1. Pitch to your audience not everyone. You think this would be an obvious factor, certainly when it comes to marketing but a lot of the time people do not focus on their audience. In order for your content to go hot it needs to be submitted to the right network, and be written for the right audience. You will see certain patterns of content that performs better on various sites than it would on others. Take note of these things and use them in the future.

2. Research your market. If you go in shooting blind, you may get a hit or you might get hit. Submitting your content to a social media site without doing any research will most likely not work, and possibly do more damage than it does good. Find some social networks that fit your niche and then start building an account there (power user status) before you start to submit your own content to the masses.

3. Make the selling transparent. Another beginner mistake is acting as the snake oil salesman. Constantly trying to push your services or affiliate products will not get you anywhere if you have not developed a brand yet. You need to first build an audience that has some level of respect and activity within the social network itself. Stop submitting car insurance links and promoting products, and instead contribute content that others can use and share and you will see the reward is much greater.

4. Be a member of the community. Ignoring a social media community will do nothing but work against you. Face it, your the new kid on the block and you need to show people what you are about to build your credibility. In order to do this you need to become active in your social network’s community. Start to build a following, and go outside of the network as well. Leave comments on submissions, and on relevant blogs from your network. The more friends you make, the better you chances of obtaining success become.

5. Remain relevant in your niche. If you have not figured out yet, relevance is possibly the big secret most people don’t think of. If your site revolves around Halloween candy and you post a page about shaving razors people will not only be sketched out by the combination of the two, but chances are the content will not perform or do anything for your site. Break news in your industry or niche and give your unique insight, also make sure you are submitting your content to the right places.

6. Design-age. Regardless of how well put together your content is, people need to read it. Visuals are almost as important as the content itself as a web user will take less than a second to decide whether or not they like your website based on the layout alone. Finding free WordPress templates or creating your own really is not that hard, and adds a lot to your website.

7. Give back to others. By promoting content that’s not yours you will be seen in a brighter light on many social networks. If you are blogging, this includes linking to relevant blog posts and actively commenting on other blogs. When it comes to social media marketing, if you are new then you are only going to get back what you put in. If you want to be an asshole, promote your own content, and never link to anyone you have to wait until you have some success and experience under your belt.

8. Posting in trilogy. Very often you will find that a piece of content can become wildly popular even though you never thought it would. Learn from these types of situations and learn how you can spin new content from them. Try to write a popular post that follows after the original content and ride the wave as long as you can.

9. Headline creation does matter. Without a great title you have nothing. Even when you think that you have something amazing on the first try, take that headline and find five new ways to write it. I bet you will find one that is way better than what you had originally. You do not need to be a genius to write titles, just stop being lazy and you will see what you have been missing out on.

10. Stop boring people. Most people have a tendency to scan the page when they are reading online. If you can create easy to follow content that can be scanned through just as quick you will be in good standings. Do this by using bold headings for important points, and numbers/bullets for lists. the more people can take in over a short period of time, the better your chances are they will like the content and share it.

Now that you know the secrets you know the truth. There is no magic or smoke and mirrors involved with social media marketing. It takes practice, time, and work to find out what works. Once you learn what works you find ways to push this knowledge to the limit and find new ways to benefit off of it.

