows one of the powerful uses of bookmarking - since you collected this information by bookmarking it. We assume you had to do quite a bit of editing too - thank you so much for the effort.

    May I add a request for 2009? It is hard to find good social media tips about MySpace. I have one client for which I have to use this platform (among others of course). http://myspace.com/singelringen It DOES drive traffic if your product appeals to the demographic that lives there. I can’t be the only one.

    Happy Birthday, Happy New Year and wishing you a prosperous, healthy 2009.

  46. Wil Reynolds Says:

    Tamar, excellent resource, looks like I am going to have a lot of reading to do over the next few days! :)

    Happy B-day!

  47. ms danielle Says:

    this is a spectacular list, i’m going to try to check out these articles … just twittered it too! :)

    happy birthday!!!

  48. Andy Brudtkuhl Says:

    Wow. Wow. Wow.

    This is a fantastic digest of internet marketing topics. Excellent resource to be shared.

  49. Joe Moodie Says:

    Hear ye! Hear ye! As Operations Manager for an Internet Marketing company I hereby proclaim this a mandatory bookmark.

    Editor’s note: Links have been removed. Akismet caught all of them as spam. Plus, there were 3 multiple comments promoting the same thing.

  50. rheen Says:

    You make an amazing resource,but why not try to click in this site the [redacted] faster and more affordable site.

    Editor’s note: I remove spam from my comments.

  51. Andrew Shotland Says:

    Feliz cumpleanos Tamar and thanks for including my little post on the list!

  52. link builder Says:

    thanks for posting this article. it helps a lot.

  53. Graeme Mac Says:

    Huge Thank you to building this list. It’s like a coles notes version of 2008. Oh and Happy Birthday.

  54. Kevin Kirkpatrick Says:

    Geez. I’ve now got like 10 tabs open with new articles, and finally made it to the bottom of the page. I’m about to make a second run through now. Be back in an hour.

  55. Free Ads by AdJingo Says:

    Yum Yum - always love these lists!!!
    Especially when they are SEO & Social related.

    Passing this page along to others, need to review

    Have fun!

  56. Jon Rognerud Says:

    Whoa! Over the top, as I like to say! Thanks so much for including my blog and the awesome interview with Aaron, he IS the man, indeed.

    Happy New Year!

    Rog on, - Jon

  57. jeff paul internet millions Says:

    I have read this post. This is very much true. I run a part time internet marketing business
    I have been collecting many material on internet marketing and checking out Jeff Paul’s
    internet marketing tactics. I hope that we can keep each other’s contacts so I can
    discuss my problems Even I own a blog account. I will mention your post in my blog.

  58. Singapore SEO Internet Marketer Says:

    Thanks for all the best links on internet marketing. This is truly the most comprehensive compilation of the best articles on internet marketing. I highly recommend others to bookmark this web page.

  59. Raja Bhat Says:

    Thanks Tamar, Very useful stuff indeed!!

  60. kiran Says:

    Fantastic collection.thanks..

  61. Ty Downing Says:

    Tamar, Wow! I have lots to read now, incredible list, and thanks for including one of my posts! I just wrote a post on you too..

    Ty

  62. Samir Balwani Says:

    Great stuff Tamar! Thanks for including my post. I’ve got so much to read for this year now.

  63. Janet Fouts Says:

    Hey Tamar happy birthday and thanks for the link. I’m honored, and such great company too. It will take days to read all of these, amazing work.

  64. kh mohsin Says:

    Very Nice and informative, really hard work, all I can say is “WELL DONE” Thanks

  65. Anita Campbell Says:

    Wow, Tamar! What a list. Definitely bookmarkable and tweetable and bloggable.

    There’s so much great stuff here.

  66. Gennice Says:

    Now these kind of posts are getting mass linked to… I will share this post on any social website i know… This is something people should learn and apply for amazing success..
    I tried many of these tactics and tips and i got traffic tripled in less than a month!

    Thanks!!!

