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Social Networking on Squidoo
Social Networking Links
- Wahm Search Engine
- A cornucopia of information for work at home people. The ads are in many different categories on a PR5 rates website. Most ads are payable on a ONE-TIME fee basis and are in the $15 range. Fantastic Value!
- All About YouTube
- YouTube has changed our lives.
- All About Classmates
- Classmates is where you meet, well, former classmates! ;)
- All About My Space
- You better know what "pimped" and "whore" mean in today's lingo. MySpace is a fun joint.
- All About Facebook
- Now open to open minded people of all ages.
- All About Furl
- This is a good site to check out.
- Blogger
- Get a Google Blog. Make them even richer.
- Social Networking on Squidoo
- This is the best book about Squidoo and social networking I've ever seen. You can't miss with this one.
- All About AOL Hometown
- AOL is still a major force on the web.
- All About Del.icio.us
- This is a site you need to become acquainted with.
- All About Tagging And Pinging
- You NEED to know about tagging to be successful in social network marketing.
- All About Xanga
- Another good social networking website.
- All About MSN Groups
- MSN is working hard to gain.
- All About Yahoo Groups
- Yahoo Groups has been around for a long time. This is used to build a list.
- Rojo Networks
- A new but interesting entry into the social networking neighborhood. This one should be watched.
- Squidoo Modules Visualized
- There is one of each Squidoo module show on this lens. Cool!
- List of Social Networking sited on traffics base
- List of Social Networking sited on traffics base
- How To Set-Up An Interactive Social Network Site
- Interactive websites are hot, getting hotter - and in a moment I'll show you how you can OWN an interactive site in the niche of your choice without spending a hell of a lot (indeed, if you're a DRR member, you'll get this as part of your membership).
- www.wahmsearchengine.com/blogs/social-site.shtml
- Make Friends before Making Money One of the most common misconceptions of businessmen in marketing their products and services through this medium is considering social networks as just place to post their advertisements on. Contrary to popular belief, posting advertisements that look too much like advertisements are not very effective in this medium.
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Here is a list of techniques that I have found very useful. Some are better than others. I have not included eBay as one of the methods for a couple of reasons that I won't go into here, but mainly learning to make money on eBay can take considerable time and it may not be worth the effort if you can do as well or better with information marketing.
Disclaimer: The opinions on the items below are mine. I am in no way suggesting that these opinions are the be all and end all. They are based on my own personal experience of almost 4 years as of this writing. So read them with an open mind. Ultimately you will have to make your own decision as to what you want to get involved with.
In my last article I had you make a list of your interests. What I want you to do, is keep that list near you and look at it while you're reading the following descriptions. If you think any of these descriptions fits something in your list, you might want to figure out some way to integrate them. If not, don't worry because in the next article, I'm going to walk you through your list and try to give you some ideas myself. But for now, let's take a look at some common ways to make an income on the Internet.
1. Paid To Read Emails or Other Paid To Read Programs - Let's get these out of the way. This is where a company pays you a certain amount per email or ad read. Every company has different pay rates. Some are pennies per email read. Others are hundreds of dollars per email read. As I said, I am not going to knock any program here but you need to use a little common sense when it comes to these. Who is going to pay you hundreds of dollars for reading an email? Read the fine print of the contract. You will see in most cases there is a catch. If you want the whole scoop in the Paid To Read thing, there are plenty of threads on the Internet. You will find that many of these programs either shut themselves down or were shut down because they didn't pay. However, if you find a program like this that is legit, your earning potential is about a couple hundred dollars a month, if you include recruiting into the mix, which you can do. You will never get rich off of Paid To Read programs.
2. Survey Sites - These are sites that send you surveys which you take. If you qualify for the survey you can earn as much as $25 to $50 for one survey. Most surveys though are for points and discounts. If you spent a whole
Five ways webmasters benefit from social bookmarking
By David Leonhardt - Part 1
By David Leonhardt
If you are like most webmasters, you might not even know what
social bookmarking is, let alone how you can use it to increase
your website leads, sales, subscribers and even your repeat
visitors. Get ready to ride the next wave of Internet marketing.
Everyone knows that a bookmark is a piece of paper that marks a
page so you can find it easily again. Most people know that a
computer bookmark is a link on your computer that marks a web
page so you can find it easily again.
