Showing posts with label social bookmarking strategy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social bookmarking strategy. Show all posts
Sunday, November 29

Awesome Traffic Generating Social Bookmarking Sites: Two Month Test Results




A few months back I have presented a list of dofollow social bookmarking sites and high traffic social bookmarking sites. I have put them to the test and here are the results.

I have posted hundreds of bookmarks, probably thousands. I posted several of my websites and have tracked referrals from these bookmarks through Google Analytics.

There are two components to traffic accomplished by social bookmarking. Component one is the direct traffic to my sites. Componnt two is search traffic that is influenced by social bookmarking sites (no follow and especially dofollow) links to my sites. Direct traffic is measured in direct visits from the sites. I only have indirect measures of search traffic attributable to social bookmarking sites.

Here are the number of referrers (direct visits) from social bookmarking sites. I am also adding the number of posts on the social bookmarking site pointing toward my websites. This number of posts is an indirect measure of Google link juice flowing to my sites and is especially relevant in case of dofollow social bookmarking sites.

List: site, direct hits, pages linking toward my websites
So here you have it. Not all (dofollow or nofollow) social bookmarking sites are created equal. Again, please refer to dofollow social bookmarking sites post to see which of these sites are dofollow.

This is a real-life example of traffic generated from various social bookmarking sites to several blogs on different topics. I will use this table to prioritize my posting on social bookmarking sites in the future.

What about you? Have you found my previous post useful? What is your experience using social bookmarking sites, especially high traffic and dofollow sites? Do you know of a social bookmarking site that is giving you a lot of traffic. I challenge you to share your result with me! Just leave a comment! Oh and remember, all comment links are dofollow in this blog ;)

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Thursday, September 10

Dofollow Social Bookmarking Sites Strategy to Promote Your Blogger




You've done a couple of things with your blogger blog so far: you've set your blog to dofollow, encouraged and rewarded commenters for quality coments, implemented keyword exchange for comments, monetized your blog, doubled its pull and your adsense income, and enabled others to easily navigate the site. Now it 's time to get the word out. And I mean get the word out in a big way. Your content is precious. Right?!? You want people to know about it.

One of the quickest ways to get the word out is post a social bookmark. Social bookmarking is a great way to get links back to your blog. Links that are well categorized. Social bookmarking will bring you targeted traffic. Social bookmarking, when done right, will increase your blog's popularity with search engines. You can find more about social bookmark basics by simply signing up for delicious.com, one of the original social bookmarking sites. Roam around and you will find how the system works. Yahoo has recently bought delicious.com and seems to be putting some efforts together to integrate delicious more tightly with Yahoo search and other offerings. There are hundreds of other social bookmarking sites out there and new ones are mushrooming daily.

How to make sense of all this? Should you go and sign up for all the sites and bookmark your blogger pages? That could take forever! Well you are in the right place to see about bookmarking selectively and speeding up the social bookmarking process.

I recommend using two tools:
  1. Onlywire.com
  2. This very page! ( see below )
I'll cut to the chase. You want as many backlinks as possible and you want them to be dofollow, so they count more for google. Onlywire represents 40 of the biggest social bookmarking websites and you can submit easily to all of them in 5-10 minutes. The backlinks will mostly be nofollow, but they will bring you targeted traffic.

Step two, go for the dofollow social bookmarking sites regardless of the size. There is no established tool for dofollow social bookmarking sites so below you will find a clickable list of those that I use and recommend:

List of recommended dofollow social bookmarking sites. Combined mainly from two sites, http://niceblogger.com/2009/08/05/101-dofollow-social-bookmarking-sites/ and  http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/do-follow-social-bookmarking-sites/, then double checked for dofollow:

Dofollow bookmarking sites just for blogs:
Where possible, I have included the link directly to the post page to post the bookmark, so it is more convenient and faster. You do want to use cut and paste for your Title, Text, and Tags but you also want to vary the Title, Text, and Tags a bit so search engines do not consider these entries duplicated content.

Another point when bookmarking: Don't just bookmark your sales pages. Or just your blogger. Add some spice to the mix, bookmark pages in the news that you read and you found remarkable. For example, today I bookmarked  this page http://www.pyrabang.com?id=50ac1b and this page http://www.pyrabang.com?id=50ac1b, just because I found them interesting and illustrative of what is happening in the USA today. I highly recommend you bookmark websites with a wide variety of topics. Bookmark news. Bookmark sites you like. Bookmark sites that represent a cause. When the social bookmarking site editors look at your bookmarks they will be less likely to consider your bookmarks "spam" or "self promotion" if you bookmark a wide variety of sites.

Here is how you can verify whether your bookmarks are active on the above sites through Google Custom Search:








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