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APRIL 15, 2008

StumbleUpon - A recent post cited StumbleUpon as the best social media site for driving B2B Web traffic. Not only it is easier to gain attention on StumbleUpon than many other bookmarking sites, the tail of traffic is much longer. Indeed, it is currently the reigning champ for promoting many types of Websites.

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 26, 2007

social bookmarking sites produced the best results, in terms of driving direct traffic and having active, engaged discussion communities. sites didn't drive a large amount of direct traffic (depending on the B2B site, Web 2.0 social tagging-driven traffic contributed by each site (e.g. 5) Digg 6.5% Overall, Web 2.0

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 22, 2007

eXTReMe Tracker A free, easy-to-add traffic-tracking tool for your blog, that shows you traffic by day, week and month as well as where your readers are coming from. Digg Another social tagging site that provides a free "Digg It" button for your blog to let readers easily tag your posts for increased visibility.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 6, 2009

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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WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Many journalists cruise techy social media sites such as Digg and Reddit looking for interesting stories to cover and link too. These include: Huge amounts of traffic, brand building and of course the all precious “backlinks”. Getting your story to the front page of these hugely popular sites is not hard if you have the knowledge.

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WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 29, 2007

A site ranked at 20,000 may not really be more popular than the site at spot 25,000, but it certainly gets more traffic than a site ranked at 200,000. Digg Alexa Rank: 88 del.icio.us Fortunately, the rest of the sites listed here are focused on Web 2.0 social tagging, so the comparisons get more apples-to-apples.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

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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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 17, 2009

Search, Social and Direct Traffic by ProBlogger Darren Rowse provides a detailed analysis of his blog visits from various sources—which, given the obscene volume of traffic his blog draws, is probably fairly representative of blogs in general. Social traffic (e.g. Social traffic (e.g.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 3, 2007

Web Traffic. 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. He recommends that marketers reward their best customers with valuable information (something I've said before ) and use Web 2.0 tools to drive customer community participation.

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WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 23, 2009

Buzz , Digg and Photo.net. "A A link from one of these high Pagerank sites drives a lot of traffic and is worth hundreds of links from lesser sites." Use social networking to get high-value links by contributing content and tagging links on sites such as relevant industry blogs, YouTube , Facebook , del.icio.us , Yahoo!

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WebMarketCentral

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. This is based on the past 12 months worth of traffic data for this blog and for the WebMarketCentral marketing portal site. and ma.gnolia —about 1% each.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

dnScoop is a domain check and website valuation tool that estimates the value of an established website or a domain name using several different criteria including the number of inbound links; the popularity, age and Pagerank of the domain; website traffic; and other factors.

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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It's a way for site owners to say: "I'm happy to use your content to build my traffic, but not to reciprocate. An alarming number of once-respectable social bookmarking sites—Digg, delicious, Mister Wong, Reddit, Mixx, Bibsonomy, Jumptags, Faves, Yahoo! I don't want anyone to think we're together."

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