Using social media sites like Digg, Stumbleupon and Twitter is a great way to gain popularity and getting visitors to your web site.

I found these free online tools for monitoring your social media backlinks. You can also use them for analyzing social media backlinks of your competitors. This is very useful for discovering methods that another sites use for promoting in social media.

Socialscan.com - this free social media backlink checker is one of my favorite. This is a tool for checking a website link popularity among popular social sites like Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Myweb, Technorati, Shadows, Bloglines, Simpy, Blinklist, Diigo and Furl.

Socialmention.com - one of the best social media backlink tools around. You can sort mentions by date, source, postrank and filter results. Socialmention is a real time search platform. You can receive free daily email alerts of your brand, company, marketing campaign, on a developing news story or a competitor. There is another great feature - you can display realtime social buzz on your site or blog.

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Few days ago I was looking for some online service or software for checking individual Google Pagerank of my web pages.

Of course, you can do that with Google Toolbar, but it’s time consuming - you have to manually open every single page.

Finally I found this service - http://www.mypranalyzer.com/multiple-pagerank-checker.php , it will let you check individual PR of 100 web pages at one time.

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Today’s guest at MikeShakin.com - Daniel Scocco, famous blogger from Brazil, author of Dailyblogtips.com. I think that Daniel is one of the best bloggers around. I appreciate that Daniel took time to answer my questions.

Thanks for talking with us, Daniel. You’re a blogging celebrity, but what about regular Daniel? Where do you live? What do you do in your spare time? Give us a glimpse into your non-blogging life.

I don’t share too much of my personal life online, because I figure it would bother people to death….

But since you are asking, I am a 26 year old guy currently living in Brazil. Most of my day is spent working. When I am not online I am either training (weight-lifting and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu), playing the saxophone, or going out with friends.

Could you explain how you became a full-time blogger?

Back in 2005 when I got my degree in International Economics I was left with a big document that I had prepared for my thesis. I had put a lot of effort into researching and writing it out, but I was sure that apart from myself only two people would end up reading it, my teacher and my father….

Instead of letting the document sit idle and gather dust, therefore, I decided to chop it off into small articles and publish them on the web.

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A few days ago Google has announced new service - Google Buzz. It appears now in every Gmail account. Since then, millions of Gmail users have checked Buzz out.

More than 9 million of posts and comments were created for the first two days after launching Google Buzz.

So how will Google Buzz help your search marketing efforts?

Let’s start with the obvious. Buzz is completely new tool that helps you create your own social network based on your Gmail contacts. It will also help you to increase the audience of your blog.

Google Buzz allows users to post views and share it with the public or a specific group. You can create a buzz by boosting the views with images, videos and link extensions.

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