Add To: Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo My Web | Furl, and others

[greeneagle]

One of the best ways to get links and pump up traffic for certain kinds of Sites and/or Pages, articles, news stories etc is to offer several options to add to targeted Social Sites, such as:

del.icio.us
Digg
Yahoo My Web
Furl

That's just to name a few.

Let's talk about value, marketing this way, how to go about it and others that are noteworthy, but not mentioned above.

I would appreciate any advice and know how along these lines.

Thanks,
Ken

[tuler]

I also use StumbleUpon.com. I often get 30 to 50 hits in the first half day of submiting a site to StumbleUpon.

I just started using Digg and have been using del.icio.us for about two months. I'm still waiting to see the results.

I think with del.icio.us it really depends on the tags that are associated your site. The more popular the tag, the more likely you will have people find your site. To make your site more popular with the tag, you then have to entice people to add your site to their del.icio.us page. This takes us back to having great content that people will want to share with others.

[nerdbyte]

I agree. It all adds up.

[bj]

Technorati tagging blogposts has gotten my posts a lot of attention and backlinks.

[tuler]

Originally Posted by bj

Technorati tagging blogposts has gotten my posts a lot of attention and backlinks.

I forgot about them. They have sent me a bit of traffic as well.

[edhan]

Originally Posted by bj

Technorati tagging blogposts has gotten my posts a lot of attention and backlinks.

Yes. Technorati tagging seems to provide additional traffic for my sites as well as Furl It.

[incrediblehelp]

I have these tags on my blog. The best ones I have seen so far in bound clicks from viewers are Digg and Delicious. When I post something in my blog I go and "dig" or syndicate the post myself first and then if it catches on I usually see some good traffic, which can then lead to links from other blogs talking about my blog. Simple huh?

One of the best responses I have seen thus far is that Diet Coke and Mentos video that went around. I posted a brief entry on my blog and then sent it out and it caught one well.

[A. Smith]

Great topic!
I'd be interested in places to get the word out to specialty areas, such as how to reach professional upholsterers.

[pwrkid]

has anyone had success using these public bookmarking services for driving traffic to sites that are not blogs?

[incrediblehelp]

Originally Posted by pwrkid

has anyone had success using these public bookmarking services for driving traffic to sites that are not blogs?

I dont have any social tagging experiance with other websites, just than blogs, but sure why not. Just browse around each of them and you will see real websites, forums and mnay other types of websites doing great. You add social bookmarking anywhere you want!

[juliemarg]

Yahoo has a site upcoming.org. I got some visitors immediately when I posted on it this past weekend.

I also get a fair amount of visitors from yelp.com and 43places.

[greeneagle]

If this turns out to be a valuable thread, I'll rename it and make it a sticky.

Different social sites lean better one way or the other from a marketing perspective. ie. MySpace is a great place for young entrepreneurs to promote their wares as well as musicians to make a mark.

In fact I accidently fell into the pie there with a rural water utility Site (www.dpwater.com) because of the graphic used on the home page, yielding hundreds of visitors. It has not resulted in links and in this case won't result in additional business for a geographically confined client, but the visits have been phenominal.

Targeted application as opposed to incidental "pie" could be very effective.

When including notes about the different social networks here, please go a little further and indicate what base interests and age groups might be involved, as well as any notes on application and we may be able to assemble this into a useful spreadsheet.

If we start to go there, we'll "sticky it" and march on.

Thanks for your input so far.

Ken

[mpossoff]

Ken you mentioned and asked about marketing this way.

I would assume in social settings "our job" isn't to sell per say. You know shove it down someones throat.

Ken you talk about links and such do you mind explaining what links are?

Anyone else?

Originally Posted by greeneagle

One of the best ways to get links and pump up traffic for certain kinds of Sites and/or Pages, articles, news stories etc is to offer several options to add to targeted Social Sites, such as:

del.icio.us
Digg
Yahoo My Web
Furl

That's just to name a few.

Let's talk about value, marketing this way, how to go about it and others that are noteworthy, but not mentioned above.

I would appreciate any advice and know how along these lines.

Thanks,
Ken

[zbikenut]

Has anyone found a difference between digging or delishious ing a single website page vs the home page?

Zbikenut

[incrediblehelp]

Originally Posted by zbikenut

Has anyone found a difference between digging or delishious ing a single website page vs the home page?

Zbikenut

No difference here.

[internet-marketing-cr]

Great post, I have been looking for information on the subject. I know the concept of social networking, my question is what makes visitors to want to bookmark my page in one these websites?

Here is a link to many of them, this place facilitates you to link to all social bookmark websites using one link.

Automatic submission of social bookmarks

[incrediblehelp]

Originally Posted by internet-marketing-cr

my question is what makes visitors to want to bookmark my page in one these websites?

Bbecause for once a visitor can actually vote or spread the word about your website to others that might be interested in the same subject matter. The side benefit of SEO requires a little more explanation than just getting as many clicks as possible from these networks.

The bottomline is if someone does stumbles upon your website and reads what they were looking for and finds it useful they can now "spread the word" about this great piece of content to the rest of the world through tagging.

Of course this hopefully will lead to more IBL's to that page of yours because other bloggers will find it useful and post to it and about it.

[mpossoff]

Hi greeneagle and all,

I recently joined and set up a MySpace account as per your suggestions.

Trying to get a feel for it.

I'm thinking about also starting my own group/forum there called related to foreign/college students being able to call abroad.

Any suggestions?

Marc

[juliemarg]

Originally Posted by internet-marketing-cr

Great post, I have been looking for information on the subject. I know the concept of social networking, my question is what makes visitors to want to bookmark my page in one these websites?

Here is a link to many of them, this place facilitates you to link to all social bookmark websites using one link.

Automatic submission of social bookmarks

I followed the instructions on the above link - and today someone social bookmarked my page on Sacramento restaurants! Thanks for the tip!

[Webnauts]

Originally Posted by internet-marketing-cr

Here is a link to many of them, this place facilitates you to link to all social bookmark websites using one link.

Automatic submission of social bookmarks

Great link. We will implement that on our web site in the next few days! Thanks! :)

[shanX]

What are the best 5 almost standard services, with most visitors off Digg, del.icio.us, Technorati, My Web 2.0, Furl, Wists and of all these Social bookmarking services.