A social bookmark is a link that marks a web page so you can find
it easily again, but also so you can share it with others,
usually by posting it to one of several dozen social-bookmarking
websites.
Social bookmarking is all the rage these days, with websites like
Del.icio.us and Digg commanding a presence among the top traffic
generators on the Internet. People like to bookmark their
"finds" and they like to show off their "fiends" to others.
Hence bookmarking, hence social bookmarking.
Webmasters hoping to capture the attention of today's Internet
user should head the signs and recognize the phenomenal
opportunity presented by social bookmarking. In a follow-up
article, I will explain the "how-to"s, but here are five ways a
website can benefit from social bookmarking.
REPEAT VISITORS: Considering that many people do not
buy/register/contact/take action on their first visit to your
website, repeat visitors are a necessity (not to mention laser-
targeted prospects!) You can get more repeat visitors to your
website if they can find your website again. That means getting
them to bookmark your website, either on their computer or on the
social bookmarking site of their choice. The more bookmarking
options you offer, the more visitors are likely to return. The
easier you make it for them to bookmark your site, the more of
them will. However, you really must have quality content, or
nobody will want to bookmark your page.
Top Web 2.0 sites as of 1.23.07
- Top Web 2.0 Sites
Thanks to Web2.0 Sites
BookmarkingDigg: Digg is all about
user powered content. Everything is submitted and voted on by the digg
community. Share, discover, bookmark, and promote stuff that's important
to you!
del.icio.us: A social
bookmarks manager. Using bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your
list and categorize them
Reddit: Reddit is a
source for what's new and popular online. reddit learns what you like as
you vote on existing links or submit your own!
StumbleUpon:
StumbleUpon uses thumbs up and down ratings to form collaborative
opinions on website quality. When you stumble, you will only see pages
which friends and like-minded stumblers have liked
Blinklist: Real
people with shared interests list the websites they care about. Rate
sites you like or save them for later.
Blummy: A free tool
for quick access to your favorite web services via your bookmark
toolbar, Blummy lets you add and customize widgets that do practically
anything: add pictures to Flickr, submit sites to del.icio.us, look up
text in WIkipedia. Choose from hundreds of custom "blummlets"
or create your own.
Techcrunch:
TechCrunch is a blog about Web 2.0 products & companies, many of the
posts written by Michael Arrington. The blog's first post was on June
11, 2005
Furl: Make
your favorite web bookmarks accessible from anywhere with Furl's
lightweight bookmarklet. Furl allows you to easily save, take notes on
and share the links you've stored, or browse others' most popular
bookmarks to find new and interesting things.
Spurl:
Never lose track of a web site again with Spurl's free on-line
bookmarking service and search engine. Spurl stores addresses quickly
for easy access with a one-click bookmarklet and provides
recommendations for new content based on your preferences
Trailfire:
Bookmaking sharing software.
BlogsBlogger:
your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact
with people, and more
Weblogs, Inc:
Creating trade weblogs across niche industries in which user
participation is an essential component of the resulting product.
BlogCode:
BlogCode.com is a fast, easy and intuitive source of blog
recommendations based on the StoryCode.com model. It allows you to start
with your favourite weblog (or perhaps even your own) and find...
blo.gs: lets you keep an eye
on your favorite weblogs via the web and email. you can even put the
list on your site: a blogroll that knows what is new!
BlogLines:
a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing
news feeds, blogs and rich web content.
RSSFeedBurner:
FeedBurner helps bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers get more
value from the content they create. Our advanced feed management
technology deftly delivers subscription services for...
Feed Digest: Feed
Digest is a parser, regenerator, and syndicator for, and of, RSS and
Atom feeds. It lets you do things like put the content of RSS or Atom
feeds on your own site(s).
Attensa: Attensa,
Inc. is a venture backed software company developing RSS readers, online
RSS aggregators, enterprise RSS servers and RSS infrastructure software
that automatically and intelligently delivers...
Tiny Tiny RSS:
Tiny Tiny RSS is a web-based news feed aggregator, designed to allow you
to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop
application as possible.
Feed43: This free online
service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly.