Web Applications                  
1. Twitt(url)y – A service for tracking popular URls that are being shared across the Twitter network. Useful for identifying hot trends and topics within social networks.
   1. Twitturly: Tracking Popular URLs On Twitter [The Startup Review]
   2. Twitturly Cracks The TwitterMeme Nut
   3. CrunchBase – twitt(url)y company profile
2. FollowBack – Gives you a color-coded view of people who are following you, and if you should follow them back.
3. Group Tweet – Anyone who wants to broadcast and share private tweets to a specific group of people can do so for free with Group Tweet. Think of it as Yammer but within Twitter.
   1. Privacy Disaster At Twitter: Direct Messages Exposed (Update: GroupTweet Is Likely Culprit)
   2. GroupTweet to blame for Twitter security ‘compromise’
   3. GroupTweet Enhances Twitter
   4. CrunchBase – GroupTweet Company Profile
4. Tweetmeme – Tracks hot topics on Twitter bases on the links people are sharing. 
   1. CrunchBase – Tweetmeme Company Profile
   2. TweetMeme Returns Following Months-Long Forced Outage
   3. Meet Tweetmeme, The Sweeter Way to Track Twitter
5. TwitLinks – Aggregates links from the worlds top tech Twitter users.
   1. TwitLinks: The Techmeme Killer of Twitter? – ReadWrtieWeb
   2. TwitLinks Company Profile – CrunchBase
   3. TwitLinks: Not Useful, Not A TechMeme Killer – TechCrunch
6. Favrd – Offers channels of the most favorited tweets on Twitter with options to search and identify topics by keyword.
   1. FAVRD: Entertainment for the Twitter Attention Span
   2. Fail Whale for the Favrd
7. TweetLater – Schedule tweets for a particular time or day and also allows you to auto-follow and one who follows your account. They even offer a auto-welcome feature that sends a welcome message to your followers.
   1. TweetLater.com – Tweet into the Future
8. Twist – An aggregation like service that looks at trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags.
9. Twubble – Introduces and recommends new people you may want to follow based off your friend graph.
10. WhoShouldIFollow – Pretty much like Twubble.
11. Twellow – A very useful tool for finding people who matter in your business, industry, or niche.
12. TwitDir – A very effective people search tool for Twitter.
    1. 1 million Twitter users according to Twitdir
    2. A showdown of Twitter user directories – TwitDir vs. Twitterholic
    3. Tracking Your Twitter Growth With Twitterholic, TwitDir, Tweeterboard & Others
13. Twerp Scan – Keeps an eye on the friend / follower ratio of your friends and their friends.
14. Tweet Pro – A paid service for creating a solid niche based network. Great for use in business/branding.
15. Tweet Scan – A search engine for Twitter with advanced topic and trend/keyword tracking features.
16. twInfluence – Measure Twitter influencers based on reach, velocity, social capital, and more. 
17. TwitterGrader – Measures the relative power and authority of a Twitter user by calculating the number of followers, the power of the network of followers, the pace of updates and the completeness of a user’s profile.
18. TwittAd – Micro ad network that connects advertisers to Twitter users to create opportunities for paid product placement and website promotion directly on a Twitter user’s profile.
19. Twitterise – Advertise on Twitter and track the success of branded communications with your customers.
20. WhatsYourTweetWorth – Analyzes your account and network to recommend what your tweets could be worth on Twittad.
21. Twitterific – Lets you read and publish tweets from the desktop, iPhone and iPod Touch.
22. TwitterWhere – Provides the ability to update Twitter with your current location.
23. TwitterFeed - connects your blog to Twitter and automatically feeds posts into the timeline with each new update.
24. Tweetbeep – Allows you to monitor conversations that mention you, your brand, related or competitive products, as well as links to your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL, such as tinyurl.com.
25. Ping.fm – A central distribution service for sending updates to multiple social networks, including Twitter, with one click. 
26. Hellotxt – Provides the ability to instantly update status as well as view the status of your contacts across multiple networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, hi5, Plaxo, Pownce, Plurk, FriendFeed, Identi.ca, BrightKites, etc.) – all from one dashboard.
27. Matt - (Multiple Account Twitter Tweeting) provides a platform for broadcasting one update to multiple accounts.
28. FeedTweeter – Connects social services that offer RSS feeds to you Twitter account.
29. TweetWheel – Visually presents your social graph, who’s following you and who you are in turn following.
30. Twiffied – Shows the headlines of the Websites your Twitter friends have listed in their profiles to see what they’re linking to or blogging about.
31. BrightKite – A location-based social network that connects directly to Twitter.
32. TwitterLocal – The ideal service for quickly finding active voices within a specific city, state, postal code as well as the vicinity, ranging from 1 mile to 20.
33. SnapTweet -  Links your flickr account to share updates seamlessly to Twitter.
34. DoesFollow – Lets you know if one person is following another. That’s it.
35. TwitPic – Provides a bridge from your camera phone to Twitter. Pictures can either post to the Twitter public timeline from phone via email or through the site.
36. Tweet2Tweet – Provides you with the ability to view a history @replies between two Twitter users.
37. Qwitter – Will send an email to you when someone unfollows you and will link the action to the most recent tweet that you posted.
38. FollowCost – Estimates the potential attention (or annoyance) cost of following a particular individual or account.
39. TweetPad – Provides a visual representation of Twitter feeds and statistics with dynamic typography.
40. Twitzu – An event invitation management service for Twitter. You can create an event, broadcast it to followings and manage RSVPs.
41. xefer – Reviews your Twitter account and presents a rich visual analysis of your tweet volume, concentration as well as their resonance (measured by replies) by day, time, week and hour.
42. LiveTwitting – A streamlined solution for livetweeting (covering) conferences.
43. TwitterKeys – Enhances Twitter conversations by replacing words with UTF8 compatible images.
44. Twalala – Adds a mute button to Twitter allowing you to focus your stream as necessary without completely unfollowing someone.

