Things categorized as 'StumbleUpon'

With StumbleUpon the era of social browsing has begun

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The Best StumbleUpon Resources Outside of SU


This is an updated post. To enhance your StumbleUpon experience there are great third party StumbleUpon resources. Resources made not by or outside of StumbleUpon itself. Here are the best: StumbleUpon ...
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Stop Social Media Hopping Now to Save Your Business Later


Social Media: Paradise or prison? Are you social media hopping? Have you been on Friendster 5 years ago, on MySpace 3 years ago, on Facebook for a year or more ...
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Image SEO for Photographers and Other Visual Artists


Photographing the Photographer by Naixn. Photographers and other visual artists have a magnificent tool to show off their work these days, the Internet. Everybody loves great photos and artworks ...
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Death Threat by StumbleUpon Engineer


Just yesterday I published a post that bluntly criticizes the many shortcomings of StumbleUpon. A few hours ago I got the first ...
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12 Reasons Why StumbleUpon is Dead


Dead End is a Creative Commons image by Benny Lin StumbleUpon is dead. Read my story first and then the 12 reasons. It was long ago, probably a year or more, ...

7 Social Sites Every Business and Professional Should Use


Update August 28th, 2009: Due to popular demand I added Facebook to the list. Also I put Friendfeed at the end of the list as not that important. Btw. it's ...
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StumbleUpon: 21 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Submitting


Question mark is a CC image by Marco Belucci With the meteoric rise of Twitter the social discovery service StumbleUpon got almost forgotten.
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3 Traits of True Social Media Experts


Expert by Pete Prodoehl is a Creative Commons image. In recent years and months the Web has been flooded by social media experts. They're everywhere you move, you ...
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StumbleUpon Adds SEO Category


One of the greatest annoyances with StumbleUpon was the utter lack of an SEO category. You know SU is a social discovery service that ...
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Top 10 Most Awesomely Amazing Creative & Funny Reasons Why Blogging for Social Media Sucks


CC: Eye am feeling silly by Cayusa. OK, I admit it, I'm part of the problem here. It all started with link baiting a few years ago. Then blogging for a ...

Social Media Refocus: What Site is Next?


Dear Readers, over the past 1.5 years I've spent a tremendous amount of time on my favorite 3 social sites, StumbleUpon, Sphinn and
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SEO 2.0 Reality Check: What’s True What Not?


CC: Reality Check by ScubaBear68. After 1.5 years of writing for this blog and popularizing SEO 2.0 it's time to review some of my theories and predictions. I have promised you ...
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SearchWiki: Power to the People! Great News for SEO 2.0


These are the Google results for SEO I want to see, but Google SearchWiki doesn't want me to keep. Most of you have noticed by now, Google has introduced a new set ...

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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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7 SEO 2.0 Lessons: SEO for Humans Instead of Spiders is Not About Google and “Content is King”


Spider, really your preferred audience? Source. For years Google has been preaching building websites for humans not spiders. Nonetheless in reality
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7 Ways Self Submission Hurts Yourself on Social Media


You're not alone by confusedvision. Many webmasters still assume that self submission is the best way to gain links and exposure on social media. You just dump your content on a ...