I've been playing around with social media/bookmarking/networking services for a couple of years now, and I'm wondering which of the services other people are using to promote their work. I'm not talking about spamming - more about sensible seeding of good articles you've written.
What sites do you use?
Any special techniques in submitting?
What level of success have you had?
I'd be interested in replies, and maybe we can look at ways to improve our linkbaiting skills....
good question
Gerard, good question, but I'm not sure anyone will want to divulge so publicly. However, I'd say that relevant category is very important. For example, submitting to the wrong Digg category will likely get you buried. Wrong time of day is a factor.
I don't submit articles for the most part, but if someone asks me to vote, and the article is not only good but I think it'll interest others, I'll do it. I visit digg, reddit and del.icio.us the most.
As for linkbaiting, I'm going to have an article at some point, though again I'll say now: good content and the right category go miles towards getting votes.
I use reddit and netscape.
I use reddit and netscape. I gave up on Digg cause I'm lazy;-)
forgot netscape
Yeah, I forgot about netscape. i used it a fair bit at first, but got sidetracked. I think I have a Yahoo account as well.
Reddit actually gets me the
Reddit actually gets me the most traffic. Ryan has great advice for Reddit. Submit it around 9:30am eastern.
I am going against the
I am going against the problogger flow here. I use social bookmarking sites (mainly del.icio.us and ma.gnolia.com) as extended bookmark service. I only rarely browse, read or vote.
Especially ma.gnolia.com gives me an awesome interface, an interface I sometimes tend to go back to, to look up something (and I love the feeds for groups). But actually I'd most of all prefer to host my own bookmark manager, but so far haven't found an app I really like.
And with the arrival of Google Web History I don't really need any of those services anymore.
I am bad at whoring myself out and prefer to devote time in gathering (more) knowledge (and improving commentbaiting/upsetting the occasional blogger) than in building a social profile or submitting my stuff myself. And less even in pinging my full IM list.
I do know the awesome traffic opportunities I miss (why is Stumble not listed here?), but I am not that social (I am bad at commenting too ;-)). I'd rather know that 2-3 people who really have some clue read me, and maybe link back, than thousands of diggers... and oh my... all those PR2 links you get.
In the end, quality will always be discovered and read. At least that's what I believe in.
Now if only I could produce some quality. ;-)
I've been away for a couple
I've been away for a couple of days and discovered that a couple of links I seeded to Digg - articles I came across, not my own - got to the front page.
I'm a big believer in using these services ethically and not spamming them with just my own stuff.
I use ma.gnolia for pure bookmarking. It creates a link blog on my Scribble Designs blog, a bit like what other people do with del.icio.us. I still use del.icio.us for regular bookmarking.
Digg's still great for finding offbeat stuff, and last week's revolt was great entertainment. StumbleUpon's probably the easiest to use, and I'll regularly seed anything of value I find in my RSS reader.
I've flirted with Netscape and Reddit, but the interface of both turns me off. Regardless of how much traffic they may generate. I'd prefer to settle on a couple of decent services and do reasonably well on them, both as a contributor and as a webmaster. As I said elsewhere, as long as you're particpating there's nothing wrong with seeding your own content once in a while, especially if people will get value from it.
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