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Thank you everyone for you votes. It is an honor!
Congradulations SEOSmarty!
My feelings on this? If the management changes, it is usually time to find another job. If the Digg ownership/management changes, then it is time to find another social media home.
Tamar's Sphinn posts, even when she does not submit them apparently, still running @100% hot!
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Doug has done a great job of putting together a news site for the Plug In Profit Site. Where most would expect spam, he delivers real news with no hype.
I keep telling people that they have at least 3 propellers in their beanies and will cry when any one of them drops their beanies!
Calling them bad names and downgrading thier posts will get you all the thumbs down votes you could ever ask for. Of course, that is when you also start losing friends.
Check out Leonard Bartholomew's Stumbleupon page...
As I said in my previous comments, I would like to give it a year before I conclude anything about where Digg or Mixx or any of the other Social sites are going today. What were they saying about Digg in early 2005? Only a couple of years and look what happened.
And everyone knows that the little girl would beat the snot out of Mike Tyson.
I kind of like the term "Traffic Optimizer". That would inlude the social media efforts, like Sphinn.
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Not quite correct. You can use some HTML tags, such as ,
in the body of the comment. At least that is what I see in the comment
window of my Blogger.com blog.
Still waiting for final results. I will post vote results and traffic numbers from both sites as a reply to this post tomorrow after about 24 hours.
Len
1:29 pm on 12/03/07:
Stumbleupon votes - 14
Mixx votes - 45
Guess which one is creating more traffic?
Kinda hard to ignore, isn't it?
Len
See my latest comment at Mixx.com
Many Diggers are coming into Mixx, not necessarily to leave Digg as in Brian's blog post titled Life After Digg: Interveiw With A Banned Top Digger
There has also been some speculation about Digg's latest Alexa numbers in this article titled Are the Top Diggers leaving Digg???
Mixx is growing at a phenomenal rate. It feels good to be at the bleeding edge of something new like this. It feels like so much more than hype.
At the moment all I know is that "the herd" is moving and changing, which it does all the time. But who can really tell what is going on at the moment?
I give it at least a year before I would be comfortable with my conclusions in any case and with any social site, including Digg. Who can tell where they will be in a year. It could be a bubble about to pop.
Agreed,
But remember what I posted? "As to which one is best? None of them are and all of them are."
I know that my Mixx numbers are very preliminary, but I am getting a great deal of positive feedback from Mixx users out of the UGC group that is coming in from Digg. There are a bunch of them. One of them was a top Digger that was banned and now uses Mixx, probably not exclusively but effectively.
You can read more about this Digger over at my friend Brian's blog post titled Life After Digg: Interview With A Banned Top Digger. It was after reading this that I started to investigate Mixx.com
I sense positive vibes from this little number called Mixx. Apparently there are many, many others that have the same vibes.
Let's give it a year and see what the numbers look like then?
For me, it all starts with the basics I talk about at the beginning of the article located at http://www.moxie-drive.com/blog/2007/12/why-mixx-is-better-than-stumbleupon.html
1. Content
2. tagging
3. friends
Apply what I refer to about Stumbleupon with other social sites like Mixx. The basics will work anywhere. Just don't always expect to see something like the Stumble! button.
Len
Correction,
I did not say I was running an experiment with this particular post.
Len
I'm not knocking Sphinn except that the topics are limited to "internet marketing news and discussion" as the logo states while the other social sites are pretty much wide open.
I am not certain that I could generate the kind of traffic that I have experienced from both Stumbleupon and Mixx.
But I am not the one to ask about Sphinn because I really have not used it that much.
As far as traffic from Stumbleupon vs Mixx, that is what I am testing. I "forced Stumbled" to about 182 of my SU friends. I "sent", via email to about 162 of my Mixx friends.
I also did not say anything about running an experiment in my blog post.
I can tell you that Mixx is drawing more votes and comments at this point. The result in traffic could very much be in favor of Stumbleuupon because of the Stumble! button feature and the method by which Stumbleupon presents pages with this button. Mixx does not have a feature like this.
There is some debate concerning the actual value of a Stumbleupon vote and how much time is actually spent on the webpage. I can present those numbers along with the rest of the results.
As to which one is best? None of them are and all of them are.
It is, I think, a matter of understanding how to execute a blog post or article with the social site of choice to leverage the most traffic. This is a combination of the basics, and other techniques I am sure, that I refer to in my blog post titled Stumbleupon-Advanced Tactics.
This is an individual thing and will have individual results.
I always like to say "It is not how intellegent you are, it is all in the application of the grey matter".
Len
Keywords here "and other social sites". I am aware that many members of Sphinn and Stumbleupon are also joining Mixx.com
There has been a great deal of material written about Mixx lateley, so I jumped in about two weeks ago. My profile link is http://www.mixx.com/users/bartthebear if you would like to see some of my recient activity.
My next blog post is going to be about the specific thoughts I am having about how Mixx.com compares with Stumbleupon.
It is all a part of my latest experiments with Stumbleupon and the conclusion may surprise you.
Len
Thank you for the clarification Tamar. I will post this comment to the blog post.
Len
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