After I bookmarked my websites to 100 social bookmarking websites, I could notice a huge difference in traffic for many days. This also helped me in conversions at those days.

I had hired an experienced person to do the job of submission, and the amount spent on this was really worth.

Now I want to do this again. But, are there any ways to submit the same websites to those social bookmarking websites and get the traffic and conversions again and again? Are there any suggestions to do this?

I am now planning to create blogs and display products there. Then I will be able to submit those blogs to these websites. Will this help?

For the community, could you suggest who you used, what they charged and how much of a bump in traffic you received?

It also might be helpful to define your businesses/audience and what type of traffic you normally see.

Thanks!

Where can you find these social directories you have bookmarked your
website?

Thank you

Here are some social networking (http://www.freelinks.com/social.php) sites. Another list is at wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

By no means are these exhaustive lists, often searching based on your topic/keywords related to social networking will also help you uncover where others are already communicating about your subjects.

http://digg.com
http://technorati.com
http://del.icio.us
http://www.stumbleupon.com
https://www.netscape.com
http://reddit.com
http://www.fark.com
http://www.newsvine.com
http://www.blinklist.com
http://www.furl.net
http://www.clipmarks.com
http://www.icerocket.com
http://blogmarks.net
http://ma.gnolia.com
http://www.rollyo.com
http://www.simpy.com
http://bluedot.us
http://www.kaboodle.com
http://www.spurl.net
http://www.netvouz.com
http://www.blinkbits.com
http://www.rojo.com
http://www.diigo.com
http://tailrank.com
http://wink.com
http://www.backflip.com
http://www.blogpulse.com


you can automate or semi-automate submission if you use some
software tools.

Also Onlywire lets you submit in bulk.

Regards

James

Hi James,
Very interesting....i had always wanted to know how to submit to so many social sites at one go! Will definitely have a look at Onlywire .


Thanks a lot!

Thank you I learn another strategy on making traffic. It is a great tip.

Now I want to do this again. But, are there any ways to submit the same websites to those social bookmarking websites and get the traffic and conversions again and again? Are there any suggestions to do this?

Well, technically you didn't submit your site to these bookmarking sites. You submitted a page from your site. It may have been the default (home) page, but it was still just one page.

Create additional valuable, compelling content and you can submit the page that content lives on. Submitting crappy articles will likely not do much good, and if you submit too many of them, it could do harm to your online reputation.

The point of social sites is the "social" bit, and if you alienate people by trying to pump through a lot of crap, you'll lose the social benefit. "If a page is submitted to a social bookmarking site, but nobody sees it because they've all stopped paying attention to the submitter due to his spammy ways, will it get any traffic?" (Hint: not much)

Another thing that will alienate people is if you only submit your own stuff, and you never participate to submit or vote up anybody else's stuff. That makes you look like a "user", not a "participant."

The real value of social bookmarking sites happens when other people vote your submissions up. That's what gets your submissions noticed; that's what leads to the real traffic boosts. But that won't happen as effectively as it could unless they perceive you to be a valuable, bona-fide participant in the community. And the way to get them to perceive you as a bona-fide participant is, interestingly enough, to actually BE a bona-fide participant.

Here are the basic criteria for ongoing success in social media, IMO:

Any content you're submitting should be well-written, thoughtful, intelligent, interesting and useful.
Don't only submit your stuff. That looks spammy and manipulative. Find well-written, thoughtful, etc.etc.etc. content on sites you don't own and submit that. Maintain maybe a 10:1 (or better) ratio of outside content versus your own.
It's not simply a "push" medium -- by that I mean it's not all about submitting. "Friend" people. Read what they submit. Vote their submissions up when they appeal to you. They'll be more likely to read and vote up your submissions in turn.


My :twocents:

--Torka

http://tailrank.com


That "tailrank.com" isn't looking too healthy...

Get a different company/account to submit them.

I have used this company Submit Edge (http://www.submitedge.com/).

From their $35 package:
125 Social Bookmarking Service - 9 Days
The Package is designed to submit your site to 125 High PR Social Sites and you`ve choice of 3 unique titles & 3 unique keywords / tag option.

I've used them and they are timely with their projects.