Twitter Clients

45. Twhirl – A social desktop dashboard that centrally manages activity, messaging, and updating for Twitter, FriendFeed, Identi.ca, and Seesmic.
46. TweetDeck - An Adobe Air desktop app that enables uers to split their main Twitter feed into topic or group specific columns.
47. Google Twitter Gadget - Twitter gadget from Google thats pretty much an add-on for Google Desktop.
48. Twitteroo - Has some nice features including URL shortening, sound notification and many other features which help you speed up your tweeting.
49. Spaz – An extremely customizable desktop Twitter client which is available on Windows, Mac and Linux.
50. Witty – A good looking Twitter client which works with Windows Vista and XP.
51. TwitBin - Available to Mac, Windows and Linux owners, TwitBin is a plugin for Firefox 2.0+.
52. Tweetr - Available on Mac and Windows, Tweetr is a great looking Twitter Client. There are alternatives with more features however it’s still worth checking out.
53. Snitter – One of the best looking desktop Twitter clients available.
54. Twitter Opera Widget – A Twitter widget for Opera with basic features.
55. Twibble - The Twibble desktop client is available on Mac and Windows. It allows you to add multiple profiles and even lets you see where you’re Twitter friends are via google Maps.
56. Pwytter - Available on Windows, Mac and Linux, Pwytter has been translated into a whopping 14 languages.

Mobile Twitter Tools

57. Twitterfon – A fast, simple Twitter client for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is focused on 80% of your tasks in Twitter such as viewing friends/replies/messages in the timeline and also sending/replying tweets.
58. Twinkle – A location-aware network for the iPhone and iPod Touch that helps you discover, connect, and send messages to the public timeline and also to people nearby.
59. Twittlelator – A Twitter client for the iPhone. You can manage multiple user accounts, update your accounts, share pictures, a map of your current location, connect with other Tweeps, read tweets from your contacts, and direct message (DM), and reply all from one app.
60. Twitterberry – A full-featured Twitter client to read and post updates from BlackBerry phones.

