Today i'm going to share with you four relatively new sites. They are all quickly growing buying off of the success of Digg, and have based their sites in a similar scenario. You post your articles to the sites and they are "dugg" or voted for like digg and if they reach the first page they recieve alot of traffic. However these sites are very new, I had an article be the top post for a few days on one and recieved only about 30 visitors from it, which isn't alot obviously. But these sites are growing very rapidly and imagine having the top post on digg now, it'd be thousands and thousands of visitors. That's why you need to get into these sites now, make friends and grow in popularity, so that  when they become big you will already have a large fan base in it, imagine being the top user of digg you think they get alot of traffic?

The first one is not that new, but is still new enough so that with 30 votes you can reach the first page.

Sphinn

The next three are all very new and with 10-15 votes you can be the top post for the day. Which will give you some traffic, but remember. Find the people who voted for your blog and add them as friends. Comment and vote for their posts in return. Build a friend base and post your articles on it. As your friends and the sites grow you will recieve more and more vistis from these. Jump in now while you can!

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Internet marketers, bloggers, advertiser, and online writers alike hate Google, and here's why. Because Google owns an unchallenged monopoly in the internet world. And if you are arguing that Yahoo, and msn are challengers, well they are as much a challenger as Dal LaMagna is for winning the Democratic Party.

Let's face it, if google hates your site, then it's finished, especially if your trying to earn something like the adsense check of shoemoney. Google has complete control and can either make or break your blog. Nobody is comfortable knowing that their site, is merely a ship in the hands of the Da Mighty Google Ocean, and can be sunk at any point.

The question  you have to face with google is, some money now? or possibly a lot of money later? Are you ignoring the smaller fish and keeping your net in for the big fish? or settling for money now. Every owner of a website who is interested in making money, has to decide between things like pay per post, bidvertiser,and paid per review programs, or the possible jackpot of adsense.

A perfect example of this is, the popular john chow and johncow sites. They have a page rank of 4 and 3. Now if you don't quite understand how low this is then let me explain, this site has a page rank of 3 after a month. John chow has 15,000 RSS subscribers and thousands of visitors a day yet has an awful pagerank, that is not the only determining factor, but "generally" if you have a lot of visitors you have a high page rank. If you look at the john chow and john cow sites you will see links to the bidvertiser and pay per post sites, google hates these. If you go to problogger or shoemoney you won't. Hence their page rank of 6.

Now people just starting websites hate this decision, I mean it's like the TV show deal or no deal, do you settle for that first call from the banker or wait for possibly a jackpot. This is why everybody hates google, because nobody wants to make that decision.

And if you decide to try for the big fish, the 100,000$ ad sense check then you need google to love you, until you have such a steady source of traffic that you don't need to rely on google anymore. Then you can kiss google goodbye and join programs like, ppp, and Bidvertiser… And rely on your consistent traffic to give you the tons of money provided in adsense.

If you're completely new to squidoo, check out my Squidoo in 3 Easy Steps article.

A squidoo lens is a great SEO and traffic building tool, but it's probably more powerful than it looks at first glance. If you write an aritlce make a lens, link to your site, and then leave it, you are not using squidoo to it's full potential. You are missing out on a powerful and authoritative one-way link from a high-ranking website. Yeah, I know, sounds a bit propaganda-ish, but there is a lot of truth in what I just said. Let's take a look.

A squidoo lens should be considered a whole webpage of it's own. Believe it or not, squidoo lenses get high rankings in Google. If you play your cards right, you can ramp up the authority of your squidoo lens in Google, and then pass that authority on to your site with a link. So how do you build up the authority of your lens?

(1) Well, how do you build authority to any site? In fact, what's the point of having a squidoo lens in the first place? That's right, links. So, just like any site (which is how you should treat your squidoo lens) that you're trying to get to rank well in search engines and in general, you get links. It really doesn't matter how, but link-building is a great way to build authority to your lens. You might try submitting to a few site directories, or linking from a blogger you created for that purpose.

(2) Another great way to build authority, as always, is with social media. And, as always, it comes with a double bonus: links AND traffic. Bookmarking is probably one of the best ways to get authority to your site in Google's eyes. A few words that should help spark your memory… digg, del.icio.us, sphinn, reddit, stumbleupon, and all that other good stuff. Just bookmark your article (this is where having a good article comes in handy, because the better the content, the more likely it is that people will like it. The more likely that people will like it, the more likely they are to bookmark it, and then you get all the goodies… i.e. traffic and links).

So now you're working to get your squidoo lens to rank number one in Google, and you're trying to pass it as much authority as you can. Here are some more features of squidoo you can utilize if you want to drill down and really stretch squidoo to its full potential.

(3) One thing that you'll definitely want to do is join relevant groups. This will get you mixed in with the squidoo community of lens masters (that's what they call members of squidoo… 'lens masters'). To join a group, first go to your dashboard and click  the 'My Groups' tab at the top of the page. Joining groups can also raise your rankings within squidoo (always a good thing) and get your lens more views from inside of squidoo, which is also good, because squidoo users have the ability to rate lenses. If you can get people to rate your lens well, your authority will rise within the squidoo site.

(4) Another good thing to do is add more relevant tags to your lens. Squidoo has you create 3 initial tags, but you can add more later, up to 40 in fact. These can be multiple word phrases, or individual keywords. Take advantage of this. When you create tags, it gets some internal linking going around the squidoo server, and Google loves links, including internal linking. Essentially, that means this for you:

lots of tags = happy Google

A good equation if you ask me. If you already have a lens, just go to your dashboard, go to the 'My Lenses' tab, and click the 'Edit' button. Once the page has loaded, you should see a sidebar pop up on the right, with your text modules, introduction modules, and RSS modules on the left. In the sidebar on the right there should be a 'Tags' option. Click the orange edit button directly to the left, and then add some relevant tags.

So, that does it for this post. If you poke around on squidoo for a while, you're bound to turn up a lot of interesting info; it's actually quite a nice little site, besides its uses for the internet marketer and blogger. Feel free to ask any quesitons you might have about the post, or topics raised by the post, I'd be happy to try to answer as best I can.

I have not done one of these yet so we'll see how successful it will be. I am offering 500 entrecard credits to the winner of this raffle. It will be determined randomly, but you can have more entries by doing these things… If you digg and stumble this article, then you will recieve two entries, if you subscribe to my RSS feed you will get two entries, if you sphinn it you will get one, if you comment you will get one.Thanks I hope this is successful and I look forward to giving a ton of credits to one lucky person. This contest will run till Feb 1st.

 article can be dugg here

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rssHugger is a new social site for bloggers. Their point, they say, is to bring bloggers and readers closer together.

The look of the homepage is profesional, clean, and nicely colored. It is brand new, so jump in while you can. One of my philosophies is to jump into a site as soon as you can, and gain all the authority you can while the site is in it's first stages of growth. Then, when the site becomes popular and much more powerful, you have a lot of weight to throw around. It's run by human administrators, and your blog will only be accepted if it's good quality.

 They've got a very interesting strategy going here to get publicity. They require a post about their site on your blog in order to put submit a blog to their directory. You can also pay a 20$ dollar one time fee, but no one's going to do that.

 It makes a great one-way link, and when rssHugger get's bigger, it will be a great way to get direct traffic through the link as well. It's exactly what they say on the homepage, "quality, spam free, and viral rss directory strictly for bloggers". 

Opt in while you can.