Also see my post You Tube Tips for promoting and marketing your video on You Tube.

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As an example I used Tim Brownsons – How to Be Miserable video to show how you can showcase your favorite You Tube videos.

To make your videos go viral there are great options from You Tube. The more activity a You Tube video gets the more popularity it gains within the network:

Share – Hit the You Tube share option and you can add videos to Mixx, Myspace, Facebook, Digg, send it to all your contacts on You Tube, email to friends and even blog it!

Favorites – When you favorite a video it will automatically show up on your channel. I usually copy and paste the URL and make it my main video on my channel as it’s the top vid for people to see. The more it is a favorite the more buzz it will create in the You Tube network.

Rate it! – See those little red stars under the main video on the left? Make sure you rate videos for maximum exposure.

Commentary – Oh yes the comments area. The more comments you give and get the more activity the video generates within the network. You may see vids on You Tube home page that are popular today today known as ‘Rising Videos’, most talked about, etc. Comments really help your video get a boost.

Thumbs Up - Use the thumbs up (or down) options for comments you find to be beneficial to the conversation.

You Tube is all about the buzz so the more activity a video has the better chance it has to get more views.

You Tube Tips:

• Views: There is speculation that YT alters their ‘hit counter’ for videos. Your hits are not going to show up right away and may even take a few hours for the information to populate. Be paitent and keep promoting your video.
• Update your channel frequently by adding videos, commenting on channels and sharing great content.
• Make your own videos. If you don’t own a video camera you can make what is called a montage, which is a collection of images. Go to Flickr and ask members if it is okay to use their photos. I have always gotten the ‘green light’ when I ask. Just add their name or Flickr profile to the credits.Other forms of images can be screen shots, your own photos and manipulated images from the web. MS Paint is your friend and is good for text images. Make sure you read up on Fair Use laws as You Tube does not tolerate copyright infringement. Edit your images in Microsoft Movie Maker that came with your PC or iMovie for Mac or other free and simple editing software.

Have fun with You Tube as it is a great way to be social and make your content go viral!

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When is dofollow and comment spam a good thing?

Keywords – Depending on the keywords if they are closely related to my blog and their site checks out okay I will allow the comment. The reason for this is to get some organic traffic off of their keywords. Less work for me.

Affiliate Marketers – First I check out the program and if it seems legit or popular again I allow it. Keywords again are in play here. People pay a lot of money to compete in PPC, and usually the keywords they leave behind is something, someone, somewhere was searching for. Less work for me again!

Twitter Spammers – Please, leave your Twitter profile link on my blog. I could use the followers! Then I can spam you back! Ha ha just kidding. Spammers are acutally too busy spamming to really use Twitter effectively so I don’t mind following them as they only send out five or six Tweets a month.

Repeat Offenders – When the spammers seem to visit often I send them an email or leave a comment on their site asking for a back link. After all my blog is dofollow so it does not hurt to ask.

How to combat anchor text: If someone spamming my blog leaves useful info or is contributing I just rewrite their comment for them, and exclude the anchor text. Everyone is happy!

So see comment spam is not all that bad. You can still offer your readers some dofollow juice and keep your spam audience at bay.

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Social Networking List
Look out for the up coming Redux post and all the social media you should be using.

Twitter
#earthquake and #seattle earthquake. I was there. It rocked!

How to gain more followers: Participate in ‘#’ search discussions and look to see what is hot in TwitScoop. Look for cresting topics or try and create your own.

I’ve gained at least an average of 5 followers for every discussion I’ve joined. Try it.

Every Friday someone get the ball rolling for #followfriday where there a Twitter follow swap. Neat huh?

Facebook
Just catching up again on FB and learned about the chat – instant messenger feature.
Go to the bottom right of the page to ‘Online friends’ and next to it are the messenger options. Because you need more stuff to do and more options on Facebook!

You know I’d use Facebook more often but it’s too damn confusing, but you can still add me:

Twitter’er of the Week!

It’s @Scottpierce earthquake expert!

