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Excerpt: As promised, this post is on social media to increase traffic for blogs. Social media is quite a vague term but it is generally accepted to mean any thing from leaving comments in a blog to the large content community sites. A good blog should foster opportunities for communities to interact. Not only does it have a feel good factor that make you want to carry on writing a blog but it also reduces reliance on traffic from search engines and the whims of the mighty Google. The key to success of a blog is to create content that will…

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Excerpt: Introduction Increasingly when you visit a web site, you will notice that there are lots of strange icons that take you to sites with strange names. These are social bookmarking sites and they allow you to add sites of interest and share them with other people. The idea being that sites with good or useful content are being flagged up, enhancing the user experience. Are they a useful for SEO or will they just become another way to collect spam? The Origin of Social Bookmarking Sites Although we are seeing a proliferation of social bookmarking sites, they actually date back quite a long…