1. You are on Blogger or WordPress.com. If you are a business you should have your own dam domain name people.
2. You are using TypePad which means your blog is most likely ugly and not hosted on your own site.
3. Like one and two, you have no integration. Integrate your site and blog for a better content flow.
4. You think your business blog is only about your business. Post customer reviews and testimonials as well.
5. The last time you posted was Christmas of lass year. People read your blog to stay informed, so stay up to date with your information.
6. Commenting is turned off. This really blows, give your visitors a way to interact and make sure your comment features are working.
7. You think blogging is advertising. It’s not.
8. You are using the WordPress default template with no company logo… Again you want to integrate the blog with your company website/branding.
9. You don’t know the difference between a post, and a blog.
10. You don’t know how to write to your customers on a blog.
11. You for some reason never link anything. Maby it’s to hard or you just don’t know how. Either way your readers are tired of Googling everything you are writing so link up.
12. Your posts plain suck. If this is the case: You are a business so hire someone who can set your blog on fire and create buzz for you.
13. You went overboard with SEO tips and now you have a Frankenblog. If you don’t know what you are doing, pay someone to do it for you as things change rapidly online and as a business you don’t have the time to spare.
14. You have all content approved by a lawyer. Useless, the best types of content are those that create legal problems.
15. You have a CAPTCHA for every user related action. How annoying are you?
16. All of your content is written by the marketing department and sounds like a sales pitch. Save it bitches, I’m looking for your business’s news and development. 
17. You require visitors to register or create an account before they can have any interaction with your business blog. FAIL.
18. You don’t have any spam protection. There’s nothing more embracing than a business with comments for penis pills and porn all over the place. Again you should be aware of the technology and service like Akisment that are available for your blog.
19. Unless you are dyslexic or something your content should be created write from your admin interface. Having Marv down in copyrighting come up with a post in Word and then send it around the office will most likely create an end product that no one will care to read.
20. Your business blog does no business, for your business.
21. You don’t know why or how people are getting on your business blog.

1. Digg
Digg is pretty much the most popular social bookmarking site. Statistics from Quantcast estimate that Digg receives about 21 million unique visitors a month. The digg audience is mostly males (63%) between the ages 23-34, with a household income between $30,000 – $100,000. I’m sure the audience has changed drastically from the time they came online. Digg like all other sites has certain content that appears more on the front-page, these include lists (top 50.. etc.), politics, Apple articles, and interesting photos.

2. Propeller
Propeller (once Netscape) is second to Digg ranking in with 1.4 million monthly unique visitors. Like Digg, Propeller also has a predominantly male audience with 54% of traffic most of whom are age 45-54. The older audience of Propeller also have deeper pockets with 55% of them making over $60,000. The front page also seems to pertain more to the older crowd with most of the news being politics, business, economy, etc.

3. StumbleUpon
A Quantcast top 5,000 website StumbleUpon brings in 1.2 million unique visitors a month from the U.S. The audience is male biased (51%) and has a relatively equal spectrum in age. 30% of traffic comes from ages 18-34, 33% from ages 35-49, and 33% from ages 50 and up. Also interesting about this age range is it’s effect on the average income. 30% of StumbleUpon users have an income of $100,000 or more. 47% of which, have no college education (no joke.)

4. Fark
Just missing out on the top three is Fark.com. Fark has grown considerably and seems to be retaining their traffic well. With over one million monthly unique visitors, its bigger than sites like Del.icio.us, Reddit, and Newsvine. They attract a middle aged audience, mostly Caucasian, and are less affluent (53% $30K-100K). Fark also has a much higher male population (72%) than most of the other sites. They have a more interesting brand of popular content focusing around “interesting, bizarre and amusing news stories, along with regular photo manipulation contests”.

5. Newsvine
Not quite reaching a million users yet, Newsvine comes in at number four. A top 10,000 site that reaches over 946K U.S. unique visitors monthly. They have a middle aged, Caucasian audience that is less affluent. The site attracts a skewed male audience (55%) and 46% of them have an income of $30,000 – $60,000. Also interesting is that Newsvine has a very large business readership. 31% of their readers are business with over 4.5K large businesses alone.

6. Reddit.com
Another top 500,000 site is Reddit. With 856.7K unique visitors a month, Reddit attracts a 57% male audience that is between the ages of 35 and 49 (35%). Within Reddit’s audience 65% have a household income of $30,000 to $100,000. Similar to Digg, Reddit favors content related to political, business, and offbeat/celebrity news.

8. Clipmarks
Raking in 493.9K unique visitors monthly, Clipmarks comes in at number seven. The top 5,000 website appeals to a male biased audience (57%) with a pretty equal division of income through all ages. The largest of the groups (28%) taking in $30K – $60K.

