Exchange4Me is one of a number of social media Exchange systems, and our first to review on WDTalk. Basically, the site is designed to help you increase your site traffic and popularity “FAST and FREE” through the use of coins that are can be used to get traffic for your links.
What can you do with these coins? According to Exchange4Me:
You can use the coins in your balance to place a value on your site or video. For example, you have a fans page you want gain more fans, so you set your page to give 5 Coins for any person who become fan, everytime one of our users become your fan, 5 Coins will be deducted from your account. In other words, if you have 5000 coins in your account and you set to give 5 coins for each view, that means you will get 1000 fans automatically.
Ok, so where do these coins come from?
You will earn coins for every Like, Follow, View, +1 or visit from you, to our users. Everytime you LIKE a page, watch a youtube video, press +1 on someone’s google plus or visiting a fellow visitor’s site you gain Coins.
Out of curiosity, I checked Exchange4Me’s Alexa ranking, which currently stands at 42,603 globally – impressive! Any time your Alexa rating ranks in the top 100,000 sites, you’re doing something right.
These are my favorite business and social bookmarks, listed in order by Alexa Ranking (May 13, 2011) – Part 1 of 4
| URL |
Alexa |
Description |
| http://www.facebook.com |
2 |
Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. |
| http://www.twitter.com |
9 |
Instant updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and what’s happening around the world. |
| http://www.LinkedIn.com |
17 |
Over 100 million professionals use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas and opportunities |
| http://www.tumblr.com |
50 |
Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme’s HTML. |
| http://www.myspace.com |
76 |
Myspace, Inc. is a leading social entertainment destination powered by the passions of fans. Aimed at a Gen Y audience, Myspace drives social interaction by providing a highly personalised experience around entertainment and connecting people to the music, celebrities, TV, movies, and games that they love. These entertainment experiences are available through multiple platforms, including online, mobile devices, and offline events. |
| http://www.reddit.com |
138 |
reddit is a source for what’s new and popular online. vote on links that you like or dislike and help decide what’s popular, or submit your own! |
| http://www.digg.com |
140 |
Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our community. |
| http://www.yelp.com |
199 |
Yelp is the fun and easy way to find and talk about great (and not so great) local businesses |
| http://www.delicious.com |
235 |
Social Bookmarking |
| http://www.xing.com/ |
256 |
THE PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS NETWORK WITH MORE THAN 10 MILLION MEMBERS WORLDWIDE |
| http://www.ning.com/ |
260 |
Ning is the world’s largest platform to create powerful, custom social websites. Top organizers, marketers, influencers and activists use Ning to create social experiences that inspire action. |
| http://www.multiply.com |
387 |
Multiply is a vibrant Social Shopping destination that feels like a visit with friends to the Shopping mall, but faster and more convenient. |
My favorite business and social bookmarks listed by Alexa rank, Part 2.
| http://www.slashdot.org |
1343 |
SlashDot |
| http://www.diigo.com/ |
1420 |
If you browse or read a lot on the web, we believe you will find Diigo indispensable. Diigo is two services in one — it is a research and collaborative research tool on the one hand, and a knowledge-sharing community and social content site on the other. |
| http://www.jigsaw.com/ |
2235 |
Jigsaw is the world’s largest database of up-to-date, downloadable, and complete contact and company information. With a directory of more than 25 million business contacts and over 36,000 contacts added and edited daily by a dedicated user base of over one million, the quality, content, and scope of Jigsaw’s world-class contact directory is unrivaled. Every Jigsaw business contact is complete with a phone number (over 70% of which are direct dial), position, company, mailing address, and business email address. Jigsaw also offers free tools for researching companies as well as a user generated company research wiki pages |
| http://www.entrepreneur.com/ |
2368 |
Be sure to check out Entrepreneur Connect on their Community Tab – lots of great forums |
| http://www.folkd.com |
2724 |
Using social bookmarks with folkd.com will enrich your web-surfing experience |
| http://www.blinklist.com |
3575 |
BlinkList is a powerful productivity tool that makes is much easier for anyone to share and save their links for later. |
| http://www.mister-wong.com |
4130 |
Mister Wong is a leading social bookmarking service with over 1 million users globally. |
| http://www.faves.com |
4239 |
