andrew
POPurls
This is just a quick FYI post on a great resource.
Like you… I only have so much time in a day — and here lately, there is not enough time in the day to get everything done that I need to – so I need to streamline a few of my daily tasks.
If I had about 4 more hours in every day — that would about fix me up.
In order to keep up with trends… whats popular… and what people are talking about, I visit quite a few social networking sites and forums – and this takes a lot of time.
A couple weeks ago I stumbled across Popurls.com — I pretty much forgot about the site.
It is now my home page.
In a glance, I can see what’s popular at 30+ social networking, video, image, news and bookmarking sites.
Popurls does not cover all the social sites on the Internet… but they cover the biggies and for the most part, the ones that matter (for what I use them for anyway).
I want to know “what are people talking about and what’s the buzz right now“?
Here’s an example of what’s popular at Digg right now;
What’s popular at del.icio.us;
Clipmarks….
How about Popular Videos at Youtube and Pictures at Flickr;
(Russ, thought that was a boys name… that’s no boy — 3AM, go to bed)
I guess the obvious question is this; “why should I even care what’s popular or what others are talking about?”
I’m not going to go into why you should care in this post — but I’ll give you an example.
I boot up my computer… open Firefox… Popurls comes up as my home page… I scan through it… visit a few sites on the lists… see what’s popular, and what others are talking about… and I now have a few ideas on what I should write about on my blog.
It’s a brain storming tool.
If one of those popular blogs happens to have an article or post in the same niche as my blog, I can leave a comment on the post (with a link back to this blog)… or better yet, mention the popular article in one my posts and receive a trackback from the article (that’s receiving a lot of buzz apparently).
If something is really buzzing and just picking up speed… I can use a little Bending the Web and Clipmarks Unleashed strategies — write a post on the same topic (if it is in my niche) and get my piece of the traffic being generated by all the interest.
Okay… that’s it.
Wanted this post to be short, so I’ll end it here – but be sure you check out Popurls.com
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Thanks- I can see how this site would be very useful for trend-based internet marketing.
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This is a great new social bookmarking website! I love how great everything looks, kinda like flickr meets digg…
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POPURLs is a fairly useful tool, and plenty of people must use it, and the may other clone sites like it, on the few occasions when I have had post make it onto delicious popular page, just about as many hits came my way from POPURLs.
I’ve never even seen Popurl’s before.
Thanks for the tip. I only now realize the benefits of checking out the Web 2.0 sites all on one page.
Very cool…
Very stimulating article, i never heard about are PopUrls, but now i will surely use it. Thanks.
I really liked your blog. Very useful information, read it detail, also book-marked it and will be back in the future to read some more of your interesting posts ! keep up the good work.
PopUrls sounds really interesting, i didn’t come across it yet. And its really intriguing me.
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With this post being on a few of those “Do Follow” blogs that give the PR — I’m deleting the crap comments that are self serving and posted simply for a link back.
Comments like ‘Great blog’… ‘Good info’… ‘Great plugin (what plugin?)… deleting them all.
If you are wanting links back to your blog… you need to get a little better commenting.
Andrew
PopUrls is the real trend these days.. its looks really exciting and im sure everyone will like it. It will rock. I really enjoyed reading this article.
Thanks for sharing.
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PopUrls sounds really groovy, it will surely be everyone’s favourite in no time . Cheers
These are some good resources for getting a good gauge on the most popular topics. This information could be useful for trend marketing, a technique where bloggers can gain quick surges in traffic by targeting currently popular topics instead of aiming purely at long tail or niche keywords.
That’s the craze these days… i have seen it many websites and its really good!
My fav site in this genre is http://seo.alltop.com/ – great for SEO & PPC news.
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PopUrls are more lively and dynamic compared to the traditional ones, it will be much appreciated. Cheers
My thoughts exactly!!!
POPURLs is a fairly useful too
Pretty sweet website, however, I could see it as being a bit of a distraction. I don’t know if I could set it to my homepage, I’d be giving myself an excuse not to work.
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This is a cool blog, i’ll definately be coming back. I like the layout.
Nice, this helps.
I am waiting for more. Very informative.
This is a cool blog
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Very nice blog. Keep it up, i’ll be following along.
POPURLs is a fairly useful tool, and plenty of people must use it. I’ve never even seen Popurl’s before.
Thanks for stimulating article.
Interesting post! i have never heard about are Pop Url but now i come to know.
I really liked your blog!
Nice list I have accounts with all of those sites, by far my favorite is you tube.
Of course, what a great site and informative posts, I will add backlink – bookmark this site? Regards, Reader.
You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog.