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		<title>How do I block social networking sites on my computer?</title>
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<p>Someone using my computer is doing things I don&#8217;t want them to do.(Porn, <a href="http://thingstoknowonline.com/loves?social-networking"  class="alinks_links" onclick="return alinks_click(this);" title="social networking"  style="padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://socialnetworking.thingstoknowonline.com/wp-content/plugins/alinks/images/external.png) center right no-repeat;" rel="external">Social networking</a>) I blocked the **** but does any one know how to block the social networking sites?</p>
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<p>- Once you have mastered on how to get your Squidoo lens to get into first page of Google, you will be able to drive tons of targeted traffic to it. Within your lens, you should place various call-to-action statements to entice your &#8230;  </p>
<li><a href="http://www.greatbigdc.com/6183/internet/6-reasons-why-i-squidoo-and-you-should-too.php" target=_blank>6 Reasons Why I Squidoo And You Should Too!</a></li>
<p>- Traffic. I started out with Squidoo simply to promote my various internet ventures — web sites, blogs and ezines. Due to the way Squidoo is organized it makes a great system to capture and redirect traffic. Traffic arrives both from &#8230;  </p>
<li><a href="http://jpetals.blogspot.com/2008/05/getting-traffic-to-increase-awareness.html" target=_blank>Getting Traffic To Increase Awareness</a></li>
<p>- You can even use sites like Yuwie and Squidoo to promote your programs rather than a blog. But remember, without offering something of quality, you will not maintain a loyal and consistent readership. Another way I drive traffic to this &#8230;  </p>
<li><a href="http://freebiztraffic-arsenal.blogspot.com/2008/05/squidoo-review.html" target=_blank>Squidoo - A Review</a></li>
<p>- In fact , a number of my Internet Marketers I know are fun of squidooing - the term they use to pronounce when they make use of squidoo lenses for the purpose of driving a targeted traffic to their websites, thus may in return give them &#8230;  </p>
<li><a href="http://businessportal.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/10-tips-to-generating-free-traffic/" target=_blank>10 tips to generating free traffic</a></li>
<p>- Sign up an account with Squidoo, Squidoo is a website designed to make it easy for anyone, for free, to set up a single page on a topic he or she knows or cares a lot about. You will get valuable links and your Squidoo lens will be &#8230;  </p>
<li><a href="http://www.mlmblogexpert.com/driving-traffic/maximize-squidoo-traffic-to-promote-your-website" target=_blank>Maximize Squidoo Traffic To Promote Your Website</a></li>
<p>- Squidoo traffic is great traffic, there is no denying this fact. Squidoo is almost on a first name basis with Google. They may have had a small falling out not too long ago. Today, they are friends again and all is just fine. &#8230;  </p>
<li><a href="http://www.noodlenak.com/promote-your-site-using-squidoo-5-strategies-for-success.htm" target=_blank>Promote Your Site Using Squidoo: 5 Strategies For Success</a></li>
<p>- Although Squidoo is a very effective traffic generating strategy, like all website promotion techniques you need to plan carefully if you want to truly make it work. Below is a check list of things youll want to do if you want to &#8230;  </p>
<li><a href="http://squidootrafficformula.com/blog/squidoo-linking-strategie/" target=_blank>Get More Traffic To Your Squidoo Lens Through Linking</a></li>
<p>- A great way to get more traffic to your Squidoo lens is through link building. Link building is essential not only for getting more direct traffic to your lens from your link partners but also in terms of improving your search engine &#8230;  </p>
<li><a href="http://royphay.com/make-money-on-the-internet/make-real-money-on-the-internet-in-step-1-2-3" target=_blank>Make Real Money On The Internet In Step 1, 2, 3…</a></li>
<p>- 2) Traffic Exchange 3) Blog Comments 4) MySpace Traffic 5) MyBlogLog Traffic 6) Squidoo Traffic 7) Affiliate Traffic 8 ) Joint Venture Traffic 9) Video Marketing Traffic 10) PodCasting Traffic 11) Link Directories Traffic &#8230;  </p>
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<p>- This traffic is coming from Stumble Upon and Squidoo, which is great. Each day I will stumble a new page of the site, so I will get some traffic each day, as well as some internal backlinks. This should also help get my site indexed, &#8230;  </p>
<li><a href="http://squidootrafficformula.com/blog/ideas-to-help-generate-traffic-using-squidoo/" target=_blank>Ideas to Help Generate Traffic using Squidoo</a></li>
<p>- Apart from social marketing sites such as Squidoo, search engine optimization is the traditional way of getting you noticed by Google. Squidoo is a great platform to target your long tail keywords to help you get your lens on the first &#8230;  </ul>
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		<title>The Biggest Problem with Marketing on Craigslist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="margin: 7.5pt 3.75pt 7.5pt -3.75pt; line-height: 150%" align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial">Whether you run an e-commerce website, or you have your own small business that is offline or online, or even if you have an item that you just want to sell for extra cash, Craigslist is a great place to marketing your goods and services. <o :p></o></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 7.5pt 3.75pt 7.5pt -3.75pt; line-height: 150%" align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial">Craig Newmark founded Craigslist.org in 1996, and now it gets over 10 million unique visitors a day. The site is basically a classified ad service that is executed completely online. The site is organized by city or region and brings buyers and sellers together in more than 300 places nationwide. The best news of all?<span>  </span>Creating a posting on Craigslist is completely free! <o :p></o></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 5pt 3.75pt 7.5pt 0in; line-height: 150%" align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial">It may be possible that you have never heard of Craigslist, or at least you are not familiar enough with it to understand how it works, but if you are looking for a free way to marketing your product or service, the guidelines below will help you decide it it’s a good option for you:</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 5pt 3.75pt 7.5pt -3.75pt; line-height: 150%" align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial">Craigslist is highly effective for</span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial"> </span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial">simple service offerings.<span>  </span>This could include music lessons, tutors, car repair or even real estate services. As for goods, items like used vehicles, wholesale furniture, musical instruments, electronics, or other regional manufactured goods are a great bet. Additionally, you can promote an eBay store, a <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none">franchise</span>  or referral partners.<span>  </span>Craigslist can also be the perfect way to promote affiliates or webmasters looking for new business opportunities. <o :p></o></span></p>
