Social bookmarks - Let's make a tutorial on that

[Join us @ facebook]

As the time passes social bookmark sites get more and more attention, and at least for the serious webmasters it is a source of traffic that you can really count on.

Let me explain a little how it works (maybe some of us don't know yet). You create some great piece of content and then submit it to sites like digg, delicious, etc. Those sites have a voting system, and in case that you get many votes your story is linked from the home page of that site.

If you make it to the front page there are many advantages. Here are a few :

• Instant traffic. One of my sites that got digged, got 20.000 visitors in one day, while another made my server crash(there were 1300 people online before that crash...)
• Link bait. Many bloggers will see your article and this way you'll get even more traffic, exposure and links that will give you top SERP results very fast
• Syndication. There are many sites that use the feeds from social bookmarking web sites (eg. web 2.0 announcer) and that will give you even more incoming links
• Subscribers. Traffic from social bookmark sites is not converting so well, but several experiments showed that they can increase your subscribers
• Branding. Branding is about having too many eyes looking at your logo, and it is really important if you want to create a site that will stand for long time

So I guess it is clear that having your site social bookmarked is a good thing, and definitely is something that a webmaster should work on. I've created this thread so we can share some tips on how to make it on the front page of a social bookmark web site.

Let's start with the basics. In order to have more chances to get mentioned by those sites you need :

• Unique - high quality - content. Content is a king remember?
• Add some social bookmarking buttons somewhere that they are visible enough. Additionally you can use the addThis buttons which give the user the ability to bookmark your content with any bookmarking service they like

The second one is really simple but the first one (content) is really a very huge task. The purpose is to have content which is "optimized" for social bookmarking web sites. In my experience with such sites, I have learned that the best content to submit is articles like "How to...." or "100 best....." and in general topics that are very amusing or having a tutorial character.

Also something that can help is to constantly read feeds from social bookmarking sites (or checking popurls or web2announcer) in order to see what content goes to the front page of these sites. I believe this is the easiest way to learn what kind of content goes to the front page of social bookmarking sites.

Please be my guest and add some tips or say your opinion on those I wrote here. Hope we can create a thread that will help us get more traffic to our web sites

[web directory]

Yeah, you are right... "How to..." and lists are often the top bookmarked sites.

BTW... you made the front page at www.seovoter.com!    HAHA... I know it is still early days, but we are getting there!

I like this article about web 2.0 sites - it explaines each major social bookmarking site and how it can be used to market your website.

I would also add a couple of articles to the mix "How to find Digg Friends and Stumbleupon guides.

For webmasters looking for some sort of workflow try how to obtain 42000 links in a week

Great writeup Nikolas,
great articles guys
Thanks

Nick great tutorial!

[Join us @ facebook]

Thanks fellas

Hope we can add more stuff to it together

That is an excellent article Nikolas.

Very well written and explained perfectly. I never knew any of that about bookmarking!

[Philippine Beach Resorts]

can i add my list of social bookmarking sites? its huge. about 104 complete with PR. not that it matters.

[web directory]

I would be interested to see it...

[SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES:]

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES:

