I haven't been paying attention to backlink for a while now. Heck, I think they are the past. I'm not totally saying social is the only future, but it's an easier future if they can figure out a way to make it work properly with rankings.

Here are some awesome graphs on how social is increasing as a vital tool in ranking.

Social Signals from Facebook and Twitter:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-...earch-rankings

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I've been using Facebook a lot lately. Exceeding almost 5,000 fans per fanpage I have with very little investment and the traffic is amazing. I've automated an entire business model using a program called HootSuite and it's saving me hours of tedious work.

Here are my stats that were posted a while back. I'm going to post another blog with more up to date stats soon for this particular page.



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There are a few important ingredients to creating high performance Article Marketing campaigns that maximize the overall effectiveness of your marketing efforts, while ensuring that you receive the most exposure possible from each article that you submit into the online directories.

First, writing an article on just any topic isn’t going to yield the results you’re looking for, if you haven’t first conducted keyword research to identify what your target audience is...

So today I added an image just under the original thread on my WSO Facebook Attraction that informs Warriors that I'm running an affiliate contest with cash and prizes.

When I just published the WSO, I managed some sales and attracted a fair amount of affiliates, but to my dismay, not much traffic or sales came from the affiliates.

I'm hoping that the contest which offers more than $700 in prizes will attract more affiliates and generate some buzz.

Please...

This time I'm happy. The launch of my new WSO called Facebook Attraction did well this time.

It is converting well for the affiliates who send traffic to it and I managed to get a good number of sales from the thread itself.

All-in-all a good day. Learned a ton again this time.