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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 1

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How can you maximize your results through social bookmarking sites like Digg? How to Level the Playing-field With Digg by Skelliewag How to game Digg to get your content onto the front page, by building and utilizing a grassroots network and selectively targeting power users. Why is online reputation management so important?

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 5

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StumbleUpon and Digg) is "spiky" and doesn't convert well, but supports SEO through the links generated. There's lots more red meat for web analytics data junkies as well. Among his findings: organic search is the source of both the highest volume and best quality of traffic. Social traffic (e.g.

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Best of 2008: Blogging for Business, Part 1

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7 Strategies to Invite More People Into Your Audience by Problogger Social media rockstar Chris Brogan details several strategies to not just grow your blog audience, but also attract the right kind of readers (these do not include getting on the first page of Digg).

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 2

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Google Social Bookmarking and Blog Recommendation Engine by Key Web Data The inimitable Chris Lang explains social features added to Google Reader (such as bookmarking capability and a friends list), why they were added, and how Google will likely use this information (to create a Digg-like system that can't be gamed).

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Best of 2007: Cool Online Tools

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TypePad Widget Gallery An extensive list of widgets that can be added to TypePad blogs to help promote content through sites like Bloglines , Digg and del.icio.us , as well as add cool features, collect email signups, embed a chat box, monitor traffic, create online polls and more.

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 6

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Unfortunately, several of the largest sites including Digg, delicious, Reddit, Mixx and Mister Wong now partially or completely use insidious no follow links. Top 30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites by Anything Goes Blog A great list of the top social bookmarking sites, with visitor statistics, as of late last year.

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Book Review: Website Optimization

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There are still some specialized skills required—it certainly helps to have some background in online marketing, web analytics and HTML coding—though King's clear and concise prose removes a lot of the mystery. Buzz , Digg and Photo.net. "A King's book makes it possible for any business to improve its online performance.