Feed Mailer: feeds
direct to your email.
NewsNewsGator: Read all of
your favorite news, websites and blogs all in one place.
newsvine.com: Keep
track of breaking news with Newsvine: read "The Wire" for a
direct stream of articles from the AP and ESPN, and read "The
Vine" for Newsvine user submitted content and columns. Interact
with other Newsvine readers by voting for and commenting on news, and
write/maintain your own Newsvine column.
Gabbr :Gabbr is a
community-based social news and blogging network which allows users to
save and share their favorite top news headlines and blog posts.
wired: News site and
magazine, covering technology, culture, business and politics.
Clipmarks:
Bite-size hiligh-lights on the web.
Video
YouTube is a
popular free video sharing Web site which lets users upload, view, and
share video clips.
Meta Cafe: Metacafe
- Get the best internet videos - Funny videos, Amazing clips, Rare
movies
Vimeo: Share your video
clips. Upload video that you shoot with your digital camera, mobile
phone, or camcorder. Share video by linking to Vimeo.
Daily Motion
Publish, tag, organize and share your video clips.
Imeem: imeem is a
social media service where users interact with each other by watching,
posting, and sharing content of all media types, including blogs,
photos, audio, and video. In one sense, imeem is a media-centric social
network service, and in another sense, it is also a user participation
service for online content.
ClipShack:
ClipShack is a community for videophiles; a destination where people can
post their video for general public viewing and comment, share clips
with friends and family, post video to blogs, share...
vSocial: The fastest,
easiest way to upload, watch and share your favorite video clips.
Jumpcut: The best
place to create, remix and share movies and slideshows online. There's
nothing else like it. Jumpcut Makes Movies, Simple.
Video Bomb: Video Bomb
filters up the hottest videos on the internet: people submit links to
the 'Incoming!' page and you bomb the best ones. If a video gets a lot
of bombs quickly, it makes it to the front...
eyeSpot: Shoot, Mix, and
Share your Video. Use the eyespot Mixer to edit and combine your videos,
music and photos online! Share your video and mixes with the world for
Free
revver : Upload,
share videos
Avidbeauty: Avid
Beauty is an entertainment community for iPod users. We offer iPod
downloads which are available in playlists known as Podcasts. We also
offer Flickr photo, YouTube video and LiveJournal integration into your
member profile.
Images & PhotosFlickr: The best way
to stor, search, sort and share your photos
Zooomr:Universally the
best way to share, search, store and sort your photos online.
Slide:
zoto
23HQ:Are your photos stuck
on your hard drive, instead of being shared with the people who matter
to you?
Mybloop: MyBloop -
sharing pictures, audio, and video for free, whithout storage limits and
additional software to install
Five ways ...... continued - Part 2
by David Leonhardt
own computer, they share it with, well, themselves. It's a
private thing. But when they bookmark a web page on a social
bookmarking, it's more "social". Other people will see it.
Other people might share it. Other people might even bookmark
it. Websites like Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia and SpicyPage are ideal
for this. In fact, many of the biggest users of a social
bookmark website are often users of several. However, you really
must have quality content, or nobody will care that somebody else
has bookmarked your page.
VIRAL LINKING: When somebody sees your link at a social
bookmarking website, they might bookmark it...or they might add
it to their own blog or portal or fan site. Suddenly one
person's bookmark becomes several links to your website,
presumably from reasonably well-targeted sources of traffic.
However, you really must have quality content, or nobody will
want to blog somebody else's bookmark.
SEO-FRIENDLY LINKS: Many of the social bookmarking websites offer
no direct SEO value. The links might feature the NoFollow
attribute. Or the mea robots tag might be set to NoFollow. Or
your bookmarks might not show on unique URLs. Os the links might
use a redirect script that search engine spiders don't follow.
But there are some social bookmarking websites that offer SEO-
friendly links.
SEO-FRIENDLY LINKS ELSEWHERE: Even if a link from a social
bookmarking website is not SEO-friendly, don't underestimate its
SEO potential. There is a whole industry growing just to game
Digg and Del.icio.us, knowing that if a website's bookmark can
stick on the home page for an hour or two, it will mean dozens or
even hundreds of inbound links from reasonably relevant blogs and
portals and fan sites. And this is natural linking, the kind
that search engines love! However, you really must have quality
content, or whose going to post a link to your website just
because they found it bookmarked?
