Can any SEO experts make the case for SEO over Social Media or PPC?

SEO VS. PPC Vs. Social Media is the title of a great article by my Twitter friend and SEO expert Cade Lee on his blog titled at http://search-engine-optimization.thisisiniquitous.com/?p=51

I am writting this blog series in response to his article.
Previously I gave my SWAT analysis overview of SEO Vs. PPC Vs Social Media and now [...]

Challenge: SEO Vs. PPC Vs. Social Networking

My new friend on Twitter Cade Lee has written a great article contrasting SEO Vs. PPC Vs. Social Networking at http://search-engine-optimization.thisisiniquitous.com/?p=51
Here is my break down and recommendations, I’ll be elaborating on each of these all week in daily posts. What is your take?

SEO - Search Engine Optimization
Difficulty to learn – Very challenging, almost overwhelming [...]

Is Twitter About to Jump the Shark?

In this article the author asserts that Twitter has peaked & its users are about to “Jump the Shark”.

Here is my take on the article. What is your take?
The author’s premise that Twitter has peaked is a based on a theoretical statement:.
“In turn, when something goes mainstream it begins to loose its “geek cred,” [...]

My March Madness Picks

NCAA Brackets are out here are my final 4 picks: What are your picks?
UNC, Villanova, Missouri, West Virginia
I’m predicting lots of upsets…
I love Gonzaga but they got screwd into the same bracket as UNC and I don’t have the balls to pick that upset.
I’ve picked UCLA to win the title for the 3 previous years [...]

We Did it! Going from 0 to 500 connections on Twitter, LinkedIn, & Facebook in 10 days - Are you Next?

We Did it! Our guinea pig Sharlene Wade has gone from 0 to 500 connections on Twitter, LinkedIn, & Facebook in 10 days
Twitter - 1024 followers
LinkedIn 1242 connections
Facebook - 503 Friends
Follow this past week’s blog posts to find out step by step how we did it.
Overview:
Twitter was easy and the feeder system for building our [...]

How to go from zero to 500 contacts on Facebook in 48 hours

The challenge with rapidly growing your Facebook is 2 fold.
First who are we going to invite? You normally can only add 25-30 friends per day unless you have a list to upload, Where do we get a list of 500 people who know us? The answer is download your LinkedIn contacts.
The second challenge is how [...]

Day 8 -LinkedIn 527 Connections + Twitter 802 Followers

Well we are 2/3 of the way done with helping Sharlene Wade go from zero to 500 contacts on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. So far it has actually been easier then I thought it would be. Facebook will be a challenge as people on FB are not really looking to ‘network’ as much as on these other sites. On Facebook people want friends. [...]

Update Day 7 - Going from zero to 500 Connections on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook

So I didn’t do anything over the weekend and Monday I was out sick with food poisoning, (at least I hope it is not the beginning of an ulcer lol).
Yet we are still on track.
Today I joined the LinkedIn Group “Happy To Connect” which sends out a spreadsheet with 700+ power networkers which we will [...]

Going from Zero to 500 Contacts - Day 3

The only thing we did today was register Sharlene for a paid account on TopLinked.com. I’ve written about the power of TopLinked in a previous post which I highly recommend you check out. By Tuesday of next week we should be at our goal of 500 for LinkedIn and Twitter with just what we have [...]

Going from zero to 500 contacts - Day 2 Update 437 Followers on Twitter in 48 hours

Day 2 was focused on Twitter, we are now up to 437 followers. I used search.twitter.com to find 7 experts in Sharlene’s niche and I followed most of their followers and got about a 58% follow back rate. I then went back through my follow list and removed the people that did not follow me [...]