100k Job Blogging From Home

I found this web site lately called Posterous. It provides service of using email to send your updates to various services like Facebook, Myspace, Tweeter… and most important of all, your blogs. It is such a convenient tool which saves time to go to each site and put in your updates. If however, you don’t have account on any of the social networking sites, and don’t have your own blog, they give you a free blog, just like a blogger/blogspot blog. You update your new blog by sending emails. Google “Posterous”, you will find the site.

If you follow me on Twitter, you may already know that I just gained 400+ followers in the last week. If you are more aggressive, You may double or even triple that number. However, I don’t want you to be banned from Twitter, so a similar gain is recommended. The answer can be found in the following post. You will also find quite a few Twitter tips there:

How to become a twitter rockstar

If you follow me on twitter, you probably knew that I created my first Squidoo lens a couple of days ago. The reason behind that move will be exposed here in this post. If you are using Squidoo, please share your experience here.

Squidoo is a network of user-generated lenses—single pages that highlight one person’s point of view, recommendations, or expertise. Lenses can be about anything, such as ideas, people or places, hobbies and sports, pets or products, philosophy, and politics. Lenses aren’t primarily intended to hold content; more emphasis is placed on recommending and advice then pointing to content on the web.

Squidoo’s content is highly ranked in Google and other search engines as it is treated as one of the authority sites. Squidoo recently changed their nofollow link rules. Once your lens is established, you get dofollow links from there. This gives Squidoo lenses more ranking power in the search engines. That’s why I’m taking advantage of it.

You can even make money from your Squidoo lens, as they share the ad revenue with the users (or lensmasters in their own term). It’s like getting paid to promote you own blog. So why not.

The following is a video demo on Squidoo:

This post credits to my twitter buddy Anthony Bulchalka and his little eBook “10 Web 2.0 Tips”. Download from his web site, you will find some very useful information there.

Enough said about the importance of Digg and StumbleUpon in the promotion of your blog/web site. Now I compiled some useful resource/article list for both Digg and StumbleUpon for your convience. Do let me know if you think I missed anything outstanding.

StumbleUpon Resources

Whether you just start using StumbleUpon or you want to improve your experience or productivity of using StumbleUpon, you cannot go pass this list of resources:

1. The Ultimate StumbleUpon Resources

By tzuvelli.com – A huge list of Digg resources, including resources for both beginners and advance users.

2. Ultimate StumbleUpon Resource

By mikebobo.com – Another good resource list.

3. The Definitive StumbleUpon Resource List

By socialmediatrader.com: Yet another huge resource list.

4. What Makes StumbleUpon Unique?

By traffikd.com – some very interesting unique factors about StumbleUpon.

5. Useful StumbleUpon Tips

By zepy.net: Some interesting sneaky tips, such as “Set your stumbleupon profile as single female(with a blondes photo)”…

6. Top 7 Annoying Stumbleupon Mistakes

By SEO2.0: see how you can avoid some most annoying stumble mistakes.

Digg resources

1. Ultimate Digg Resource

By tzuvelli.com – A very comprehensive list of Digg resources, including resources for both beginners and advance users.

2. 10 Steps to Guarantee You Make the Digg Front Page

By seoblackhat.com, summaries of the ten steps:

1. Make A List or Tutorial Headline.
2. Write about Digg.
3. Appeal to the Apple fanboys.
4. Doom and Gloom about how Global Warming will destroy us all.
5. Write about how great Firefox is.
6. Remember: Walmart, George Bush, and Fox News have NEVER done ANYTHING right.
7. Repeat after me: “Microsoft sucks, Microsoft Sucks, Microsoft Sucks.” (I know why Google loves Digg now)
8. Make up outrageous statistics that you have not researched.
9. Insult as many groups as you can.
10. Include the world’s slowest loading Plugin

3. Amazing Digg Tools Collection

By quickonlinetips.com, you will find some very useful Digg tools here.

4. How To Digg Like a Pro

By mahalo.com: userful information for beginners.

5. The Definitive Guide to Getting up on Digg’s Homepage

By thenewbusinessblog.com: Contents, title, summary, category of submission, time of submission and friends are factors discussed in this article.

As I mentioned in my previous posts, Digg is beloved by Google. Every time I submit a post to Digg, it got indexed by Google in a very short period of time(as short as minutes). This prompts me to put up this video on Digg, as my social network video series 3.

Enjoy the video. Here is the link.

Since I discovered that StumbleUpon can really give me some traffic surge, I did another test, which was also very impressive. I decide my social marketing video series 2 will be StumbleUpon, enjoy:

StumbleUpon Explained

We have got a few video clips on social networking traffic, which will be posted here as several series. Today we post series 1 – LinkedIn Part 1 and Part 2.

Part 1:

Part 2:

SocialSpark is a Social Marketing Network that connects advertisers and bloggers through an online advertising marketplace.

What I’m interested is what a blogger will benefit from it:

• Create a profile and tag yourself so advertisers can find and engage you.
• Get paid to write sponsored blog content on a per post basis, or have advertisers pay per day to sponsor your blog.
• Promote yourself, your blog and the individual pieces of content you create.
• Make new friends, discover new blogs and interact with other users.