In 09 we have made 2 very cool updates to Social Media for Firefox. In Feb we added Twitter, Sphinn and Mixx . This lets you hit the manual button on any URL you are on and see how many Tweets it has had. In other words it lets you see how many people have posted your link on Twitter. )There are a million short url services and we are working frantically to add the most prominent in so numbers might be a little off until then( Today I'm announcing that we have added Bit.

Aside from 97th Floor , I co-own an action sports news site called 5ones and a live analytics company called BLVD Status. This week 5ones launched a very cool project that we have been working on for a very long time )initial idea Jul 08(. It is called, "5ones Earth" and it is an interactive Google Maps mashup that organizes all of the worlds Surf Spots, Skate Spots, Ski/Snowboard Resorts, Pro Shops and Company Headquarters.

This is a guest post written by Vince Blackham over at Primary Affect . Holla! Follow him on Twitter With social media reaching near its peak, more and more people and businesses are realizing its importance. Unfortunately for most, they get their ideas from a "bag-and-tag" blog post that claims it has the end-all result to reaching viral success. There's especially been a lot of chatter on Twitter about people being so called "social media experts/gurus" and,

I will be the first to admit while it didn't take me a long time to sign up and start networking with friends on Twitter, it has taken me a long time to understand the true power of the website. When I first started using it I saw it as a networking and communication tool. The more I come to use it and the more I watch people from all walks of life using it I am starting to see why Twitter may possibly be the most important website since Google.

Almost 2 years ago we launched Social Media for FireFox and it has been downloaded over 200,000 times and helped thousands of people build powerful social media accounts on Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon. We finally finished a new version that is awesome, we added some sites and functionality and do some stuff with Twitter that I am super excited about. New Sites: It now includes Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon )review and thumbs up counts(, Del.icio.us, Mixx, Tip'd,

I am stoked to be speaking at SMX West 2009 in Feb. I will presenting on the "Whats new in Social Media" panel and also the "Productivity Tips for Search Marketers" panel. Mat is speaking this year too on the "Image Search" panel and he has some killer case studies for that. If you are considering going to SMX West I would highly recommend that you do. The weather is good the content is great and Danny and Chris put on killer shows.

I wrote this a year ago and never got around to posting it, and now that is is almost a year later and a lot of my friends and perspective clients are caring less about Digg and social media links and getting back to the O.G. way of ranking sites I figured might as well post it. Via: flickr Old School: Internal Links It seems that Nov-Jan are always insane with people wanting to prepare their site to dominate for the next year. This year is crazier then ever,

I have been working along with my brother Patrick )who is an insane web designer ( and a kick butt programmer named Charles Berube for the past seven months on an analytics tool . I am happy to say that it is finally ready for anyone and everyone to test out. We have had it in private beta for about two months and it is stable enough now that we want you to give it a try. It is called BLVD Status it is a killer tool with a lot of features that no other analytics tool offers,

Quick update: Social Media for Firefox 3 is ready. You can download it here . Right now it is just the update with Del.icio.us working better. We will be releasing an update soon that will be adding Mixx and have some new options with StumbleUpon. Then after that we will be working on another Kick A version that will have all kinds of crazy stuff it is going to be rad.

We are getting close on have a Firefox 3 compatible version of Social Media for Firefox . We are sorry it wasn't ready with the FF 3 launch but it is coming and it is going to be sick. We have taken the opportunity to add some upgrades. Here are some quick features we are working on if you happen to have any additions you think would make it be an even better tool we are all about it and please add in the comments. We are looking into > Showing Thumb Up,

I recoreded a webinar over at Omniture's head quarters a couple of weeks ago and it is now live. It is geared towards corporate and enterprise sites and how small tweaks leveraging Organic SEO can yield very high returns rather quickly. It is just under an hour I believe and I give away some sweet tips. If you have a chance click over and check it out, it is titled "Corporate SEO Small Changes, Big Results.

Last Summer Cameron Olthuis and I met for the first time in person at SMX Advanced Seattle and we quickly became friends as we found we had a lot of things outside of seo in Coming. We both love to surf, he lives in my hometown near San Diego and I live near his home town in Utah and we both had been thinking for years how we wanted to use our seo/promotion skills to launch something in the Action Sports Industry.

I have talked about about how you can do viral marketing for any industry . Mat has also posted every Frida y on Viral Marketing ideas and he always tries to share an example in a "boring" industry. This last week I came across a viral piece that blew me away and it was for one of the most boring industries on the planet, appliances. I found it on Digg and SU one of my buddies had submitted it.

Despite the huge audience and Brand that Digg has it is still widely misunderstood by new users. I get so many emails and talk to a lot of people all saying things like, "I submitted my homepage to Digg and no one voted on it?." So I hope this article can help you understand the the process of a successful Digg which should also help you in understanding why only good content makes it and how it makes it. This is not a how to spam article,

An interview of a two part series was published over at Elance, 13 Ways to Make Your Blog Viral . I will be doing another interview this week that will go live in the coming month about basic SEO. If you are not familiar with Elance they are one of the largest market place websites for Freelancers and Outsourcing . Everything from Virtual Assistants to Copywriters and Programmers . It is pretty cool,

I try to pay attention or note common questions that get sent to us regarding SEO and what have you. By far the number one repeated question we get is in the Reputation Management space, "I have created a page at all the social sites and we are still not able to push out the negative results?" I have had my share of posts talking about filing out social media/news sites in order to protect the top then,

Over the past month I have read a lot of blogs talking about horror stories of their premium content that they took weeks even months to write getting submitted by social media users that have poor quality accounts. They go on to talk about how they get jacked because the person submitting has no friends or they don't know how to submit and their articles go no where but to the abyss of the dead pool. Easy Solution: Change the URL The solution is very easy,

You can use Digg , StumbleUpon , Reddit and Mixx to increase your sites traffic, links, and branding which has a result on your bottom line, you can network in Facebook , Linkedin or Myspace to get more leads and referrals, but, what can you do to make a buck with Twitter ? Twitter users out there I'm sorry if I offend, but I am too busy to use anything just to tell my long lost cousin where I got my lunch,

You may not think the following is a big deal, as I won't be talking about top 10 rankings, but the number one spot, but when you are a company as large as Toyota and you don't rank number one for specific car searches, there is a problem in my opinion. If I was over web/marketing at Toyota I would not be pleased. *Im sure this is a timley post and in a month or two this will no longer be the case, but none the less I think it is a big deal.

O.K. before you keep reading I have to apologize, I hate case studies and examples of sites that don't show the sites involved. One of the things that Mat and I try to do to set us apart from a lot of blogs is to give specific ideas on how to do things, but in the case study below I can't. We are growing and have a lot of clientèle that just won't let us share their info, or even mention them as a client. That is fine,