I really thought this was an odd combination, since I would have never expected eBay to be even remotely interested in anything in the social bookmarking area. Nevertheless, it has happened yesterday and we can only see what eBay has in store for StumbleUpon.

According to the senior directory of eBay, Michael Buhr, they will keep the same management, but will incorporate some of their own staff (him for example) to work with the StumbleUpon team and enhance their experience, as well as incorporate them with eBay. Michael Buhr also commented:

StumbleUpon is a great fit within our goal of pioneering new communities based on commerce and sustained by trust. StumbleUpon’s downloadable toolbar provides an engaging and unique experience to its users, but it is the similarities in our approaches to the concept of community that make it such a compelling addition to eBay.

I’m guessing the obvious that eBay would probably use StumbleUpon to help users share auctions that they find interesting or unique.

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Well it has been a while since MySpace has done something new in order to get a bigger user base. Now that they’ve launched MySpace News (BETA), I’m sure that they’ll attract all the social media experts out to game MySpace News.

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MySpace News = New Social Marketing Target

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It has been a long debated topic between social media marketing experts, who claim that digg users rarely enjoy websites with advertisements blatantly placed on the website. Therefore, the assumption was made that they do not click advertisements.

Well Chitika has run an analysis to actually prove this theory and provide a very nice explanation of their experiment. It seems that traffic from Search Engines like Google have 3 times as high as a CTR as Digg.

My personal guess on this would be that Digg Users come to a website to look at the content, while Google Users really have no idea where the content is located, and could easily mistake an advertisement for hyperlink (like Chitika ads).

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I’ve been enjoying some great StumbleUpon traffic for the last few days to most of my sites. When I checked my referral logs, I noticed that the referrals were coming from StumbleUpon Referral Page. It was meant to be a source for webmasters receiving traffic from StumbleUpon to get even more traffic via paid traffic.

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StumbleUpon Traffic

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Since the dawn of MySpace, many spammers have been experiencing various different qualities and features of the technique and skill required to spam MySpace and increase the number of friends added to your profile. A well accepted fact is that having a picture of a female rather than a male would result in more friends. Some would consider this sexist, but it this could simply be due to all those males who spend hours on MySpace hoping for a girlfriend over the internet.

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Sexist Online Marketing

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Neil Patel has put up an article which goes over the basics of “Digg Promotion” in depth.

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Tips for Digg Promotion

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I thought that everyone already knew that they could have a website which is banned on Digg, but I guess not! Loren Baker talks about a few websites which have been banned from Digg and how this could have happened.

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Site Banned from Digg

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If any of you visit Digg on a weekly or monthly basis, like me, I would suggest that you head on over to Digg and check out their new layout! Continue Reading »
New Digg Layout

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Everybody has heard of Digg and how much traffic a front-page Digg will send to your website. A lot of people have been gaming Digg for their own gaming purposes, but not many detailed FAQ’s are available to others at the moment. Especially not after they changed the Digg algorithm to making the front page!

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The Digg Algorithm Unofficial FAQ

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Now considering the sale of YouTube and how the rumors spread quicly because of Michael Arrington’s post on TechCrunch, I think I’ll take my chances and believe him when I say: Digg is up for grabs!

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Rumors that Digg is up for Grabs

Just recently I started sellings advertisements through TextLinkAds on the sidebar for around $20/month here. Haven’t received any customers through it, but I noticed that they are offering $100 in free ads when you order $125+ and thought this was a great deal, so I ordered a ton of 30-day listings for Sixty6 Arcade (sending a ton of traffic as well!).

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New TextLinkAds Banners

Well AdBrite will definitely have competition from TextLinkAds in the near future. We have just registered with it (replacing our sponsors links) and it looks like an amazing service so far!

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