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With StumbleUpon the era of social browsing has begun

Digg Traffic Worst Compared to 3 Other Social Sites ;-)


It's no secret that SEO 2.0 has more traffic from social media than from search, mostly due to it's popularity on StumbleUpon and Sphinn. Indeed direct traffic equaled search traffic with 15% ...
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Top 7 Annoying StumbleUpon Mistakes


Mistakes, by electrospray. OK, I'm nearing my 10.000 "like it" stumbles (only ca. 1000 left) and I'm wondering how I can help people ...
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How (Not) to Pitch Me on StumbleUpon


*With more than "8000 pages liked" and 600+ fans on StumbleUpon I guess I'm quite popular by now. Until recently this fact was largely ignored by ...

The Right Blog at the Right Time – 1 Year SEO 2.0


Yes, it's already one year. One year has gone since I started this blog, SEO 2.0. I feel like looking back and analyzing. Was it worth it? Am I where I expected to ...
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Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes


Address by sam.d URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your Internet address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there ...

How to Spot Content Theft on Social Media and Elsewhere


Content theft runs rampant on social media. StumbleUpon and Mixx are heavily targeted by sites which capitalize on stolen content. They use images and sometimes also text with no attribution ...
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Top 10 Reasons Why Great Content Fails on Social Media


Can't Fail Cafe - image by pbo31. Recently I wrote a guest post that took me a long time to write and was well crafted timely ...

StumbleUpon Traffic Stopped


The "StumbleUpon is the best traffic in the world" thing is over. StumbleUpon stopped sending traffic. At first I thought I it was just me or the wrong submitters stumbled me etc. ...
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What Easter Can Teach Us About Web 2.0, Social Media and Blogging


While I enjoyed my short vacation on Easter I couldn't resist to think about SEO 2.0 with all its major parts Web 2.0, social media ...
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10 Habits of Highly Efficient Social Media Power Users


Many people view social media as a waste of time while others expect them to be some kind of promised land for self promotion. Both groups will never use social media to ...
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Towards a New Defintion of SEO


  While I promised you a redefinition of SEO when I started this blog, in fact it's still my motto in the header, until now I delivered only an upgrade, a new version ...
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SEO 2.0 Basics: StumbleUpon Categories


From now on I want to start a little series of posts. It will be called SEO 2.0 basics. I will write short posts about fundamentals needed in SEO 2.0. I want ...
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Silly Marketers: SEO is for Kids


Many marketers just don't get it. Either they are plain ignorant, silly or worse. Usually I'm not bashing anybody but this time a post called "
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1000 Pages Liked on StumbleUpon


While on my StumbleUpon home page I noticed that today is the day "
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Hail the Returning Visitors and Subscribers!


Today, for the first time in several weeks, the biggest single visitor number of SEO 2.0 was not StumbleUpon or any other referrer, it was the "No referring link" crowd as ...

How to Use StumbleUpon Without the Toolbar


Can you use StumbleUpon without the toolbar? Yes, of course you can, but why should you and how can you do it? Aren't there limitations? What are the benefits? Why should you stop ...

3 StumbleUpon Traffic Myths Debunked


Most Internet marketers about to introduce StumbleUpon to you will tell more or less the same story. According to those StumbleUpon tutorials you have to undertake certain actions to succeed on SU ...
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Does StumbleUpon Crack Down on SEO Already?


Today I was surprised to see that over at StumbleUpon 4 users reviewed my ode to the SEO community in the
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Stop Link Building, Links != Traffic


Do you think that link building is the most important part of SEO nowadays? You may be right if you refer to SEO as search engine optimization for Google. In this ...