7. Del.icio.us
Although the olders Del.icio.us is not the most popular, ranking in with 37K unique visitors a month from the U.S. The audience is again mostly male (53%) and the largest age group is those between 35 and 49 (33%.) Use of Del.icio.us seems to be dieing off pretty quick lately and Quantcast shows that 92% of their traffic is passers-by meaning people are there for a few seconds and leaving.

9. Blinklist
Blinklist.com has seen a huge traffic plunge over the last few months and fell out of the top 10,000 sites. Down from over 560K in June of 08′, they now take in just over 131,000 unique visitors a month. A higher percentage of males (61%) make up the audience bringing in $60,000 to $100,000 on average. The site appeals to a more educated, more affluent, more male following.The typical visitor reads Salon, patronizes cduniverse.com, and visits killmyday.com

10. Shoutwire
Just making the list is Shoutwire with 20.4K unique monthly visitors. Shoutwire has a 58% male audience that is slightly younger with 63% of users between the ages 12 and 34. Even with the lower age range, the audience claims a 4 way split of almost 25% of the audience in each income bracket.

Obviously Digg is the champ here. They take in more traffic than the other nine combined meaning they should defiantly be a part of your social media marketing strategy. Digg also sees the largest amount of ad revenue and they continue to grow. This should give you a good base for what demographics apply to the top 10 sites, which should then give you a good idea how to generate content for them.

1. Get Around The Blogosphere
Pick blogs that are not overloaded… Once you find them start to really read and leave valuable comments behind. You will see that people will have a much better reaction to your blog and a nice chunk of traffic will develop if you branch out to enough blogs. Keep in mind that you don’t want to spam, and the blogs you find should be within your niche or topic.

2. Submit Guest Posts
Develop quality posts for other blogs in your niche. Chances are the visibility will come much quicker when your post is on high traffic blogs. Pick blogs that have a tendency for high backlinking, commenting, and spreading of content. Not only is it good for the blog owner for your content to perform, but you will reap traffic rewards as well.

3. Free eBook = Crack
People love to get free eBooks that are usable. Develop an eBook around your niche and then come up with a way to give it away. Such as signing up for a newsletter, commenting, or whatever. I would sway to the side of getting more readers in return of giving the eBook away.

4. Create Better Content
Once you have a large amount of content you will easily be able to tell what type of content performs well for your site. Most of the time you will find that posts that took time, and have a lot of details do the best. Not every post you write is going to perform as well as you thought, and some may perform way beyond expectation. Learn what quality content is for your site, and focus on creating it.

5. Keep Your Popular Posts Updated
This one really applies to lists and other resource like posts. After some time you may notice that you still get a lot of traffic to certain content and people are really using it. This is an example of content you should update. Keeping things current will draw even more traffic and use as the resource grows and becomes more popular around your niche.

6. Give People A Reason To Come Back
While not everyone will like your blog, a lot will need a reason before they return. Contests always do well but sometimes you nubs are not able to hold them. Simply give away your free eBook to everyone or create valuable content. If you convert people into subscribers and bookmarks, you have a much better chance of seeing them come back.

7. Get On Some Forums
Start up some nice forum posts, and get discussions going on various forums. After you have build up a large post base, put a link in your signature. Another quick and easy way to get some starting traffic. This method will not bring you 100K a day, but it will quickly get your blog or website started.

1. Welcome Your Readers
Welcoming your readers can be the difference to them subscribing, or possibly leaving. Greeting your readers can make your blog more attractive and give your readers a sense of value. This by all means should be a simple one or two sentence greeting. After all, they are looking for the content. You could also take this a step further and track your incoming referral headers to display custom messages for sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and others.

2. Stay On Topic
If your blog is supposed to be about cars and you are posting information on baking cookies, you have an obvious problem. You would think this goes without saying but many people tend to mix to much of their personal life in with their niche blog. Once and a while it’s all good, but when you post about yourself all day instead of your topic people will get annoyed. Narrowing down the content you give will draw targeted traffic that is much more likely to become social on your blog.