ABOUT THE WRITER
David Leonhardt is an SEO marketing consultant
http://www.seo-writer.com
Read his blog:: http://www.seo-writer.com/blog
This article is based on a blog post at http://www.seo-writer.com/blog/2007/02/12/how-webmasters-harness-social-bookmarking-for-success-in-2007 /
Introduction continued......
tart your journey by setting up your BLOG. Learn as much about maintaining your blog as possible. Then hook up your blog to the Technoratie website. You can set it up so that every time you make a new post (daily is good) it will also be posted at Technoratie where many other people will see it and, hopefully, read it.
I do recommend getting your own DOMAIN NAME and WEBSITE. However, marketing through social networks like Squidoo and many other sites does not take nearly as long to be successful as starting a new website and waiting for the search engines to catch up with it - this can take months and lately with Google, it can take at least a year to see any traffic.
That's the core factor of online marketing, isn't it? TARGETED TRAFFIC. You could use Google Adwords and make money. If you've done that you also know that takes a ton of learning too and that can get very expensive.
I believe it would be wise for you to tackle the social networking concept instead of going the search engine route since you do not have to pay money to get your marketing program in gear (but remember that your time is money too).
I will continue to update this site daily. I will be introducing tips to help you along the road. Bur first you need to learn the basics. The first steps would be:
1. Set up your BLOG (Blogger or WordPress are good choices - many other also exist and most of them are free)
2. Set up an account at Technorati to spread the word about your blogging acctivities.
3. Learn about Tag and Ping. I will set up another Squidoo site on that topic in the near future and I'll put the link here.
4. Try to put something in your blog every day. Some say you can do it three times a week or weekly, but I recommend a daily routine. You will learn more quickly about what works and what does not.
5. Pick out at least two other Squidoo type sites and get accounts in them. I do NOT recommend MySpace even though it may
Posts about Web 2.0
from the BLOGS!
- This is going to be BIG
- 10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company
- Web 2.0
- Nine Tips for Web 2.0 Entrepreneurs
- Google Zeitgeist
- Google shows the Top 10 gainers for search phrases. Good stuff to know for Web 2.0 marketing.
- Blog optimization
- 25 Tips to Optimize your blog
1) Dump The Default Template - Looks Count!
2) Just Say No To Bad Color Schemes
3) RSS Me!
4) Offer RSS & Feed Subscription
5) Offer Posts Via Email
6) Decide On Full Or Partial Feeds
7) Write Compelling Snippets/Descriptions
8) Pay Attention to How You Write.
9) Spelling Counts
10) Fontography Counts
11) Don't Forget Navigation
12) How Fast is Your Host?
13) Avoid Widget Overload!
14) Have Descriptive Titles
15) Look at your Cascading Style Sheets.
16) Post Often
17) Spread the Link Love
18) Be Aware of Your Anchor Text
19) Create Unique Stories
20) Use a Related Posts Plugin
21) Ping Other Sites
22) Buy Your Own Domain Name
23) Manage Your Trackback & Comment Spam
24) Use a Good URL Structure
25) Use Great Categories - Feedburner
- FeedBurner Facts & Stats
* Total feeds: 554,266
* Number of publishers: 328,504
* Number of podcast and videocast feeds: 88,570 - BlogHER.org
- a network of over 300 blogs affiliated with BlogHer, the Web's number one guide to blogs by women.
- Blogpire
- Blogs for the product-oriented consumer covering coffee, fast food, kitchen gadgets, HDTV and gaming.
- Corante
- Corante is a trusted, unbiased source on technology, business, law, science, and culture that's authored by leading commentators and thinkers in their respective fields.
- Federated Media
- John Battelle's author-driven network reaches tens of millions of unique readers with influential blogs covering technology, parenting, media & entertainment, sports and automotive.
- Duct Tape marketing
- Duct Tape Marketing is a team of 22 authors -- each an expert in a specific aspect of business marketing, such as PR, internet marketing and selling to large organizations
- Google Blogoscoped
- Google Blogoscoped is Philipp Lenssen's ode to cool Web items -- and it always contains at least "80% Google." Technorati ranks it in the Top 100 of all blogs worldwide; more than 4,000 sites link to Google Blogoscoped.
