Finding One's Way In The Social Media?

[chesa7]

I understand the improtance of hooking into the social media for SEO, but I'm feeling overwhelmed by the sheer scope of it all. Any advice about how to focus or prioritize that effort, where to begin? Perhaps it is an age-related or generational phenomenon, but I just don't intuitively get how to use some of the big sites like delicio.us stumblupon, digg, etc. Any help is welcomend!
Laura

[Amar_001]

For that first you should be smart enough. Make a eye catching title with nice description.
Submit that story with tag which you want to target.
Try to make some friend over there and vote their submitted story.This way you can increase you visibility over social media and will able to get good traffic too,

[bdorland]

Essentially, these social bookmarking sites are search engines. But instead of a search engine algorithm out there crawling websites to find content and determine relevancy, you are bringing what you believe to be relevant content to these sites in the form of bookmarks. If others agree that your content (a bookmarked website) is relevant, that content scores more relevancy points.

Here's an example. I just searched for "social bookmarking" on Digg.com and found a nice video that will probably tell you everything you need to know. This video (a bookmarked webpage) was in the second spot on Digg.com.

I did the same search on Google and could not find the same video.

What does this mean? Google's spiders don't view that video's webpage to be relevant enough to get on the first or second page, but 198 digg.com users liked (dug) that video, so it got top placement on Digg.com.

On the internet marketing and SEO side of things, these sites offer great article marketing, viral marketing and powerful backlink opportunities, but the content you bookmark better be novel or borderline outrageous if you want to have any chance of gaining a measurable benefit...

I hope that helps! Others, feel free to chime in if I've missed anything...

[Chelsea Elm]

Thanks for the the detailed explanation Brody, I wasnt quite sure about the social networking sites but It all makes much more sense now:-)
Cheers
C

[WebBizIdeas.com]

Hey Bdorland,

Those videos by Common Craft are great...do you know anyone that produces those types of videos affordable?

P.S. My two cents on social media & bookmarking. FOCUS ON BUILDING QUALITY CONTENT, ARTICLES, VIDEOS, AUDIO, etc...If you have good information it won't matter what type of "media" in the future comes up...you will be able to use & distribute this information.

Jeff