3. Your Content Should Be Valuable
The easiest way to do this is to create content that helps others. Before you publish, look for tips and information you can improve on. Add inside information, or information from your experiences that cannot be found on any other blog. You cannot expect to get back if you don’t give anything at all. Helping your readers will also build trust, which can be very important when you start to grow.

4. Connect With Your Audience
Taking a few minuets to reply to comments and e-mails can be much more beneficial than you think. This doesn’t mean you have to stock your readers and reply to every single comment but letting your readers know you are listening is important. It builds a stronger community and people are much more apt to continue reading. Also, show people where to find you on services like Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, and others.

5. Hold er’ Steady
Most important is to post regularly. Set your own goals, even if it’s just two posts a week you want people to know they can expect two posts every week. Humans love regularity by nature and when somethings out of whack people may respond adversely. Let them know that regardless of whats going on, they can count on seeing two posts a week on your blog. Some people find id hard to believe that people really follow blogs like this but it’s true. After some time on the web you will also find some blogs that you come to read regularly.

Don’t be afraid to comment with any ideas you have on converting visitors to subscribers. Although traffic is good, regular readers are even better.

Don’t forget to bookmark and subscribe!

Twitter 101:      
1. The Big Juicy Twitter Guide
2. Twictionary – A dictionary for Twitter.
3. TwitDir – Another Twitter directory.
4. The Twitter Blog
5. Explore Twitter

Twitter Media:

6. TweetPic
7. Twitxr
8. Twittershare
9. SnapTweet – Send Flickr photos to Twitter.  
10. Twiddeo – Twitter plus video.
11. TwitterGram – Share audio.
12. TwitSay – Give your Twitter account a voice.

Twitter Stats:

13. TweetBurner – Track what happens with the links you share.
14. Twitt(url)y – Tracks what URLs Twitter users are talking about.
15. Twitter Charts
16. Twitstat
17. TweetStats
18. TwitterBuzz – What people are linking to.
19. Twittermeter
20. Tweet Volume – Enter words or phrases and see how often they appear on Twitter.
21. Twitter Vision  
22. Twitterholic

Friends & Followers:

23. FriendFeed – Discover what your friends are sharing.
24. Twitter Karma
25. TweetWheel – Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other.
26. Who Should I Follow? – Twitter Friend Recommendations.
27. Intwition
28. CrowdStatus – Create a crowd.
29. My Tweeple
30. GroupTweet
31. Twitter 100
32. Quotably – Follow Twitter conversations.
33. TwitterLocal
34. TwitterVerse
35. Twemes – Twitter memes.
36. Tweetmeme
37. TwitterWho – Batch people search.

Spam Protection:

38. The Twitter Blacklist
39. Twitter Twerp Scan
40. Twitter Snooze

Twitter Organization:

41. Socialthing
42. Twittercal – Tweet your Google calendar.
43. Twitter Digest
44. Twitku – Read posts on Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce.
45. Twitter Timer – Set an alarm for things you need to remember.
46. Twitt.icio.us – Send links from Twitter to del.icio.us.
47. Twitter Where

Twitter Tools:

48. Summize – Search Twitter in real time.
49. Twitter Search – A customized search engine for Twitter.
50. YouTwit
51. TwittEarth  
52. Twhirl – A desktop client for Twitter.
53. Snitter – Desktop client for Mac and Windows.
54. Twitterific – Desktop client for Mac.
55. gTwitter – Desktop client for Linux.
56. Witty – Desktop client for Vista.
57. Twitteroo – Desktop client for the PC.
58. TwitterPod – Desktop client for Mac.
59. Twitux – Desktop client for Gnome.
60. Twitterberry – Mobile client for Blackberry.
61. Email Twitter – Mobile client.
62. Twoble – Mobile client for Windows Mobile Pocket PCs.

