I found an interesting new social networking site today. Actually, it found me…one of my Web 2.0 articles on another blog was indexed on the site, and showed up in my vanity Google Alerts. It’s called LOUD3R:
LOUD3R is a network of exhaustive, topic-driven websites. We gather and publish the best content from blogs, news and editorial sites, including photos and videos for any given topic. LOUD3R ranks the content, pushing the most important stories to the top. All the news is published by an automated semantic engine that is guided by human editors, user behavior and community feedback.
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LOUD3R sites are created by assembling a source list of websites and a semantic glossary of terms that teach the content engine how to identify the best news stories, photos, videos, and other content from hundreds of Websites related to a particular topic. We use a combination of human editorial input combined with semantic software to assemble all the best content, from a web-wide perspective, for any given topic. The technology learns from user behavior, allowing the site to react to the community’s interests and preferences. We sift through the bad, so you don’t have to.
There are networks on LOUD3R for venture capital, wine, fashion, the environment, politics, video games, T.V., dogs, martial arts, and more (see the list, here).One of the LOUD3R networks our FreshySEO readers might like is BUZZ3R, an internet business & technology social network.
Today’s Hot Topics on BUZZ3R include:
1. Google
2. Mac
3. iphone
4. Facebook
5. Yahoo
6. Network
7. Platform
8. HTTP
9. OS
10. Steve Ballmer
11. Beta
12. Twitter
13. Developer
14. World Wide Web
15. AOL
To be sure BUZZ3Rs have access to your favorite reads, you can index a site, and/or submit articles. You can do this for your own blog, and any others you like. This morning, for example, I indexed FreshySEO, and added an article I did a couple of weeks ago about iRadio. BUZZ3R was able to automatically pick up relevant tags in the article submission, then gave me a place to add a new “iRadio” tag to its list.
BUZZ3R’s have the option, now, if they like my story, to comment on my story, share it on six of the larger social networks, e-mail it to a friend. If they don’t like it, they can flag it as being irrelevant, not making sense, or as spam. To search for more stories, readers have a plethora of options, in choosing the automatically-generated “releated stories,” or choosing from several different feeds. Stories receive points as users click, comment, and share them, and the stories which are “most popular” or “most interesting” (I’m still trying to figure out the difference) have their own feeds as well.
LOUD3R was just launched in April, and BUZZ3R was added in June, so it remains to be seen how much of an effect a “success” on the site will have on a blog’s overall SEO, but this is is definitely worth watching.
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We were fortunate to be picked up by Buzz3r recently. This article was on their front page for a few days: http://www.buzz3r.com/stories/Search-the-web-with-Scour-a-new-social
It has a Loud3r score of 1014. We are looking forward to an SEO boost. Great blog, keep up the great work
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