CategorySocial Media
The Buzz about Yahoo Buzz
I opened my inbox this morning to find quite a bit of mail on the one topic – Yahoo Buzz which today opened up its doors to the public and started allowing other sites outside of it’s initial closed test to submit stories to it. Yahoo Buzz is a social ...more
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How To Get to the Front Page of Digg – 6 Ingredients of a Successful Digg Campaign
“How do I increase the chances of getting a blog post to the front page of Digg?” I’ve had questions about getting to the front page of Digg many times in the last few weeks so thought I’d put together a guide with a process for doing it. By no ...more
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Linkbait, Passion, Fluff and Mixing it Up: Reflections on Content Development
Today I want to tell you the story of a blogger whose problem that he was too good at getting on the front page of Digg. But first – I want to share a quote from Michael Gray who said something last week that hit the mark for me: “One ...more
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How Social Media Helped Me Get Unbanned from a Social Media Site in 1 Hour and 44 Minutes
In my last post I wrote that I’d just discovered that StumbleUpon had banned me. I’m happy to announce that 1 hour and 44 minutes after posting that – I was unbanned. How did it happen? I put it down to Social Media. Here’s the story: I had a number ...more
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ProBlogger is Banned from StumbleUpon
This story has been updated at the bottom of this post. This morning a number of readers have emailed or tweeted me to let me know that when they try to bookmark a post on ProBlogger that it leads them to a page saying that ProBlogger has been banned from ...more
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Add These Plurk Users as Your Friends
Today the Social Media Love-In here at ProBlogger continues with a list of 145 bloggers who use Plurk. So far we’ve presented you with bloggers who use Digg, some that use StumbleUpon and a lot of them who use Twitter. Today’s list is smaller than the others but I think ...more
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Hundreds of Bloggers to Interact with On Digg and StumbleUpon
It’s time to release into the wild another two of our Social Media Love-In lists – this time it’s all about social bookmarking. The opportunities for collaboration and cooperation on sites like Digg and StumbleUpon are amazing. They can be powerful tools with the potential to drive significant traffic to ...more
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Twitter for Beginners – 5 Things to Do as a New Twitter User
Yesterday I added all 538 Twitter users that submitted their details in our Social Media Love In. It took me a couple of hours to do – but I’m glad I did it because already there have been some wonderful conversations emerge. As I was adding new people to follow ...more
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Follow These Twitter Users – They’re Just Like You
ProBlogger reader – I’d like to introduce you to some new friends – around 700 of them (and counting). Over the weekend, on a whim, I started the ProBlogger Social Media Love-In as a way of linking you as readers of this blog together via social media. In that post ...more
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