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Contribute To The Success Of Social Bookmarking Sites
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Social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon, Mixx, and Furl can greatly contribute to the success of your blog or website by giving your articles priceless exposures, and page ranks. These sites are gold mines, imagine having your articles promoted to millions of users. No wonder social bookmarking sites are also being abused by some users, and a must-target by spammers.
If we want long term success in social bookmarking sites, perhaps we should think about the success of the bookmarking site first. How can we be successful if the bookmarking site we are in starts to go down?
Here are some ways to contribute to their success:
Submit Quality Contents
- Content is the bread and butter, the heart and soul of all social bookmarking sites. People visit popular bookmarking sites for its content. Submitting quality articles, photos, and videos will help the bookmarking sites’ growth.
Be Courteous
- Remember that social bookmarking sites is a community. There are different demographics in different sites. As a citizen of whichever bookmarking site, please be courteous towards other bookmarkers especially to new ones. You are representing a community, you don’t want your community to be reputed as rude, hostile, or vulgar.
A Walkthrough To Better Forum Credibility
Forum is an online discussion site, wherein members can collaborate and share interests with each other. Forums are rich grounds for socialization. If you are running a blog or any other site, forums can help you a lot in many ways: From generating traffics to gathering important tips and other useful information.
Maximizing the capability of forums is simple, yet many people doesn’t know how to do it. Building up your credibility is the most important thing you should consider if you wish to be effective in forums. Image is everything.
Here’s a simple guide on how to groom and build-up your credibility in forums:
AVATAR
Have you ever took a second look to someone with a beautiful face? I bet you had. Avatars is like your face in real life. It helps you grab attention and make that very first impression. Be sure to choose avatar that best suits you.
I recommend you to have your own photo as your avatar. It’s more professional and courteous in a way.
Things to avoid:
- Animated Images (.GIF) – Though it catches attention, it can also annoy readers.
- Adult/Pornographic Images – Be suitable for all audiences. Members of adult forums may be exempted.
- Images with vulgar texts
If you wish to be respected in forums, place a respectable image. Credibility starts with your avatar.
Be More Internet Friendly
Ever encountered these things? 
8-) They are called “Smileys” or “Emoticons” - Emotion Icons. These emoticons is used to express one’s emotion in text. Putting these on emails, comments, chats, etc. will definitely make them more expressive, and more friendly. I’m one avid fan of emoticons, as a matter of fact, 90% of my comments and chats contains emoticons. However, not only emoticons can help express emotions through text. There’s also CAPITAL LETTERS, Exclamation Point!, (symbols) @%#^&*$((*#, and (direct text) *sob* *huhu* *haha* *zZzZz* *joking*.
Subtle emotions and meanings can be difficult to transmit through text, as well as satire and humor. These may be misinterpreted as sarcasm, rudeness or an insult. Perhaps these are just result of being absent minded or poor structure of phrase, and not intended the way it was perceived. Putting suitable smileys or other emotion text can save them from being misunderstood.
Ex: “Of course not. I’d rather go alone.”
vs
“Of course not! I’d rather go alone. *kidding*”
Expressing emotions should be used sparingly and responsibly. Thus these may also gravitate anger and other unpleasant expressions.
Invite Traffic To Your Blog By Being Inviting
What is the first thing you’ll do when someone is going to pay you a visit? Perhaps you’re going to fix yourself, clean your place, make sure everything is in order. I’m sure you don’t want your visitors to see your place is at mess. I believe cleaning your place is the most basic act of courtesy one can show to their guests. This gives them the impression that they are welcome to your place.
The same concept applies on our blog. We should keep our blog clean to make it very inviting to our visitors. You don’t want to spoil a good chance to give a pleasant impression to your readers. Even if your contents are good but your site is cluttered and difficult to read, I don’t think your readers will enjoy your posts that much. Perhaps they’ll just browse through and leave – I am guilty of this. When I visit a blog and felt like it’s a mess, I’ll just look at the latest post’s title. If nothing caught my attention, I’ll hop to another blog. On the other hand, if I find the blog is clean I usually stay there for about 5 minutes and see what it has to offer.
Messy blogs can also degrade the value of your blog’s design. It’s senseless to have a very sleek or very cool blog layout when you don’t know how to clean up your blog! Isn’t it much better to visit a place that is not-so well designed but very well-kept? than a well designed but run-down?
Create A Better Internet: The Internet Etiquette
I’ve been writing about random topics for quite a while, tough this blog is supposed to be in “Self-Improvement” niche. I love to inspire, motivate, and help improve the quality of life by sharing my thoughts and experiences. But now I think I’m into blog improvement, increase traffic & page ranks, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), MMO (Make Money Online) and social medias. It seems like my interests have been shifting back and forth, but I noticed that they have the same bottom line: Improvement. At least I’m still on the “Improvement” track (LOL)
Well, perhaps my ‘main’ interest is to help improve, enhance, upgrade, build or create something of value; and it confirms as I browsed my archives. It seems like I constantly, unconsciously, add the “improvement” ingredient every time I cook a post. I guess “improvement” has been my main ingredient after all.
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INTRODUCTION TO INTERNET ETIQUETTE
So much for that very long introduction. All I want to do is introduce you to the Internet Etiquette, and notify you all that I’m going to have a steady stream of posts about it for the mean time. *PEACE*
WHAT IS INTERNET ETIQUETTE?
Internet Etiquette or “Netiquette” refers to the practices that were developed to make the experience of internet users pleasant. There were some rules described by Internet Engineering Task Force or (IETF) in RFC 1855, however due to the evolution of the internet these rules now vary from community to community. Well, ‘netiquette’ is primarily concerned about matters of courtesy over the internet.