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JANUARY 18, 2008

7 Reasons Why Niche Social Media Outlets are Better Than Digg by AjaxNinja After noting that "Digg has an immense amount of traffic and getting landed on the front page will send a tsunami of new readers to your blog or website, but getting onto the front page is incredibly difficult.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

Create accounts on social bookmarking sites like Wikio , Mixx , Digg and/or StumbleUpon. Social Tagging SEO Practice. Tags: Interactive PR Web 2.0 Upload company-related photos—you, other executives on your team, your building, your products, screenshots (if there is any software component to your product), your logo, etc.—to

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MAY 12, 2008

Blog posts are more likely than corporate content to be seen as thought leadership content and linked in other blog posts or tagged on social bookmarking sites like Digg and Del.icio.us. tags: search optimize, on-site optimization, generate search traffic, SEO boost, marketing events calendar, social bookmarking sites, Digg, Del.icio.us

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JUNE 3, 2008

with the intelligence and judgment of human editors (like Mahalo ) without the spam that inevitably seems to afflict social search sites like Digg and Sphinn (think Wikipedia—though hopefully without the arrogance). all at once); social search (what's being posted about my search topic on Digg, del.icio.us, Mixx etc.);

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JULY 16, 2008

Digg , Sphinn or Searchles ). tags: blog coverage, ITtoolbox, ON24 In The News, illuminate Solutions, corporate blog, Digg, Sphinn, Searchles icerocket tags: blog coverage, ITtoolbox, ON24 In The News, illuminate Solutions, corporate blog, Digg, Sphinn, Searchles Contact Tom Pick: tomATwebmarketcentralDOTcom

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APRIL 15, 2008

Rather than starting a blog and tirelessly plugging your entries on Digg or Reddit , you should use the sites above to create long-term business contacts and continuous traffic. If you don't want the public to edit the pages on your Wetpaint site, as administrator you can lock each one.

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JANUARY 16, 2008

Social media (blogs, podcasts, forums) and social networking sites ( Digg , del.icio.us , StumbleUpon , Searchles , etc.) present exciting new possibilities for marketers—but are also a potential minefield that must be navigated carefully to avoid doing more damage than good to your brand. David Bankston del.icio.us

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APRIL 22, 2007

Technorati Like a set of power tools for bloggers, Technorati lets you claim your blog, add tags to make it easier for people to find it, monitor your blog's popularity, place an "Add this to my Technorati favorites" Web 2.0 social tagging button, install a toolbar plug-in to tag your favorite sites/blogs, and more.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

Many journalists cruise techy social media sites such as Digg and Reddit looking for interesting stories to cover and link too. Social Tagging. Tags: Web 2.0 Getting your story to the front page of these hugely popular sites is not hard if you have the knowledge.

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AUGUST 1, 2007

After blog and trade press mentions, social media and social tagging sites such as Digg and del.icio.us Next: Viral Marketing Caveats and Links ** technorati tags: viral marketing, viral media, promotion, MarketingSherpa, B2B lead generation, email, blog outreach, PR, Web 2.0,

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

It's just that, no matter how creatively written and carefully optimized, your "About Our Widgets" page is never going to make it to the first page of Digg. 4) Use pictures if at possible, and optimize the alt tags associated with the images, again using the keywords identified above. Tags: SEO Practice.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Social media email signatures can also include elements like AIM name, Digg page, Sphinn profile and Ning group. link] (if you have no life) [link] (if you want to see why I have no life) [link] (if you want to see how I have fun in my life) ** technorati tags: email signatures, Web 2.0, tags: email signatures, Web 2.0,

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Here's another social media tagging site look into, as well as a new place to keep track of everything web-related that's important to you. Okay, with Digg , del.icio.us , Searchles , Zimbio et al does the world really need another such site? First, Zanby is a new social media site.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Study: Company Blogs Lead Social Media Options by MediaPost Mark Walsh reports that " blogging (is) the most important lead-generation source among social media options, followed by StumbleUpon, YouTube, Facebook, De.lic.ious and Digg " (not a surprising result, considering that those other sites tend to support a corporate blog, not replace it).

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MAY 18, 2009

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). Social Tagging.

