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Topics related to social bookmarketing sites, such as Delicious & StumbleUpon. For more background, see the Let's Get Social column or social media bookmarking news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Sometimes I [Zane] star articles in Google Reader that I find useful and that I think may also be useful to the people who follow me on Twitter.

Here is how to tweet your starred items. read more »
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Great post from Glen Allsopp, looking at the presence of the top 10 US newspapers on the most popular social media websites. read more »
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Search Engine Land - here has been a lot of talk and speculation recently about eBay wanting to get rid of StumbleUpon
, but until anything happens I am not going to stop using it. With over 6 million users contributing to over 350 million stumbles read more »
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7 reasons from onreact why you should NOT submit your own stuff (yes, I've learned that now ;)

Good reminder, specially for the newbies. Be patient, it just takes time. read more »
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Cesar Serna has been trying to pimp his newest project, Soxialize (which rocks), and he took the time to detail some tests he did with StumbleUpon. Great insight and figures that show where the real value in SU comes from. Not a surprise to most of read more »
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What do you do when your blog covers more than one topic (let's say SEO and Gadgets..) and your audiences are likely to hang around on different social media sites?

Seeing a Sphinn logo in the top left of your content isn’t exactly appropriate w read more »
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Enhanced Speed, Search & Design with No Dots read more »
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Lyndon shows us how it's done by launching a simple article across social media. Some time later, 1/2 million page views, and he's on fox news with 'headline of the week'. Hat off to you sir! read more »
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StumbleUpon can be a great asset for your online marketing strategy. Here are 28 tips to take you to SU heaven. read more »
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During this past week’s Diggnation podcast, Kevin Rose offered up some insight into the Digg algorithm which may or may not be the most eye-opening of revelations. It’s something that I figured out pretty quickly and that is that there is an element read more »
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SEOmoz's Rebecca serves up an interesting case study regarding "how-to" write titles and headlines for social media submissions. read more »
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Did you know that there are three simple alphabet letters that can make or break your social media campaigns? So many times we overlook these three letters and never realize that they can help improve your social media profiles’ success. read more »
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Currently in Beta 1.0 Hated or Loved is like Digg or Mixx with a cool twist. Rather then stories being buried they will be featured as "Hated" or "Loved" hence any story that gets a reaction will end up being featured. It is good to be loved but i read more »
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Stumbleupon is now using captcha to leave reviews on things you like. How will this affect your stumbling? read more »
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It looks like del,icio.us is making some very welcome changes/updates. "Del.icio.us has just previewed a completely overhauled site design at a gathering earlier this week, flaunting an even cleaner layout and simplified format...." read more »
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From the article: "User-generated news site Digg has been working with influential investment bank Allen & Co. (the ones that recently got Slide a half billion dollar valuation) for a few months now, and pitching big tech and media companies on a s read more »
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MikeonTV writes a guest post for Nowsourcing....

"Digg is to Dugg as ____ is to Del.icio.us?"

When you save a link at Del.icio.us what do you call it?... Saved, Bookmarked, Eaten, Ate, Dellied, Digested, Consumed, Licked, Ripened or just D’ed. read more »
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A look at the demographics of the top 10 social bookmarking sites read more »
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A list of useful social bookmarking sites that pass Page Rank for link building, including their qualifying factors: PR, PermaLinks, DoFollow anchor text links, domain age, etc. read more »
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15 thumbs up vs 1 thumbs down, killed traffic. What do you do when your articles on stumbleupon get a thumbs down? read more »
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An interview with 5 top power users in social bookmarking and their insights read more »
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"Social media is hot. Everyone wants to be on Digg's home page. Link baiting, especially using things like numbered lists, imperative rules or controversial hooks is the SEM strategy du jour. There's just one—major—problem with spending so much time read more »
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I've taken over the Sociable plugin, got it hosted on WordPress.org and included a number of new social bookmark icons, including, of course, Sphinn, but also: Facebook, Twitter, Mixx etc. etc. read more »
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Amen, Li. From the article: "I don't know how many different times I can take seeing that page of 'Houses with a Great View', or that rather large woman with the Pittsburgh Steelers t-shirt, or one more article of something that's been regurgitated read more »
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Tom Tsinas takes an in-depth look at the grand daddy that coined the term 'social bookmarking' aka Delicious. Check out the post for details on Delicious traffic, history, and even weird Delicious trivia. read more »
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