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Who Told That There is Nothing Left to Blog About? Look at People of Walmart!

September 04, 2009 By: Sergey Rusak Category: Ideas, Social Media No Comments →

 My co-worker showed me the funniest blog ever, it called People of Walmart. It is photo blog with collection of images whith funny, wierd, crazy, and trashy people who shop in Walmart. From one side, it is a blog where you want to see every photo and read every post, but from another side it makes you realize ”OMG, we live in this country!”. My favorite shot is a photo of some redneck who shop in Walmart wearing “While You Were Reading This… I Farted” t-shirt.

Photo from people of walmart website
Read to find how it went viral…

Washington Post Accused Blogger of Ripping off Article

August 28, 2009 By: Sergey Rusak Category: News, Social Media No Comments →

 Last year Associated Press decided to sue bloggers who links and quote news articles from their site, unpopular move sparked a lot of debates in blogosphere and many blog sites boycotted AP.

Plagiarism: Ctrl C + Ctrl V

 Washington Post decided to go the same way by accusing Gawker in plaigiarism. Apperently, Gawker Media writer qoted some parts of the article from Washington Post providing link back to original source. Gawker is a popular blog, not a splog which steal entire content, and many writers and web publishers will agree that link back from powerfull website gives extra visibility, higher traffic, and put original story on the next level of debates in social media. Washington Post and their writer Ian Shapira don’t think the same way, Shapira published another article with outrage to Gawker Media.
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Over 100 Methods to Build Links for Your Blog

August 27, 2009 By: Sergey Rusak Category: Social Media, Web Marketing No Comments →

 ”Content is the king”, the most effective way to build links is to write quality content and wait when other bloggers and webmasters link your post as a source. But what if you just created a blog and there are not a lot of readers yet, or your field is very competitive. Link building can send more visitors and improve search engine traffic.

Social Blogger

 During the link building process you should not spam, submit blog in low quality directories, or use companies which offer “millions links for few bucks”. There are a lot of good ways to get quality link to your blog and improve visibility.
Read more to find how…