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<h1 style="line-height: 150%" align="left"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial" lang="EN">Making Craigslist Work For You<o :p></o></span></em></h1>
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<h1 style="line-height: 150%" align="left"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal" lang="EN">One issue that is troubling for Craigslist users is that it is very difficult to track page views. It is not a site that you can easily track by using Google Analytics or similar mechanism. I have found that the biggest problem with marketing on Craigslist is tracking the page views. You can, however, use a combination of methods to give a clearer picture of the traffic to your posting. <o :p></o></span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial" lang="EN">First, you should use </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial" lang="EN">Google Analytics on your ad’s landing page. (where the user goes once they click your ad.<span>  </span>Additionally, you can set up a special phone number or e-mail address to refer your potential customer to and then track your responses. The problem with this plan is that Craigslist costs are so low, that setting up a phone number or e-mail tracking system is not really worth the cost and effort.</span>
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<p><strong><a href="http://thingstoknowonline.com/loves?craigslistposting" title="Craigslist power Posting" target="_blank">Do you want to learn about more powerful Craigslist postings?</a></strong></p>
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<p><a rel='nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://random-discoveries.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-sell-on-craigslist-marketers.html'>How to Sell on Craigslist - A Marketers Paradise</a> - It&#8217;s true tho, marketing on Craigslist is a very popular way to get your products and services out there on the internet - with GREAT exposure. But its not so easy. Craigslist has a lot of rules and ads only last for so long. &#8230;</p>
<p><a rel='nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://attractionmarketingdiary.blogspot.com/2008/04/craigslist-power-posting-using-black.html'>Craigslist Power Posting Using Black Hat Techniques?</a> - Although posting on Craigslist requires patience and persistence, marketing on Craigslist is more valuable than ever. Why, you&#8217;re wondering? Because the site gets more traffic than ever before&#8230; and because of its large usage, &#8230;</p>
<p><a rel='nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://journeytofinancialfree.blogspot.com/2008/03/promoting-your-business-through.html'>Promoting Your Business through Craigslist</a> - Effectively Marketing on Craigslist Marketing effectively on Craigslist is not very different from marketing effectively in other forms of print media. One of the most important elements of an effective marketing campaign on Craigslist &#8230;</p>
<p><a rel='nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://www.realtown.com/MarketPostings/blog/marketpostingsservice'>Marketing on Craigslist</a> - The internet is a big place. Its HUGE! But amazingly enough most of the internet is not regularly visited by folks surfing the web. It is the big name web sites which garner the most attention and visitors. That is why so many of these &#8230;</p>
<p><a rel='nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://makingamericacash.blogspot.com/2008/02/craigslist-marketing-tips.html'>Craigslist Marketing Tips</a> - If your into marketing on craigslist because it get&#8217;s soo many pageviews every month, who are those people comming to craigslist on a regular basis, other than the normal online consumer or internet surfer, a good percentage of people &#8230;</p>
<p><a rel='nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://www.ewealth.com/showthread.php?t=17549'>Craigslist Question - how not to get taken down</a> - I want to start marketing on Craigslist but I think I&#8217;m putting my website urls and ads in the wrong section. My posts keep being taken  down. Can someone describe a step-by-step technique  for how to market on craigslist without having &#8230;</p>
<p><a rel='nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://www.myonlinebizs.com/index.php/153/why-your-business-needs-craigslist/'>Why Your Business Needs Craigslist</a> - In this article you will see two likely situations where your business should seriously consider marketing on Craigslist, failing to do this could be detrimental to your business. This would include emerging startup  companies that lack &#8230;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[With over 10 million unique users per day, Craigslist.org can be an excellent, cost-effective way to market a product or service.  To be truly effective, however, you have to know how to make the most of your postings. The following will give some quick and easy tips for the most effective, simple-to-execute postings.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal"><o:p>With over 10 million unique users per day, Craigslist.org can be an excellent, cost-effective way to market a product or service.<span>  </span>To be truly effective, however, you have to know how to make the most of your postings. The following will give some quick and easy tips for the most effective, simple-to-execute postings.<o:p></o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">The first thing you should do when you begin to use Craigslist is to sign up for an account.<span>  </span>Once you’ve done this, your ad posting will be quicker and much easier to do. After sign-up, you must confirm your e-mail address. The next step is, naturally, to read all of the Craigslist.com guidelines for the site and you should also review the terms and conditions to make sure you fully understand them.</span></strong></p>