Ha ha! J/K check out Scott’s site Piledriver Creative.

Don’t forget to follow him in Twitter! and follow me too!

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Sites that scrape your content.

You know I am flattered that someone copied parts of my blog word for word without giving me credit. They also copied Yaro Starak and Zac Johnson so they have at least been doing their research in a blogging sense.

Here is how I have been handling the situation. You get the bits and pieces here first then I’ll do a full post when the whole process is done.

Copyscape – Gerald from Search Engine Marketing Group sent me his post Combating Online Plaigerism and I thought well I’ll check Copyscape for fun. Now I’m glad I did!

I found a money blog site and it copied two of my posts (as far as I know right now) Blog Marketing Tools and Blog Traffic: How to Get It! word for word with no links back to my site. Not only that, all the links that I had mentioned to my Twitter and Technorati profiles they switched to theirs!

Copyscape gives you five free searches per month and what I suggest if you have a blog is to do each page individually. After that it is five cents per page to sign up for Copyscape which is totally worth it.

So there you go. Copyscape to the rescue.

Making Contact – Unfortunately this blogger did not have any contact info and I did not want to leave a comment because I would have to reveal my Blogger identity and I was not interested in doing that. Read on to see the next part of the story since I was unable to contact him.

Google and Copyright Infringement – If you read the post Combating Online Plaigerism you will see a link to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Basically you send hard copies of proof that someone is using your intellectual property well beyond fair use to Google and they will investigate. I’m still in that process and wanted to do something immediately…so I contacted…

Technorati - They were using Technorati and Performancing Ads so I decided to contact these two companies and see what their policy was for members who swipe content. Performancing Ads was unable to do anything as it was not in their policy to police certain blogs in their network, which I’m totally okay with. It was worth a shot.

Technorati on the other hand sent me a nice reply email that they do not tolerate copyright infringement by their users and to please send them more info. I did and what I was told a few days later was the blog in question had been removed for “lack of original content”.

Yippee! Sucess.

So this is just the beginning. I now have Technorati to back me up a little to offer up to Google that they also found the blog in question…questionable.

So don’t let people scrape and steal your intellectual property! Do something about it today!

If you really missed Friday Social which I hope you did. Here are the last few to take a look at:

Friday Social – Crystal Hapiness
Friday – Keep in Touch

Have an awesome weekend and if you haven’t signed up for Twitter yet do it today too!

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It’s 2009 here folks. Highly qualified people are scrounging for employment, and although I love Twitter and don’t know ‘Crystal’ or the Twitter admin personally but FTW? Let’s hope this did not hurt any chances they have for funding.

Yes I openly admit that is my comment on the article. Obviously!!!

Wake up lame password holders!

Mr. Tweet
What a gent he is and a hard worker too.

If you haven’t hired Mr. Tweet yet give him a shot.

He makes suggestions who in your followers list you might want to follow back. This was highly useful for me as I also liked the suggestions of who I should follow ‘outside my network’.

Although there are a few people who are big names on Twitter I refuse to follow because they suffer OTS = Over Tweet Syndrome, I have found some great new Twitter’ers to follow from Mr. Tweets advice.

Thank you Mr. Tweet!

Twitter’er of the Week
Drum roll please…! Baddabaddabaddabba….

Alexandra aka Earthshod is Twitter’er of the week!

Ordained clergy, tea leaf reader, Twitter user! Check out her site as she is based in Washington State:

Earthshod.com – Book a Crystal Ball reading!

Photo: tHE PypEr

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If you have written about Twitter and would like to be added to my Welcome! post let me know. I’m looking to have around 10 blog posts about Twitter and I’ll add a link to your Twitter profile.

Right now I’m updating Blog Marketing Tools which seems to have resurfaced in the search engines and barely made it to my top 10 posts. I’m adding which of these sites are dofollow. It can be really helpful in deciding which sites you should pursue to get maximum payoff for your marketing efforts.

