Social Bookmarking Sites

[amandajane]

Does anyone else here use the social bookmarking sites to get your blog name out there? I checked out a few today and I've got reddit and digg working now. I've had a few hits through them too, not bad for a first day.

Anyone have any advice about these sites? Any good ones you'd like to share?

Thanks!
Amanda

[Jeremy]

It depends on your type of content, but I find the best social bookmarking traffic comes from stumbleupon. I've had success with front page of reddit and digg, and all it does it send a massive amount of traffic that doesn't stick around. BUt if you have the right kind of post, you can make that more effective.

[amandajane]

Thanks for the info Jeremy :0)

[cheapskate]

Digg and Delicious are also huge.

[amandajane]

Originally Posted by cheapskate

Digg and Delicious are also huge.

Cool, thanks cheapskate

[1littlething]

del.icio.us, digg, and stumbleupon seem to be the best pullers from what I can tell.

[amandajane]

Originally Posted by 1littlething

del.icio.us, digg, and stumbleupon seem to be the best pullers from what I can tell.

Thanks! Wordpress automatically submits to

Stumbleupon
Del.icio.us
Digg.com
Reddit

I like that

[Greg]

Skellie recommends writing for Del.icio.us as a way to break into the Technorati Top 100 list.

http://www.skelliewag.org/a-guide-to...op-100-209.htm

In my experience, writing an article which becomes popular on del.icio.us results in a lot of inbound links, because many del.icio.us users have a daily or weekly link-dump they publish to their blogs. The post contains recent items they’ve bookmarked (which will hopefully include a link to you). This is an under-reported strategy and one I’m going to talk about in more detail sometime.

PS: Skelliewag is a great blog for bloggers. Everything she writes is gold.

[martinlock]

I am webmaster of http://www.alexa.com/data/details/ma...rtunehotels.in, doing social tagging for this site. is social bookmaring helping to improve alexa ranking?

[Greg]

Originally Posted by martinlock

is social bookmaring helping to improve alexa ranking?

I think it does. Indirectly.

Alexa (and Google's PR) are general indicators of a website's "popularity". Social bookmarking could help raise the exposure of a blog/website, which indirectly leads to better rankings.