http://www.netscape.com PR9
http://www.digg.com PR8
http://del.icio.us PR8
http://www.furl.net PR8
http://www.fark.com PR8
http://www.technorati.com PR8
http://ma.gnolia.com PR7
http://www.shadows.com PR7
http://www.simpy.com PR7
http://www.spurl.net PR7
http://www.netvouz.com PR7
http://www.blogmarks.net PR7
http://reddit.com PR7
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com PR7
http://rollyo.com PR7
http://www.rojo.com PR7
http://kinja.com PR7
http://www.bibsonomy.org PR6
http://www.blinklist.com PR6
http://bluedot.us/friends/dots PR6
http://de.lirio.us PR6
http://www.diigo.com PR6
http://www.looklater.com PR6
http://www.rawsugar.com/index.faces PR6
http://www.igooi.com PR6
http://wink.com   PR6
http://squidoo.com PR6
http://www.listible.com   PR6
http://www.kaboodle.com   PR6
http://www.wists.com PR6
http://clipmarks.com PR6
http://www.linkagogo.com PR6
http://segnalo.alice.it   PR6
http://buddymarks.com PR6
http://www.eigology.com/dogear PR5
http://www.markaboo.com PR5
http://www.gravee.com PR5
http://www.hanzoweb.com   PR5
http://www.ekudos.nl PR5
http://www.complore.com PR5
http://indiagram.com PR5
http://www.linklog.nl PR5
http://www.citeulike.org PR5
http://www.indiamarks.com PR5
http://www.zurpy.com PR5
http://feedmelinks.com/portal PR5
http://www.bmaccess.net PR5
http://www.lookmarks.com PR5
http://www.30daytags.com/fresh PR5
http://www.dinnerbuzz.com PR5
http://www.librarything.com PR5
http://www.web-feeds.com PR5
http://www.browsr.com PR5
http://aboogy.com PR5
http://www.bookmarktracker.com PR5
http://www.butterflyproject.nl PR5
http://www2.myhq.com PR5
http://www.mylinkvault.com PR5
http://www.myvmarks.com   PR5
http://www.sitejot.com PR5
http://socialbookmarking.org PR5
http://www.goesby.com PR4
http://www.portachi.com PR4
http://www.wirefan.com PR4
http://www.linkatopia.com PR4
http://clipclip.org PR4
http://www.i89.us PR4
http://www.smarking.com   PR4
http://www.getboo.com PR4
http://www.tabmarks.com   PR4
http://www.bookkit.com PR4
http://www.lilisto.com PR4
http://www.linkologia.pl PR4
http://imp.etuo.us PR4
http://www.putvote.com PR4
http://www.ambedo.com PR4
http://www.icio.de PR4
http://newskicks.com/submit.php PR4
http://www.zoogim.com PR4
http://bwsmith.com PR4
http://ez4u.net PR4
http://www.fungow.com PR4
http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com PR4
http://www.syncone.net PR4
http://www.meme-stream.com PR3
http://www.linkblog.com.br PR3
http://www.pixelmo.com PR3
http://www.oyax.com PR2
http://www.shoppersbase.com PR2
http://www.startaid.com   PR2
http://www.seovoter.com/ PR0
http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu PR0
http://www.urlex.info PR0
https://www.chipmark.com/Main PR0
http://www.mobleo.net PR0
http://www.mypip.com/home PR0
http://www.searchles.com PR0
http://socialbookmarkingsite.com PR0
http://www.tagcloud9.com PR0
http://www.philoi.com PR0
http://otavo.com PR0
http://www.optimiz.us PR0
http://www.a1-webmarks.com PR0
http://www.bookmark.it PR0
http://www.tallstreet.com PR0

... a lot of work to submit your site to all of them

[Philippine Beach Resorts]

yeah. if you do it on your own. but you can outsource the job if you have the dough.

yeah. if you do it on your own. but you can outsource the job if you have the dough.

yeah tried that in the past, but can't say that it really work for me

[web directory]

@ vbignacio - could you list those links in PR order pls?! Highest to lowest.

[Philippine Beach Resorts]

sure! how much? LOL! its done.

[Join us @ facebook]

That was a nice contribution to the list. Did anyone tried to submit content to all of these at once?

Before a month or so I hired someone to submit a site to 100 social bookmarks, but I can't value the results as the site had already high traffic.

Before a month or so I hired someone to submit a site to 100 social bookmarks, but I can't value the results as the site had already high traffic.

me too, maybe 5 visitors from more unknown communities

[web directory]

sure! how much? LOL! its done.

LOL... nice one! 

[Philippine Beach Resorts]

i think submitting to social bookmarking sites is ideal for a new site to start getting visitors.

[Guest]

[62.885]

Yahoo crawler, Googlebot