Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is a great way to get a lot of traffic to your site quickly. While social bookmark traffic is often very "surf" oriented (ie not big buyers of products or clickers of adsense ads) it's still nice to get a large influx of traffic and more eyes on your site. Some of these surfers may become longtime visitors of your site & perhaps even better some of them may find your site via social bookmarking and end up linking to you.
First let me state the obvious: The best way to get people to bookmark your site is to have good/interesting/unique content. Spending a little extra time to create meaningful insightful content is definitely worth it. For example say you have a blog that you are trying to get some bookmarking love: If you create one really good post you'll get more return than creating 10 BS posts.
To make it easier for your visitors to bookmark your site/articles/posts you should add an AddThis banner to your site (look at the bottom of each of my blog posts.) This can easily be obtained (for free) from www.AddThis.com
While there are some bookmarking sites that I think are far more important than others it's nice to offer them all up for your visitors so that no matter what site(s) they use they can bookmark your page easily.
So what are the bookmarking sites I think are far more important... read on.
The Top Five Bookmarking Sites In My Experience:
Digg.com - This is good particularly if you are "tech" related but they also have categories for many other things. Also good for political type sites. Depending on your site topic, Digg may be a complete waste of time. The traffic from Digg tends to be very ad blind.
Netscape.com - I find that Netscape is often overlooked by people who talk about the best bookmarking sites. Netscape can bring in high quality, less ad blind traffic (I've made sales through their traffic.)
StumbleUpon.com - You can get a HUGE influx of traffic if your site gets popular on SU. I had a site that suddenly out of nowhere was getting 10 to 12K visitors a day just from one page being on SU. While the traffic from SU is extremely untargeted and you will get very low conversion rates on ads and products from this traffic, the possibility for such huge volumes of traffic makes it a good one to focus on.
I've also noticed that SU traffic also seems to last a much longer than traffic from the other bookmarking sites. It's been over a month since I got that influx of over 10K a day to one of my pages (for a few days) and I'm still getting over 500 a day and sometimes it'll even flare up to the thousands.
Fark.com - It's hard to get accepted by Fark but if you are it's a great way to get backlinks. Why? Because others will find your page on Fark and consider it "worthy" to be included on their sites. I've received a nice amount of backlinks from my pages being featured on Fark.
Del.icio.us - You can get some quality traffic with Delicious. Some people will search Delicious tags looking for something so if your site shows up high for that topic (or tag) you can come upon some pretty targeted traffic (by Social Bookmarking standards.)
First let me state the obvious: The best way to get people to bookmark your site is to have good/interesting/unique content. Spending a little extra time to create meaningful insightful content is definitely worth it. For example say you have a blog that you are trying to get some bookmarking love: If you create one really good post you'll get more return than creating 10 BS posts.
To make it easier for your visitors to bookmark your site/articles/posts you should add an AddThis banner to your site (look at the bottom of each of my blog posts.) This can easily be obtained (for free) from www.AddThis.com
While there are some bookmarking sites that I think are far more important than others it's nice to offer them all up for your visitors so that no matter what site(s) they use they can bookmark your page easily.
So what are the bookmarking sites I think are far more important... read on.
The Top Five Bookmarking Sites In My Experience:
Digg.com - This is good particularly if you are "tech" related but they also have categories for many other things. Also good for political type sites. Depending on your site topic, Digg may be a complete waste of time. The traffic from Digg tends to be very ad blind.
Netscape.com - I find that Netscape is often overlooked by people who talk about the best bookmarking sites. Netscape can bring in high quality, less ad blind traffic (I've made sales through their traffic.)
StumbleUpon.com - You can get a HUGE influx of traffic if your site gets popular on SU. I had a site that suddenly out of nowhere was getting 10 to 12K visitors a day just from one page being on SU. While the traffic from SU is extremely untargeted and you will get very low conversion rates on ads and products from this traffic, the possibility for such huge volumes of traffic makes it a good one to focus on.
I've also noticed that SU traffic also seems to last a much longer than traffic from the other bookmarking sites. It's been over a month since I got that influx of over 10K a day to one of my pages (for a few days) and I'm still getting over 500 a day and sometimes it'll even flare up to the thousands.
Fark.com - It's hard to get accepted by Fark but if you are it's a great way to get backlinks. Why? Because others will find your page on Fark and consider it "worthy" to be included on their sites. I've received a nice amount of backlinks from my pages being featured on Fark.
Del.icio.us - You can get some quality traffic with Delicious. Some people will search Delicious tags looking for something so if your site shows up high for that topic (or tag) you can come upon some pretty targeted traffic (by Social Bookmarking standards.)
1 Comments:
What's your opinion about Youlicit? It's another stumbleupon, delicious, and alike. They have a Firefox extension and found it to be very useful. Do you think Youlicit is ready for mainstream, even though it's still in beta?
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