- Gardening Resources
- Great site with awsome pictures. It covers most of the questions you have about gardening.
- Flat Fee Real Estate Listings
- More people are turning to flat fee real estate brokers and agents as the current real estate market continues to slide down. This site shows agents in each state who offer flat fee.
New The Link List
- Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 to Change the World
- 1. Find people.
2. Find opinions.
3. Scatter a trail of comments on the Internet.
4. Make sure the API is open.
5. Share the face of your organization.
6. Make yourself link-friendly.
7. Use RSS.
8. Check out the third-party tools.
9. Share your path.
10. Engage the developer community. - Are You on Craig's List?
- Craig Newmark has organized a community whose members include some of the Web's most influential people. Here is his manual for (virtual) community organizers.
- Avoid These Social Networking Gaffes
- * Choose Your Flavor
* Understand Site Culture and Rules
* Hone Your Profile
* Don't Be Pushy
* Do What You Say You Will
* Prepare for Face-to-Face Introductions
* Help Yourself by Helping Others - WSE- Craig's List Marketing
- Affiliate Marketing through Craigslist
- Advertising on Craigslist (wse)
- Advertising on Craigslist
Some general information about social networking:
eb 2.0 will get you networking, learning, link swapping and forging alliances with millions of website owners and future customers. Join as many groups as you have time for, but then choose one or two where you see an opportunity to really get to know people on a deeper level (professionally), and then participate regularly in those places.
For me, the Ryze Business Network at http://Ryze.com was the perfect initiation into the ways of the Web. To start, post on other people's networks. When you feel confident enough, start your own network. It's great way to become schooled in internet marketing, attract complementary business owners who share your work ethic, goals and ideals, and establish authority in your niche - all at the same time!"
If you haven't gotten involved in a social community yet, now is a great time to do so.
To find a group that's right for you, check out the following list of social networking sites:
http://en.wiki pedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_web sites
New RSS: Add Your Own Feed
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- Aboogy
- list of links
- Backflip
- backflip
- Bandbuzzer
- a free social bookmarking website for independent music bands and artists of every genre
- Bibsonomy
- a literature social network
- Blinklist
- blinklist site
- Blinkpro
- for pro researchers (librarians)
- Blogmark
- a collaborative link management project based on sharing and key-word tagging
- BlogMemes
- International network of social bookmarking and news search engine
- Blue Smiley
- Manage Bookmarks, Contacts, Diary, To-Do List, Reminder, Knowledge
- Bookmark Buddy
- a sophisticated yet intuitive favorites organizer and login manager that keeps your Internet favorites
- Bookmark Commando
- Allows you to securely store bookmarks
- Bookmark Magic
- bookmarks
- Bookmark Tracker
- bookmark database service
- BookmarkSync
- a social bookmark community offering real-time automatic synchronization services
- Bookmarx
- scan all your Netscape bookmarks and/or IE Favorites and notify you when each Link changes, or becomes invalid
- Bookmax
- store your bookmarks
- BuddyMarks
- bookmarks
- CiteULike
- academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers
- ClickMarks
- bookmarks
- clipmarks
- bookmarks
- commontimes
- interactive news site where you select the top stories and share your views
- complore
- bookmarks
- connectedy
- personal link directory
- connotea
- scientists to store or share articles and links
- de.lirio.us
- clone of del.icio.us with private bookmarking, tagging, blogging
- diigo
- "Social Annotation"
- dohat
- bookmarks
- dudecheckthisout
- a tool to create a blog-level abstraction of the Internet
- easybm
- bookmark their frequently visited sites without telling the world what you bookmark
- favmark
- bookmarks
- favoor
- bookmarks
- finety
- bookmarks
- frassle
- bookmarks
- freelink
- bookmarks
- globusport
- bookmarks
- gui cookies
- dynamic bookmark manager that leverages the benefits of drag-and-drop technology
- Hotlist Anywhere
- send bookmarks to other users, remove duplicate URLs
- humdigg
- Indian community news site that gives editorial controls to the people who use it
- HydraLinks
- streamlines the way hyperlinks are accessed, managed, and shared
More social bookmarking sites
- hyperlinkomatic
- bookmarks
- ic-soft
- for database application developers
- ifaves
- replacing the "add-to-favorites" functionality of existing browsers with features such as remote access, instant sharing, descriptive notes, tag-based organization and a customizable start page
- ikeepbookmarks
- Popup feature allows you to add links while surfing the web
- itlist
- bookmarks
- jots
- bookmarks
- kaboodle
- makes it easy to collect, organize, and share information for shopping, travel or any other research
- kmfavorites
- bookmarks
- link2mark
- bookmarks
- Link Roill
- a free blogging service
- Links 2 Go
- bookmarks
- Live Favorites
- a sleek web-based manager for your bookmarks, RSS feeds, contacts and memos.
