O.K., I am going to admit that I first joined StumbleUpon as part of a strategy that the “SEO [Search Engine Optimization] Gurus” recommend to create backlinks to your blog content from social bookmarking sites like Digg and Reddit. The idea being that the more links you have from other sites, the higher your SEO will be. And, as anyone who has ever used StumbleUpon just for this reason will tell you, you quickly realize that you are just wasting your time because just by thumbing up your own blog posts you are not gaining any significant additional traffic to …
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Neal Schaffer is a recognized leader in helping businesses to strategically leverage and maximize ROI from social business. Currently SVP of Social Strategies at Social 5150 as well as Green Dream Social, Neal is the author of two social media books and frequent social media speaker. Neal's social media strategy consulting accomplishments include working for a Fortune 500 company and a celebrity with nearly 1,000,000 social media fans. How can Neal help you?
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