… or he’s a genius.
photo credit: Valerie EverettI tried to stop myself from writing this because I want this whole week to be about me, my retirement, and of course me. But I can’t help it. So let me tell you what happened.
Recently, I had the pleasure of talking to Mark on the phone – and since he is my marketing idol, I spent the whole call hoping I didn’t sound like a complete nut job…
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Dear Safari Three,
I Detest You.
You and I had such a good thing going. It’s true, I didn’t ever like your illogical bookmarking arrangement, or the fact that you would suddenly crash for no reason, when nothing else was open.
But your interface was cleaner, and we could maintain a separate relationship on the side when I didn’t feel like opening up Firefox. I’m sure you know you would never take his place. You seemed… happy… during our torrid affair.
I don’t know if it’s a mid-life crisis or what. But I’m not liking your little Safari 3.0 beta party clothes at all.
I used to be able to use you to make blog posts that I couldn’t in Firefox, like videos, and manual aligning of pictures, because you shunned the Visual Editor. That was one of the things I liked about you. But when you changed, I accepted it.
… is the word Social in there for a Reason?
I was reading a post on Sphinn just now. Kind of ironic that I chose to write a blog post about it, as you’ll soon see. When the content of my comments go over three paragraphs, I tend to extend them into posts.
That way that site gets a premium link and traffic in addition to my brain power. 
The title of the post is If You Show Me Yours I’ll Show You Mine – The Backrub Effect.
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Last time I actually counted, method by method, of my own knowledge, there are about 1991 unique methods you can use to draw traffic to your site.
(I.E. “submit to Digg” and “submit to Sphinn” are not two different traffic methods. They are the same tip, and if you list them that way, you’re a CHEATER. 
They fall under the same heading “Submit to social bookmarking sites.”)
Half of those traffic methods are free.
None of them is “comment on other blogs”.
Since the first moment I decided that I would talk about Social Media for a week, I’ve been reluctant to do any specific type of posting. Instead, I spent the whole weekend thinking about what I was going to say, particularly about why I don’t have a book about Social Media or Web 2.0 out as it relates to traffic.
The reason I am so reluctant to start this conversation, is that I remember a few years ago when I let loose some thoughts and observations on RSS. It was right before 4th of July weekend of 2004 when I submitted “Get Your RSS Feed Listed at Yahoo in 5 Simple Steps.”.
By the time everyone came back from that weekend, the article was Everywhere. By everywhere I mean – think of a popular search engine or traffic publication that carries guest articles.
If they existed in 2004, they reprinted it or linked to it.
Tinu Abayomi-Paul
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Morgan and Cindy Lighter
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