Traffic Building Information

Social Bookmarking Traffic Results





The results of the social bookmarking experiment I have been carrying out are materialising. There have been some surprising results and some results that have restored my faith in the browsing public. I have been pondering whether or not to release the results as I do not want the spammers to tarnish something that is still relatively pure. But as you can see I finally decided to go ahead and publish.

I have mentioned before that I have been looking at social bookmarking as a way to drive traffic to websites. The idea behind social bookmarking is that you share your favourite bookmarks with others, the idea being that if you found these links useful then others might too. Some social bookmarking sites also allow visitors to rate the usefulness of your bookmarks, this allows the truly useful bookmarks to become the most popular. So in theory spam should be removed by natural selection.To carry out my experiment I created three articles. Two of these articles were good well researched pieces, whilst the third was self promotional spam, but not too obvious. I posted these articles to twelve social bookmarking sites and then waited for the results. The results were to be measurable traffic to one of my sites.

It was a week ago I started posting the articles so I am still measuring the results but I am able to give you the results as they all point to one conclusion. That conclusion is that social bookmarking to generate traffic does work as long as you are providing genuine, useful, good quality material. If you post self promotional spam no one will read it and it will disappear into the ether where all spam belongs.

Of the twelve sites I posted to the best performing in terms of traffic was Digg. Over a period of several days my site received hundreds of visitors from the good articles and less than a handful for the spam article I posted. Of the other social bookmarking sites the traffic was minimal, even the famous del.icio.us only managed to send a dozen visitors which I was quite surprised at.

The results seem to conclude that Digg is the out and out performer followed a long way behind by del.icio.us and squik. As yet I have had no traffic from the others, that's not to say that they are not worthwhile as some of the sites were very new. I am going to continue to experiment and will bring you more results as they come in.

Finally I would like to say a big thank you to the guys at Digg for producing such a great site. Not only for the traffic that it produces but for also providing lots of really useful bookmarks. My only criticism is the lack of categories which means that some suggestions are not always well matched although there is a search facility.

Allan is the webmaster at http://www.blogtonomy.com/ where I will show you how to gain traffic to your site.


MORE RESOURCES:

Top Mailing List And Traffic Building Strategies That Actually Work!
Pressemeldungen.at (Pressemitteilung), Austria - Jul 12, 2008
July 13, 2008 - Building an opt in mailing list of responsive subscribers is mandatory in order to fully optimize the profit gaining potential of your ...


4 pm: Traffic building at HRBT
Daily Press, VA - Jul 1, 2008
BY SHAWN BURNETTE | Daily Press On I-64 at the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, eastbound traffic is backed up 3 ¼ miles to the Hampton River Bridge. ...


Traffic building for Glasto exodus
Burnham & Highbridge Weekly News, UK - Jun 30, 2008
By Alex Cameron TRAFFIC is building around the Glastonbury Festival site this morning as tens of thousands of music fans return home. ...


Yahoo! profits! drop! 19! per! cent!
Register, UK - Jul 22, 2008
Excluding certain traffic-building payments to other web sites, analysts expected revenues of $1.37bn, and Yahoo! gave them only $1.346bn. ...


NETGEAR(R) Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
Earthtimes (press release), UK - Jul 23, 2008
Network conditions and environmental factors, including volume of network traffic, building materials and construction, and network overhead, lower actual ...


Saturday, July 19 - Free car park and TV's Johnny Kingdom at ...
Exmouth Herald, UK - Jul 19, 2008
The aim of the free facility is to help cut down on traffic building up in Littleham village. The free car park will be located in a nearby field close to ...


ACTING CITY ENGINEER
Hartford Courant, United States - Jul 4, 2008
Manages six personnel with varying degrees of engineering experience. on-going P&Z/ABA/Inland Wetlands/Traffic/ Building Permit /Drainage/Soil and Erosion ...


Pass along UDOT highway construction
Little Chicago Review, IL - Jul 10, 2008
... in Parley’s Canyon Through August Watch for lane shifts. Crews are near and beneath the bridges with little impact to traffic Building bridges off-site.


Gilbert council approves custom home rezoning at Seville
East Valley Tribune, AZ - Jul 9, 2008
Some concerns about traffic, building heights and other issues have been raised about this new plan, but the overall response to the custom home proposal ...


Scottsdale expecting high voter turnout despite change in dates
Sonoran News, AZ - Jul 9, 2008
COPP Vice President Linda Whitehead said traffic, building height and densities and the “future direction of Scottsdale” will be discussed at the July 17 ...

Traffic-Building - Google News

RapidFAX      The Wealth Seminar      Home | Site Map | Cool Stuff | You'll LOVE This! | Sports Fans ONLY      Western Union      CSA-Credit Solutions of America, Inc.
© 2007