Bloggers Digest 1/4/08

We start off this week’s link round-up with a must read commentary from Evan Schuman on the Sears’ spyware scandal that broke earlier this week.

Plus, we’ve got some great blogging articles for your reading pleasure.

• A new social media blog, Social Media Trader provides some great tips on how to convert StumbleUpon users into regular visitors.

• Chris Brogan offers some hints for fine-tuning your blog for 2008.
• Danielle from 10e20 gives you some dos and don’ts for ethical marketing in online forums.
• Problogger shares insight on what types of blog posts tend to get the most link love and traffic.
• And if you resolved to improve your Google skills this year, LifeHacker has some obscure Google search tricks that may come in handy someday.