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<p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">When you are ready to post, begin in the “Help” section.<span>  </span>You should just take a look at the “Classified Postings” area if this is your first time visiting the site. If you have some experience, feel free to skip this area. Particularly if you are trying to execute a business posting, you should definitely check out the FAQ’s.<span>  </span>This section will give you a good idea of some of the issues that can arise when posting, and how you can avoid them. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">Always keep in mind that you can only post ads that are actually related to the services or the products with that product or service category.<span>  </span>Your ad will be flagged if you attempt to post it in an area other than your specified category, and it will be deleted. This is a waste of your time and energy, so make sure to follow this guideline. .<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">As for Craigslist policy on flagging ads, they don’t flag ads, users of the site do. If your ad is flagged by enough users, it will be deleted. Its kind of interesting to note some of the recent postings on Craigslist.com. It seems as though there are a lot of lonely people in cyberspace, and some crazy people too!. They have appointed themselves the ad police and even if you feel your ad is a good one, and it meets the terms and conditions, it can still be “blackballed” if more than one person thinks its irrelevant, or incorrectly placed. . <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">Additionally, you are only allowed to post a single ad related to 1 product – and then you can only post every 48 hours – no exceptions. You can’t post the same ad twice either. You can post it the first time, then come back and renew the post when it expires (however, with my ebook you will find all the ways around this!). <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">Another common issue is posting too many ads or posting in the wrong category. For example, you can only use a commercial URL in the service category. There are, however, ways to get around some of these requirements. The first work-around is to use all Caps in the headline on one ad then upper and lower case on a different ad for the same thing.<span>  </span>This is sort of risky, however, because since all caps is considered “shouting” on the internet, it does put some users off.<span>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">The best way to get attention for your posting is to right an interesting headline, but not oversell or shout. Additionally, do not use your URL in the headline.<span>  </span>This is thought of as bad form.<span>  </span>Your headline is about 80% of the reason people will respond to the ad, so you are wasting some great ad space by including it, and it won’t be a point of interest for your user.<span>  </span>Just save it for the ad itself. You will have plenty of room there for your URL and other product or service descriptors..<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 18pt; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">Be careful of the text font that you use. You want something simple and easy to read so that users immediately understand your proposition. If its real products you are posting, you can do this almost anywhere on the site, but you can’t use a URL. If your are selling an affiliate product, you should cloak the link or something else that will not tip off the fact that its an affiliate product. Because you are not supposed to post affiliate links on Craigslist.org any more<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">You should also keep in mind that some Craigslist users are really value-driven and therefore are always looking for the low price. This may not be an issue with certain goods or services, but can be with others. That being said, there are still a good deal of small businesses that use the site for their own marketing with very high success.<span>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">Craigslist may not be for everyone, however. If you are selling a luxury item, or if you need walk-in traffic, you should look elsewhere for marketing tools. If your product or service offering is a good value, and personalized to the user, it can be a great vehicle for local marketing. Some services that have done well with Craigslist include hair stylists, tutors, consultants, mechanics, real estate agents, and the list goes on. In addition, selling goods like certain collectibles, used vehicles, instruments or furniture also can usually find a home on Craigslist. .<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">Craigslist works well when used as a community site.<span>  </span>People don’t trust companies that just try to execute their post, sell and move on. They like to interact with those they do business with in the “virtual <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Main Street</st1:address></st1:street>” section of the site, or people who also respond to other people’s postings and don’t only sell all of the time. This way, users see you as a buyer, as well as a seller. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">In some ways, you have to use some marketing strategy when you use Craigslist, but its also incredibly simple. Since Craigslist is a city/region-based, so your products or services should be posted in all relevant geographical sites. Don’t forget, however, that regions can overlap too. If your service area encompasses more than one city, make sure to post on other nearby city or region sites. You will really have your work cut out for you if you have a national reach to your product or service.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">The main thing to consider when posting on Craigslist is just to understand the guidelines and either stick directly to them, or know how far you can go outside of them without getting flagged.<span>  </span>Craigslist is not a site that tolerates spamming or going over the top with your advertising efforts. If you can stick close to the rules, however, you can gain some wonderful awareness and business. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p style="line-height: 150%" align="left"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">One great tip is to develop an ad that is customized for the city you post in.<span>  </span>Also, its an excellent idea to put your focus on a specific product or service, then rotate it according to a schedule you set. Also, don’t post a exact replica of an add within the 48 hour period, and remember to delete your older.<span>  </span>These Craigslist visitors can easily spot those who abuse the site and will not be very understanding of it. With the power of spam control with all of the users, you really need to be careful in the ways you handle your ads.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal">Be considerate and smart, and Craigslist can be a great addition to your marketing and sales efforts.</span></strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Netiquette is the acceptable behavior within a social marketing (Web 2.0) or social networking atmosphere. Failure to recognize these unspoken rules could mean little or no marketing results, or even worse, a disastrous effect on your image.
