Social media is a great source of traffic for bloggers. Stumble Upon is a favourite of many due to its ability to send high amounts of traffic to a site in a short space of time. But is Stumble Upon traffic of a lower quality given that users have not explicitly chosen to visit your site? Does the channel surfing nature of Stumble Upon mean t

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It’s all about the avatar, baby. Don’t believe me? Well yes, content is king, but it needs to be noticed. Your diamonds are trying to stay afloat in the cesspool of spam, viagra, forex, and all sorts of other trash. And yes, killer titles are also a part, but a crappy avatar can ruin all the time and effort that went into the otherwise compel

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Social media is a popular way to attract visitors to a blog, particularly for new bloggers. But not all forms of social media are created equal. While StumbleUpon undoubtedly brings in the greatest number of new visitors, its visitors do not necessarily engage with the blog. Therefore, it may be better to concentrate on niche s

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Although BloggingZoom currently doesn't offer the same traffic Digg or Reddit does, the service is just as valuable to bloggers. Since BloggingZoom members are largely bloggers, their influence around the web is higher than other social media websites. After making the frontpage, impNERD received a flood of traffic but not fro

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This week's list features quite a diverse set of articles, ranging from practical code snippets to online social networking trends. I thought Logic+Emotion's post about "infinite touch points" was especially insightful. It raises some interesting questions about the future of company/client communication. Also, Small Farm Design makes it

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Health is a growing awareness that everyone seems to be focusing on. From tv, to radio and now to blogs, nearly everyone seems to be trying to get healthier. Enter HealthRanker.com. Health Ranker is a social media news and voting site that is dedicated to all things health. It silently launched a day ago and is already receivin

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WPscoop or "Wordpress Scoop" to give it's full working title is a social news, bookmarking and networking website dedicated to the Wordpress CMS blogging web application. Built using the Drigg for Drupal system WPscoop which launched around a month ago is the latest project to have chosen the Drigg system. WPscoop allows any

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Drigg consists of a set of modules for Drupal that allows anyone to start a digg like social news website. Over the last few months Drigg has been gaining a reputation as the most advanced system for starting your very own digg clone website, with v1.35 of drigg recently being released Drigg’s reputation as the professional cho

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This is satire, quoting resources such as the Social Media Institute of Technology (SMIT). It's very humorous, but also very true at the same time. Many who participate regularly in social media websites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Propeller, and Mixx have found that once they have a submission that goes popular, it's hard to let it g

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An endless amount of posts seem to exist on how to use social media to draw traffic to your site. But establishing a profile in a social media community takes time and a lot of commitment. Some participation is essential to establish credibility as a community member. But at what point does participation become unproductive/pr

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Social News websites are very much in fashion nowadays, a social news website is a site where the community members rather than an editor take control of the content and ultimately decide whats hot or not. For bloggers in particular Social News websites can be a great source of traffic if your lucky enough to get an article pub

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The social news revolution has exploded into all areas of media now with players like yahoo, mixx and digg all now competing for the mass traffic in an already overcrowded market. We already know that if you blog posts is lucky enough to make the front page of digg you can expect between 60k and 100k of visits depending on time

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Yahoo Buzz a social news network you guessed it run by Yahoo has now opened up fully to the public, before today only a small handful of publishers could submit content in a bid to iron out any pre-public release kinks. Yahoo Buzz is very much a mainstream social news site with huge potential.

Yahoo Buzz allows anyone to sub

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