Twitter for Email:

63. TwitterMail
64. OutTwit

Twitter IM:

65. TwitterIM

Twitter Widgets:

66. Twitter Opera Widget
67. Twitter Widget
68. Twadget

Other Twitter Articles + Resources

69. How To Find Your Target Audience on Twitter – SmmGuru
70. Twitter Is A Tool! You Might As Well Use It – SmmGuru
71. Easy Way To Get More Twitter Followers From Your Blog – SmmGuru
72. How Does Twitter Define Spam – SmmGuru
73. 7 Tips For New Twitter Accounts – SmmGuru
74. Tweeting for Companies 101 – HorsePigCow
75. 5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence – ProBlogger
76. 13 Odd Ways to Use Twitter – Social Media Trader
77. Twitter Feeds Made Simple – ClickPopMedia
78. Video: Twitter in Plain English – Common Craft
79. How to Use Twitter to Build Brand Integrity – Marketing Vox
80. Twitter and Business: The Conclusion – Business and Blogging
81. How We Use Twitter for Journalism – ReadWriteWeb
82. 10 Things Twitter Users Should Not Do – Valley Wag
83. Twitter Hashtags and Groups – American Pai
84. 8 Awesome Firefox Plugins for Twitter – Mashable
85. 10 Ways Twitter Can Boost Your Social News Profile – ReadWriteWeb
86. Copyright and Twitter – Blog Herald
87. My Essential Twitter Tools – Web-Strategist.com
88. Twitter May Not Have to Worry About Uptime Anymore – TechCrunch
89. Why Decentralizing Twitter is so Important – Scripting.com

Social Media Marketing – 0 results. Had not even been coined yet.

Shoemoney – 4 results (although non of them are relevant or working)

YouTube – 0 results in 2001, now has over 1 billion.

Web 2.0 – The birth of web 2.01 in 2001, only 2,470 results compared to over 99 million today.

Ajax – No results for asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Now has over 118 million.

Barack Obama – Only 772 results in 2001, now has over 77 million.

iPod – 1,300 results, Apple is not even on the first page. Now has 419 million results.

problogger – 0 results in 2001. Now has over 1.2 million.

gas prices – 145,000 results in 2001, now over 33.6 million.

Another weird thing to do is type in other keywords to see what was big news back then. For instance, I typed in iTunes and saw a headline that iTunes had just topped 275,000 downloads. They probably do that on a daily basis now. Bill Gates even had his own website back in 01′ (first result).

Creating RSS Feeds   
1. RSS Tutorial from mnot.net
2. RSS Tutorial from SiteArticles.com
3. RSS Utilities: A Tutorial
4. RSS Tutorial from W3 Schools
5. RSS Tutorial – Introduction and Overview
6. Creating RSS Files for Your Website
7. Creating a Custom RSS Feed with PHP and MySQL
8. How to Create RSS Feeds with Dreamweaver
9. How to Create an RSS 2.0 Feed
10. How to Create an RSS Feed with Notepad, a Web Server, and a Beer
11. How to Create an RSS Feed from any Web Page
12. Set Up a Simple Syndication Feed Using RSS
13. Making an RSS Feed
14. Make RSS Feeds
15. Create RSS

RSS Tools

16. FeedBurner
17. Fedafi WordPress plugin
18. Feed Cycle
19. URL Fan
20. Ebay 2 RSS
21. FeedMagick
22. Feedverter
23. Flickr Widget
24. RSS ZeitGeist
25. RSS Calendar
26. Tag Cloud
27. Diodia
28. Headline Toolbar
29. RSS Feeds Toolbar
30. Feed Scout
31. My RSS Toolbar
32. Feed Roll Pro
33. Feed Digest
34. Blog Bomb
35. Feed Icons
36. Add This
37. Create custom icons
38. Podcast icons
39. RSS Button Maker
40. RSS Icon Gallery
41. Feed Button
42. Custom Button Maker