It is actually quite common for people to misuse social networks, and thus, receive no real benefit from them. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Netiquette is the acceptable behavior within a social marketing (Web 2.0) or <a href="http://thingstoknowonline.com/loves?social-networking"  class="alinks_links" onclick="return alinks_click(this);" title="social networking"  style="padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://socialnetworking.thingstoknowonline.com/wp-content/plugins/alinks/images/external.png) center right no-repeat;" rel="external">social networking</a> atmosphere. Failure to recognize these unspoken rules could mean little or no marketing results, or even worse, a disastrous effect on your image.</p>
<p>It is actually quite common for people to misuse social networks, and thus, receive no real benefit from them. In fact, more than anything among professional social networks people naturally have the wrong idea, and the few that do know what they are doing are experiencing great results.</p>
<p>What is the common problem? The problem is that marketers view these sites only as a means of advertising and sponsoring people into their businesses. Don&#8217;t get me wrong though, if used properly these sites will increase your businesses and income, but with a much stronger foundation.</p>
<p>First let&#8217;s go over what not to do through social marketing. As a side note, social marketing can mean any Web 2.0 social book-marking, content sharing, or social networking site. You should not blatantly shove your product or opportunity. Instead, you should be attracting people to you by offering value and information to other users. If you are becoming friends with users just to send them advertisements without attempting to build a personal relationship then you are misusing the site. In most cases it is also true that these users will not be responsive at all to your message and will just block or report you. However, once you have built a relationship with your contacts it is ok to send them an announcement of your product or opportunity along with an informative message on how it will help them. You should limit how often you do this, do not promote your stuff to them every day. Instead, bring them value 90% of the time and 10% promoting yourself or business. You will find that you are attracting more and more people to you instead of chasing people.</p>
<p>Another pitfall that some people fall into is conflicting with others within the social network. Know the difference between discussion and attacking. If you have a different view than someone else it is ok to voice your opinion but make sure to use facts and keep a constructive atmosphere.</p>
<p>Now let&#8217;s go over some tips for what you should try to do and accomplish through social networking sites.</p>
<p>1) You should build relationships</p>
<p>This one is obvious, but still needs to be mentioned because of its huge importance. People buy from people they like and trust. If that is you they will buy from you. Introduce yourself to other users, but spend more time asking and talking about them than yourself. Discover their goals and needs and help them achieve them. A simple way of showing value to your contacts is by teaching them how to use the social network if they have questions about certain features or customization options. You also need to keep a regular communication with your friends; this can be done on a mass scale through bulletins or by bulk e-mailing your friends. The communications should be value based and mostly informational, this will increase the likelihood of their interest in what you have to offer.</p>
<p>2) Help connect people to others</p>
<p>One thing you can do that will earn you major points with others is by introducing people to each other. You can do this through recommending friends who have similar interests. If your friends are involved in the same opportunity or sell the same product connect them so they can share with each other. If one of your friends sells something and another friend is looking to buy it, then that is a simple connection you can make. Now your friends will want to help you and the favor will be returned.</p>
<p>3) Evaluate your perspective</p>
<p>Are you constantly thinking about what others can do for you? Instead consider what you can do to help them. If your goal is to help others first you will build solid relationships and receive phenomenal results in your business. Ask others how you can possibly help them and they will see you as a valued friend.</p>
<p>4) Upload a photo and build a quality profile</p>
<p>Profiles with photos receive up to 70% more exposure. This shows the importance of adding a photo to your profile. If you do not have a photo of yourself you can put a photo of anything, the important thing is that you have a photo uploaded on your account.  You also need to take the time to build a quality profile. First, write briefly about yourself, provide some marketing tips or advice, and then feel free to write about the value that you can provide to others. Every friend of yours should be visiting your profile at least once, and if the network allows for you will be having views from non-friends or even non-members also.</p>
<p>5) Add and accept unlimited friends</p>
<p>Finally, your goal within the social network is to connect with as many people as possible. The more people you are friends with then the more exposure you can potentially have to your products or opportunities. Most social networks allow you to bulk contact your friends. You will use this feature in order to send helpful tips as well as promotions to all of your friends at once. This is why building up your friends list is even more valuable. If you are adding a lot of friends it is likely you will not be able to personally get in touch with all of them, in this case it is wise to show them your value and professionalism through your bulk communications to all of your friends so they can learn about you and the value you provide.</p>
<p>Social networks offer you the ability to get exposure but so much more. A huge benefit to social-networking is learning from others and being in an environment of shared knowledge. Take advantage of everything social networks have to offer and take the time to build quality relationships. I still work with other network marketers I met online over six years ago and these relationships have become highly valuable! In final words: Networking is a contact sport.</p>
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		<title>Effective Ways Of Using Squidoo To Promote Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Promoting your business site with Squidoo is one of the most effective affiliate marketing methods, right beside article marketing and blogging. It has become one of the most popular online marketing trends for a good reason.
