OK What Gives? Social Bookmarking. Benefits?

David_ Bowie · 04-23-2008, 04:01 PM

OK, I have finally found something that has got me stumped. Social Bookmarking. I am starting to see threads everywhere. " I will submit your site to 500 social bookmarking sites for $10".

Can someone explain to me in English, what does that mean? I belong to several sites of this kind and they probably account for about 1% of my overall income.

Maybe it would be nice to have a review section of products or services? I was just reading a thread about submission services of social services and then it says pm me for details or go to the website.

Maybe I`m being paranoid, but I saw no review of weather anyone took up the offer. Maybe I am dumb and just don`t get it.

Can someone take the time out to please tell me what benefits to using this type of service.

Thanks,

David Bowie

Hamish60 · 04-24-2008, 12:05 AM

Well it really depends if you do social bookmarking correctly, it can potentially increase your traffic dramatically. If you just social bookmark your own website then it won't work very well. You have to bookmark other sites so it doesn't look like your just promoting your own site.

If you really want it to work I suggest you bookmark sites that are totally unrelated to your niche atleast 3 a day. This will make google think you aren't just trying to advertise your own site and they won't slap your websites down for it.

As for your question I wouldn't really bother with those, because 500 social bookmarking sites? Obviously there a lot there that don't even matter. People are just trying to make some money I highly doubt they actually bookmark your site on 500 different social bookmarking sites.

So i suggest you stay away from those kind of "Guarantees"

-- Hamish

Sun and kisses · 05-07-2008, 08:17 PM

for me its can save alot of time. It show positive response too

David_ Bowie · 05-07-2008, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Hamish60

Well it really depends if you do social bookmarking correctly, it can potentially increase your traffic dramatically. If you just social bookmark your own website then it won't work very well. You have to bookmark other sites so it doesn't look like your just promoting your own site.

If you really want it to work I suggest you bookmark sites that are totally unrelated to your niche atleast 3 a day. This will make google think you aren't just trying to advertise your own site and they won't slap your websites down for it.

As for your question I wouldn't really bother with those, because 500 social bookmarking sites? Obviously there a lot there that don't even matter. People are just trying to make some money I highly doubt they actually bookmark your site on 500 different social bookmarking sites.

So i suggest you stay away from those kind of "Guarantees"

-- Hamish

Thank you Hamish for your honesty. I thought it may be a way to increase me network. I`ll just leave it on the back burner for now until I can find more information on the subject.

Thanks to you sun for your response.

David

lebron23 · 05-08-2008, 05:48 AM

Social Book Marking sites can get you a huge number of traffic. You ought to have a great content to hit the front page. If you hit the front page of Digg or Netscape, you will have a good time seeing visitors flow by your site. Stumble and Del.icio.us can get you traffic in long term.

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dbinto · 05-08-2008, 07:53 PM

The biggest benefit would be traffic if you promote things right. Also I think it depends on the niche of your site. Stumble gave me a small jump on one site.

Most of the big social sites have set up no follow so the backlinks have limited value.

lancelotz · 05-09-2008, 06:16 AM

Hi guys, this is my 1st post in this forums. About the social bookmarking, I use to provided services for "Stumble Your Site" in DP, sadly DP dont allow stumble or any social bookmarking services anymore. Stumble or Digg is the most popular way to site owner to increase traffic for their sites. My last client took up a package from me and his sites are getting more traffic now.

I must say that the key is a very good, quality review for the sites. Some service providers only give like 2 lines of review comments and note that a good review is the best way to gain traffic for your sites. It's take a lots of work if your client want a 1000 stumble for his sites. Yet it can be done. This is the quickest way to gain traffic for your sites. A great way for any newly build sites.

Cheers!

dekac · 05-09-2008, 01:49 PM

Hi

Do you know what's quality of social bookmark's traffic ....

lajocar · 05-09-2008, 05:53 PM

It is miostly untargetted traffic and bounce rate are high

David_ Bowie · 05-10-2008, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by lajocar

It is miostly untargetted traffic and bounce rate are high

Thanks for the comment. I have all the untargeted traffic I need and have a pretty fair amount of Targeted traffic too. I am always looking for ways to increase my network without the added workload.

ericajoieake · 05-11-2008, 10:37 PM

well most of the time social bookmarking sites serves as your backlinks, traffic is just a bonus if your title and post are really interesting.

