Although the “thud” wasn’t verified until this afternoon, it seems that an online giant fell a couple of days ago.  According to new data from Hitwise, Facebook managed to beat Google in terms of visits between March 7th and March 13th, becoming the most visited website in the U.S. for the week.

The graph visible below makes the changeup pretty clear (blame the sloppy enlarged bit on us, not Hitwise).  What’s more, it doesn’t look like Facebook’s going to relinquish its lead anytime soon.

Heather Dougherty explained, “The market share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% last week as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to Google.com increased 9% during the same time frame.”

Then here’s one more interesting fact, courtesy of Dougherty: “Together Facebook.com and Google.com accounted for 14% of all US Internet visits last week.”

This development represents a major win for Facebook.  The ability to represent the social network as the number one site should count for a lot as corporate representatives talk to advertisers and investors, and could result in a direct boost in revenue. A further snowball effect in terms of user interest might occur, too, since most people like to be part of something that’s popular.

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Conventional wisdom would suggest that getting your weblog ranked on page 1 of Google for a competitive keyword phrase is easier said than done.

In actuality, getting my weblog ranked on page 1 of Google for the competitive keyword phrase Social Media Money Makers has proven to be easier than expected.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been following a new methodology using both free and paid for Internet Marketing Tools that help me to identify high quality backlinks to prove a point: you can in fact get your weblog listed on page 1 of Google for a competitive keyword phrase, so long as you adhere to a few basic SEO principles..

• Identify and acquire high quality Backlinks from Authority sites

• Leave relevant “anchor text coded” comments on the high PR sites

• Optimize your weblog articles using solid on page SEO methodologies

• Don’t eat the elephant in one bite – drip feed/link to these high PR site

Right before the ball dropped in Times Square to close the decade, I began to deploy my new model. As a matter of fact, I uploaded my last YouTube Video of 2009 at midnight (EST) showing how a single well placed anchor text comment on an Authority site (Mashable) bumped my Alexa Score by over 10,000 in less than 30 minutes.

On December 31, 2009 my Alexa Score was 251 and change. Today (January 12th) my Alexa Score is 219 and change and my traffic has also seen a spike in my visitor count. I know my writing skills haven’t improved dramatically in these past 2 weeks.

I make sure to optimize my blog articles with properly coded H1 tags using All-in-One SEO-Pack. I visit Google keyword tool for search counts and download the TEXT file into Market Samurai and Micro Niche Finder to make sure the keywords I want to get ranked on have the right mix in my 1st and past paragraphs and meet the 2-3% mix, spread through out the entire blog article. I have my special word press plug-in pushing each article to my social networks, using the ShareThis widget and I make sure to track the key metrics to see if this is working as planned. So far – so good.

I recently bought an eBook from a smart guy via the Warrior Forum on how to increase my exposure and generate even more organic | free traffic using his link wheel model. Phase 2 of this ongoing case study will entail adding links to:

• Hub Page

• Squidoo Lens

• eZine @rticle

• YouTube Video

adding to my existing inventory of high quality authority backlink sites in social media marketing so I can compete in the competitive social media marketing space.

I’m a member of a few neat Ning Social Networks. I plan to engage other like-minded members with a survey / contest type combination. My objective will be to measure the number of  Facebook Friends visit me Blog vs. my Peers on the various Ning Networks I’m a member of.

As an incentive to provide me input and feedback on my case study, I’ll be offering:

• Google Wave Invitation
• 30 Quality Backlinks (PR 5-6-7)
  
• 50% discount on my new e-Book
• The Grand Prize (all of the above)

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If you found this article via Google, the Warrior Forum or my YouTube Channel then this Conact 7 Form won’t make much sense to you. However, if you did come to visit by way of the Ning Viral Network or Paul Coleman’s Viral Tactix Portal or my Facebook page or the special #195599 source – then you already know the drill, so kindly complete the form below following the instruction set provided and I’ll make sure you receive the appropriate incentive gift for your valued input and feedback.

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Imagine if you could hire and have a full time VIDEO and AUDIO Producer at your disposal who could turn every article you have written into a fully animated Web Video – bringing to life your article’s messages. Thanks to the tool Article Video Robot™ now you can.

Article Video Robot™ is an advanced software that will convert each and every one of your articles into a LIVE and TALKING video in minutes! All you have to do is Copy & Paste Your Article Into This Software and it converts your article into a Professional Marketable Video production.