Squidoo is an online community of lensmasters.  Lensmasters are Squidoo members that create content on Squidoo via Squidoo lenses, one-page [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Promoting your business site with Squidoo is one of the most effective affiliate marketing methods, right beside article marketing and blogging. It has become one of the most popular online marketing trends for a good reason.</p>
<p>Squidoo is an online community of lensmasters.  Lensmasters are Squidoo members that create content on Squidoo via Squidoo lenses, one-page information sites that serve to inform people of a certain topic or subject and to point the way, providing links to products, sites or giving product reviews.</p>
<p>Squidoo has many different aspects, such as member interaction via <a href="http://thingstoknowonline.com/loves?socialmediainspector" title="lens commenting made easy" target="_blank">commenting on lenses</a>, joining relevant groups or rating other members lenses. Promoting your affiliate sites or products on Squidoo has been made very easy and is actually welcomed, which is uncommon on the web today.</p>
<p>One of the best things about Squidoo is that the content created on it ranks extremely well in the search engines. It is highly optimized and many lenses to this day have made it to the first page of Google and other search engines with virtually no effort beyond making the lens and publishing it. This is probably the most important part of Squidoo.</p>
<p>Squidoo lenses give you the ability to rank very high in the search engines for your selected keywords, while giving you the ability to get high quality backlinks to your site, give your site or blog big exposure. Also, you can make affiliate sales directly from Squidoo by <a href="http://thingstoknowonline.com/loves?squidoo-queen" title="easy articles and squidoo" target="_blank">providing people info on a certain subject</a> and then directing them to selected products from stores such as Amazon and Ebay.</p>
<p>There are some things that you need to remember when using Squidoo to promote your personal website, affiliate page or squeeze page where you capture subscribers to your newsletter.</p>
<p>1. <strong>You must create quality content</strong>. Period. That means info that people can actually use.</p>
<p>2. If you have your own website, be sure to <strong>link to it from your Squidoo lenses and use an anchor text</strong> with the targeted keywords that you want your site to compete on in the search engines. This can give a great boost to your site&#8217;s search engine rankings.</p>
<p>3. <strong>Use social bookmarking</strong> to get the word out about your lens. This will give you more backlinks and more readers. And more sales.</p>
<p>4. <strong>Update your lenses at least one per week</strong> if you want to make a long term profit from them. There are two reasons for this. First, the more you update your lens, the better it will rank in Squidoo, which can give you more credibility as an expert on the subject. Second, you can track the click through rate and tweak the content to be more appealing.</p>
<p>5. <strong>Post constructive comments</strong> and compliment other people&#8217;s lenses. This will give you more traffic to your own lenses.</p>
<p>6. When you decide to create a lens, Squidoo will give you your own page that looks like this: Squidoo.com/nameofyourlens. Be sure to c<strong>hoose the name of your lens carefully</strong>, as well as the title of your lens. It must be something that clearly tells people what the lens is about.</p>
<p>Squidoo is a powerful asset for everyone who wants to make money online. Use it to get the word out about your site and to build your credibility, to create more presence in the search engines and to make sales. And then more sales.</p>
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<p>Josip Barbaric is a successful affiliate marketer and a Squidoo lensmaster. If you want to learn more on how to effectively promote your business and make money online, visit Josip&#8217;s affiliate marketing guide at http://www.heaven4affiliates.com</p>

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		<title>Social Networking For Network Marketers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Networking is simply the big topic right now, and even more so if you are in network marketing. First the only social networks were all free to join networks like MySpace and Facebook. Their networks are open to anyone and everyone, have grown like wildfire and became increasingly well known. Even network marketers have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thingstoknowonline.com/loves?social-networking"  class="alinks_links" onclick="return alinks_click(this);" title="social networking"  style="padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://socialnetworking.thingstoknowonline.com/wp-content/plugins/alinks/images/external.png) center right no-repeat;" rel="external">Social Networking</a> is simply the big topic right now, and even more so if you are in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=allcashmatter-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=external-search%3Fsearch-type=ss%26keyword=network+marketing%26index=books"  class="alinks_links" onclick="return alinks_click(this);"  style="padding-right: 13px; background: url(http://socialnetworking.thingstoknowonline.com/wp-content/plugins/alinks/images/external.png) center right no-repeat;" title="Network marketing on Amazon" rel="external">network marketing</a><img class="amazon_image" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=allcashmatter-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />. First the only social networks were all free to join networks like MySpace and Facebook. Their networks are open to anyone and everyone, have grown like wildfire and became increasingly well known. Even network marketers have joined and marketed their opportunities or products through these sites. It certainly does work even though these social networks aren&#8217;t even target audiences who would be more inclined to their offers.</p>
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<p>However, the value of marketing on Myspace and Facebook is quickly dropping. This is due to the massive release of new and niche focused social networks. The fact is that this year alone I have seen an increasing number of professional social networks geared towards network marketers launching and becoming increasingly popular. To name a few: TalkMoola.com, Zenzuu, Friendswin, Yuwie, and Wowzza. A couple older ones are DirectMatches, AdLandPro, and even Ryze. Honestly I wouldn&#8217;t even be the least bit surprised to see a few more start-up this year - that is how much it is catching on! It is also obvious why they do become so popular among network marketers, because there is no better advertising than targeted advertising. Exposing your business opportunity, system, or product to other network marketers is simply the most effective thing to do. Once a network marketer joins you they already have had their foot in the door and are somewhat knowledgeable about the industry and can greatly help your business. However if a random person from MySpace sees and joins your business they are not nearly as valuable to you because they most likely have no idea what they are doing or what network marketing is even about.</p>
