Maximize The Use of Delicious

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November 22, 2011, I started using Delicious for my sharing activities, I had already created at least six stack. with different article links taken from different publishing sites that published my articles like Triond, Wikinut, Squidoo, ExpertsColumn – including article links from my two blog sites: My Star Articles and My Article Photo Blog. So far I have two featured stacks: Triond Star Pages and the Star Article Blog. What good at Delicious, you can add more links to every stack you created.

Delicious is quite similar to StumbleUpon, especially now that StumbleUpon has made some changes on their site. At Delicious you can share your awesome articles, photos and videos and other stuff to other Delicious users. The site has the potential to bring traffics and views to your article pages too as well as to the sites that published them.

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Your Voice is Your Weapon

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If you're writing at Hub Pages - follow its site policy. Duplicated text in your article can cause you to be kicked-off-out from the site. You're not given the credit even though you first published your article on their site before you revised it and offered it to other paying sites or before you shared it to your own blog site - your published article on their site will be turned off and marked it as unpublished.

On November 28, 2011, I published one article at HubPages entitled: Delicious an Appetizing Site. On the same day around 9PM, I made some revisions of the said article and offered it to Triond. I replaced the title to Pruelpo is Sharing a Short Review About Delicious, re wrote the summary and added more information on the article body particularly the history of Delicious site and Triond approved and published it. The next day, November 29, 2011, again I revised the article, replaced the title to Delicious for Storing, Sharing and Discovering Web Bookmarks, re wrote the summary and added some links of the samples of stacks I created on Delicious site and offered it to Wikinut. The site approved and published it. The article received a star.

This morning, I received an alert from HubPages Editor said, "Please review the automatically generated warning below, and correct the problem if possible. These warnings are only visible to you, the author. This Hub seems to contain text that also appears on another page and may be unpublished as a result. If you revise the content so that it is unique to this Hub, it will automatically be rechecked for duplication.

"The issue of duplicate content on HubPages is completely separate from issues of plagiarism or copyright. All that it means is that we found text very similar to what is contained in this Hub elsewhere on the Web. Promotional or affiliate links are strictly prohibited on Hubs identified as duplicate.

"Please do not contact us to say that this is your original content that is published on another site. However, if you believe that this content should not appear anywhere else on the Internet, please contact us. Include the URL or title of this Hub in your message."

As fast as lightning, I opened my HubPage account and went directly to the article and edited it. However, I did not change any text of the whole article because in my thought - if I change the text of the original article I published on that site, the originality of the article will become invalid so instead, I just added some important notes - I quoted them here said, "HubPages is the first to publish this article before I offered this to other sites including my blog site as per the attached links:

Pruelpo is Sharing a Short Review About Delicious | Webupon
Delicious for Storing, Sharing and Discovering Web Bookmarks
My Star Articles: Review About Delicious--an Awesome Bookmarking Site

"I am the original author of all the articles I published. I also kicked off thieves. I hate plagiarists and spammers too. In other times, when I write articles based from researched, I always mentioned the sources. Now, if this article will be the cause that Hub Pages will delete my hub account because the site has spotted some duplicated text in spite I confirmed that I am the original author and also testified that this article was first published at Hub Pages site, it is your right and I have no right to object it.

"Go ahead delete my account. No hurt feelings, I already saved all the articles I published here at my blog site http://pruelpostararticles.blogspot.com/." After adding some notes I resubmitted the article for consideration.

What came next, I received again an alert said, "HubPages now has a Google+ page. Add us to your circles to get insider tips, updates, and more!" For me this is evidence that HubPages already has broken its policy that said, "Promotional or affiliate links are strictly prohibited on Hubs."

How to Avoid Flaming in The Net

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Flaming in the net occurs when someone attacked the person, insulted him personally, or criticized the person who authored the article. However, if someone has criticized the ideas injected by the author in his article, it’s not flaming and it is normal.

For the past ten years being a member to some Internet forum groups, I had noticed that flaming or bashing between members is happening. Some of the members are posting deliberately hostile messages without the awareness of other people’s feelings. Now many of forum groups owners and its moderators have agreed and work together to apply some forum rules and policies to be followed by its members. And who ever ignored its rules will be banned from accessing the forum. Some would be banned for few days, weeks, a month or would be kicked off from the forum permanently.

The reason why I liked forum groups is that I can share my articles which are open for critiques. Some of the members are sharing their honest suggestions how to improve my articles. But there are times I received comments not actually criticizing the idea I injected to my works but directly insulting my personality or my credibility as the author. However, I just ignored them and thought that maybe they missed to read the forum rules.

