December 12th, 2007 — Newest On The Net
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December 12th, 2007 — social media
Jason Calacanis’ Mahalo search engine has launched new social features called Mahalo Social. Users can now make friends with other users, share links to cool websites, and develop a community within the Mahalo Social community.
Social features have recently been added to many Web 1.0 sites. This is a trend that will continue. People want to interact on the web.
How should bloggers use these new social features?
Create a profile on Mahalo social. Make sure that you describe your blog on your Mahalo “About Page.” This is a great way to advertise your blog. I also use an avatar image on all of my social sites that displays the logo of Newest on the Net. This is like a billboard on the side of the highway. If you frequent high traffic websites, this is great exposure.
Another great feature of Mahalo Social is that you can share your other social media profiles. This is a great way to network with other social media users. You can share your StumbleUpon profile, Twitter profile, Pownce profile, etc.
Hey you, don’t stop reading, add me as a friend on Mahalo Social.
December 11th, 2007 — social media
Are you a StumbleUpon user? If you are not, you are missing out on potentially 3 million readers seeing your blog articles. There is no better tool for beginner bloggers to get traffic for their blogs.
StumbleUpon was the most effective social media tool that I used to attract 190,000 page views in just three months. In fact, StumbleUpon has delivered over 10,000 page views to one of my posts alone. There simply is no better source of consistent social media traffic than StumbleUpon.
What is StumbleUpon?
For those of you who have not used StumbleUpon, it provides a unique way to surf the Internet. By using StumbleUpon’s social browsing toolbar, you can connect with other bloggers and readers that share your interests. This is perfect for you niche bloggers out there.
Unlike some other social media sites, you will always be able to find an audience interested in your niche at StumbleUpon. For example, I also write a blog that discusses mmorpgs. It can be difficult to find social media sites to promote articles about video games. However, there are tons of StumbleUpon users that are interested in this niche.
Where can you find me on StumbleUpon?
I have been a StumbleUpon user since March 2007. Here is my StumbleUpon profile page. Please visit it, check it out and add me as a friend. If you are interested in blogging and social media, I think that you will really like my StumbleUpon blog. My StumbleUpon blog is a list of the websites to which I have given a “thumbs up.”
How do you use StumbleUpon to promote your articles?
1. The first step you must take is to download the StumbleUpon toolbar. The StumbleUpon toolbar allows you to find great websites, bookmark websites that you discover, send more traffic to those websites, search for articles in your niche, and much more. I will be writing more articles on how to use the StumbleUpon toolbar to take advantage of all of StumbleUpon’s features. Subscribe to Newest on the Net now to make sure you don’t miss any of these articles.
2. After you have downloaded the toolbar and joined StumbleUpon, become a part of the community. This is the most important thing to understand about social media sites. In order to achieve success with social media sites, you have to become a part of their communities.
Lucky for you, StumbleUpon has one of the best communities. The users are friendly and discover some great online content. You need to recommend sites to others, make friends, and provide well written reviews. Just like you want your blog readers to value your opinion, you need your StumbleUpon friends to value your opinion. Don’t be a social media abuser.
3. Once you have been using StumbleUpon for a month or so, you can start promoting your own content with great results. Every time I stumble one of my own articles, I get at least 200 to 500 views. As mentioned above, one of my articles on Firefox tips received over 8,000 views from StumbleUpon.
4. Other keys to gaining traffic with StumbleUpon:
If you want more information about StumbleUpon, here are 65 Articles About StumbleUpon. Of those 65 articles, you won’t want to miss these,
My next article in this series will cover some very powerful, but under utilized features of StumbleUpon. Again, don’t miss my future articles. Subscribe to Newest on the Net.
Please share with me your StumbleUpon profile name. Additionally, please share your personal experiences and opinions of StumbleUpon. What topics do you think are most popular on StumbleUpon? What features are your favorite? Who is your favorite Stumbler?
December 10th, 2007 — social media
Wow!! Facebook is a juggernaut. Today I read on FaceReviews that Facebook has now over 10,000 Facebook applications.
Despite a rash of bad news over the last several weeks, Facebook is still the social media story for 2007. And, I predict it will be more popular throughout 2008.
Application developers are developing new applications at an amazing rate. People are using these applications to distribute their brand to the millions of Facebook users. Here is an article that I wrote on the most popular Facebook applications.
December 10th, 2007 — Most Popular Articles, social media
When beginning a new blog, it can be very demoralizing having no readers. You are writing great content, but no body is seeing it. However, the game is changing now. Through the use of social media, you can attract readers to your blog with your first article. Social media sites allowed me to go from zero page views to 190,000 page views in just three months.
Through the use of social media, Newest on the Net has grown from 6,300 unique visitors in September (NOTN’s first month), to 8,200 unique visitors in October, to 31,200 unique visitors in November.
In this series, I want to share how I used social media sites to jumpstart Newest on the Net’s blog traffic. This series will describe how I used social media to go from zero page views in September to over 190,000 page views in just three months.
I want to share with you the power of social media. I want to share with you what social media sites you can use to catapult your blog. This series will focus on the following social media sites:
This series will (i) give an overview of these social media sites, (ii) describe the most effective ways to generate traffic using these social media sites, and (iii) give you a step-by-step approach to begin your social media jumpstart.
Please leave a comment sharing your social media profiles so that we can add each other as friends.
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