Sites you’ll love, from people like you |
| http://www.kirtsy.com |
5084 |
kirtsy is a social media platform of pure goodness. A plaza for the peachy. A portal to the pretty. A place to find cool things. To read smart scoop. To connect with fab ideas, exceptional people, useful information, excellent products. All of it. And more. |
| http://www.buddymarks.com |
6233 |
BuddyMarks.com has been called “The online personal, group and social bookmarks manager.” |
| http://www.spoke.com/ |
7460 |
Spoke is a Personal Connections Management Service that enables people to leverage their lifetime of personal contacts to discover and re-connect with specific persons that can help them with current needs – even if they no longer remember their names or how they originally met. |
| http://www.mylinkvault.com |
7521 |
Online links made easy |
Here are my favorite business and social bookmarks listed by Alexa Rank, Part 3
| http://www.ecademy.com/ |
7778 |
Ecademy is a membership organisation for entrepreneurs and business owners who belong to a community that connects, supports and transacts with one another. |
| http://www.sphinn.com |
7969 |
Sphinn is a curated content site for search and online marketers. Sphinn accepts news tips and discussion topics from readers and aggregates the best of those with selections made by our editors to produce an ongoing look at the most important online marketing content each day. Sphinn is best used for discovering news stories and how-to articles and/or reading and participating in discussions with industry peers. Here’s a summary of how to get started: |
| startupnation |
10520 |
StartupNation is a free service founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We created this site to be your one-stop shop for entrepreneurial success, and we’re thrilled that StartupNation has grown to be the leading online content and community resource for entrepreneurs. |
| http://www.connotea.org |
10864 |
Free online reference management for clinicians and scientists |
| http://www.focus.com/ |
12714 |
Focus makes the world’s business expertise available to everyone. At the heart of Focus is a network of thousands of leading business and technology experts who are thought leaders, veteran practitioners and upstart innovators in hundreds of different topics and markets. |
| youngentrepreneur |
13996 |
Our social network and blog properties showcase Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Online Business Strategies, Interviews, and several features, solutions and support to assist small business owners with starting, managing and growing successful business ventures. We cater to the entrepreneurial passions of our audience, giving them all the latest news, conversations, small business webinars, access to seasoned experts and of course access to the most active community of like-minded entrepreneurs. |
| http://www.blogster.com/ |
14350 |
Blogster is an online community of people who share interests and activities, and are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. People use Blogster to write about topic they like, upload photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet |
| http://www.biznik.com/ |
15874 |
It sucks growing a business alone. No one cares. But we do. Biznik is an award-winning community of entrepreneurs and small businesses dedicated to helping each other succeed. |
| smallbusinessbrief |
18240 |
Fetching the Best Small Business News |
| fastpitchnetworking |
20786 |
Fast Pitch is a Global Network of Professionals connecting online with the primary goal to add value to their business and the community as a whole. Business networking and marketing is the life blood of local and global economies. By combining sophisticated and simple tools online with a social networking platform, professionals can receive real return on their investment. |
| http://www.clipclip.org |
24889 |
Cut, Copy & Paste the Web |
| http://www.ryze.com/ |
33560 |
Ryze helps you expand your business network. Get a FREE networking-oriented homepage. Make quality business contacts. Re-connect with friends — You probably know people in here already. Help your company make deals through Ryze members. Build your network BEFORE you need it! |
Here are my favorite business and social bookmarks listed by Alexa Rank (Baker’s Dozen) – Part 4 of 4
| http://homebasedbusiness.com/ |
34757 |
The Home Based Business Network is a community of like-minded people from around the world who enjoy the freedom of working from home and for themselves |
| www.gobignetwork.com/ |
41476 |
The Go BIG Network is an on-line marketplace that connects the startup and small business community. The company allows startup companies, funding sources, advisors, and service providers to post requests for help on-line and have those requests routed to other members of the Network who can help them. |
| www.younoodle.com/ |
43179 |
Meet exceptional people. Join the startup of your dreams. Show the world your support for cool entrepreneurs. What are you noodling on today? |
