Digg has been trying to make a comeback recently and even went so far as to completely redesign their site in the hopes that they can climb back towards the top of the social media ranks. Once upon a time Digg was at the top, it was the place to be. Unfortunately for them arguments over preferential treatment of some users and poor design had them nearly on the brink of extinction recently. [click to continue…]
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We’ve been planning on this article for some time but it’s been difficult finding a piece of content that fit the criteria. It needed to be very close to being equally popular on both Digg and Reddit, plus we needed the site owner to be willing to share their analytics data with us. Thanks to our friends at Techi, we found a case study story.
Let’s take a look: [click to continue…]
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Social medi
a optimization (SMO) is a type of online marketing that specifically focuses on participating on various social media sites in order to generate traffic, buzz, and back-links to your website. Social media sites are made up of social news sites like Digg, Sphinn and StumbleUpon; video sharing sites like YouTube and Revver; and social network sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Some still refer to SMO as “the new SEO“. At this point there is really nothing new about it. It should be an integral part of any SEO strategy because it is an effective and powerful method to quickly build large numbers of links back to your website, which will in turn lead to increased organic search rankings. [click to continue…]
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In my last article we talked about some blogging basics. In this next installment we’ll talk about how to put some finishing touches that can really enhance the effectiveness of your blog. Blogging is about content and one of the best ways you can enhance your site with content is to use someone else’s content! Whoa plagiarism is bad! Right? [click to continue…]
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This article is another fine example of content that will get a lot of “socialtraction“. It is already popular on digg.com and will continue to get thousands of page views. The original article was posted on July 28, 2010 by lanceivar of COED Magazine. Please comment and REMEMBER: There are NO stupid questions! Bonus points to anyone who can tell me why today holds special significance to me!
There will be times when you run out of dumb stories, jokes, and the other random crap that you talk about when you meet a woman you’re interested in. You are probably very familiar with that feeling, that increasing anxiety and nervousness as your mind goes blank and her eyes begin to wander. You need to grab her attention, and fast! So what do you do? Shotgun a beer? Punch her in the shoulder? Throw up? [click to continue…]
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