We have written some articles in the past that are located on external websites that we feel you should read.  If you’re new to the internet marketing community, perhaps you’re looking to hire people who know what they’re doing or maybe you’re consulting elsewhere and need some inspiration, these pieces are sure to help!

Article Title: “15 Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started as an Internet Marketer”

Summary: Chris Tynski outlined the challenges, solutions, trials and tribulations that most internet marketers are faced with when they enter into the online marketing arena.  From choosing an appropriate online business model to choosing a correct method to scale your knowledge and accomplish more work per hour.  This article is a great read with some general advice to those of you who are new to our community.

Traction: 20 Marketing Pilgrim Comments, 197 Tweets, 1149 Dosh Dosh Hits (30 Days), Finalist in the Annual Marketing Pilgrim Contest

Article Title: “How to Get Strong Referral Traffic from Social Websites: A Simple Link-bait Tactic”

Summary: If your website serves content for an audience that does not particularly align well with the culture or interests of a specific social networking community, this article offers some pragmatic advice for benefiting from those communities. Perhaps the way to go is to research tangential topics to write about, promote those now appropriate topics on your target social media outlets and watch the links pile up. Discretion and selection is key to your success with this method.

Traction: 19 Dosh Dosh Comments

Noteworthy Commentors: Andy Beal, Chris Winfield

Article Title: “The 7 Deadly Sins that Hurt You as an SEO or SEM”

Summary: Daniel Tynski wrote an article about the potential pitfalls a new internet marketer could face and how to avoid getting bogged down by ambiguity and tangents.  Gain confidence quickly, don’t trust too many people and test your hypothesis ad nauseam.

Traction: 20 Marketing Pilgrim Comments

Article Title: “Anatomy of a Super Digg”

Summary: We we’re contracted to work with a local used card dealership here in West Palm Beach, FL and they wanted to experiment of Social Media Marketing.  We got some ideas together and executed them primarily using digg.com – the community of choice.  Daniel recounts his experience and results of the content being promoted using our internal Social Media Marketing methods.

Traction: 73 SEO MOZ comments, Promotion to the main Seomoz.org blog from YouMoz

Noteworthy Commentors: Rand Fishkin (CEO of SeoMoz.org) made a special note that said:

Note from Rand – Daniel’s site, Voltier, was taken down by an insane traffic load from Digg, Reddit, & others today (which is why the hosted images above aren’t displaying). Given time, I have no doubt they’ll recover – many congrats for putting together some great linkbait, and better luck holding together the server next time; it’s certainly an issue we at SEOmoz can empathize with.

Article Title: “A Comprehensive Guide to Going Viral on Digg (part 1)” & “A Comprehensive Guide to Going Viral on Digg (part 2)”

Summary: If you have been charged with the necessary task of generating high quality links for your website and you want to get the biggest bang for your buck, Social Media Marketing may be your best choice.  Just to scratch the surface on how to get something that you wrote to go popular on a website like digg, read more.

Traction: 19 SEO MOZ comments, Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 (Tamar Weinberg/Techipedia.com)

Noteworthy Commentors: Sugar Rae, Rebecca Kelley