<p>So when network marketers are invited with the ability to join a social network full of network marketers it is almost a no-brainer. Just to clarify why I said &#8220;almost&#8221;&#8230; It is because not all network marketers have caught on to the power of social networking yet or how to properly use social networking to explode their businesses. But the ability to further expose themselves and their business to other like-minded people is extremely valuable and profitable for most. The old way of network marketing is out, and I see the future holding tight to social marketing through professional social networks. Even so, many of these new business social networks are offering incentives for those who join. These range from revenue sharing, direct affiliate commissions, and various MLM pay plans. This only supports the increasing awareness and exposure that I believe these new networks will and deserve to receive.</p>
<p>All professional social networks, however, are not created equal. Here are a few things you need to look out for when deciding which ones you will utilize in exposing yourself and your opportunities.</p>
<p><strong>1) Somewhat Targeted or Extremely Targeted?</strong></p>
<p>When looking over your social networks find out if the people involved in the social network are the type of people who would be interested in what you have to offer, or are like-minded to you. This means that if you are a network marketer looking to provide an opportunity to other network marketers then the people involved in the social network should be strictly network marketers. Does the social network include people looking for a date or love? If the social network includes this or niches totally unrelated to you then this weakens the potential of that network for you. However, if the social network is only network marketers or business opportunity seekers then it is an incredible source for you.</p>
<p><strong>2) Are there limitations on contacting your friends in bulk?</strong></p>
<p>Building up your friends list on social networks is one major thing you need to do to get the most exposure. This means accepting friend invitations from those within the social network and also seeking out other like-minded to add to your network of friends. The larger your list of friends the more active you will appear to be and the more people will take heart to what you have to say. It also means more people who you can send messages to through the social network. Some social networks limit the amount of people you are able to send a message to at once. For example you have 100 friends and they limit you to only 30 people per message, this is a negative thing and is especially bad if you have a much larger network of friends. On the other hand, some social networks will let you add unlimited friends and you can send them a bulletin or message to all your friends at once anytime with ease. This is what you should be looking for because whether you have 100 friends, 1,000 or even 10,000 you can send them all a message just as easily as if you were sending it to one. This means potentially huge exposure for you. If you want you can even consider it like an instant contact list of targeted prospects! However, I do warn about sending too much unwanted messages to your friends, you should try to connect with them and send them as much quality information as you can instead and then lightly introduce what you have to offer. If you consistently send what they would consider as spam messages they will just block you or remove you from their friends&#8217; network, so using the social network properly is important.<br />
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3) Are the members free, paid, or both?</strong></p>
<p>The quality of the membership is another factor. If the membership is mostly free then they are less likely to be purchase ready. However, if the membership is all paid and everyone is used to paying to be a part of the social network then these are the highest quality members you can get in touch with because they will have the money to invest in working with you. Mixed is fine though as this factor is not as important as the first two.</p>
<p><strong>4) What are the other site incentives?</strong></p>
<p>This is the least important but should still be mentioned. Other incentives could be the pay plan such as revenue sharing, affiliate commissions, or some type of matrix structure. It could also be other services provided with your cost of the membership such as training, tools, or other bonuses. Keep in mind, even if they do not offer great incentives but the rest of the above factors are positive I would still be excited to join.</p>
<p>Right now there is not a huge selection of targeted professional social networks but I am positive that the future will hold true for more and more becoming available. Personally I like to take advantage and join any social network because that is extra exposure for me, and any extra exposure is always a good thing. However when choosing to be most active in select networks you may want to consider the above factors. I have created many strong relationships, learned a lot, taught a lot, and profited a lot from those relationships within social networks. I recommend taking advantage of any professional social network, especially niche ones that have like-minded individuals similar to yourself. The benefits can be enormous.</p>
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<p>Darren Olander is dedicated to teaching others how to create a success online through internet network marketing strategies. He is a site owner, article writer, coach &amp; marketing consultant enjoying the benefits of working full time from home. Learn more about him at http://www.darrenolander.com</p>

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		<title>Getting Started on MySpace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People in business who don&#8217;t have a presence on MySpace are missing out on an enormous marketing opportunity. There are hundreds of millions of people who regularly use the MySpace site. That equates to hundreds of millions of potential business contacts. MySpace is also absolutely free to use. In all frankness, applying a MySpace presence [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People in business who don&#8217;t have a presence on <a href="http://thingstoknowonline.com/loves?myspace-secrets" title="Myspace Secrets" target="_blank">MySpace</a> are missing out on an enormous marketing opportunity. There are hundreds of millions of people who regularly use the MySpace site. That equates to hundreds of millions of potential business contacts. MySpace is also absolutely free to use. In all frankness, applying a MySpace presence does require some time and effort if one is looking to get maximum value; but the time and effort required doesn&#8217;t have to be overwhelming, and can provide significant results besides.</p>
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<p>The first way to establish a presence on MySpace is to sign up for a MySpace account. Getting a MySpace account is virtually an automatic process and doesn&#8217;t require any sort of payment: MySpace generates income by displaying advertising, not by charging users. Once a MySpace account has been established, a person is provided with what is known as a profile. This profile is pretty much what the name would imply: a profile of the MySpace user. Profiles can be presented in any number of ways, and can even be decorated according to individual tastes. When it comes to a MySpace profile, it&#8217;s best to give one&#8217;s profile a nice look and feel. This implies giving a level of effort to the MySpace experience.</p>