Hafsoh · 05-13-2008, 02:20 AM

But keep in mind that most social bookmarking sites use nofollow on their links making them virtually useless for SEO.

myseoblog · 05-13-2008, 05:53 AM

social bookmarking is a wasted of bandwidth.

tristangemus · 05-14-2008, 05:32 PM

500 social bookmarking websites for $10 is very good, buy that! social bookmarking websites have people save also known as voting, stumbling, favouriting, bookmarking, etc to their profile. popular ones get featured for tags and there fore gain traffic and backlinks for every vote your website gets

David_ Bowie · 05-14-2008, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by tristangemus

500 social bookmarking websites for $10 is very good, buy that! social bookmarking websites have people save also known as voting, stumbling, favouriting, bookmarking, etc to their profile. popular ones get featured for tags and there fore gain traffic and backlinks for every vote your website gets

Did you purchase this package? If so, what are the benefits you have seen so far? How has your traffic increased and by what percentage? How many have become clients? Although I get traffic from My Space and some sales, in my opinion My Space is like a high priced hooker. To much work involved to get a piece.

Don`t get me wrong, I have nothing against hard work but I have other techniques that is less stressful and gets better results. I try to keep an open mind with this bookmarking site stuff but unless I`m missing something, bookmarking sites is like shooting in the dark and hoping to kill something.

I will in the future take a closer look at the idea but right now, I have seen no evidence. just a bunch of people selling a cheap service and I have no way to confirm if services rendered.

To a new world order,

David

socialamigo · 05-15-2008, 11:01 AM

sadly, social bookmarking is popularity than anything else. The more Brittany Spears your piece/item is, the more diggs it will get. The Top-Ten-Lists do rule, but there are ways to get other items out there. Clearly though, you must appeal to certain topical demographics - do your research, read the posts, go deapper than the headlines.

I submitted this article a while back and digg buried it so fast that most anyone who I sent looking for it, never could. http://digg.com/search?s=world%2...all&sort=score
It's a fun article - meets the demographic piechart on more than one level: kooky, technology, upcoming event, college-oriented.

So, it seems the way to hook this beast is to have a network of diggers lined up well before you roll-out your item. Give them the exact URL of the piece so that if it slips off the first page of Upcoming Stories, everyone can find it. Once you get a bunch of diggs, the digg juice can start flowing.

The downside is that digg.com doesn't appear to be used as a wiki repository - what I mean is I'm not seeing where users search the digg database for relevant articles to things they want to know about. It appears to be mostly a " Front Page " mentality in usage. So I agree with others who describe it as a backlink factory and any huge traffic blast is welcomed, but not expected.

C.Whyte · 05-15-2008, 11:33 AM

After reading this thread, I am more confused about the benefit of social bookmarking than I was before LOL!

David - Great thread... I had the same questions about social bookmarking. Everyone either hates them and says they are a waste of time/money, or they love them and claim it's how they get their traffic.

I haven't used any of this forum's many 'cheap laborers' to auto-submit my site to these bookmark sites, but I think i'll give it a shot and post the results.

It's only $10, right?

David_ Bowie · 05-15-2008, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by C.Whyte

After reading this thread, I am more confused about the benefit of social bookmarking than I was before LOL!

David - Great thread... I had the same questions about social bookmarking. Everyone either hates them and says they are a waste of time/money, or they love them and claim it's how they get their traffic.

I haven't used any of this forum's many 'cheap laborers' to auto-submit my site to these bookmark sites, but I think i'll give it a shot and post the results.

It's only $10, right?

Thanks C. for your response. I agree, I have gotten so much of a mixed signal about social bookmarking that the more I dig, the less appealing it is to me. Please do post your results and let me know if you are able to track your results.

Socialamigo, thanks for the info. So far you have given the best information on the subject. As I understand it, you spent sometime on your project and unless you have a team at the ready, all if for naught. Think I`ll stick to what I`m doing and when time permits, I`ll try my hand at it.

David Bowie