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Quick Guide to StumbleUpon Categorization and Tagging

CC: Stumbling into happiness by szea. One of the most annoying issues on StumbleUpon, both from an user and a webmaster perspective is the bizarre categorization system. SU mixes tags and categories in a way nobody really grasps. You can only memorize them by using this flawed system in a trial and error way. After more than a year of SU practice I finally got it, but most people don't. So I present to you a quick guide to StumbleUpon categorization and tagging.

Why bother in the first place? As I said before, StumbleUpon is channel surfing on the Web. It means that, metaphorically speaking, if you put celebs on the discovery channel or ...

November 18th | Findability, StumbleUpon, Social Media, SEO 2.0, Usability.

10 New Must Read SEO, Online Marketing and Web Development Blogs

Recently I promised you in the 7 Things Obama Taught Me post to become less selfish and to promote other outstanding bloggers again like I did in the early days of ...

7 Usability Mistakes Usability Experts Commit

Usability expert at work? CC: Bela donna by hypertypos. Today, November 13th, is World Usability Day. I'm not really involved in it in spite of being really interested in usability user-centered ...

Commenting on Dofollow-Blogs as a Link Building Strategy

CC: Conversation by kool skatkat. Today I will write about commenting on so called dofollow-blogs and whether it makes sense as a link building strategy. Let me explain ...

7 Things Obama Has Taught Me

CC: Yes we can by zyrcster. Sorry to bother you again. I still can't believe that America has made such a huge leap. A few days ago I wanted to ...

7 SEO 2.0 Methods Obama Used to Score on the Web

SEO 2.0 is a term that summarizes all modern methods of making a message heard online, getting found via search engines or any feasible way of reaching an audience by use of ...

SEO Company, SEO and Search Engine Optimization Google Results Are a Disgrace

cc: Magic movement by Gojca. The SEO industry is outraged about search engine optimization leading figure Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz calling ...

What Social Media Benefits for Business Can You Expect?

Many people in business and even marketers discount social media as worthless saying things like "social media traffic is low value". They are not completely wrong about that but they aren't right ...

The 7 Simplest Ways To Lower Your Bounce Rate and Get More Conversions

cc: Please open door slowly by splorp. Every website or blog has a purpose, be it a sale, a subscription or simply conveying the message, whatever it is. Achieving this goal ...

7 New Social Browsing Services that Will Make the Web a Better Place

A little more than year ago I presented you 7 social browsing services that will kill Digg and SEO ...

The Most Important Thing on StumbleUpon: Do Not Pose as, Be a Legit User

cc: Whiskeygonebad. The "Social Media Insider" over at the Invesp Blog recently wrote a post about StumbleUpon called "StumbleUpon: 3 Most Important Things To Keep In Mind" about promotion on SU. ...

Broken Social Media: 5 Anti-Social Sites vs Alternatives

cc: broken by confusedvision. Some of the so called social media sites are broken and a waste of time. In fact they are not social at all, they are anti-social. So ...

5 New Niche Social News Sites for Business People and Internet Pros

While "one size fits all" social news sites like Digg lose more and more ground, great niche social news sites appear everywhere. There are at least 5 new niche social news ...

Common Blog Business Models: What Works What Not?

Flagship blogs, that is business blogs with really valuable content often have either an obvious or underlying business model. After more than one year ...

7 Most Successful SEO Bashings in Recent Web History

One of the best performing linkbait ideas on the Web today is SEO bashing. It's an ugly but very successful way of gaining links at the expense of others. It seems ...

7 Reasons Why Obama’s Website Has Many More Visitors Than McCain’s

The US presidential election is coming soon and the candidates are fighting for votes for several months now. Today I want to dissect the various reasons why Barack Obama is outperforming ...