<p>Some people new to MySpace aren&#8217;t sure where to start when it comes to decorating their profiles. An obvious resource is to browse other MySpace profiles. There are some very creative profile designs to be seen, which can provide not only ideas but also inspiration. It&#8217;s best practice to present a MySpace profile in a way that appropriately reflects your MySpace presence. For instance, if you&#8217;re promoting an insurance business you probably don&#8217;t want a MySpace profile that&#8217;s especially wild and crazy. On the other hand, if your business is fun then your profile should be too. Something to ideally avoid is to leave one&#8217;s MySpace profile set at default. Default MySpace profiles are pretty drab to look at it, and give the impression of a lack of care and effort.</p>
<p>Once you have a MySpace profile up and running, the final order of business is to query other people for your friend&#8217;s list. Putting a friend&#8217;s list together simply adding other people&#8217;s profiles to your MySpace page. Having a friend&#8217;s list is crucial however if one wants to develop any sort of network, whether it be for business or social reasons. Without a friend&#8217;s list, your MySpace profile will be nothing more than a drop in the ocean: no one will be aware of it. But once you <a href="http://thingstoknowonline.com/loves?adding-myspace-friends" title="Adding Myspace Friends" target="_blank">start adding friends</a>, people become aware of you and your profile starts to stand out. Then you&#8217;re truly part of the MySpace experience.</p>
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<p>Zinn Jeremiah is a freelance writer. For MySpace resources, visit http://www.hubonline.biz/juice-your-profile.htm .</p>

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		<title>Marketing Your Business on Craigslist / Craigslist Phone Accounts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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From e-commerce websites to furniture wholesalers, small businesses both online and off are realizing the marketing power of Craigslist.org. Founded in 1996 by Craig Newmark, Craigslist.org gets an estimated 10 million unique visitors per day. With an online classified ads format organized by either region or city, Craigslist connects buyers and sellers in [...]]]></description>
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<p>From e-commerce websites to furniture wholesalers, small businesses both online and off are realizing the marketing power of Craigslist.org. Founded in 1996 by Craig Newmark, Craigslist.org gets an estimated 10 million unique visitors per day. With an online classified ads format organized by either region or city, Craigslist connects buyers and sellers in more than 300 communities; for the most part, posting on the site is free.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve never heard of Craigslist or never considered using the site to market your business, the following tips will help you determine whether it might be a good fit for you and offer another outlet for marketing your products and services.</p>
<p><strong>What Sells Best on Craigslist</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>From services like tutoring, car repair and real estate to products such as wholesale furniture, consignment goods and retail e-commerce, Craigslist is the ultimate destination for online marketers. If you manufacture goods, provide services directly or sell products regionally, Craigslist is a marketing tool you should consider. You can also easily promote an eBay store, a franchise operation or a referral partner. And it&#8217;s a bourgeoning business opportunity for affiliates and webmasters looking for new ways to find customers.</p>
<p><strong>Identifying Your Market</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>Like any other advertising medium, Craigslist requires some strategy, though paramount to its usefulness is simplicity. To start, you need to determine which city or cities you&#8217;re going to post an ad. If you&#8217;re a service provider, you can identify available cities on Craigslist that encompass your service region. Keep in mind that some regions overlap. For instance, if you&#8217;re a mobile groomer working in Orange County, California, but service from Los Angeles to San Diego, Craigslist reaches your service area across four cities. So you&#8217;d want to develop your messaging and a posting schedule in each of these regions to increase your exposure. If you sell a product or offer a service nationwide, the opportunity to reach new customers is even greater.</p>
<p>Posting on Craigslist, either nationally or locally, requires an understanding of the rules. Craigslist has in place&#8211;a set of rules that prohibits advertisers from over-posting or spamming users. You can follow these rules and still get excellent exposure. To start, develop unique ads for each city you post in, focus on specific products and rotate them on a promotional schedule. Never post the exact same ad within 48 hours, and be careful to delete your old ad. Craigslist users are quick to spot businesses that misuse the system and can be quite unforgiving. The Craigslist flagging system puts the power of spam control into the hands of the users.</p>
<p><strong>Building Ads</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>Building an ad on Craigslist can be as simple as typing in some text, or you can incorporate html and images. Typically, what works best is the direct approach. For instance, if you&#8217;re a real estate agent using Craigslist to promote properties for sale, build a text ad that incorporates images of the properties for sale&#8211;you don&#8217;t need to know html to do this. Simply define what property specifications best sell the property and keep the sales pitch to a minimum. Be sure to include important search words, such as “three bedroom” or “condominium,” as well as regional identifiers including a ZIP code, city or community name. You do this so that people who search for specific items find you in the search results.</p>
<p>Craigslist’s search function isn&#8217;t based on a search algorithm; instead, search results are displayed first by date, then by keyword. This makes the text content of your ad extremely important. Ads with images only increase ad effectiveness. And adding images to your ad isn&#8217;t difficult. If you&#8217;re not web savvy, use the &#8220;upload image&#8221; function available during the posting process. (If you want to feature a large image or more than one, you&#8217;ll need to upload your images to your own web server and reference them inside your ad using basic html.) Images, however, are not required. Often the best performing ads on Craigslist are simple text ads that get straight to the point.</p>