| www.efactor.com/ |
51311 |
EFactor, the world’s largest entrepreneurial community, provides resources that every small business owner needs: funding, knowledge, gain revenue and save cost. At EFactor, entrepreneurs exchange ideas with experts, receive exclusive discounts on business tools, interact with potential partners or clients, and discover funding for their startups. With close to a million users in 168 countries, EFactor offers a unique mix of online and offline E.vents in the US and internationally. Members join EFactor to make relevant connections, taking their businesses to the highest level. EFactor is headquartered in San Francisco, and founded by a team of successful serial entrepreneurs. |
| www.thefunded.com/ |
59317 |
TheFunded.com is an online community of over 14,500 CEOs, Founders and entrepreneurs to discuss fundraising, rate and review investors, and discuss strategies to grow a start-up business. Enjoy! |
| www.PartnerUp.com |
60329 |
The social network for small business |
| www.ziggs.com/ |
100965 |
Ziggs is your one-stop source for creating and managing your online brand. Market yourself on the Web and simplify how you stay in touch with people important to you. People who use Ziggs enjoy comprehensive online personal branding that they control, top visibility in search engines, easy communications and a strong sense of community with people important to them. As well as networking opportunities with millions of other professionals. |
| http://sta.rtup.biz/ |
106144 |
The Small Business Social Network |
| http://mybbwo.com/ |
184121 |
A Social Network for Women in Business, Women Entrepreneurs, and Bloggers |
| www.perfectbusiness.com/ |
194699 |
Our website is a network of entrepreneurs, investors and business experts. Everyone on our site is here to encourage entrepreneurship and mutual success. PerfectBusiness will introduce you to new business contacts and answer your toughest questions. You will not be alone in launching and growing your business. We are YOUR network. We are behind YOU. Whenever you need answers or help, think PerfectBusiness. |
| www.talkbiznow.com/ |
207273 |
Talkbiznow is a web-based business community that provides business services for small businesses and professionals. Our mission is to simplify the essential business services and seamlessly integrate and deliver them through the internet forFree. Our members can network, collaborate with each other, promote and do business online at Talkbiznow. |
| http://cofoundr.com/ |
224540 |
Cofoundr is the fastest growing online network for Entrepreneurs! Join the private community of startups founders — developers, investors, CEOs, advisors, programmers, and designers — to find co-founders, build teams, and get advice. Make your new venture a success by joining Cofoundr now! |
| http://unstructure.org/ |
228522 |
Unstructure is an open discussion platform for business professionals, bloggers and contemporary thought leaders to discuss and debate action ideas that would aid the evolution of business. Unstructure consists of an online discussion forum (where you are currently), an annual physical event and a book of insight and action ideas for businesses of the future. |
| www.upspring.com/ |
298348 |
The easy way to connect, communicate and manage your business and professional community networks. |
| networkingforprofessionals |
349830 |
“We put you in touch with serious and successful professionals online and face-to-face, expanding your business opportunities and accelerating the way you network. And nothing is more important to your business than networking! “ |
| www.raisecapital.com/ |
515503 |
RaiseCapital.com is an online community, where entrepreneurs can display their business ideas and capital needs to investors. Whether your venture is a start-up or existing business, RaiseCapital.com is the perfect vehicle for entrepreneurs seeking capital. |
| www.fledgewing.com/ |
563676 |
FledgeWing provides aspiring student entrepreneurs with the framework they need to develop, build and launch innovative new companies. |
| www.jasezone.com/ |
766209 |
We are an online neighborhood gathering spot for friends around the world. |
| www.addyx.com |
1412159 |
Addyx is a Web 2.0 social news portal about people and sports powered by You |
Social networking should be an integral part of your marketing strategy. It seems like a lot of social bookmarks vanish over time, so I’ve compiled a short list here of active social bookmarking sites, ranked in order from highest to lowest in PageRank. Note that some sites ranked low in PageRank still rank high in SERPS.
I did double check each of these sites today and found that some that I had bookmarked had disappeared, so they’re no longer on this list. If you have other favorites, please post them on a comment and I’ll add them to the list.
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