2011 was a big year for Reddit.  Not only did its traffic surge, but it had quite a few cultural moments.  Whether it was powering the Occupy movement or selling a movie script, the network seems to be gaining power and influence daily.  It's like the Godfather of social sharing sites.  So when I came across this Reddit guide to fitness, I knew I was in for something good.

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As the year comes to an end, good memories come to mind when thinking back to The Next Web Conference 2011. With 1193 attendees and almost 40,000 on the live...

Read More: Looking back at The Next Web Conference 2011 [Infographic]

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes It's time to start thinking about your New Year's resolution. More than likely, if you are like me it has been on your mind for months. These days, I don't worry so much about what should focus on but how I can motivate myself enough to stick to it. [...]

Read More: The Tale Of The New Year’s Fail [Infographic]

Building your fan base online is incredibly important.  Your social media fan base can help grow your brand and lead to an increase in traffic, viral spread of your content and, as a result, an increase in profits.  But growing your fan base can be difficult and many brands and people have no idea where to start.  Luckily, KISS Metrics has just released a fantastic infographic on the importance of a fan base and how to grow one.


Read More: 7 Ways To Grow Your Fan Base [Infographic]

It's a strange thing to ask someone to "follow you".  I imagine old settlers in frontier America inviting people to their caravan, a la Oregon Trail, using the same language hundreds of years ago — although at that time the commitment would be a lot greater.  These days, when somebody asks a person to "follow me," it's usually just a notch on the belt for people that use social services to count their friends.  Am I being too pessimistic?

Read More: Who’s Asking “Follow Me” More — Men or Women? [Infographic]

As most of you know, Daily Deal sites exploded in 2011. As of now, there are 800 daily deal sites in the United States alone. In 2010, there were only 20. The site 8Coupons.com put together this fantastic infographic which gives us a look back at daily deal sites in 2011. From the acquisitions and ...

Read More: A Look Back at Daily Deal Sites in 2011 (Infographic)

The daily deal space has exploded this year! From acquisitions to relaunches, name changes and planned IPOs, tons of information has been absorbed right into this bubbly infographic by 8coupons....

Read More: The Year of Daily Deals [Infographic]

If you are an SEO pro looking for a job, you might like what you see in this infographic by Onward Search, which details the job market for people with SEO skills.  Of course, I recommend you visit the mediabistro jobs board for a quick glimpse at what jobs are available right now in all sectors, but take a look at the infographic to get some context about the market.


Read More: Looking for an SEO Job? NYC and LA Are the Places to Be [Infographic]

This gust post is by SEO for Salesforce. Is it safe for bloggers to stop caring about SEO yet? Can we all just install an SEO plugin for WordPress and focus on creating quality content? If you read some of the problogger.net articles this year about how Google’s Panda updates sent some bloggers looking for [...]

Read More: Infographic: Is it Time to Consider SEO Automation?

Amazon is a household word these days. It's recent release of the Amazon Kindle may signal it's transition into a new stage, and it could become as essential a word as "Apple".  What's not as well known, is the story of its growth in the last 17 years.


Read More: Amazon’s Growth: 9 Things to Know [Infographic]

The measure of how influential you are on the web used to be measured by how many fans or followers you had.  Today it’s measured by Klout—the standard for online influence on a scale of 1 to 100 by Klout.com that factors in elements such as how many people you influence and how much of an impact you make on your fans and followers.  Don’t know much about Klout?  A new infographic from KISS Metrics is a one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about how online influence is measured and how [...]

Read More: 5 Simple Ways To Increase Your Klout [Infographic]

Tweet Do you ever wonder if the positioning of the elements on your website are really making any sense? I mean from the visitor's point of view. Most people in this DIY world of us approach the design of a website from a visual standpoint. We immediately jump into trying to figure out color schemes, [...]

Read More: How Effective Is Your Homepage? [Infographic]

Without a doubt Google owns a majority of U.S. search traffic on the Internet. But, according to Experian’s Hitwise report Microsoft’s Bing might be coming up the ranks as it continues month after month gradually wearing down Google’s control over search traffic. With that said, if your current SEO strategy has principally Google in its system, now may be the time to broaden your horizons.


Read More: Searches Powered by Microsoft Bing Increasing at an Impressive Rate [Infographic]

Brands know the importance of scheduling posts to attain the maximum engagement. However, when are their target customers most responsive?


Read More: When is the Best Time for Marketers to Post? [Infographic]

StumbleUpon is a platform that specializes in social sharing as a service. The infographic in this article delineates underlying causes and reasons for StumbleUpon's

Read More: StumbleUpon: Where Should You Share? [Infographic]

The term “Daily Deals” is well-known among shoppers who love to save money, but there is more to these awesome deals than meets the eye. There is always more to learn for the consumer as well as the merchant. Daily Deals have an uncertain path ahead of them even though consumers are digging the savings.


Read More: Daily Deals Have an Uncertain Path Ahead of Them [Infographic]

Just how big and fast has Facebook grown? The social network serves more than 400 million users who login to Facebook everyday out of total membership base of over 800 million. 75% of Facebook users live outside the U.S. and Facebook is available in 70 languages. In less than 7 years, Facebook has received 2.34 billion dollars of funding. That’s a lot of growth for an Internet platform.


Read More: Facebook Funding, Statistics, Top Five Likes [Infographic]

Reddit joined the social media world in 2005 and developed into one of the biggest and most popular news and content syndicated applications on the Internet.


Read More: Reddit Invasion Timeline [Infographic]

Blogging has roots all the way back to the early 1990s, when forum members would keep accounts of their day-to-day activities and in 1994 the first real blog, Justin’s Links, hit the web.  Blogging has come a long way since the ‘90s, with over 156 million public blogs in existence as of February 2011.  Everyone is blogging, from moms to techies to artists and politicians, and a fun infographic from Flowtown examines the blogging ecosystem.


Read More: The Evolution Of The Blogger: Which Type Of Blogger Are You? [Infographic]

If you thought spam was a growing annoyance, you'd be right.  WebPageFx discovered that the energy cost of spam email is actually equivalent to the level of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions released from driving 3 feet.


Read More: What Do Spam Emails and Greenhouse Gas Have in Common? [Infographic]