Speaking of Blog Marketing Tools…

This week on Twitter it was brought to my attention to be on the lookout for people scraping or ripping your blog content. You can read the post by @the_gman here:

Combating Online Plagiarism – SEMGroup.net

I used Copyscape out of curiosity and sure enough there was a money type blog that blatantly ripped Blog Marketing Tools word for word, even the little notes, not providing credit or a backlink to my site and they also ripped Blog Traffic: How to Get It! Again no mention or back tracks, or backlinks as to where the content came from or who wrote it.

What I have done is taken comparison screen shots of their blog and my blog. Since the blog does not have a way for me to contact them I have no other choice but to go straight to Google in the matter.

So I suggest you read the plagiarism article and investigate to see if other bloggers are biting your material and calling it their own.

Also make sure you have a way for people to contact you for obvious reasons. Even if it is just a little mailto: script do it. Not that you are stealing content but you never know when someone needs to make contact in regards to your blog.

Any how…Have a great weekend, Friday Social will be out again next week. If you are on Twitter and want to be the Twitter’er the week, be the first one to Tweet me and you will be it!

If you have social media posts that you have written those can possibly be added as well.

Have a great blogging day!
Jordan

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What is Twitter you ask?
Until someone invents nano-blogging Twitter will have to do.

Twitter makes it way too easy to stay connected in the social networking crowd. As social media continues to expand so will use of the micro-blogging service.

What are some of the advantages of Twitter that takes it beyond just another Internet phenomenon?

Twitter is many things rolled into one.

(Micro) Blogging
When asked “What are you doing?” make sure it’s interesting!

Twitter Whore – is entertaining example of what is totally screwed up about micro- blogging.

On the upside it’s the little things that make Twitter real for most. What if you could actually get inside the heads of people like Tim O’Reilly, Andrew McAfee or Robert Scoble on a more personal level?

How did we go from Lisa Nova to the other three? That is the beauty of Twitter.

Getting into the minds of who you follow and who follows you is the true essence of the micro-blogging platform.

Be yourself. Be a real person. Let others get inside your head.

What else is Twitter?

PR Machine
O…M…G…! It’s like freaky!

Etiquette has no bounds in micro-blogging. Some of us prefer it that way.

Twitter is like an instant news wire for just about anyone. Need a story? Got a story? It’s covered. Depending on how many Twitter’ers you follow or who follows you, Twitter brings it all to your doorstep. On a silver platter no less.

Micro-Press Release
Twitter has reset the standard for the PR world. You either follow or unfollow and that’s it!

You can Tweet out whatever you want whenever you want. Newsworthy or not. It’s there in 140 characters or less. Your:

• New Post
• New Contest
• New Product
• New Alliances
• New Sign Ups
• New Events
• New Web sites

Etcetera.

Better than RSS
Twitter is better than RSS in several ways. Twitter’ers who may not elect to subscribe to your blog or Web site can be more selective if you Tweet a new post that serves them. In my opinion its far easier than checking elsewhere.

Twitter again helps you deliver awesome customer service. Twitter users with major followings give their Twitter audience the red carpet treatment that you may not find on their Web sites.

Twitter can be looked at as an exclusive club to offer your readers. As its accessibility is so simple and instantaneous making it easy for readers and businesses to connect.

Nano-Newsletter
Again ‘What’s new?’ and “What are you doing?”

Keeping people up to date is so simple on Twitter it’s almost sick!

Create a page to link to all your newsletters and that may entice or remind your readers to sign up. All from one little micro-post.

Power of the ReTweet
If you’re not using Twitter and want to know what ‘RT’ means–it’s the new ‘@’ and ‘LOL’.

Going viral with your message has never been so easy. Here’s a great tip:

“Please RT” — That phrase works wonders.

Check out this post by Dan Zarrella because he’s got the RT down to a science.

What’s in a ReTweet? That Data Behind Viral Messaging on Twitter

If you’re not using Twitter you’re missing out. Read my post What are you doing using Twitter? for more ideas on marketing and micro-blogging.

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