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Here’s a collection of 115 social bookmark and news sites ranked by PageRank, number of links and value of each site. We used dnScoop to gather the data for all these sites. This is what the dnScoop data is based on:

No matter what CMS package you decide to go with, there are some steps you should take to prepare for the creation of your new site. You should begin the site creation planning long before you determine which CMS will best fit your needs, and you should expect to spend at least a week to accomplish these tasks.

Mixx is a relatively unknown Social Bookmarking site.

Obviously most people are going to ask how much traffic it sends. On that score it is not brilliant in comparison to Digg or even StumbleUpon, of course not, it is early days, but it does send a bit. It fact for me it has performed better than Reddit and Sphinn, which are sites often recommended in the SMO space

Doing even a few of these things will set you apart from the vast majority of people who view social network sites as toys and networking as “just for fun” (though it can be fun, too).

Social networking sites have a reputation as being huge time wasters, and for most people, they are. If you can afford that luxury, more power to you; for the rest of you, really think about what social networking can do for you and focus your energies to making that work.

Some websites are designed to be games. Most are not. But have you ever heard people, or found yourself addicted to Digg, YouTube, or Facebook? Have you ever wondered why? Well, it’s because they are games, at least partially! Officially, they are social networks, news aggregators, etc. and not designed as game sites like Second Life is. However, these sites contain all factors of a game. They are not only useful, but also entertaining. You can manage relationships with friends, gain recognition, and even set trends. This book will describe the view of websites as games in general, and then study Digg, YouTube and Facebook as specific case studies. It will show you what the goals of these websites are, how to play, and how to win. Applying the game perspective to more areas of the web, users may find other hidden games and can thus use those sites with greater efficiency. Web designers also can learn from this perspective and use the game design to achieve better results.

“We really believe in fishing where the fish are,” said Carol Kruse, vp of global interactive marketing at Coca-Cola. “The old model is to build your own site, then spend media dollars to bring them there.”

However, while I’ve written numerous times on getting and leveraging traffic from social media sites I have increasingly begun to see numerous other benefits of being an active participant in these spaces.

Here’s a sampling of some common methods. Most were acceptable as earlier as last year, though some SEs may be penalizing them, if detectable.

We've been assured that just because content sits on Google's Knol site, it won't gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how's that holding up? I found 1/3 of the pages listed on the Knol home page that I tested ranked in the top results. I came away feeling that being on Knol does indeed give pages an advantage they might not get if they'd been hosted on some other brand new web site.

That’s according to Ed Moran, a Deloitte consultant who just completed a study of more than 100 businesses with online communities. Not surprisingly, these sites failed to gain traction with customers. Thirty-five percent of the online communities studied have less than 100 members; less than 25% have more than 1,000 members – despite the fact that close to 60% of these businesses have spent over $1 million on their community projects. “A disturbingly high number of these sites fail,” Moran tells us.

In another post [url=http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2007.htm]Google as a Black Box[/url] Giacomo proposed that we talk too much theory and not enough application of it. So, lets skip the theory and get to what I know works from time proven methods on Google. I know the following system works 100% of the time with Google to attain rankings across a wide range of keywords. This is what I do with clients to build a successful site and has worked every time. The level of success will depend largely on the subject matter, it's potential audience, and it's level of competition on the net.

Take a new approach to list growth. Ask!There are a surprising number of companies that, for whatever reason, fail to prominently position opt-in requests on their Web site. With the prominence of search driving customers deeper into Web sites and bypassing the home page, companies need to request email addresses more often and in more locations.

In the real world, managing your reputation should be paramount. Showing up on time, being helpful to colleagues, and taking the occasional shower increase the reputation points you can leverage in any number of ways, including career advancement. Many of us spend a lot of time, if not thought, on maintaining our good rep. If you have a virtual presence, chances are you have an online reputation, too. It’s probably codified in some form. On eBay, I have a 100 percent positive feedback from 46 dealmakers, and my reviews on several consumer sites are considered, in aggregate, “somewhat” useful.

Ryan doesn’t believe in them. He thinks bloggers should do series posts instead. In fact, he doubts ebooks have much of a future.

For the customer, with a member site you get not just words and pictures but video, audio, discussion, web conferencing, chat, and maybe tools and utilities also. An ebook is capable of more than words and pictures but rarely is.