Friday, 23 May 2008

why social bookmarking are important

The social bookmarking market is in a steady state with two dominant players - del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. The rest of the pack, including Yahoo MyWeb, appears to be substantially behind. Will they catch up? In this post we attempt to answer that question.

We also take a look at how social bookmarking has evolved since del.icio.us. (even del.icio.us itself has evolved a lot!). We compare the features and approaches of the different companies, to see which has gained popularity and what has become the norm in this space.
A short history of social bookmarking

The current social web era started with del.icio.us and the advent of social bookmarking. The simple concept of a tag has turned our interactions with the web upside down. The idea of being able to store your bookmarks online, share them with everyone and see what others have bookmarked - triggered the sequence of events that resulted in today's rich and social web ecosystem.
Popular Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is being seen as a cost effective method of augmenting distribution of content, branding and image building and marketing.

Some of the top social bookmarking websites include StumbleUpon, http://del.icio.us, Google Bookmarks and Furl. Reddit and Dig are two social news websites, which are also considered as social bookmarking sites. The idea is to create positive content about your services, products or overall business and then optimizing the content on these social bookmarking websites.

Popular Social Bookmarking Sites include:

30daytags
BlinkBits
BlogHop
BlogLot
BlogMarks
BlogMemes
BlogPulse
BmAccess
browsr
Fark
CiteULike
clipclip
clipmarks
Complore
Connectedy
Connotea
de.lirio.us
del.icio.us
digg
diigo
fantacular
Feedmarker
Feed Me Links
Furl
Gibeo
GoKoDo
Google Notebook
IceRocket
Kaboodle
linkaGoGo
linkfilter.net
linkroll
Listible
Lookmarks
ma.gnolia
Netvouz
Newsvine
openBM
RawSugar
reddit
Rojo
Rollyo
Scuttle
Shadows
Simpy
Sitetagger
Smarking
Spurl
StumbleUpon
taghop
TailRank
Ticklr
unalog
Yahoo My Web 2.0
yoonoo

Thursday, 15 May 2008

Best 10 Minute SEO Video Ever Made



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Matt Cutts is Google's Genghis Khan of Spam. He probably slaughters more search engine spam sites in one week than Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great and Napoleon combined killed people in their conquest of the known world.



While we don't have any proof that's true (Google doesn't release spam stats), we can all agree that Matt Cutts is the world's most famous spam killer with more kills to his name than any other search engine spam cop.



Matt's pictured here in a Halloween pic from his blog in full frontal punk rock mode.



So if you want a great introduction to "What Google Knows About Spam" then spend 10 minutes watching Matt's Web 2.0 keynote video.



It will be the best 10 minute investment you make all week.



Don't forget to leave a "thank you" for Matt here or on Matt's blog. Either way, he'll see your comment and respond if he has time.

The Easy Way to Make Money Online With Adsense

A few years ago, nobody had ever heard of Google.

Today is a multi-billion dollars that is used by virtually everyone.

Yet, there are millions of people around the world receiving checks each month directly from Google. And anybody can do it.

Google makes its money by selling advertising. That \ 'is not brainer. With billions of users, everyone wants to advertise on Google. However, there are many advertisers who want to place their ads on Google that the company has more room to put them all. There are several ads waiting to be executed as research every day. Because advertisers pay per click, Google wants to show as many ads as possible.

That \ 's where everyday Internet users like you and I come in ... And can benefit.

Because of the massive amount of ads that Google receives daily, it allows users to post their ads for them. When Internet users do this, they paid. Here \ 's an example: X

advertiser sells insurance. X advertiser pays $ 1.00 per click to advertise on Google. John Q enables Google to place ads for the advertiser X on his blog. When a user reads John Q \ 's blog and click on the advertiser X \' announcement, John Q Google pays half of the advertiser X \ 's costs (50 cents).

What all this means for you is that you can begin to make money off of Google Adsense immediately by doing no additional work. You can place these ads on your blog, articles online, your website, newsletters, or any other piece of information which is regarded by many people.

Today there are blogs and Web sites that thousands of visitors each day. If webmasters were simply adding the Google Adsense code in their pages, they could (and they are many) to draw hundreds of dollars a day doing absolutely nothing differently.