Tony Soprano Was Never Whacked & Social Media Optimization Rocks

Two things: one Search, one Sopranos. We’ll start with the most important:

According to ‘Sopranos’ creator David Chase just now, after breaking his long silence after the controversial ending that gave most Americans “agita,” he is now saying that Tony Soprano was never murdered on the hit cable tv show. He also sticks up for the fictional mob boss after seeing how all of America was outraged that he never got whacked.

According to Chase, the people ”had gleefully watched him rob, kill, pillage, lie and cheat. They had cheered him on. And then, all of a sudden, they wanted to see him punished for all that. They wanted ‘justice’… The pathetic thing — to me — was how much they wanted HIS blood, after cheering him on for eight years.”

I think David Chase is getting a little excited here over something that people aren’t talking about anymore, and who cares what people thought about it then. I thought it was brilliant to leave the whole country hanging and banging their TV sets because of the black screen. Though I will say, Tony Soprano could have used a guy like Chase in his own crew, come to think about it.

Search - Been doing a lot of aggressive social media optimization with sites, and I have seen some significant results. My conclusion at this point is that a social media campaign can generate relevant traffic, create backlinks, and should co-exist with your existing SEO strategy. Producing Digg-worthy content and optimizing it is a lot more fun than setting good 301 Redirects and all of the technical things that a good SEO needs to do, but this is definitely one of the next phases after cleaning up a site and creating relevant content that adds a lot more fun to the never-ending process.

If you have a blog (add one to your site if you don’t), and are not sure how to begin, I would recommend choosing two social networking sites to focus on, and it would be Digg and StumbleUpon to submit to. There are other ways to boost the amount of votes and diggs as you go along, and creating “Digg-worthy” copy is just one of them. Testing and monitoring results can show you a lot of data and significant results. Feel free to drop a line if I can help with any tips.

As Journey best said, “Don’t Stop Believin”. Okay, that was lame.

October 23rd, 2007 Posted by Frank Antonellis | Social Media Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engines, Social Media Optimization, The Sopranos | one comment