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JULY 30, 2009

Publishing this content in a blog, podcast, video or online slideshow and promoting it through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg and other tools enables you to show the world how smart and helpful your people are, rather than trying to convince them through paid (and often ignored) media. Social Tagging. Tags: Web 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

As Loren explains, "The simplest (way to create a video domain) is launching a Wordpress Blog and then embedding your YouTube, Google Video or other video sharing service commercials on the blog, one for each post, with a unique title tag and description for each post. Social Tagging. Tags: Web 2.0

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MAY 3, 2007

social tagging and its impact on marketing practices. Among Shawn's posts was a link to an interesting SEO'Brien piece on paid Digg-ing and the black market for the unscrupulous use of social tagging. tools and social tagging to effectively promote products and services without "brochure-speak."

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

sites fall into one of a few increasingly well-defined categories, such as social bookmarking (Digg, del.icio.us, Searchles), social networking (LinkedIn, Facebook) or file sharing (YouTube, Flickr, podOmatic ). tags: Web 2.0 Most Web 2.0 Twitter, however, stands alone. Okay, there's also Pownce , but Twitter is better.)

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APRIL 27, 2009

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). Tags: Blogging for Business.

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MARCH 3, 2008

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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AUGUST 17, 2009

StumbleUpon and Digg) is "spiky" and doesn't convert well, but supports SEO through the links generated. These tactics range from adding a phone number or special characters to your description to catch the searcher's eye to keeping title tags as short as possible and using friendly URLs. Social traffic (e.g.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Embed code, "email this" and social bookmark site tagging buttons are examples of simple ways to increase pass along. One area where the campaign could have been improved is on sharability—an email-this button and badges for social bookmark sites like Digg and StumbleUpon would have simplified pass along.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

For example, here's the review of Sk*rt (that link wasn't working when I last tried it BTW): "This is another site that is almost a direct clone of Digg. The only thing missing is each site's policy on the use of insidious nofollow tags. You might want to look yourself up Spokeo and adjust your online profiles appropriately.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

"Create your keywords tag using your master keyword list and the visible words in your page. Use real header tags (h1 through h6) rather than "fake" p-class tags in your CSS files. And keep in mind that h2-h6 tags are just as important, possibly even more important, than h1 title text. Buzz , Digg and Photo.net. "A

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MAY 18, 2007

social tagging site, sort of company-sponsored version of Digg. In the end, the most successful companies won't be those with the biggest promotional budgets, but rather those that have effectively built interactive networks of clients, both online and offline. ** technorati tags: Web 2.0 tags: Web 2.0

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MARCH 2, 2009

How To Actually Get Links From Your Linkbait by SEOmoz This post offers three strategies for getting links from your content even when it doesn't make the first page of Digg. Tags: SEO Practice.

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MARCH 28, 2007

related; blogging, tagging, photo sharing etc. This listing of 53 social bookmark sites ( BlinkList , Digg , RawSugar , etc.) Many of the sites are also, not surprisingly, Web 2.0-related; They also link to Ludwig Gatzke 's even larger Web 2.0 logo collection here. Second is InfoPirate's Search Engine for Social Bookmark Services.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Don't send a thankyou note, don't Digg/Mixx/Stumble or Twitter it, don't post a link from the news area on your website, don't do anything. Don't acknowledge coverage. When a blogger actually does write about your company or product—just ignore it. Act like it never happened.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Yet mention the "nofollow" tag, and that all changes. The nofollow tag was misguidedly inflicted upon the online world by Google in 2005. But, to be charitable, the nofollow tag is to the world of web links what "let's just be friends" is to romantic relationships. Buzz, Simpy—have now instituted dastardly nofollow tags.

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MARCH 31, 2008

I've written previously about which social networking/tagging/bookmarking sites seemed to work well at driving B2B traffic, but have collected significantly more data since then. The WebMarketCentral Blog - Top SMO Sources of Referral Traffic Technorati - 6.05% StumbleUpon - 2.15% Searchles - 1.75% Facebook - 1.07% Digg , del.icio.us

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NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Projjex extends this functionality with cool, practical features like file tagging to simplify search, time tracking and iPhone integration. Propeller At first glance, Propeller look like just another Digg clone or YASN : a social bookmarking site where you can post links, vote on them, comment, and share them with friends or a group.

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JUNE 10, 2008

These are two tags that appear in your template code. I'm sure you know this, but you can see what's in these tags on your blog or any other website by clicking on "Source" in the "View" menu on your browser. Some people will tell you that the "description" tag has no effect on SEO. Meta tags—title and description.

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JUNE 30, 2008

He likes Ning , Digg , del.icio.us , Reddit , Facebook , and Lee LeFever's In Plain English videos. Following the influencers in any sphere can be a great way to learn what is important there. It can help monitor what's being written about your company, product or service, and help you pick up on which bloggers to follow.

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