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Digg Loses Traffic By Executing Its Active Users

September 24, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: Social Marketing 4 Comments →

In a strange phenomenon that emerged few days ago, Digg started to disable a large number of Top Diggers’ Accounts without any previous warnings or even emails letting diggers know of the new changes to the terms of service so that they might have the opportunity to adjust to their rules.

Many active diggers tried to log in to their accounts several times, but they always got the message “Your account has been disabled permanently”. They didn’t stick to that and even emailed Digg Support Team to apologies, but they again got a harsh reply that “This decision is final and irreversible”. Digg just shut users down and banned their accounts for life.

It’s probably not fair to compare the way Digg enforces its rules to any real justice system. There have been about 500-600 accounts banned from Digg lately and I’m sure that now you are asking yourself “What are the unforgivable crimes, which those diggers committed and lead Digg to ban their accounts?”.

“Don’t Use Scripts” These were the last words said by the late banned diggers. Digg claimed that the excessive use of Scripts/bots, like the Greasemonkey Script that facilitate digging friends submissions, places additional load on Digg servers (slowing things down for everyone), so using them is a violation to Digg’s Terms of Use and will result in losing access to your Digg account.

“No Blind Digging” Also some of banned power diggers spoke about, Massive Digg ban, quick inspection of their 48 hours activity shows that they had high level of activity, more than 300 diggs, some of them even reached more than 1000 diggs. This lead to get their accounts banned as well.

Digg will pay the price as well; All of these things proof that Digg’s (Anti-Cheat) system has become more sophisticated trying to protest against all Cheating Policies. Digg is now applying the rule “You cheat, you’re out” even if this will cause them to lose a large number of traffic and users’ activities.

Go in Peace late diggers… It is bye bye time!
Digg users not only got their accounts banned, but also lost many of their friends. They spent significant time and energy providing the site with content, building their reputation online and flourishing their accounts to be active members, and then they were shocked that every thing have been vanished and they have no choice except accepting the whole reality and registering a new account from scratch.

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Are Stumbleupon Changes Still A Mystery?

September 20, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: Social Marketing 1 Comment →

We tackled a little while ago the changes that may happen to StumbleUpon and the way friends and subscribers would change in a previous post. Now it becomes a reality; SU launched its new changes that has been a while in the making. Stumbleupon, finally, improved the way you can make Friends or follow another member’s Stumbles.

Yesterday, SU presented a nice surprise to all its members. You can now friend over 200 people on Stumble, know your subscribers and subscribe to people with interesting stumbles, enjoy the new look of adding friends feature, know the percentage of every user who match your interests, as well as get a notification message to let you know that someone has requested your friendship and you are free to accept or ignore his/her friendship.

All these changes seem interesting and worth a try, but the question now is that “Are SU changes still a mystery, despite the official release?” Will they cause unpredictable revolution in SU community?
we may find some stumblers who will use the new service to enhance the stumbles they get from their subscribers by subscribing to other stumblers’ favorites, who really introduce something valuable and related to their interests. At the same time we may find some stumblers who will use the new service to add an endless number of friends to their list just to enlarge their friends circle and become able to share their own posts and business with larger number of stumblers, without caring whether they will get some useful stumbles from their friends (subscribers) or not!

In our previous post “Will The Removal of SU 200 Friends Limit Really Work?”, we were just predicting the future and wanted to know your opinions, whether this new feature will add something to SU or not. But now, after being launched officially and becoming a fact, what do you think about the new feature? Can it benefit you by any means? Do you now enjoy something different while stumbling? Or would you prefer to restore the old system again, and just deal with your limited number of friends? All of these questions really need some answers.

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Can Social Networks Kill Search Engines?

September 11, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: Social Marketing 1 Comment →

How many online marketers noticed that Search Engines are not enough, and how can social networking websites help to increase the number of hits to their website more than Search Engine Optimization, (SEO)?

Social Networks can bring many visitors and potential clients to business owners’ sites in a short period of time. They have become a place for business professionals too, now, many online marketers conquer Social Communities because they became sure that they will find their target consumers there.

Some online users, who lead to Social Networks success, took Social Networks as the TRUSTED place where they find their friends, ask for their help solving a problem, recommendations for certain car brand, how to apply makeup perfectly (Women), or even how to deal with their children.

Simply, They can know all what they need to know, but from a place that depends on friends’ previous experiences and more trusted than Search Engines that depend on (encyclopedia, Google, Blue Book, Yellow Pages, classified ads, etc…). In a nutshell, in social networking, “What You Know Will Depend On Who You Know”.

Social Networks can also help you discover the things you didn’t know you wanted. By navigating through an endless number of pages and interests of other online users (friends) in the community, you will be able to hit some useful information somewhere you didn’t even think you will want to know, not just solve a problem or finding things you were looking for like Search Engines.

Search Engines are no longer the sole dominant of web traffic and information resources, Social Networks made many important changes in the map of “SEO” and forced Search Engines not to work alone for serving online searchers.
BUT this doesn’t mean at all that Social Networks can go alone! A Combination of Search Engines and Social Networks can develop a positive sense of helping people online as well as increasing the number of meaningful hits to your website.

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Social Bookmarking Pitfalls That Can Kill Your Business

September 08, 2008 By: Newbornbusiness Category: Social Marketing 3 Comments →

The idea of bookmarking certain page or website you have liked and found interesting for further reading and to reduce the labor you face trying to remember your preferred locations has been developed.

Now, almost all online business owners use social bookmarking and social networking websites to promote their business by not only saving interesting pages but also sharing these pages with an endless number of online users who might find it interesting as well and share with other friends and so on…

For all those online entrepreneurs who apply Social Marketing techniques to promote their business, here are some important pitfalls, which they should avoid in order not to cause harm instead of benefits to their business:

1- Social Marketing plans take time to mature; people hates self-promoters or persons who are greedy. Hence you need to have a high degree of patience while committing to such strategy. Keep away from asking people to click your links from your first posts, believe me your business will never still alive for long time.

2- Never indulge into Spam Schemes; it is more than difficult to avoid getting black listed as a Spamer in social bookmarking websites. You will need to established an authoritative status in a community or become a power-user then you will be acceptable to promote and share your business with others.

3- Discover the community; some people register their accounts in social bookmarking communities without knowing the community they are dealing with. They start posting articles about (SEO) and (Google Adsense) in a community that doesn’t has people who can be interested in such topics at all. The most astonishing thing is that they wait for their posts to become popular!

You should always believe that the one community perceives things differently than other communities. Take a look at the site and community before you start, know the rules, know what goes hot and what doesn’t, know what other users find interesting and what they don’t.

4- Don’t Submit while people are sleeping; knowing the times when people are awake surfing the community and submitting during them is very important. Most people surf social sites in the morning or around lunch time during their break at work, so this is the best time to submit your posts and remember that you should always capture people’s attention.

5- Don’t just Submit and Forget; keep observing your posts and be up to date with what is happening every while. Interact with the community, if someone comments on a post then respond back to them whether the comment was positive or negative. Try to start the conversation and make good relationships with other users.

Social bookmarking is a great way to identify different sites on a similar topic. It is now seen as another form of search engine optimization, and good sites try to be highly placed and recommended on social bookmark sites. SO don’t loose such effective weapon in your business promotion battle.

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