CategorySocial Media

Skellie is a regular writer for ProBlogger. Check out her new blog Anywired if you’re interested in earning an income online. Since yesterday, StumbleUpon has sent me around 20,000 page views. It’s the single biggest referrer for both my blogs, despite one of them having been on the Digg front ...more

In the last ProBlogger reader poll I asked readers about their social bookmarking habits – more specifically to tell us about their favorite social bookmarking site. Just under 1300 readers have voted to this point and the results look like this: StumbleUpon wins quite convincingly with 31% of all responses ...more

This week’s poll focuses upon social bookmarking sites. Bloggers have a fascination with these sites – some because of the lure of avalanches of traffic, others because they find them to be sources of inspiration for posts and others because of the social interaction. But which social bookmarking site do ...more

Here’s a quick tip if you’re looking to get on the radar of another blogger (big or small). Bookmark their work using StumbleUpon. Two quick stories: Story 1 The other day I got an email from a blogger that I’d never had direct contact with before. The message was simply ...more

I was just over at Facebook and noticed that the option to create Friends Lists had been activated. Now you can organize your friends by type (handy). Now I’ve just got to find a spare 4 hours to sort through them all (feel free to befriend me here). Speaking of ...more

Hugh McLeod writes: “So that’s why I have a blog, I suppose. I like the control. I write something, I post it, it gets read, hopefully good things happen as a result, somewhere on this small blue planet of ours. Unlike a book or a movie or a TV commercial, ...more

Maki from Dosh Dosh has put together a great post titled The Importance of Social Media Marketing: Why You Should Learn and Master it which I think gives some great arguments for bloggers to familiarize themselves with (and participate in) the social media scene. Probably the most compelling article is ...more

This post on using Twitter was submitted by Sheila Scarborough from Family Travel, Perceptive Travel and Fast Machines. I’m Twitter-pated. Admittedly, when I saw random user “tweets” projected onto a big screen at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive last year, it seemed like a mildly-amusing but rather silly new tech ...more

A number of months ago I wrote a post titled How to Build a ‘Digg Culture’ on your Blog which explored a trend that I’d noticed on my blogs where getting on the front page of Digg once tended to lead to attracting other active Digg users to your blog ...more