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Remember the post that I wrote “How to redirect traffic that comes from certain URL to another“? If you have missed that post, it was a post about redirecting users to a certain page on your blog (or to other website altogether) that came from certain URL e.g stumbleupon.com

How you can increase your stumbles, that is - thumbs up’s with this? Well, the idea is simple. Sometimes, if you are lucky some people will mention your blog in their stumbleupon blogs. Which means free traffic to your blog from StumbleUpon. It also works when your blog’s main URL gets stumbled, instead of the particular post that the user actually wanted to stumble.

Since your blog’s main page is always changing, you want the users from StumbleUpon to see your best content. Therefore, if you redirect the users that come from stumbleupon to your best article, your blog will have a better chance to get stumbled again.

Please note that when someone stumbles your particular post, it works just fine i.e it won’t be redirected to another page. Here is an example where Caroline stumbled one of my post. If you click on the post title, you will be taken to that post.

On the other hand, if you go here and click on the link that takes to the main URL of my blog. You will see that instead of going to AdesBlog dot com you will be taken to this article.

So if you like the idea, you can see the steps here on how to set it up on your blog.

P.S I know that some of you are not familiar with .htaccess. I will write an introductory article on .htaccess soon, so stay tuned.

I am sure many of you already know about pligg. But for those who do not know, it’s an open source content management system that allows you to set up your own Digg style website (e.g DesignFloat).

You can see the list of sites that were developed with pligg at pliggsites.com. Currently there are 234 pligg sites in the directory.

Have you used pligg? If yes what is your website?

Top Digger Muhammad Saleem has written a Digg Manual for all the people who are interested in Social Marketing phenomenon. Muhammad Saleem is No.3 in Digg Rankings, his submissions hit Digg’s front-page over 1000 times. So what better way there is, except learning it from a pro like him.

Obviously, for most things, there is no shortcut to succeed. If you were expecting something fast, then this article is not it. Author says it takes time to succeed in Digg, because you need to build reputation and friendship with other members in the Digg community. Thus the name “social marketing”, because you need others’ help to succeed. And that, takes time… So it’s a long process. At least it was for him, he started digg’in in late 2005.

In the beginning, try to read as much “popular” content as you can, to get an idea of what kind of content people want shared with them. Follow that by posting comments on these stories, making sure that you are being objective in your commentary. Subjective commentary can be interpreted as a personal attack or excessive fanboyism, neither of which is good. Only post comments if you have something substantive to say, and don’t try to use comments to drive traffic to yourself or otherwise hijack a comment thread.

Try to submit and share in moderation. Always start with sources that are already popular with the community so that you can minimize errors in judgment and accidental submissions from less-respected sources.

Total of 8 Advices

Article is at Search Engine Land, I strongly recommend you read it. Author’s own blog is located at MuhammadSaleem.com

Chris Brogan has a good article about Tweeter, where he discusses the different ways people use Twitter. He argues that, while general public is using Twitter as daily online diary, there are people who are reaping the benefits of this new tool. Here are some of the examples of Twitter usage mentioned in his post:

• Use it as a promotion engine - use Twitter to promote your blog posts, products, services etc.
• Use it as a social outlet, a place to communicate and build relationships, and converse
• Use it as a news room - become your own CNN

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For those who want to start blogging, maybe you can try Twitter first? Because with Twitter you don’t have to buy a domain name, hosting or install a blogging script. Also with Twitter you can write posts that contain 140 character at a time. Later if you are successful and if you think 140 characters is too short for you, then you can start your own blog. www.twitter.com

You might have already seen “RSS in Plain English” before on YouTube. Here is a new video by the same author, known as leelefever on YouTube. Very Creative!

Ades has gone for a trip overseas, so hongkiat is here to help keep things going. Heres an advantage to be writing on a PR7 blog, I can link link link and keep on linking to entries in hongkiat.com. Any PR7 links should be really good in helping me on the next PR update, but Im not that evil :-p

Im sure most of us use social bookmarking sites; either to bookmark really good articles or sometimes, bloggers use them to bookmark own entries to create more exposure. No matter what your intentions are, heres a way how you can submit articles to leading social bookmarking sites with 1 click.

Onlywire is a free service that helps you submit your article to these social bookmarking sites with just one click.

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