As someone who recommends and uses StumbleUpon Ads on a regular basis, I wanted to share a quick tip for anyone out there wanting to utilize tracking parameters in your campaign URLs. As an Omniture user, you might have noticed that StumbleUpon will not allow you to create ads with tracking parameters that have a …
One of the many conversations I always hear at social media conferences, or within social media marketing discussions, is the fact that even though companies are starting to realize they need to be engaged in social media, they still have a hard time getting the upper level management to really engage and commit to using the top social communities. …
Last month, Google announced a new way to tag news articles that allows webmasters to assist Google News in properly categorizing their posts. From the official blog of Google News: …we’re excited to announce a news_keywords metatag. The goal is simple: empower news writers to express their stories freely while helping Google News to properly …
Although LinkedIn Today is a feature that launched with great reviews back in March of 2011, it has been a section of the site that has largely gone without notice by many users. The concept itself was not new, but they implemented it differently than some of the other social news aggregation sites, as LinkedIn Today “delivers …
On December 5, 2011, StumbleUpon launched their biggest redesign ever, which streamlined a huge amount of their code, along with a number of drastic changes that completely changed the way StumbleUpon looks and operates. Although most of the changes on the site where received positively, two changes came under criticism. This included the removal of …
For all of Digg’s efforts, it has really had no luck in trying to get back to its glory days, when it dominated the social aggregation space completely. Starting years ago with changes to limit the power their top users had, it has been one failed release after another, with version 4’s release really marking …
The question of whether or not you should be engaged in content marketing is hardly a question at all these days. With the number of users on sites like StumbleUpon, Facebook, and Twitter, it is fast becoming one of the primary ways people get in front of large audiences today. Content Marketing is the process of showcasing quality …
Last month on September 20, 2011, StumbleUpon started sending out emails to their users informing them that on October 24th, 2011, Groups, Themes, and both photo and html blogs would be discontinued. Stating the change was being made in an effort to focus attention on making sure the content that you discover through their system is …
SEJ takes a close look into Digg’s closed beta, launched yesterday. Will this be the change that finally brings the social news site back to life?
