Comments on: Social Media Questions For Rand Fishkin

By: When Social Media Marketing Goes Wrong

When Social Media Marketing Goes Wrong — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:00:27 +0000

[...] Rand Fishkin, in a social media interview, discusses a similar campaign (possibly the web2.0effect.org campaign) which he calls the biggest blunder in social media optimisation: I saw a company “pretend” to do an independent review of several vendors of a particular product/service on a website. They got very popular with hundreds of thousands of visitors and tons of blogs and social buzz about them, but then one intrepid blogger started investigating and found that the company who was ranked “best” had actually paid a social media firm to put together the whole project. Ugly stuff – that blog entry got nearly as much coverage as the original piece and many bloggers actually deleted their links to the ranking site. That sucked. [...]

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Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:24:43 +0000

[...] Social Media Questions For Rand Fishkin [...]

By: Mike Geeks.com

Mike Geeks.com — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:16:40 +0000

Solid interview and very insightful!! Thank you…..

By: Rand on the Hotseat-- Search Engine Optimization

Rand on the Hotseat-- Search Engine Optimization — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:36:35 +0000

[...] First off is an interview on social media marketing, with a few nifty spoilers that I leaked for anyone who’s interested. [...]

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SEO WORLD NEWS » Blog Archive » Rand on the Hotseat — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:30:13 +0000

[...] First off is an interview on social media marketing, with a few nifty spoilers that I leaked for anyone who’s interested. [...]

By: Search Engine Optimization Blog » Rand on the Hotseat

Search Engine Optimization Blog » Rand on the Hotseat — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:08:05 +0000

[...] First off is an interview on social media marketing, with a few nifty spoilers that I leaked for anyone who’s interested. [...]

By: In Anchor » Rand on the Hotseat

In Anchor » Rand on the Hotseat — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:32:08 +0000

[...] First off is an interview on social media marketing, with a few nifty spoilers that I leaked for anyone who’s interested. [...]

By: David Wilson

David Wilson — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:56:23 +0000

Hi Glen

Yes I have more interviews lined up for September. Mainly people who are actively using social media tactics on their own web sites so we can get more examples of what is working and what is not.

David

By: Glen Allsopp

Glen Allsopp — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:55:31 +0000

Thanks david, hope I didn’t sound like a pain, as you know I love your blog and write on similar topics myself

Are there anymore interviews coming up in the series?

By: David Wilson

David Wilson — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:48:30 +0000

Sorry about that Glen. I got An extra strong tag worked its way into the code. It should be easier to read now

David