I recently had the highest traffic day ever on my blog.
Nearly all the traffic came from StumbleUpon and Blogging Zoom.
I have heard some say that traffic from StumbleUpon is not quality traffic. I am finding the opposite to be true. The traffic I got from StumbleUpon and Blogging Zoom is far superior to what I have been getting from Google

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Social Bookmarking is a powerful way of promoting your blog. Yet it takes significant amount of time to submit your posts to each and every social bookmarking site. Until I found SocialMarker, I also spent a lot of time while submitting my blog posts to social bookmarking sites.

Today it takes 15-20 minutes to submit my arti

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Most site owners are continually in the process of linkbuilding, myself included. I've compiled a list of dofollow social bookmarking sites to help us all out.

There's also a list of useful tools to speed up the process of linkbuilding via social bookmarkings. I make mention of a few free and one paid tool that's beco

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Have you ever submitted a great post to StumbleUpon only to see a huge increase in your site stats? How has that affected your Adsense CTR? Did it kill you or help you out? Did you see an increase in your clicks, or a decrease in your overall CTR?

I have been playing with SU for a couple of weeks and have found some interesting statisti

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I'm sure most of you know about Digg and the power the Digg social networking site has to drive traffic to a Web site. Just getting listed on Digg without making it to the front page can help you get indexed by the search engines. Getting to the front page of Digg can drive insane amounts of traffic to your site. I had one of the pages on my

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There is a lot of talk about Niche marketing and how you can promote your site getting quality back links. One of the niche marketing tools that has drawn a lot of raves and reviews recently has been Bookmarking Demon.

I was tired of trying to manually submit or use semi-automatic tools such as SocialPoster.com to put my articles out into

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How can you use social bookmarking to help prepare your site for the Google Sandbox? If you are using good SEO titles on your site, and your submissions to social bookmarking sites, then chances are pretty good that all might not be lost when you are playing in the sandbox.

I recently lost my SERP's for a couple of my first page ranked k

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The words "multiple streams" are often used in Internet marketing, especially in connection with income sources. Perhaps over used. I decided to ignore that and bring to your attention another instance, where you might not yet have applied the principle: StumbleUpon and stumble traffic.

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BloggingZoom is an incredible new social bookmarking service, designed to help drive more traffic to your blog.

How is it going to drive more traffic to your blog? Simple. BloggingZoom uses open submission policies (for bloggers, no mass media al

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Blogging Zoom could be the great equalizer for blogs.rnDesigned to not only send traffic to blogs, but help them get good ranking in the search engines, Blogging Zoom has enormous potential to help your blog. You can get traffic in the short term

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Happy new year to all!Please find Highlights from this week's Speeding Links:

- Search For Blogging qualified to the final round
- PayPerPlay - a new breakthrough in online advertising
- Looking at Links by Stephen Miller
- Art Of War Poem free e-book by David Kam

Every week i try to find the most interesting stuff on the Web for yo

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If you are submitting sites to social networks and social bookmarking sites, then you need to read this!

Bookmarking Demon is a powerful tool that will improve your niche sites dramatically, but just like any tool, you need to take the time to fully understand it.

Be sure to follow a few simple rules to not get your sites and IP banned

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Articles are important when it comes to building links to your website, but there are other methods you should also use because it is not wise to rely on only one way to build links and it is important that your website looks good in the eyes of the search engines. In this article I will show a few alternative methods that are almost as effec

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Don't trash old articles that you've written. Don't bury them in the past. Go through your blog every now and again and dust them off so you can show them off to the world.

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Imagine your blog is listed amongst the most populars of del.icio.us, or on the front page of Digg, for about a day or so. I assure you that after reading post, you will learn all the basics of writing a killer “How to” article that works. We all know that today “How To” articles are the most popular ones in Blogosphere . If you add value to

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When starting a new blog if you dont do something nothing will happen. How will people know about your great posts and articles?

Yes rss sites will help but they wont make your site grow like you want it to. So how to get loads of traffic in a short time?