<p><strong>Tracking Results</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>If you plan to post in multiple cities and offer specific promotions, tracking which ads produce the best results is important. You can track a Craigslist ad by e-mail, phone number or website referral. Each tracking mechanism should feature a unique component like a custom e-mail address, telephone extension or website referral code. How you choose to track should depend on your industry and the typical methods customer use to communicate with you. Unlike eBay, Craigslist does not provide you with any demographic or tracking data.</p>
<p>Regardless of whether you sell a product or service, it&#8217;s important to understand the competitive landscape on a daily or weekly basis. Supply and demand for certain products or services will fluctuate. Take the time to get to know the other players in your cities or categories. If you see a rush on a certain product, focus on something complimentary. For instance, if you&#8217;re a mattress wholesaler and see that a large number of a specific brand and/or size mattresses are flooding your market, either price match or focus your energy on a different size or bed frame until the market stabilizes. Also, take into consideration the season and the demographic (both income and recreational) of the cities in which you post. In the winter, a snowmobile will not sell nearly as well in California as it will in Vermont.</p>
<p><strong>Community Commitment</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>As an open market, Craigslist welcomes sellers from all walks of life. Keep in mind that as a business owner, you&#8217;re just as likely to compete with everyday people selling the contents of their attic as you are a national brand retailer with sights on breaking into your market. The community element sets Craigslist apart from its competitors. Harness the power of your community by doing more than just posting. The most trafficked area of Craigslist is the forums. Use the forums to communicate with fellow sellers and potential buyers or to establish an active, ethical voice for your business.</p>
<p><strong>Selling Safely</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>Fraud exists in every corner of the business world, both online and offline. The anonymous nature of Craigslist&#8211;the very thing that makes it so popular&#8211;is also the reason you should take measures to protect yourself against fraud. With no member or seller ratings system, Craigslist can fall prey to scam artists. Make an effort to talk to each new customer via phone, only ship items once payment is received, and always use your best judgment when it comes to business transactions.</p>
<p>Craigslist continues to experience rapid growth&#8211;additional cities have come online in recent months and more are expected to launch throughout the next year. The buzz about this great resource is sweeping the nation, and every day people from all over the world are visiting the site, looking to buy from trusted sellers and service providers. Get in on the action by harnessing the marketing power of Craigslist.</p>
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		<title>Understanding Social Bookmarketing and Delicious</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delicious is a social bookmarking system, that is notable, not only for its unusual web address http://del.icio.us, but for its unusual approach to content building that is becoming increasingly popular. In order to ease the burden of producing consistent stream of fresh content, publishers are turning to users to build, categorize and qualify content. While [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Delicious is a social bookmarking system, that is notable, not only for its unusual web address http://del.icio.us, but for its unusual approach to content building that is becoming increasingly popular. In order to ease the burden of producing consistent stream of fresh content, publishers are turning to users to build, categorize and qualify content. While this is said to be part of the web 2.0 phenomenon, publishers realize the value of collaboration.</p>
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<p>Social bookmarking allows users to qualify content. With Delicious, each &#8220;bookmark&#8221; of a specific webpage is seen as a vote of confidence. The more people who bookmark a specific webpage, the more credible the webpage is viewed.</p>
<p>In addition to bookmarking a webpage, users &#8220;tag&#8221; the webpage. The tags are simply single word keywords that relate to the contents of the webpage. The tagging associates keywords with the webpage&#8217;s content, making it easier to categorize and classify the content of the webpage. If everyone bookmarking a page uses similar keyword tags, the webpage will be classified as a credible resource in a specific category.</p>
<p>As a webpage receives more and more bookmarks from different Delicious users, the listing for the webpage becomes more prominent in the Delicious listings. Delicious users can bookmark and tag multiple pages within a website. Content can be tagged with multiple terms. As more users tag the content, it becomes easier to find similar topics.</p>
<p>How to Use Delicious:</p>
<p>1. Create a Delicious Account</p>
<p>In order to create a Delicious account, you will need to provide a valid e-mail address, login name and password.</p>
<p>2. Verify an Account</p>
<p>An e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address provided when the Delicious account was created. You will need to click the link in the e-mail in order to fully activate the Delicious account.</p>
<p>3. Login</p>
<p>Login in to the Delicious account in order to begin bookmarking and tagging content.</p>
<p>4. Post URL</p>
<p>Enter the URL of a webpage or website that you find to be particularly valuable or useful.</p>
<p>5. Describe &amp; Tag</p>
<p>Enter a descriptive page title and description that relates to the contents of the bookmarked webpage. In the final field enter single word keywords that relate to the webpages content, these will be the &#8220;tags&#8221;.</p>
<p>Why Use Delicious?</p>
<p>Delicious can be used by professionals to share industry resources that are particularly useful. Delicious users store their favorite websites or resources online and other users can easily access bookmarks. Often websurfers will use Delicious to find resources that they consider to be relevant and qualified.</p>
<p>Delicious also takes advantage of RSS. RSS feeds can be used to syndicate user bookmarks or to aggregate content with the same tags. Generating RSS feeds allows users to syndicate bookmarks or to aggregate content that contains related tags. Users can also syndicate bookmarks that are created by other users using RSS feeds.</p>
<p>Bookmarks</p>
<p>Many users generate bookmarks that are all related as in this case of bookmarks all related to RSS: http://del.icio.us/rssfeeds or the RSS feed of the same bookmarks at: http://del.icio.us/rss/rssfeeds</p>
<p>Other user bookmarks don&#8217;t encompass a single theme as is the case with the following: http://del.icio.us/oreck or the RSS feed of the same bookmarks at: http://del.icio.us/rss/oreck</p>
<p>As publishers struggle to create unique content, they are turning towards web surfers to qualify and categorize content. As a result social-bookmarking is becoming more prevalent as users weigh-in.</p>
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<p>About the Author:<br />
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for NotePage http://www.notepage.net a wireless text messaging software company.</p>

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