Top Social Media Stories From Around The Web – October 12th, 2012
Pinterest Traffic Passes Google Referrals
Social media darling, Pinterest, continues to impress both end users and marketing experts with their month-over-month growth – leaving, what were once known as traffic giants, in its dust. Pinterest referral traffic has increased by 40% from January. If you’re not already using this social platform, it’s time to supercharge your content marketing with Pinterest.
The 10 Types of Social Media Addicts [INFOGRAPHIC]
It’s safe to say the offices of DigitalSherpa have been affected by the, now common, disease “Social Media Addiction.” We tend to have an internal mix of all 10 types of social media addiction. Personally, I’d consider myself a hybrid mix of ‘The Liker’ and ‘The Constant Checker.’ Which type of addict are you?
10 Tips on Upping Your Organic Traffic Game
PPC can be expensive and ineffective, points out Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz. Two problems: click distribution and cost of acquisition. Socialfresh’s Jason Keath offers up 10 simple tips on how to turn your blog and SEM into a traffic driving juggernaut.
How to Diagnose and Survive the Current Facebook Reach Drought
This has been a hot topic around the DigitalSherpa offices lately. There has been a recent drop in Facebook reach, there’s no denying that. However, there are some quick and easy ways to overcome this ‘reach drought’ by simply increasing edgerank through strategic posting.
Viewers Use Twitter to Determine the Course of Mercedes TV Spots
In the world of, “What will they think of next?”, Mercedez-Benz has brought back our childhood favorite choose-your-own-adventure TV commercial that creates an interactive environment like never seen before.





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