  67. Alysson Says:

    Wow! Well done, Tamar! I know what I’ll be reading for the next…well…until further notice. :)

    This post is now the “Post Of The Week” (yes…I used your badge). ;)

  68. mark Says:

    Amazing list. Thanks, and a belated happy birthday.
    Mark
    San Jose

  69. JustinSMV Says:

    wow just wow, this list is crazy huge and amazing thanks for all the great recaps got some reading to do :)

  70. Jenn Says:

    Happy Birthday! I am completely blown away with your list above. Wow! This is incredible. Thank you!

  71. jordanjak Says:

    wow! nice article on online marketing, very well explained about online marketing really very interesting.thanks for sharing such a good information.

  72. uwak Says:

    thanks for great listing…..very useful and really help me

  73. internet marketing Says:

    well done. These posts are so useful.

  74. Don Schindler Says:

    Wow, thanks so much for this article. You are definitely on my always read list.

  75. shimon tahar Says:

    this is a real fortune, thank u very much tamar
    Happy birthday again

  76. Gelay Says:

    Fantastic list. Thanks for sharing. Happy belated birthday from Bhutan.

  77. vijay Says:

    I need at-least a month to read all articles.
    But I don’t mind spending this time if I am going to get something valuable :-)

  78. Will Blears Says:

    Great list shame to see none of my own articles on this list though. :(

  79. Trip Allen Says:

    Hi Tamar- This is completely insane! Thanks for all of your hard work on this- we all appreciate it!
    Trip Allen, Egyii Singapore

  80. Rich Says:

    What a great birthday blow-out! The list maintained to balance the necessity of each view, no matter their online status is.

    Thanks for sharing. Happy Birthday!

  81. hezron Says:

    Wow! Great List! Belated happy birthday.

    Editor’s Note: Blog links removed. Your name still links to the same blog. Thanks.

  82. iCan't Internet Says:

    Great list, will feature this in one of my future blogposts on http://www.icantinternet.org !!

  83. Debra Askanase Says:

    Tamar,
    Thank you so much for this compilation. I know how much time and thought goes into a post like this. I intend to tweet this and use it personally, as well, to learn how I can optimize social media tools.
    If you are interested in a roundup of Social Media Etiquette by network, I have compiled a list here: http://communityorganizer20.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/social-media-etiquette-roundup-understanding-cultural-norms/
    Thanks, and I’m now following you on twitter and RSS!
    Debra

  84. Javier Romero Says:

    Thanks so much for the information. Appreciate the effort you put behind this compilation. I’m following you in Twitter now and looking forward to your posts.
    Best,
    Javierjrdg

  85. Ed Richardson Says:

    That’s one hell of a list, one that’ll have to bookmark and return to for sometime to reap the full value!

    Thanks for taking the time to compile it Tamar.

  86. BuddhaBen Says:

    Good stuff Tamar! Thanks for putting this together, sending it out to my whole crew. Happy Happy and Congrats!

  87. CMD Says:

    Amazing!? I will say I am little baffled by the reach and depth of this post. But I guess you did have an entire year to work on it, hu?

    Kudos. Here’s to foresight and collecting valuable data.

  88. Tamar Weinberg Says:

    CMD, yep, like I said, I spend a lot of time collecting the posts over the course of the year and then I compile them for this yearly post :) I don’t blog here often since most of my posts take 15+ hours to research/write. Glad you liked it :)

  89. Amanda Says:

    Awesome list. Lots of great info here. Thanks for taking the time to share this with us.

  90. NBWeb.it Says:

    Hello Tamar, your article is absolutely amazing! This is one of the best articles i have seen, ever :)
    Thank You so much :D

  91. Kristina Says:

    Thank you very much Tamar !!!!!! Here is all what I need in a one place.I appreciate it and wish you always have time to keep us informed :)

  92. BrassTacks Says:

    Fantastic post! Good for someone who’s brand new to social media, as much as it is useful for experts! Thank you!