The answer is you have to bookmark your own site.
I bookmark my own sites on soc

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A lot are still skeptical as to what social bookmarks can do. Social bookmarking are so powerful that even if your blog is a week old you will be ale to harness search traffic by using the power of the bookmarking site.

I tested the method on a new blog of mine and the results have been nothing bit impressive. For a blog that is less than

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Who among us haven’t heard what getting to the front page of Digg will do to your blog, where traffic is concern. And those of us who are actively zooming would have benefited from additional incoming traffic to our blogs.

So let me cut to the chase and proceed to tell you how you can make money with swypefile. That’s more interesting, isn

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There are over 200 each of social networking and social bookmarking sites on the world wide web and it show no signs of slowing down. Problem is that at this point, much like blog posts, there is nothing truly new or revolutionary coming out.

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There has been a lot of stuff going on with Blogging Zoom, a lot of critique about its look and feel, some infactual blogs about what is coming down the road and also some confusion on how it works.

Being one of the top submitters here, I felt like I should write up something about how Blogging Zoom works for me and ho

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Sure social bookmarking can be used for the same old functions we've always used it for. But wouldn't it be great if we started thinking outside the box and started finding new things we could use social bookmarking for? Well, the author of this article has.

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Has anyone else noticed how easy it is to have a submitted blogging zoom post go hot? It seems absurdly easy to me and perhaps even a little detrimental to blogging zoom itself. At this point (up until this submission) each and every one of the posts I have submitted has gone "hot". I'm not talking 2 or 3 posts but a fairly decent number.

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Myspace, Web 2.0, blogs, social bookmarking, Facebook, etc. Those were the things that were supposed to bring us lots of targeted web traffic. Some people took advantage of those and a few of them made a killing. But if you didn’t, there’s a new “thing” on the Internet, and you might do better trying this one out instead. It’s called “Squidoo

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I know this might sound stupid, but "do you see potential with your own site?" I'm sure a majority of people will automatically say "yes" in the beginning until they don't see the stats that they want, or they're not making the kind of money they think they should.

But this article asks what YOU think of your own s

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With del.icio.us, Digg, StumbleUpon & other forms of social media exploding in popularity, it was only a matter of time before the search engines joined the party. So it’s not surprising to hear Yahoo announce that del.icio.us results will soon be incorporated into their search results. But can social media really improve searc

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This article discusses the current mass exodus of our local information into the so-called data cloud. Many of us don't even realize it's happening. With all the enticing benefits of the tools in the cloud, the move seems inevitible. But who should we trust? Should we even make the move into the cloud or keep our data to ours

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Is it just me, or does the real work in blogging only really begin when you hit the 'PUBLISH POST' button on your latest masterpiece, and then have to set about trying to share it with the world?

We at Digital Sickbag think so. There's a heck of a lot of places where one can hawk their wares, including this very site you're using right

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Dana Wallert provided a great list of posts that covers a comprehensive study of the benefits and disadvantages of StumbleUpon as a social media tool. The many posts also cover tips and techniques on how to effectively use StumbleUpon and contribute positively to the community as a whole. Useful for anyone who intends to use social media and

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Ok… a few of my readers have been asking me about social networking and social bookmarking.

Just so you know, I’ve been using social marketing as a means to drive traffic to blog since September this year. I was stunned by the results of my case study. I wrote an article last night and then posted it to my favourite Social Networking sites

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Digg is a great concept. In my opinion, it has made the single greatest contribution to the awareness of the difference between traditional media and the web. Because of Digg, we are now able to comment and vote on just about everything.

For these things, Digg, I thank you. You have made the task of spreading the good news of the web much

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Del.icio.us 2 is comign out very soon. This is a short article summing up what's new for the users. Del.icio.us, by Yahoo, is now four years old, and one of the first social bookmarking sites I remember using.
It is based on bookmark sharing. If you find a site you like, you ‘tag’ it - add it to your del.icio.us account, and

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When Internet as we know it was in the beginnings, back in 1995-1996, finding information was not as easy as today. Search engines did not have smart algorithms and often information you got was not what you were looking for. Web directories became popular out of pure need. It was easier to find information by going to specific category and t

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That is part of the idea behind Swypefile.com. This is another site, similar to BloggingZoom or Pluggy, with one major difference. The site is monetized by Google Adsense and you are encouraged to add your publisher id to your account. When you do so, ads with your publisher id are used for all of your submissions. What is more, is that your

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Stumbleupon delivers thousands of vistors to individual blogs each month and is a social site worth participating in. This article is a compilation of the best articles about making the most out of StumbleUpon so you can improve your branding and increase traffic to your site all in one handy location.

