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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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Avatar Went Hot: May 15, 2008 - 3:04 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Bookmarking
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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Avatar Went Hot: April 25, 2008 - 7:09 pm
Posted By: Lyndon 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.hubspot.com)
Category: Bookmarking
StumbleUpon can be a great asset for your online marketing strategy. Here are 28 tips to take you to SU heaven. read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 18, 2008 - 12:01 pm
Posted By: william 84 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://paulmcdevitt.wordpress.com)
Category: Bookmarking
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 »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 12, 2008 - 10:41 am
Posted By: aimClear 89 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Bookmarking
SEOmoz's Rebecca serves up an interesting case study regarding "how-to" write titles and headlines for social media submissions. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 8, 2008 - 10:09 am
Posted By: bhartzer 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vizioninteractive.com)
Category: Bookmarking
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 »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 28, 2008 - 7:51 am
Posted By: jackspirko 104 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessindallas.com)
Category: Bookmarking
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 »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 15, 2008 - 5:38 pm
Posted By: ffnstuff 117 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogaboutyourblog.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Stumbleupon is now using captcha to leave reviews on things you like. How will this affect your stumbling? read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 15, 2008 - 4:13 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://mashable.com)
Category: Bookmarking
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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Avatar Went Hot: March 8, 2008 - 5:40 pm
Posted By: jameskm03 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techcrunch.com)
Category: Bookmarking
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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Avatar Went Hot: March 8, 2008 - 2:50 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 123 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nowsourcing.com)
Category: Bookmarking
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 »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 6, 2008 - 9:44 pm
Posted By: socialmedia 125 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://social-media-optimization.com)
Category: Bookmarking
A look at the demographics of the top 10 social bookmarking sites read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 5, 2008 - 7:31 pm
Posted By: kimber 125 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessindallas.com)
Category: Bookmarking
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 »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 27, 2008 - 12:50 am
Posted By: ffnstuff 133 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogaboutyourblog.com)
Category: Bookmarking
15 thumbs up vs 1 thumbs down, killed traffic. What do you do when your articles on stumbleupon get a thumbs down? read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 18, 2008 - 8:25 pm
Posted By: mridout196 141 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seounique.com)
Category: Bookmarking
An interview with 5 top power users in social bookmarking and their insights read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: February 14, 2008 - 2:11 pm
Posted By: kevgibbo 145 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Bookmarking
"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 »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 31, 2008 - 6:54 am
Posted By: jdevalk 159 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.joostdevalk.nl)
Category: Bookmarking
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 »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 16, 2008 - 4:36 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 175 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com)
Category: Bookmarking
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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Avatar Went Hot: January 14, 2008 - 5:06 pm
Posted By: dailymoolah 177 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Bookmarking
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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Avatar Went Hot: January 9, 2008 - 9:41 pm
Posted By: tamar 181 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.posttoaster.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Post toaster has recently published a short but sweet social bookmarking guide. They touch on keywords and global relevancy, dofollow sites, tagging, and raw vs ASCII text. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 7, 2008 - 11:26 pm
Posted By: aimClear 183 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Bookmarking
TopRank started using social bookmarking as an active/passive content promotion method several years ago. They've also been successful at promoting a social bookmarking tool for blogs over the past 18 months or so, gathering 50,000+ links." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 7, 2008 - 9:37 am
Posted By: BrendanPicha 184 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.posttoaster.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Post Toaster allows you to submit your content to up to 60+ bookmarking sites. It also provides an option to select only sites that are missing the nofollow attribute. Lastly, you can enter up to 4 different titles and 4 different descriptions and P read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 4, 2008 - 5:37 am
Posted By: jbones 189 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seologs.com)
Category: Bookmarking
A simple php script that allows even the most feeble of sites on the cheapest shared hosting to survive Digg. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 2, 2008 - 9:41 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 189 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.readwriteweb.com)
Category: Bookmarking
I stopped using social bookmarking tools for a big part of 2007 because saving things for my own future reference wasn't enough motivation to invest the time required. In the latter half of the year, though, I've seen what some other people are doin read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 30, 2007 - 8:06 am
Posted By: ViperChill 192 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialmediatrader.com)
Category: Bookmarking
This great list made the digg homepage and is certainly worthy of a sphinn in my opinion.

Measured by PR, Inbound Links and Value read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 24, 2007 - 8:59 am
Posted By: maiq 199 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.maiq.info)
Category: Bookmarking
Is the social bookmarking monster good or bad? Should you be afraid of it or not?
Who, what and when of Social Bookmarking. read more »
2 Comments     


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