Ping Services

43. Ping-O-Matic
44. Pinger from Blog Flux
45. Pingoat

RSS Feed Software

46. Feed Editor
47. MyRSSCreator
48. RSS Content Builder
49. Feed for All
50. Feeder

RSS Feed Readers

51. FeedLounge
52. FeedShow
53. Rojo
54. Blog Bridge
55. News Monster
56. PixelNews
57. GreatNews
58. Particls
59. Anothr
60. FeedDemon
61. NewsLife
62. Straw
63. RSS Owl
64. Netvibes
65. FeedReader
66. Bloglines
67. NewsGator
68. My Yahoo
69. Active Web Reader
70. SurfPack
71. Awasu
72. Pageflakes
73. Daily Rotation
74. RSS Bandit
75. NewzCrawler
76. Juice
77. Snarfer
78. Omea
79. Shrook

RSS Monetizing

80. Feedvertising
81. FeedBurner
82. Pheedo
83. Orange Feed

RSS Forums

84. Digital Point
85. Webmaster World
86. NewsGator
87. Lockergnome
88. RSS Bandit

Mobile RSS Readers

89. mReader
90. NewsGator Go
91. Egress
92. LiteFeeds
93. Mobilerss.net
94. FreeRange
95. Quick News

RSS Feed Conversion

96. Feed Maker
97. Apexoft
98. Atom2RSS
99. NewsAloud
100. RSS2PDF
101. Google2RSS
102. RSS2HTML
103. RSSgenr8
104. Magpie RSS
105. FeedYes
106. Feed43
107. RSS to JavaScript
108. RSS News JavaScript Ticker
109. Feed Sweep
110. Widgetbox

RSS Email Tools

111. News Gator Email Edition
112. R-Mail
113. RSS2Email
114. FeedBlitz
115. PopHeadlines
116. RssFwd

RSS Validation Services

117. Walidator
118. Redland RSS Validator
119. Feed Validator
120. RSS Validator

Various Articles

121. Introduction to RSS
122. What is RSS? RSS Explained
123. RSS Specifications
124. RSS 2.0 Specification
125. History of RSS
126. 35 Ways You Can Use RSS Today
127. Making Headlines with RSS
128. The Evolution of RSS
129. 8 Easy Ways to Monetize Your RSS Feed
130. RSS – Taking it to the People

Firefox RSS Extensions

131. Sage
132. Thunderbird
133. RSS Ticker
134. Wizz
135. Blog Rovr
136. InfoRSS
137. Beatnik
138. NewsFox
139. Feed Sidebar

Top 48 Places To Submit Your Blog – Don’t Forget To Bookmark

• Dmoz Open Directory Project
• B4Blogs Directory – Submit Page
• Best Blogs – Submit Page
• TailRank
• Blawg – Submit Page
• Top Blog Area – Submit Page
• Bigger Blogger
• BlogAdr – Submit Page
• Aviva Directory – Submit Page
• BlogBunch – Submit Page
• BlogCode – Submit Page
• Blog Directory – Submit Page
• Blog Watch
• 5 Star Blogs – Submit Page
• Bloggapedia
• BloggerNow
• Blogging Fusion – Submit Page
• Read A Blog – Submit Page
• SpillBean
• BlogIntro – Submit Page
• Blog Listing – Submit Page
• Bloggernity – Submit Page
• BlogListing.net – Submit Page
• Blogoozle – Submit Page
• BlogPulse – Submit Page
• Technorati – Submit Page
• BlogRankings
• Blogarama – Submit Page
• Blogs Collection – Submit Page
• MyBlogDirectory
• BlogSweet
• Blog Top List – Submit Page
• Blog Universe – Submit Page
• Blogz – Submit Page
• Brit Blog – Submit Page
• Blog Dust – Submit Page
• Blogdup – Submit Page
• BlogFlux – Submit Page
• GetBlogs
• Globe of Blogs – Submit Page
• Eaton Web Blog Directory
• FindingBlog – Submit Page
• I Blog Business – Submit Page
• LS Blogs – Submit Page
• BlogSearch – Submit Page
• Strategic Board – Submit Page
• Super Blog Directory – Submit Page
• Small Business Blog Directory – Submit Page

For all of you novices this should get you started on the right foot.