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Build a mini-net in 2008 (John Cow) - Interesting article on how to use other websites that allow you to post content to help market your own.

We see social bookmarking sites, like Digg, Reddit, and Stumbleupon, as a way to market our sites and drive traffic.  But so many people will go in, drop a lot of submissions to a lot of different sites, and forget about it. They cross their fingers, hoping to make the front page.  Like anything else, [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, was recently on 60 minutes, where they talked about everyone in silicon valley spooging over him. I will give credit to CBS though, as they to be one of the only broadcast stations that realize the power of these web 2.0 technologies. You’ll notice they have ‘Digg It’ buttons [...]

Building backlinks is immensely important when it comes to marketing your website. All the major search engines use backlinks to determine your pagerank. 80% of Google users click the first link when they search for something, and if you can get that #1 spot, you will never have trouble getting traffic to your site. Here [...]

The main thing that made me want to move my site over to Wordpress was all the different plug-ins you can install. I’ve got a number of them running now, and I wanted to give you all a little insight into the ones I’m using, how they work, and what they do.

So, What’s New?
As you can see, a lot of work has been done on this overhaul of the site, and it is still far from completed. When I get my main computer fixed I’m going to work on getting a new graphic scheme for the site, but this will have to do for now. [...]

(originally posted Septemeber 12, 2007)
This is something that was shown to me on the Digitalpoint forums. If you’ll notice, there is a small bookmark tab on the top right corner of the screen, and at the bottom of each post. This is from AddThis, and it submits your blog posts to over 20 social networking [...]