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Pork and Beans… and I’m not talking about it literally. What I am talking about is the new song by Weezer (the band behind “Beverly Hills” and “My Name Is Jonas”) called Pork and Beans. Anyway, what’s so special about the song? Well, if you haven’t seen it yet (and I doubt that you haven’t), all I want to say is that it’s one of the best music videos I have ever seen. This music video is a perfect example of how viral marketing is the best types of marketing on the internet. Weezer knows exactly how to go viral on YouTube… by referencing popular viral videos on YouTube. Does “Numanuma” sound familiar to you? What about “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” or “Leave Britney Alone”? The band incorporated some of these viral videos and some of their characters into their new song and video, which has made themselves go viral. But enough with the talk, go watch the video below and you’ll see why. If you have already seen it, watch it again!

By the way, if you want to see all the original videos that this song referenced to, check out this page. Gizmodo has done all the work for you by putting up all the videos on one page, so just sit back and watch!

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Have you ever wanted to just be able to talk to one of the “A-List” bloggers about your blog/site and ask them to tell you how you can improve it? You have probably already tried emailing them and saying things like “how can I get more traffic to my site?” or “how come I am only getting 10-20 hits a day to my site?”. Then all you got was a short response that didn’t answer your question. Or maybe they didn’t even reply back at all. I know this because I was in this position when I first started blogging and making money online…

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Got a video on YouTube that needs views? It’s quite easy and if you’re a blogger who knows a lot about SEO, you should already know how it works. Just take a look at a couple of my videos (watch this and this). With over thousands of views and counting, I get a few visitors from YouTube everyday. There is a lot of potential traffic that you can get to your from popular social networks like YouTube.

Anyway, three quick tips on how to optimize your videos on YouTube to get on top of their search engine results.

• Have 2-3 keywords in the title. Even just the title of the video can increase the chances of your video being found. Titling a DisneyWorld video “My Visit To DisneyWorld” is better optimized than titling it “My Visit To a Theme Park”.
• Tag, Tag, TAG! If there’s one thing I need to emphasize, social networking sites like YouTube don’t have the tagging/keyword feature for no reason. Use as many tags as you can. Just pretend you’re the person searching for a video. What would you type in the search box?
• Write a keyword-rich description. When you search for a video, notice how keywords are bolded in the search results? They come from the description of the video. It’s like tagging but you’re doing it as you write what the video is about.

Your videos might not get thousands of views from being featured on the home page, but after you optimize them for searching you’ll feel good knowing that people are actually watching what you made.

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I just want to get something out real quick to all the blog readers out there (and even if you are a blogger). First of all, everyone knows what lurkers are right? Everyone is a lurker, that’s for sure. If you really don’t know what a lurker is, it’s basically someone who reads discussions in places like blogs and forums but never really participate by leaving their own comments. And the thing is, I don’t like lurkers lurking around here on Slyvisions dot Com and other blogs (nah, I still like you). I get hundreds of visitors, and most are bloggers, here on this site but never get any comments. But seriously, stop lurking! Here are a few reasons why you can stop lurking and start commenting here on Slyvisions dot Com and any other blog.

1. Every comment you make counts as a backlink. Because this site has no nofollow, you get a backlink for every comment you make. That means that if you make 10, 20, or 30+ comments from many different posts, you just got yourself 10, 20, or 30+ backlinks to your site that helps with increasing your Technorati ranking as well as for PageRank juice.
2. The “CommentLuv” system shows your latest blog post for each comment you make. I have just recently added this plugin a few hours ago and what it does is basically show your latest blog post from your blog whenever you make a comment. It’s seriously one of the easiest and effective ways to promote your post. Curious to see what it looks like? Try it!
3. Be the Top Commenter for the month, win prizes. This is actually new that I have just started today. Every month, I am going to be giving away different types of prizes. This month’s “Comment King” has the chance to win 400 Entrecard credits. You can easily track who’s leading by looking at the Top Commenters on the sidebar. Get your name on top of that list at the end of each month to win many kinds of prizes (including $$$).
4. Commenting Simply Gets You Noticed. So let’s just say you visit my almost every day. But how am I suppose to know that? Even just one comment can get you noticed. Who knows, I might enjoy your blog enough that I would mention it in later posts.