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Social Networking - Are You A Part Of It Yet?
by John Cowan
No doubt, if you are familiar with Social Networking sites, and have perhaps used them before, you will already be fully aware of their levels of popularity and the reason for such popularity.
There is just something about these websites that draw in millions of Internet users.
So, what exactly is a Social Networking site?
Well, as with the majority of the sites themselves, the explanation or definition of what a Social Networking website is, is extremely simple.
It is a site that you (generally) sign up for as a member, where you can 'meet' other individuals from all four corners of the globe, who share an interest in whatever the basic 'theme' or 'topic' of the site is.
It is a site that allows you to interact with anyone and everyone who is online, and who shares your interest in almost anything!
Most of these sites require only the most basic knowledge of a PC and the Internet to work with as well. This simplicity hugely enhances their accessibility, as there is no 'techno-babble' in the way of joining in.
In addition to being easy to navigate, the best social networking websites also make it so much easier to make new friends online, by ensuring that the people who are site members are of a like mind, with matching interests.
This may, to a certain extent, sound similar to the old 'chat rooms' that use to proliferate all over the net, and to some degree, that is true.
The main difference is that Social Networking sites encourage members to create detailed online profiles that will allow anyone looking for online 'friends to have a pretty good idea of the person that they are considering communicating with, before they do so.
Another possible reason why Social Networking sites are popular is because the majority are free to use, although most will require you to register before you can become involved.
This, however, should not be a concern, as it is done to prevent abuse of the networking 'community' and to reduce the risk (e.g. of Spam) to individual members. Some sites, on the other hand, require a small Membership fee, although the majority that do allow some kind of free trial period, so that you can accurately gauge whether membership of that particular site is for you, or not.
Now, many people will not
2. SOCIAL BOOK MARKING %u2013 PART 1
by John Cowan
I remember back in my early days of surfing the Internet, I would look for the strangest things. One of my hobbies was looking up old and rare TV shows, like the old Planet Patrol puppet show from the early 60s. Remember that? I do very well. As I got older and realized that I'd never see these puppet shows ever again, I started to look for any sites that would have these shows.
Guess what I found?
Social book marking is what I found. That's right. On one page that discussed this show I found a ton of suggested sites for related shows, such as Supercar. Remember that one? It was another puppet show from the early 60s. On that page was a ton of suggested shows. I never realized how many puppet shows there were back then. It must have been a real craze, though I would have never known having only watched the two I mentioned.
The point is, here were all these people sharing their bookmarks for all these puppet show sites. This was long before the term came into vogue.
Today, there are tons of sites out there that are designated as social book marking sites. Just go to Google and do a search under that term and you will find them all. As a matter of fact, if you do that Google search, you will find almost 1.5 million of these sites or references to them. If you had done this search 2 years ago you probably wouldn't have found any.
Now there is one thing you have to understand about social book marking sites. They are very strict, at least most of them, with what you can put there. If the link you share is not directly related to the topic of that site, it will be removed. For example, Digg, which is one of the more popular sites with a PR of 7, is a technological site. The thing about Digg is that whatever gets submitted is reviewed by the users and not the editor of the site. It's the users who decide whether or not something gets included. So as you can imagine, this can be quite a cutthroat business and can get quite ugly. So if you submit a link, make sure it's one that absolutely fits with the topic of the site.
In the next installment of social book marking, we'll go over some more of the most popular sites and how they operate. You'll find that each one has its little
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