Included are compreh

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I know there are tons of social media sites that continue to come out, I mean, you probably hear of a new one each day. But have you ever heard of a social bookmarking site that has "revenue sharing" for it's members?

I'm not sure how it's going to work exactly because it's still in it's Beta phase, but if I read r

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Social bookmarking is a quite new, but very effective and easy way to get targeted traffic to your blog or website.In my opinion, there are 3 things you must do correctly in order to receive lots of traffic by using this simple technique.When it comes to building traffic with social bookmarking the key point is having a content rich site that

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Now there's a new way to easily log into important blogs and social marketing websites using the same, secure ID -- Open ID.

Ever get tired of having so many different logins, and identities on the various forums, blogs, communities and social marketing sites you frequent? Most people do. To the rescue comes a Portland,

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Back in July I wrote an article called The "MyStickies" Firefox Extension is an Excellent Collaboration Tool. MyStickies allows you to paste virtual sticky notes on websites and then share them with others. It's a simple concept but in the proceeding months I ditched Basecamp (no offense Jason Fried—I love your stuff) and began using MySti

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I’ve had an interesting week with the amount of traffic I’ve been receiving. It actually slowed down my server a fair bit, hey I’m not complaining.
Blogging has been very fruitful for me in regards to meeting and networking with all the great minds in the blogosphere. There some great aussie’s that are dominating the How to blogs like o

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Are you using social bookmarking as a means to promote your websites? If so, you'll want to install this Firefox plugin called Shareaholic. It will save you time and make you more efficient. It lets you view how many times a page has been bookmarked on delicious. It also lets you bookmark a page on many of the popular social b

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I’m pretty exhausted from one of the weddings that we’ve been too last night. For those who have kids, we met with former Hi-5 kids show member Kathleen De Leon and her husband former Savage Garden member and BRW Top 100 Young Rich list Daniel Jones. My wife is about any day now for the next five weeks according to our Mid Wife. Wish us luck!

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Social bookmarking websites allow users to bookmark their favorite links into categories and share them across a network with their friends. Members can also bookmark the links that have been submitted by other members.

Social bookmarking was first started way back in 1996 with a website called `itlist` sadly tis site is no

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When looking to promote your website or latest blog post then social bookmarking websites are a good place to start. They are receiving thousands of visitors everyday.

So why not start submitting to them and enjoy the traffic that they will send you, and not only that but they will also increase your back links and search e

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This blog post is going to explain some different ways you can gain traffic from marketing. It will list techniques in which to market yourself online and offline. Expect to see a nice consistent rise of traffic by implementing some of the strategies I show you in this short report. It won't take too long to read this report a

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This is an article basically detailing how my blog, which received only 34 unique visitors in February, 2007, has gone up to receiving over 5,000 unique visitors a month in under a year. I know there are hundreds of articles out there that discuss increasing blog traffic, but this one mentions and focuses on the one most impo

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In this weeks internet marketing and blogging news:

It seems like every week there is a new make money product that you just have to get. Trust me, I have fallen in this trap over and over again. I bought products specifically to learn and get to know what's the mindset behind the product and if it can actually help me with my o

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Imagine that you just finished writing what you think is a pretty good post. You spend some quality time researching your topic. You double and triple check your spelling and grammar. For this post, you even broke open a thesaurus to make sure that you didn’t repeat a single word. After searching around the internet, you find t

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Social media marketing, according to Maria Reyes-McDavis, is the most cost-effective and useful online marketing tool available. Second, only to blog marketing and blogging, social media marketing has the ability to build your online brand, solidify your expert status, and help in all your other marketing strategies, namely search engine mar

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