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In my endeavors across the net to find great social site that you can use to promote yourself I see many users that do not use tags properly. Normally I see only a handful of tags that a user has placed to describe the content the he or she is trying to get noticed.

For those of you who don’t know what tags are, basically they are keywords and phrases that best describe the content you are publishing. Tags are a way of teaching the web how to categories your information and if used correctly will accurately help in describing your website content.

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Before you start into any market an important 1st step is research. Many people simply fail to find out if there is a demand for their product or service and after many months of frustration with no success they simply give up. They invest a lot of time and money into a project but go no where. Why? They didn’t do their research.

Despite powerful search engines like Google and Yahoo, it can be difficult to sort through the wealth of information available that you need on your market. One clear way to focus your research is to use Technorati. Undoubtedly the largest blog directory on the planet, yet many people don’t realize that they can use Technorati for their market research.

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Squidoo is the brain child of Seth Godin, an exceptional marketing consultant. The Squidoo idea is simple - allow anyone to build a single page, called a lens, on a topic that he or she is passionate about. The person building the lens, the ???lensmaster???, gets recognition as an expert in his or her area of expertise.

What is Squidoo?

It’s really a social networking site like MySpace, but intended for a mature audience. Unlike other social networking sites , Squidoo lens master get to choose among various modules to add to their pages rather than a standard assortment of functionalities.

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Many of my friends and clients ask me what exactly is a web 2.0 application and what types of them exist. I tell them these applications can have different degrees of being web 2.0 based on the following:

Level 3 applications

Level 3 applications can only be used with an Internet connection, and they are nothing without the human-driven network. These applications require human participation to improve in content and quality. Level 3 applications include the ever-present eBay, which would of course be useless without people offering goods and other people to bid on those goods; Craigslist for much the same reason as eBay; Wikipedia, since readers are responsible for editing content if they know it to be incorrect or outdated.

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This is a question I had on my mind for a long time now, as I see more and more of these questionable shoes. I was somewhat surprised when I found a report from hitwise, suggesting that Crocs are the ???most searched for fashion item in UK??? (see UK graph 1). I used google trends to find the worldwide google picture of this trend. It looks like Crocs has gained popularity around mid 2006. Comparing it to Birkenstocks ??

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The question of social networks and what good they are to your business or site has been creeping around for awhile. Many people absolutely hate the idea of using social networking sites, for what reasons I do not know. It maybe that they are introvert and do not know how to socialize or maybe its the fact that when they hear social networking they think MySpace right away. Filled with kids!. What good is that to me?

Well, these people might be missing the point. Although places like Friendster, Face Book and MySpace are for the younger generation there are many businesses and professional using these sites with great success.

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Telephia and comScore released the results of their latest study of mobile vs. PC-based Internet usage in the UK and the US.
Research highlights:

UK and US mobile market are similarly developed: mobile market size in number of users is 19% out of the web pc market size.Men under the age of 35 are the early adopters who are more likely to use mobile devices to access the Mobile WebLeading in the mobile web (January 07):
Popular pc internet sites Yahoo!, MSN and Google (both?

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Recently Google has given a page rank of 4 to this blog and although in its infancy, 3 months old, if you do things correctly you can increase your page rank very quickly.

Page Rank is a service of Google. In many cases, Google page rank (PR) is one huge element to making money with your blog, and when it comes to advertising, the page rank on your blog is very important. For those of you who don’t know, page rank is a number from 0 to 10 that basically ranks the content and connectivity of your blog.

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It is time for a follow up to the web site traffic that has been generated to this blog since I installed the Stumbleupon tool bar and joined the community. I became a member of the service back on March 18th of this year and since that time many visitors have come and some are returning time and time again.

Now to the results of my efforts to increase web site traffic. To date the traffic that has been generated using the service looks like this:

Total referrers since March has been 4185 visitors - 346 visitors coming from my profile page. Now I know that is not a huge number in terms of traffic that one’s site could get from the Internet but it is targeted traffic which has resulted in repeat visitors and cost me little time in accomplishing. I have also gained a few friends and admires which is great in itself.

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