This is a guest post by Stefan Jacholke of Techno-Flux – The number one place for computer tips and tricks.

Twitter is one of the latest social media apps out there and it’s really popular at the moment. You want to use twitter to your advantage to leverage traffic to your site; quality traffic.

Twitter is easy to use and simple.  It only takes a couple of minutes to familiarize yourself with the interface.

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This is a guest post by Indu Priya from TheIdeasHome.

I realized that almost all the top 100 blogs (according to Technorati) have social media presence. They mainly have their profiles on Twitter, Facebook and Stumbleupon.

So today I wanted to write about marketing content on social media sites mainly Twitter, Facebook, Stumbleupon and Digg.

A social media campaign has an inherent viral exposure.  If you are using social media sites only as a “link building” resources, then you are limiting your potential.

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This is a guest post by Devesh, who is a young entrepreneur. He writes at Technshare.com and wpkube.com.

StumbleUpon is one of the most efficient ways to drive traffic and get maximum referral visits. With just a few Thumbs-up you can get hundreds of visitors, but most Bloggers fail to get those first thumbs-ups to their sites or blog.

It is still a great source of traffic and links. It’s simply an incredible viral means to drive a large amount of sustainable traffic to any website over a period of time. Using it is crucial to your social marketing success.

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This is a guest post by Akira who loves earning money online and dreams to be a successful Internet Marketer.

Blog promotion can be done by mean of paid promotion or free promotion. Example of free promotion includes guest blogging and blog walking. Meanwhile, paid promotion can be done by direct advertising, pay per click  etc. But, there is an effective way of blog promotion that only a few blogger know about it or try to do. The promotion technique is called contest.

Contest is an activity where you provide an award to the lucky participant who did what you ordered. We cannot put contest in either paid promotion or free promotion category since the prize of the contest might be sourced from our own pocket or from sponsors. But instead of discussing it here, I would like to discuss the effectiveness of contest to promote your blog.

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This is a guest post by Tushar Agarwal from BloggersPassion.

Promotion is the only way to keep a blog alive. It is always said that good content is nothing without traffic. The quality of the content does matter but if nobody come to your blog, what is the use of that content. It will not get the laurels it deserves and this is sure to discourage you.

90% of the bloggers use free methods of promoting which sometimes work and sometimes does not.

But ask any seasoned blogger about the best way to promote a blog without spending a single penny and the most common answers you will hear are COMMENTING and GUEST BLOGGING.

These are the most used methods and often leave us with a debate on which is the best among the two. Both have its advantages and I am trying to find out the best between these two based on two common metrics.

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