Social Media Marketing

Scour is the a search engine which displays results from Google, Yahoo and MSN. Scour.com lets you earn points for every search you do and you can accumulate points and get gift cards for the points you have Earned. You need to register to earn points.

Features of Scour?

• You can sort searches based on google, yahoo or msn.
• You can Search images and videos
• You can comment on your searches
• You can see the ranking of your search in different search engines
• You can Connect with other scour users
• You can give a thumbs up (vote) to the best result.
• You can EARN points for every search!

What is the earning potential?
If you are a hardcore search addict or a social network user who Diggs and stumbles, scour can prove to be a good earner for you. If you are not, then just dont bother to use scour. Every member is awarded one point for every search, two for a vote and three for a comment with a maximum of 4 points a search. You also get 25% of points your referrals make.

You get $25 Visa Gift card for 6500 points, $50 for 12500 points and $100 for 25000 Points. Do your calculation and see how long will it take for you to make a $100.

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Rsshugger is website developed to help bloggers promote their blogs, and to help visitors discover new blogs that write about subjects that the readers are interested in.

If you own a blog, you can get your own website on rssHugger for 10 years for giving an honest review of the site on your blog. If you want to join rssHugger but do not want to review the site, you can pay a one time review fee of $20. rssHugger claims to be the first ever quality, spam free, and viral rss directory strictly for bloggers.

Pros

• They Claim to be a good resource for rss feeds
• Increase in Rss subscribers (now that purely depends on the traffic rsshugger gets and the spot your blog occupies in rsshugger). The thing is that if some person comes from rsshugger the chances of him subscribing to your blog would be 75%.

Cons

• Easy money for them as there is a Fee if you are not planing to Blog about their website. Blog about the website and generate free backlinks and publicity. To get approved you have to blog about them

There is a Top100 page which resets every month. How blogs are placed in the Top 100 page is based on the visitors that the blog sent back to your Page in Rsshugger.

I could not find any categories in rssHugger though a comment in the website says “rssHugger aims to help visitors be able to easily find blogs that write about subjects they are interested in. These subjects include: internet marketing, making money online, charity, sports, gambling, and many more. If the visitors find a blog that they had not previously heard about, they can easily add it to their RSS readers or bookmark it”

More details on Rsshugger can be found here

Popularity: 49% [?]

I signed up for Pownce yesterday and i have 6 invites. If anybody is intrested in for a quick sign up drop me a mail through contact page and you will have the invite, provided it’s still available.

What is Pownce?

Pownce is similar to micro blogging or like twitter , with a step further you can send links and even files using pownce to all your friends. It let’s you share files with your friends.

Pownce let’s you share

• Files
• Messages
• Links
• Events

You can keep a track of your replies and the stuff you have sent over to your friends.

Related Reading

• Darin Carter – What is Pownce?
• Social Computing Magazine – Microblogging – Pownce twitter jaiku
• Valley wag – Why Pownce is Popular

Those three articles made me feel like i should write more on Pownce. Need a Pownce invite just drop a Mail! You can find me in Pownce in with username Adheeth .

Popularity: 64% [?]

Google Web History let’s you keep track of all the websites you have visited, all the search you have done. To include the web pages you visit in your web history, you need to install Toolbar with PageRank enabled. PageRank will send information about these pages to Google and associate it with your Google Account.

For Further Reading:

• Google Search History Expands, Becomes Web History – Searchenginland
  Danny Sullivan has written a pretty long article on web history where he has categorized the article into parts for easy reading. The Topics Covered by Him are.
  * Web History Depends On Google Toolbar
  * Pushing The Google Toolbar
  * Using Your Web History
  * Browsing Page Visits
  * Searching & What Gets Stored
  * Pausing Web History
  * Deleting Web History
  * Permanently Ending Web History
  * Toolbar Alternatives
  * Web History, Personalized Search & Closing The Loop
  * Should You Worry?
• Google Webhistory Very Cool, Very Creepy – Pcworld
• Google Webhistory – Dany Ayers

I haven’t tried out Web history ,May be it can be helpful for me because i browse from Work as well as home and i keep doing a lot of searches at work in between free timeand sometimes i just close the browser in a hurry and loose the page that i have searched out with some effort. With web history i can now keep a track of all searches and pages i visited. Some stay it’s like exposing you out completely to Google(with your mails,orkut profile details, adsense contact address and now what you browse). Whatever is the case im giving it a try and see whether it can do me any good.

First Impression

The First Search i did after enabling web history was for the keyword web history itself in google(ofcourse me logged into google account) and my what my web history said what keyword i searched, at what time, and how many sites i visited based on that search presented in a bulletted list like format under the particular keyword searched(in this case ” web history”). Google has pretty neatly worked on Web history so that the information about all your searched and the sites you visited are maintained. With this tool i can surely keep track of all my searches(keywords) and then keep a track of them laters from web history. Web history keeps a track of whatever site you visit. So if you dont want google to invade too much into your privacy, disable web history.

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Popularity: 43% [?]