Affiliate Summit NYC Social Media Random Notes

I took my trusty notebook with me to the Affiliate Summit event.  In said notebook I took some notes.  I will now share these notes with you.  Some will be helpful, some will make no sense:

• editors@feedfront.com to submit an article to Feedfront Magazine
• SMARTS program @ Stompernet is a social media training course.
• Facebook gets almost as many pageviews per day as Google.
• Youtube gets double the Pageviews per day as Google does.
• Facebook adds 100-250K new users per day.
• More than 1/2 of Myspace users are 35 or older.
• Lots of older people are using Social Media (Where’s The Adult Diaper Affiliate Program?)
• Speaker claims Movable Type gets the best search engine rankings because its a paid service…..come on!
• Use Web 2.0 appropriately for huge gains.
• 18% of all first page results for “money” keywords were social media sites.
• Squidoo – Hubpages – Wetpaint – Twitter
• Online video is the single most important tool to building business online.
• Check out the STompernet free content.
• The average person watches 2.15 minutes of a video online.
• 1 Million Dollars per day is spent on Youtube bandwith.
• Video reviews WORK for affiliate marketing – You need a great URL to get people to use your affiliate link.
• Check out BuyTV.com
• Top x Lists In Video Work Well.
• Video Blogging – Daily Video
• Screencast Videos Are Hot – Camtasia
• To promote your video use Tubemogul, Trafficgeyser, Twitter, Facebook & Myspace
• Use different meta data on each video site.
• To promote your video embed it in Squidoo and Hub Pages With Autoplay on to boost your play count and increase your rankings.
• Digg tends to get you more incoming links if you get to the first page.  It’s the only advantage of actually getting there.
• Digg users don’t buy.
• Digg users don’t click ads.
• The real Digg Effect is that when you get to the first page you get more incoming links from outside websites.
• Thousands of pages with just 1 Digg come up first in Google….Investigate This
• Propeller believes a blog is news and passes link value.
• Social Bookmarking best practices:
• Do not auto submit to social bookmarking sites
• Submit only your best stuff.
• Submit other peoples stuff as well.
• Submit 6 or more non-self-serving bookmarks for ever 1 self serving one.
• Be careful not to blow Social Media as it can ruin your reputation.
• The speaker uses indians to manually submit to social bookmarking sites.
• Shareaholic is a good Firefox addon for social bookmarking.
• Buy.com’s average user viewing a video will view 3 minutes.
• If your trying to sell something keep the videos short.
• Created – Collected – User Contributed Videos
• $805 Million Dollars Will Be Spent On Online Media In 2009
• Use video responses on Youtube to generate traffic.
• ShopWiki.com
• ShopWiki.com claims to double conversion rates if a video is viewed before clicking an affiliate link.
• Zac Johnson likes to market dating sites to girls who like to fish.

Please Note: I do receive a Press Pass to Affiliate Summit which get’s me in for free however, all statements and thoughts are my own opinions.

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