Category | Social Media

A Complete Analysis Of Digg

Posted on 17 June 2008

We all know that Digg’s algorithm is very complex and they are changing it frequently, so that spammers cannot get their stories popular. Digg states that all the content is only promoted by users and they have nobody implied in the process, but this doesn’t seem to be true.
I have been an active Digg user […]

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Mixx Kinda Fails To Make Competition To Digg

Posted on 03 June 2008

ReadWriteWeb has written a very interesting post about Mixx. Now it’s one year old and traffic seems to grow really fast, but still can’t be a liable competitor for Digg, receiving less than 5% of Digg’s traffic.
Still, it seems to be on the good road and might grow, especially that Digg is full of spam […]

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Search Engines vs. Social Media

Posted on 20 May 2008

I do have websites with traffic based on social media, others based on search engines and others combined. I have been doing a lot of research and comparisons between all of them. Of course it’s hard because of the niches, but I do have some that are on the same niche that are some based […]

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Why You Should Embrace Social Media

Posted on 07 May 2008

The following is a guest post by Tibi Puiu, a professional blogger and social media consultant, who can be found writing down at Lost Art of Blogging.
As marketers and bloggers, we should all be very opened minded and inclined to new things. Exploration is the keyword here. If you want to be successful, in […]

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Follow The Trends To Be A Problogger

Posted on 21 April 2008

Blogging itself is a trend and if you do blog then you have already followed this one. But there a lot more appearing and you have to make use of everything to bring traffic and increase your readership.
Social media is so used those days, that you definitely have to use it to bring more traffic. […]

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StumbleUpon Doing Spring Cleanup, Changing Algorithm

Posted on 16 April 2008

For the last few days, StumbleUpon has continuously banned accounts and a lot are complaining that the traffic has went down. I have a lot of friends that were power users and got their accounts banned for different reasons or for no reason at all.
I have also noticed a decrease in traffic from StumbleUpon, but […]

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My Experience With Social Networks

Posted on 20 January 2008

Lately i’ve used a lot of social networks to promote my websites, especially blogs and i want to share my thoughts on them with you. And then i would like to see your experiences with them in comments.
Stumbleupon
This seems to work best for me, because if you have a good profile, with good pages submitted […]