The company claims you can do it in less than 3 minutes. Although, I’ve not been able to produce my content that fast yet, but the truth is, after I created a 1/2 dozen pieces, you do get pretty quick at converting your TEXT articles into impressive video marketing articles.

Article Video Robot™ (AVR) is a web based or SaaS (Service as a Software) solution, so there is no installation required. The clean and simple user interface, makes for a very short learning curve, and very easy for even a non-technical people to be able to use it right away.

From an Internet Marketer’s perspective, one of the main reasons a tool like this is so valuable, is how quickly your content gets ranked by Google, mainly because its VIDEO. Plus, the tremendous times savings as compared to the cumbersome steps involved using conventional SEO techniques for getting a decent page rank. You can opt to have the system uploaded your  content to YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, Daily Motion and a few other major video sharing sites or you can download the file and host it on your own site/server as well. So far, I’ve found that my AVR content generates much more targeted traffic from my Video Articles than that what I usually get from my routine text only articles.

SUMMARY

• Video Articles will yield far more traffic than text only articles.
• Video Articles will yield a superior page rank faster than text only articles.
• Video Articles do not require expensive audio/video tools to produce quality content.
• Article Video Robot™ is affordable, easy to use and produces professional content.
• Article Video Robot™ is avail for a Free 14 day trial or you can get a 30% discount (Click the Banner Below)

Twitter Followers and Facebook Friends and Fans are much more likely to follow you on Twitter or become a Fan when you share with them fun, fresh, interesting and relevant content. Watch this YouTube video to see how easy it is to publish interesting, fun and meaningful content to your Twitter and Facebook accounts with 3 quick clicks of the mouse, once you connect the Bit.Ly sidebar java applet to  your Firefox browser and link them to your Twitter & Facebook accounts.

This Social Media Marketing Video Tip will show you how easy it is to share good stuff with your Facebook Friends and Twitter Followers with a few clicks of your mouse.

Note If you’d like a step-by-step PDF on how to set up the Bit.Ly sidebar java applet with the Firefox browser and connect them to your Twitter and Facebook accounts so you can dupe this routine, click over to Contact Neil enter SMMT22 in the Subject area and I’ll send you a detailed “How To” PDF so you can copy this routine.

Finding High Gravity Clickbank products is a lot easier than it used to be. The fastest and easiest ways to generate revenue from Online Marketing is to get yourself a Clickbank Account and find Products that fit into your Niche Market. I look for Informational and Productivity Products and Tools that have a High Gravity.

High Gravity Clickbank Products

I’ve done the research on each of these Products ( Article Video Marketing, Link Building, Website Design etc.) so you can feel confident adding one or all of these Products to your Portfolio and save yourself the 1-2 hours by not having to search and retrieve and check out each Vendor / Supplier.

• Article Marketing

• Back Link Builder

• #1 Website Designer

• #1 List Building Tool

• Instant Article Wizard

It’s critical that you Protect your Affiliate Links before posting them to your Blog or website.  The best way to do this is use a URL shortening tool. Over the years, I’ve tried and used a variety of tools. By far, my favorite is the Bit.ly solution. Not only will it disguise and shorten your affiliate link, but if you add the Bit.ly sidebar applet to your Firefox browser, you can also instantly post any web page (or affiliate sales page) to your Twitter or Facebook account, with a single mouse click. Notice each of the products listed above are using the Bit.ly URL tool as prescribed.

I did a short YouTube video on this that you can check out. It’s very easy to use and it works like a charm! If you like, I can send you a link to the PDF on how to do this yourself. Make sure you include “Bit.ly How to Guide” in the message box.

These Social Media Marketing Tools, Products and Programs are being used by the most savvy Internet Marketers in the Business.

In some circles, these are considered Best-of-Class Solutions in the Social Media Marketing space.

• Monetizing Blogs

• Product Creation

• CPA PPC Marketing

• Traffic Generation

• List Building Strategies

• Social Media Marketing

• Joint Venture Opportunities

• Email & Email Auto Responders

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

• Social Media Networking (Web 2.0)

Your Social Media Marketing plan should include a business or personal profile (or both) with each of the top social media networks and bookmarking sites. The following Top 10 Social Media Networking List will give you a good idea, which social media networking sites you’ll want to engage, create a profile, and ping frequently to obtain quality backlinks to your blog and website. (listed alphabetically)

1. DELICIOUS

2. DIGG

3. FACEBOOK

4. FLICKR

5. LINKEDIN

6. SLIDESHARE

7. STUMBLE UPON

8. TECHNORATI

9. TWITTER

10. YOUTUBE