Those reasons not enough to get you to comment? Well, tell us why by leaving a comment !

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About a couple months ago, I posted up a poll asking you and other readers what your site’s leading source of traffic is. The poll has been running for a while now, but I forgot to put it up on the sidebar for a few weeks. 101 votes should be enough to get significant numbers and results. So here it is below.

Out of this 101, 36% of you said that your main source of traffic came from search engines and I would guess that it was mostly from Google. Meanwhile, referral traffic came in second with 29% of all votes. Just to reiterate, this category of refferal traffic is composed of traffic you get from other sites that include other blogs, StumbleUpon, social media, forums, etc. Oh, and as you can see, nobody that participated in this poll uses PPC marketing to promote their blog (or other type of sites). Then there are those who polled “Other”. Not exactly sure what that would be, but I guess that’s my mistake for putting it up as an option.

What Some Of You Said

Here’s what a few of you said from the original post.

Wayne Liew -

Since I enjoyed bloghopping, my traffic will be largely from other blogs resulting from the links of my comments and also my MyBlogLog avatar.

Blacksky -

I really try to have the more sources possible… from search engine to social bookmarking but google search engine seems the one that give me the highest conversion . and yahoo search engine is almost at 100% of conversion… pretty sad that nobody use it. Mybloglog is good to spread the word.

Doctorfox -

I get a few from Google and Stumble upon, but the most comes from the Software industry where people want to download my software for free. Also I think there should be a difference between regular traffic and targeted traffic.

So What Can This Poll Teach Us?

Well, here’s the thing. I did expect the search engine category to top other sources of traffic in this survey, but it’s not the one I wanted to see. Instead, I would have loved to see the referral category to top all the rest. Why? Well, if you were one of those people who polled for referral traffic, I would like to let you know that you are a very good internet marketer. Being a good internet marketer shows that your site can live without Google and other search engines. To those that did poll for search engines as their leading source of traffic, I’m afraid to say that you will have a hard time having a successful online business whether it’s your blog or any other type of site. Just imagine that Google never existed. You’re site’s income would never exist too.

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Forget SEO, PPC, or afilliate marketing to promote your site. There is now a new revolutionary way of internet marketing, and some of you are already doing it right now. It’s not actually new, but you would be surprised that many people are not implementing this easy method of promotion. If you really want instant traffic and exposure, there’s only one thing you need: Social Marketing.

So where is this all leading to? Well, I’m not going to write hundreds of words about social marketing, how you should do it, or why you should implement it. Instead, I’ll just let you go ahead and visit Stompernet’s best video yet, Social Marketing: Success Without SEO, Pay-Per-Click, and Affiliates. If don’t know what Stompernet is, then that means you haven’t seen their other video that I have posted a few days ago. But what you really need to see is this one first. The video is very long, so make sure you take time committed to watching it. If you pass it up, you’re also passing up success with your online business, whether it’s a blog or any other type of site.Remember, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to make money online. In fact, this video will without a doubt increase your income over 20% and help you save money as well. So get yourself comfortable, grab a snack and watch this video.

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This news has already been up for a while, but I think it’s still OK to write about this since I don’t see much bloggers actually taking advantage of this. Basically, rssHugger is an RSS feed directory that helps blogs get new visitors and subscribers.

What I really like about it is its Top 100 list that shows the most viewed feeds every month. Get your feed listed there and you’re guaranteed more subscribers and readers.

Usually, when you want to promote your blog on rssHugger, you had to purchase a spot for $20 that will last for 10 years. Now, you can get listed for free just by writing about it. Yup. It’s that simple. After writing the review, email the service with your blog’s review as well as your rssHugger account email, and you’ll get approved just like that. Truly a free way to promote your RSS feed and get listed on their directory.

There really isn’t much to talk about since that’s all you have to do. If you haven’t yet, go ahead and sign up now!

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I think it’s time for another poll. The last one asked you which blog redesign you liked better between ProBlogger and John Chow dot Com. This one is about your blog/site’s traffic, and by now you should already know what the question is. So what is your site’s leading source of traffic? Do you rely heavily upon Google? Or are you a good internet marketer? Let us know by taking taking this poll and make sure to leave comments as well!

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