Do Social Bookmarking sites make money?

Are social bookmarking sites like digg.com profitable?

 

Only giant ones, they make millions, small ones make very little.

 

lols digg.com worth at least $300 million.. that guy who created is so lucky.

 

I think it depend on how much strong is your friends network.

 

not asking whether the members of the site will make money from their joining...but rather whether the owners of the site will make money?

 

HI

IWhen I think about it I do not see what people see in these kind of sites.. Plz fill me in

Thx
Tom Dahne

 

i targeted a digg style niche area and found that i am not that successful. i used pligg script to run my site, and i was forced to shut down because of too much of spam which targeted the script.

cant say for others

 

You don't think they pay the traffic /hosting/servers with their own money do you? They would be broke in no time considering how many people use that site.

 

Smaller social bookmarking sites do struggle to make money, but big ones like digg makes money easily.

 

But don't they have an anti-spam mod?

 

what about sites like netvouz and other bookmarking sites. from what I see they do not have ads on the site so how do they have money coming in?

 

netvouz has Adsense at top in categories

 

Hi,

And what about adult social bookmarking ?

 

What those sites actually make and what they are worth are actually two very different things.

Facebook can be worth billions but it spent a long time not making anything.

Some of these big sites monetize their projects indirectly with completely different interests.

 

100% of the big sites, like fb, twit, etc had/have investors that put millions of dollars to open the project.

 

it will be full of f*cuking shit and spam not worth to do

 

yeh digg hit the jackpot the guy did it with no advertising, just network with word of mouth and grew like a wild fire. He did a good job