Tip’d Gets New Facelift

Over the weekend, I received an e-mail containing details of the new features that were coming to Tipd.com. The e-mail contained an announcement directly from the Tipd team, which I have reposted, unaltered, below. These changes should all be live by tomorrow morning!

Before reading the specific changes, let me say that Tip’d is a tremendous resources for both personal finance bloggers and readers. If you enjoy the content on this blog, you can find hundreds of other similar blogs using this site. Because Tip’d exclusively features the personal finance community, it shines a focused light on the best of the best within our fantastic genre.

Without further ado…

Tip’d Turns 2.0!

Boy, does time fly! It was only a little while ago that we announced that Tip’d had come out of beta and turned 1.0. Four months later we’re already marching into our next big release: Tip’d 2.0. In the
intervening months we’ve hit several more milestones in terms of inbound and outbound traffic, user registration growth, and activity on the site in terms of daily submissions, votes, and comments. Furthermore, we have a slew of bug fixes and new features to announce today so let’s get to it.

Tip’d Growth Statistics

As the economy worsens and a larger percentage of people turn to the web to seek financial news and advice, we’ve seen our monthly traffic double from 100,000 page views to 200,000 page views, and are sending 1-300 referral visits from a ‘published’ (front-paged) story to linked sites (the average is not only substantially greater than most other niche sites, but is also a 300% increase from our previous referral
average).

Our combined e-mail and RSS subscriber base has grown from 1,000 to 2,500, registered members have grown from 2,000 to 6,000+, total submissions have increased from 2,700 to almost 12,000, comments have increased from 1,250 to over 4,000, and total Tips have increased from 25,000 to over 70,000. With an average of 60 new user registrations a day (and increasing) and an average of over 100 new story submissions per day (excluding spam – little of which gets through thanks to our algorithm and our wonderful moderator, Tamar), we are already your premier financial news community on the web.

New 2.0 Features

So now that you know what our community has been doing, let’s go over what we’ve been cooking for you behind the scenes.

The Tip’d SocialTickers – The biggest feature we’re announcing today is the launch of SocialTickers. Tip’d SocialTickers are pages that track any given stock ticker across the Social Web. They feature the latest Tip’d stories, blog posts, Delicious bookmarks, tweets, and links to other social or data resources for more information on every stock listed on the NYSE or NASDAQ. By visiting the SocialTickers main page you can see the most popular SocialTicker pages on Tip’d. Why just get a quote when you can get so much more information on your favorite tickers via SocialTickers?

The Tip’d Video Integration – Finance news doesn’t just come in article format; there are a lot of great newsworthy videos being released every day. With the launch of Tip’d 2.0 we’re giving you the ability to share your favorite business and finance related videos with the Tip’d community. Submitting a video is just as simple as submitting any other link, and watching a video is even easier – for all Youtube and Google videos, you can simply click on a video you want to watch and it plays in an overlay on your current page (no need to load another page). Furthermore, you can subscribe to get the latest popular video submissions directly from the Tip’d video feed.

The Tip’d Top 100 - Unlike many other big social news sites, we’ve always been the first to acknowledge the contribution of our community in making Tip’d a success. Since day one we’ve had a list of our top Tip’d community members and have even highlighted them on our blog. Today we’re taking that one step further to also acknowledge the top content producing domains that allow this participation to take place on Tip’d. Just as without community members wouldn’t exist, without the wonderful content being created by these blogs and bloggers (who, by the way, happen to also be some of our top community members) we would have nothing to read, share, and discuss. Curious who’s the #1 publisher on Tip’d? You’ll have to click through to find out!

The Top Tip’d Ambassadors – We want to give our community the credit it deserves for every single action that the individual members take. We already acknowledge your participation on the site using our top community members list. Now, we’re taking the idea one step further with our list of top Tip’d ambassadors. The list will highlight the users that have been working off the site to recruit more members for our community on a monthly basis.

The Tip’d Greatest Hits – Want to spend some time just browsing the most popular stories to have ever been featured on the homepage of Tip’d? Head over to our greatest hits page and find out what’s hot.

I’m really excited about the new Tip’d site. I’m going to try to encourage readers whom enjoy my posts to submit them! Oh, that reminds me… don’t forget to “Tip” your favorite posts on Man Vs. Debt!