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My question was about submissions from our own blogs, as sources. News aggregators treat this question differently. For example, StumbleUpon does not look too kindly on submitting too much personal content or using the system with the “primary intention to promote a product or service”. Some groups there have taken this to extremes, considering any self-submission to be spamming the system.

Sphinn.com, on the other hand, welcomes people to submit their own material. They work on a “common sense” basis. Members there follow some unwritten rules though, they space out their submissions and avoid dominating the upcoming queue for example. Danny Sullivan’s comments here maybe useful for you, as an old(er) sage in the internet marketing industry he’s managed to get a pretty level take on the issues. As you see above, he’s also a member at SM. Matt’s comments here are also good.

Equally I see this same issue arising with RSS feeds. If your own blog feed is relevant to the news group, can you add this? For example, my feed here would seem on-topic for several of the SEO groups I mentioned above.

This is your site though and you get to set the tone on this issue. It goes without saying that your FAQs will be fundamental in forming the community attitudes to these kinds of issues.

Some of them I guess you will deal with as/when the problems arise. Unfortunately that maybe about 20 mins after all the internet marketers sign up ;)

We’re going to be updated the FAQ’s today and tomorrow. What exactly is your question regarding submitting content?

The way it works is that you can submit content 1 of 4 ways to socialmedian.

1. Add a feed to a news network. Only relevant stories (matching topical keywords) will make it into the network vs. the entire feed.

2. Use our bookmarklet. When using the browser bookmarklet you can either let socialmedian decide which of your networks to share the content with, or you can select manually.

3. Use the Add something buttons to submit news or a snippet directly onto the site. Again, you can either let socialmedian decide which of your networks to share the content with, or you can select manually.

4. email anything to post@mysocialmedian.com and we’ll post it to your page and share it with your followers and relevant networks.