  93. Gayan Says:

    Wow, really great post, Tamar. You brought together all the best articles, to get all the info in one place. Imressive and very useful post.

  94. Karl Ribas Says:

    Superb job, Tamar. This is a great resource. Oh, and happy birthday. :)

  95. Dan_N Says:

    Wow this is one great list, I sure have a lot of reading ahead of me although most of the stuff I know already I am sure there is a lot I can learn from still. Thanks and great blog.

  96. Brian Says:

    Absolutely amazing post. There is onths worth of good quality reading material here… no more excuses folks! :-)

    I will make sure and pass this on to all my valuable readers at http://www.Wealth_info.com

    Happy reading everyone!

  97. Michael Says:

    Much like Mr. McGee’s SEO pyramid - this post contains WAY too much information.

    You get an A for effort though, Jesus Christ that must have been some work compiling this thing.

  98. djskyler Says:

    Thanks, Tamar! This post is absolutely monolithic in scope. And good SEO practice supplying us with the badges too, I’ve immediately added one on my blog’s sidebar.

  99. Lucinda Wright Says:

    Thank you for compiling this list of resources. This has made my job so much easier to have it all in one place.

  100. Joe Kohli Says:

    Remarkable compilation of posts.

  101. Ricky C Says:

    Lots of useful tips are there, Thanks so much for listing them up. If you can give more update to this list, then that one will be much more appreciated :)

  102. Misty Faucheux Says:

    Even though it’s very late, I had to wish you a happy birthday. Especially since it was the day after mine. You should always celebrate your birthday for a full two months!

    Again, happy belated B-day!

    Misty Faucheux
    Social Media/Community Relations Manager, Viscape.com

  103. Justin Brooke Says:

    Here is a comprehensive listing of SEO thoughts, tips and strategies. Thanks for sharing these links to the contents.

  104. Anna Green Says:

    There is certainly a lot! of reading here, but already i can see a few articles that im sure will be of interest to me… especially, 30 Ways to Get Links Naturally and Stop Link Building. Thanks for the three sleepless nights just so you could share, oh and happy birthday.

  105. antibody Says:

    This article is grest, but it’s hard to finish all links here. I’m working on it.

  106. Capt Vlad Nikolskiy Says:

    Hi, Tamar,
    please, do not consider my comment as off-top, I really expect to get reply/ tips. What do you think, bloggers writing in Russia, can take a part in any competions, award programmes, or we have to wait when something similar will be in Russia (if it will be)?
    Thanks in advance for your opinion.

  107. Ariane @ FoundationStudio.ca Says:

    What a fabulous list - great resource that WILL get used - unlike so many other lists I have collecting dust - thanks so much for your effort!!!

  108. Tamar Weinberg Says:

    Vlad, I’m not sure why I approved your comment since it’s not really relevant to the post at all nor do I even have the answer. I don’t even know competitions in the US. Might you ask via Twitter or some other channel that is a little more relevant? How is my post related to your inquiry at all?

    Ironically, this is a unique comment, so it went in, but I still do have my doubts on why I approved it.

  109. Real Online Money Says:

    Really awesome list, really loved the section of online reputation . That is so important to marketing. Great job on this list, really!

  110. quang cao online Says:

    what a great article. Thank you.

  111. Jon Mac Says:

    This is the best post I’ve read this year. I’m not sure why it took so long for me to come across it. Thanks A million. I’m forwarding it to my teammates here at Social Focus. A must read for anyone working with social media.

    Jonathan Mac
    Social Networking Software

  112. jaypaul Says:

    yea i agreed, this post name should be the “Best of 2008″ in social media world.

    Great Job.

    Thanks
    Paul

  113. sikis Says:

    I hopped over via Jason Falls’ Twitter - and was so happy to see my linking secrets post included here :) That post has been incredibly popular at my site, and 10 months later is still bringing in a steady stream of StumbleUpon traffic - goes to show you the power of social media tool…

  114. Best Internet Marketing Company Says:

    Agreed that this post should receive some merit as one of the “Best”! Great work!

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