Speaking of forum rules and policies – I noticed that they are common to all of forum groups and other e-groups I have gone through such as:

• Members are not allowed to post defamatory, obscene, threatening, profane and hateful messages. The Admin or Moderators will ban members or offending posters.
• Commenting may include grammar correction. It may also focus on form and technicalities. Members should take all these constructively. 
• All criticisms should be taken constructively believing that there are no good or bad articles and no wrong or right comments. The important thing is that, if the author wished to send his articles to other publishing sites at least they are already polished.
• Members should justify their criticisms too, explaining their reasons when they note an article’s weaknesses. As much as possible, members should make suggestions on how to improve the article instead of just pointing out its weaknesses. 
• Members should avoid criticisms which may only offend but do not help the author in improving the article. Example: “This article is rubbish.”
• Comments which taunt, show contempt, disrespect or personally attack the author are not allowed. Members who make such comments will be penalized accordingly. 
• Discussions or debates like social issues and current events are allowed but should be done with respect among concerned members. Personal arguments among members are not tolerated and are subject to disciplinary action.

Members are also advice to take note the following:

• When someone makes a mistake – whether it’s a spelling error or a spelling flame, a stupid question or an unnecessarily long answer – be kind about it.
• If it’s a minor error, you may not need to say anything. Even if you feel strongly about it, think twice before reacting. Having good manners yourself doesn’t give you license to correct everyone else.
• If you do decide to inform someone of a mistake, point it out politely and preferably by private email rather than in public.
• Give people the benefit of the doubt; assume they just don’t know any better. And never be arrogant or self-righteous about it.
• Just as it’s a law of nature that spelling flames always contain spelling errors, notes pointing out Netiquette violations are often examples of poor Netiquette.

According to Wikipedia Flaming also known as bashing, is hostile and insulting interaction between Internet users. Flaming usually occurs in the social context of an Internet forum, Internet Relay Chat, Usenet, by e-mail, game servers such as Xbox Live or Play station Network, and on video-sharing websites. It is frequently the result of the discussion of heated real-world issues such as politics, religion, and philosophy, or of issues that polarize sub-populations, but can also be provoked by seemingly trivial differences.

If flaming could not be avoided between members, my best and only suggestion is “Say Sorry” because I believe it is the best oil that lubricates any relationships!

The Most Visited Site: Wikinut

Wikinut is not an advertising site, a news site or a social networking site. The site is just a plain friendly publishing site that accepts articles of different subject topics written by authors from around the world. Now Wikinut becomes the most visited site and had become one of the favorite sites for the hungry and thirsty search engines crawlers.

My heart beats faster to see the 907 views. My first feeling was I am speechless when I log-on at Wikinut this morning. Everyday when I visited Wikinut, the first thing I had to look at is my Wikinut Stats. Why? My daily views suggest many things such as:

1. How I can improve my writing capabilities?
2. How to write articles with relevant and quality contents?
3. What tools and methods I should use to help attract traffics?
4. What to do to get more views?
5. How to share my articles to other networks without spamming?

We all know that the life of every article that we published here are measured by views. Articles without views are nothing but dead – no matter how beautifully we wrote them. This morning my heart beats faster while looking at the 907 views that my article pages received – recorded on October 5, 2011. It was the highest views I received at Wikinut so far. I even considered them not normal – as my daily views from the start of 2011 range between 300 and 400 views.

I do not write and publish article at Wikinut everyday. Even though I do not write article at Wikinut everyday – my daily attendance is 100% perfect. One of the things I perform there are to explore down to some of my old published articles and prepare them to share to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon and to Google+ site. I also visited other Wikinut writers pages. Sometimes I left comments on them but most of the time I just read them and before leaving their pages I had to choose at least one or two of their articles and shared them off to Twitter and Facebook.

An article about Taboo contents received 501 views that day. My previous article entitled How Far We Can Express of Our Freedom of Expression as Writers on Taboo Contents published at Wikinut on August 24, 2011 received 501 views last October 5, 2011. This is about the negative traditions, objects, or behaviors generally regarded as harmful to social welfare or something that is forbidden by a society as unacceptable or improper – a strong social prohibition relating to any area of human activity or social custom that is sacred and forbidden based on moral judgment and religious beliefs. And it is considered ill-favored or offensive by society.

