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Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon and Reddit

by Ohioquotes
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Typically, after writing and publishing an article on one of my sites, the only backlinking I do is some social bookmarking to the four sites I mentioned in the title. Actually, I also place a link and discuss on one of my Google Plus and Facebook Pages.


My question is this:

Is social bookmarking still a good idea or is it going to become like most article directories?

Are there additional social bookmarking sites that I should be using that are quality and worth the invested time? Or another source that I should always use after writing and publishing an article?

Thanks.
#delicious #digg #reddit #stumbleupon
  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    As you have mentioned some top social bookmarking sites, they are good, but you don't need to concentrate on only social sites, take help of other promotional methods too.. Also, optimize some keywords so that you would get long time result.
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  • Profile picture of the author SASA Techno
    In my opinion that is the best idea for submission and you have select that four social bookmarking sites is the best and high page rank website so that is the main part of the submission.
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  • Profile picture of the author Arshaan
    Social Bookmarking is NOT DEAD.
    Using TOP websites such as the ones you mentioned are a great idea.

    Also do not get the wrong idea about Article Directories, A LOT of them are bad. But the top article directories the PR7, 8 or 9 directories are still great. The ones that are exclusive and hard to get into still create some great back-links.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      I can't believe you people. You must be stuck in some year prior
      to 2013....those 4 "social bookmark" places, are just that.

      They are quite irrelevant. I can't believe anyone would even
      mention delicious... I'm surprised nobody mention using myspace...

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      • Profile picture of the author jxam69
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        I can't believe you people. You must be stuck in some year prior
        to 2013....those 4 "social bookmark" places, are just that.

        They are quite irrelevant. I can't believe anyone would even
        mention delicious... I'm surprised nobody mention using myspace...

        Paul
        Have to disagree about Reddit and StumpleUpon Paul.

        Both of these social services are far more than simple bookmarking sites, and this week alone I've had over 30k combined visitors from them - maybe not even close to my biggest traffic source - but certainly not "irrelevant".
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  • Profile picture of the author dennis09
    Leave it to Paul to shit in everyones cereal and then leave
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  • Profile picture of the author PookieThePirate
    I've heard of people getting traffic from reddit and stumbleupon.

    However, your site has to be non-spammy looking and very up to date with what's going on the internet. If you have a typical website that is about selling a health product, or an obvious affiliate website (unless it's games, interesting gadgets, what people are into today), it will get buried and be flagged for spam in no time. Especially with reddit, that website is a community and they aren't stupid. It wouldn't hurt to put your website there anyway. I have seen people sell their tshirt designs and show it off on reddit, and if people like it, they bought it. It wasn't just any design however, it was a video game that was incredibly popular right now and it was something reddit was raving about. Regarding stumbleupon, your website has to be fun and informative, or else it will be downvoted (reddit downvotes aswell) and no one would ever see it. Digg and Delicious are irrelevant though, especially Digg. Since Digg changed, all those users went to reddit basically. I didn't think much of reddit, but there's 3+ million people or more who visit it every day. But it's a community with a culture that has a voting system, which isn't in favor of people trying to make money.
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    • Profile picture of the author SoloSEOmurai
      Originally Posted by PookieThePirate View Post

      I've heard of people getting traffic from reddit and stumbleupon.

      However, your site has to be non-spammy looking and very up to date with what's going on the internet. If you have a typical website that is about selling a health product, or an obvious affiliate website (unless it's games, interesting gadgets, what people are into today), it will get buried and be flagged for spam in no time. Especially with reddit, that website is a community and they aren't stupid. It wouldn't hurt to put your website there anyway. I have seen people sell their tshirt designs and show it off on reddit, and if people like it, they bought it. It wasn't just any design however, it was a video game that was incredibly popular right now and it was something reddit was raving about. Regarding stumbleupon, your website has to be fun and informative, or else it will be downvoted (reddit downvotes aswell) and no one would ever see it. Digg and Delicious are irrelevant though, especially Digg. Since Digg changed, all those users went to reddit basically. I didn't think much of reddit, but there's 3+ million people or more who visit it every day. But it's a community with a culture that has a voting system, which isn't in favor of people trying to make money.
      I dont know how others usually use social bookmarking, but I believe the best way to use these sites, where people who ARENT marketers will consider marketer-style websites full fledge spam, is to simply have a blog with an optin list on the side, and then draw them into your email sequence. I highly am a disbeliever in affiliate sites. I believe the "affiliate site" is actually in the email, if you know what i mean.
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  • Profile picture of the author SoloSEOmurai
    Lots of people will claim that article directories are finished, and they are about 95.9% right.
    But there are still good article directories that provide high PR juice, so dont entirely discount Article directories.
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  • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
    Reddit is an awesome source of traffic, click on my signature, it is a free thread where I explain how I get traffic from it and how I use it for SEO purposes.
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    • Profile picture of the author acatmusic
      Originally Posted by patadeperro View Post

      Reddit is an awesome source of traffic, click on my signature, it is a free thread where I explain how I get traffic from it and how I use it for SEO purposes.
      getting traffic from them and it helping your SERP are two different things. while you might get some traffic from these social bookmarks it appears that the link juice you get from them only helps from major sites and even then its limited (reddit, digg, etc)
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  • Profile picture of the author apnavarun
    Besides these I also use tumbler and facebook, whenever I do social bookmarking I feel my organic searches also increases. I am not sure if its true or just a belief.
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