Get a different company/account to submit them.

I have used this company Submit Edge (http://www.submitedge.com/).

I've used them and they are timely with their projects.

Was it worth the $35? Did you see an increase in your SERP or traffic/conversations?

Not arguing with you, genuinely interested. :)

=C=

If there is a SERP's effect, maybe we could all bookmark each other sites! :)

S

If you bookmark your content in all these sites you can build a lot backlinks over time. For the purposes of backlinks, you want to make sure that the bookmarking sites provide a real, do-follow link.

While submitting in any social bookmarking sites makes sure of these 2 things -
* It dont not use domain redirection
* It don use rel=”nofollow”

Our own moderator David Wallace has an excellent blog post relevant to this topic:

When Submitting to Social News Is a Complete Waste of Time (http://www.searchrank.com/blog/2008/05/social-news-etiquette.html)

From the article:
Submitting stories, blog posts and articles to social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Sphinn and others can be very time-consuming but if done properly, can also have huge payoffs. Why then do so many people shoot themselves in the foot by not following proper etiquette?

Excellent article. I highly recommend reading this - especially point #5! -- before embarking on a campaign of "link building" via social news sites.

--Torka

Was it worth the $35? Did you see an increase in your SERP or traffic/conversations?

Not arguing with you, genuinely interested. :)

=C=


The investment was absolutely worth it. Picked up on average 100 extra uniques per day for three days. Conversion rate was bit lower (.5% vs 2% normally) but it still translated into more profit than expenditure. The OP mentioned a nice jump in traffic. The topic of my e-comm site is not exactly earth shattering or overly enticing. I am not sure of the value of the linkbacks and I canot tell you if there was any noticeable jump in SERP as I am working on other things. I think its important to have a variety of links coming from many sources. My favorite loophole is blog reviews from higher PR sites. You have to be careful whom you get to do a review. Not that you will get penalized but you could spend money for nothing. You also don't want to many blog links showing up at once. Mix it up with directory submissions, related website link exchanges, BBS signatures, articles, social bookmarking sites and good content and you'll have a winner.

try socialmarker.com

you can send it to all 40 plus social bookmarking site at one time. it can save lots of time.

I am very weary of any of those bookmarking, link building websites. My company was paying about 50 bucks a month for backlinks. It was great at first and after about 5 months we dropped off of Google entirely. It took almost 6 months after stopping the program for our ranking to come back.

If it seems to good to be true, it probably is. Google and other Search Engines will find out about them and either reduce the importance of those backlinks or penalize you.

Wow good for you.. Continue what you're doing, you are in the right path.

The bump that you get from submitting your site is likely to be a one time increase unless you are finding ways to engage your visitors and build relationships...it is easy to get excited when you see your numbers increase, but if you haven't really utilized the "social" part of social media, then it will be a one time increase.

Get a different company/account to submit them.

I have used this company Submit Edge (http://www.submitedge.com/).

From their $35 package:
125 Social Bookmarking Service - 9 Days
The Package is designed to submit your site to 125 High PR Social Sites and you`ve choice of 3 unique titles & 3 unique keywords / tag option.

I've used them and they are timely with their projects.

The price for this service seems reasonble and I might give it a try.

Social bookmarking is one of the major traffic oriented methodology.Post your site into Digg,Stumble Upon ..etc sites then your site will be gain hign traffic immediately.

is there any body please make comment on it.

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There is a risk of getting banned from the social sites by submitting only your own content to them.I recommend having a 80%-20% ratio where you submit 8 times great content from other people and 2 times out of 10 your own content.It is a working strategy!

Another great social bookmarking site is mixx.com.
It's members are very active and it brings a lot of traffic

i heard lot About twitter and Fark but i really didn't get how to use these sites ?

Another great social bookmarking site is mixx.com.
It's members are very active and it brings a lot of traffic


Mixx is very good site and spicypages is also another great dofollow social bookmarking site but on spicy pages you just can submit your home nor other pages

Lot of this things here that are useful for beginners like me.Thanks for sharing guys.

There's no way you can submit the same URL on the same social bookmarking sites, but you can submit another page of your site again to the same SB sites..

Useful list of social networking sites. Will keep it.