Another two most viewed articles on October 5, 2011. One is about an important commodity and a popular beverage. The article entitled Is Coffee a Healthy Drink that contents anti-oxidants that are widely used as ingredients in dietary supplements and have been investigated for the prevention of diseases such as cancer, coronary heart disease and even altitude sickness. It was published at Wikinut on July 16, 2011. 

The other one was Will You Sell Your Tomorrow Through Credit Card. It was published at Wikinut on September 13, 2011. It said that Credit card when used at the right time can help you in emergency and if you don’t have medical insurance you will be accepted much faster in hospital if you have a valid credit card.

I am discovering ways to get more views. For the past few months, I found out that it is not enough to rely on the site that published my articles for traffics and views or to depend on sharing my articles to some social networks and other book marking sites including my personal blog sites. I found another effective way how to get more traffics and views. I focus on search engines also – I submitted my Wikinut Profile Link once a week the same what I am doing here at Triond to Bing, to Yahoo Bookmark and to Google news. These search engines are the root for views and traffics.

How to Maximize The Use of StumbleUpon

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Now StumbleUpon has over 20 million stumblers using the site. It is a cool place and has potential to get more views and traffics for your articles. If one percent of the total stumblers viewed your articles pages they are equivalents to 200 thousands views. The site is a free web-browser extension which acts as an intelligent browsing tool for discovering and sharing websites and other awesome stuff across the Internet. So, there is no reason at all if you missed the opportunity. The site is open 24/7 waiting for your visits.

Aside from Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus - you can concentrate and maximize the use of StumbleUpon to get more views and traffics for your awesome articles and other stuff. There are two ways to share articles at StumbleUpon through the normal way and through a feature created by the site called Su.pr. Both are legal and safe to use.

At StumbleUpon, there are two different ways to share our awesome articles to other users such as:

• Share them through the normal way
• Share them through a feature called Su.pr

What is sharing the normal way? Sharing the normal way at StumbleUpon is all about sharing your articles links, blog sites links or websites links - where you are asked for the following justifications like:

• Is the article, blog site or website safe to work or safe to view?
• What topics, tags or labels you will use?
• You have to write a review which is optional

This normal way of sharing is intended to over 20 million of stumblers for their votes, likes, views and recommendations or to rate of what you shared on the site.

What is sharing through Su.pr? This is also about sharing your articles links, blog sites links or websites links. Su.pr is a feature created by StumbleUpon and there are thousands of users also using the application for their articles sharing.

The only difference from sharing the normal way to StumbleUpon - any items you shared on this feature are not intended to likes, votes, recommendation or to rate from other users. However, the feature has potential to get views and traffics to your articles - if someone spotted and clicked the link of your article shared there it is automatically counted as view. The feature works like this: Su.pr+Clicks=Views. And with the link of your article you can also add some text before posting. You can also schedule the articles for the dates when to post.

What good at this feature - you can also activate your accounts at Twitter, Facebook and other Pages and e-Groups you created at Facebook for the purpose of sharing of your stuff and what ever items you shared on this site will be automatically be sent off to those sites without doing the job from your side.

What I mentioned above are what I have experienced. Both are effective ways to get more views and traffics to my articles. Of course, I am not insisting this to you to do the same what I have done but if ever you thought that it will work for you too then go ahead and this is my advice - Use both ways. They are all legal and without spamming. But use them responsibly.

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How to Get a Triond Badge Without Posting Anything

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Published on Webupon, Mar 15, 2011 Category – Web Talk

You might find the above title as a mind boggling question. But don't be misled guys. This is another silly thought I have today. And I feel at this very moment there are people out there laughing at me now as this is impossible. Although the evidence is clear - I got my August 2010 badge without any article posted during that period. And this is my confession.

I had joined Triond on the mid of August 2010. And there was an August Special that says “Publish at least 5 articles during August and you will automatically receive a 10% increase in revenues!” and in addition to it an August Badge will be awarded too.

My August 2010 Triond Badge.

The month of August 2010 had come to pass. As recorded in my journal I earned less than 50 dollar cents with the August badge. I received the payment with my October pay through Pay Pal. However, I stopped visiting Triond from the start of September to October 20, 2010. And during that period I kept busy posting articles at other paying sites. In my profile page – there were no records of evidence that I have written articles from that particular period of time particularly from August, September till October 20, 2010.

If you will visit my Triond Profile Page – my August badge is visible. And if you will browse my articles published in that section, you will see that my first recorded published article was dated October 21, 2010.

As I told you, this might be a mind boggling question: How did I get my August 2010 Triond Badge? If you will have the interest to answer the above question through your comments you are welcome. Guess as you wish. There will be a surprise waiting!