Friday’s Finds — 09/21/2007

Social Media has played a huge role in my online experience this week. Chalk another one up for StumbleUpon (SU). I thought I’d share a couple of helpful links I found via SU; show how Su has helped my traffic; and, introduce you to some more social media that looks just as promising.

• This week, Brian Clark over at CopyBlogger posted an interesting study about using instructions in anchor text versus descriptive anchor text. Maybe this observation needs to be narrowed down to split articles and previews, but the results of the study were pretty interesting. Click here to read more.
• Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog did a guest post at CopyBlogger. Normally I wouldn’t lead you to one blog twice in Friday’s Finds; but this post expands upon the previous post, “Click here”. Ben suggests using links and specific styles of anchor text for different reasons by offering Five Types of
  Links and how to use them.
• Referrals have played an important role in my traffic this week. I received a total of 1,445 referrals from Google for Kyla Ebbert (the Hooters waitress kicked off the Southwest Airlines plane), 3,405 referrals from StumbleUpon for the Andrew Meyer taser story, and 280 referrals to my NFL Week 2 recap by being linked from a larger sports blog. Tad Chef over at SEO 2.0 shows a similar breakdown of traffic on his blog…declaring StumbleUpon “the most successful social browsing service”.
• BlogCatalog has introduced a new feature called Groups, which is currently in beta. From what I can tell, it is very similar to StumbleUpon. I urge those of you that use BlogCatalog to check it out.

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