This is an idea I had sometime ago. Still trying to develop it, let me know what you guys think. Below you will find the FAQ. _________________________ FAQ - Social Bookmarking Group Q. What is the Social Bookmarking Group (SBG)? A. The Social Bookmarking Group is a group of bloggers, writers and site owners who are interested in promoting their work through the leverage of social bookmarking systems. Q. Sorry, but what is social bookmarking exactly? A. According to Wikipedia, social bookmarking sites are an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources through the practice of tagging and inferences drawn from grouping and analysis of tags. Q. Can you give me some examples? A. Yes. Digg.com, Del.icio.us, Reddit.com, Fark.com. Q. How does the SBG work? A. It is pretty simple. Entrance to the group requires an invitation from a registered member. Each member can use only one blog or site (for the purpose of the SBG). Each member will have one simple obligation and one simple right. The obligation is to vote in a particular social bookmarking site whenever a voting session is opened by one of the members. The right is to call a voting session for one of your posts, articles or pages. Q. Sorry, that was not completely clear. A. Ok, it works like this. Suppose at a certain point in time the SBG has 50 members. You start writing a beautiful post for your blog, and you think it has some great advice for your audience. In order to promote your post right before you publish it you call a voting session for your post on the site Digg.com. Every member of the SBG will receive a message with your voting session and with a link to the page where they must go to vote. The result is that your post will receive a lot of initial attention, bringing lots of traffic to your blog or site. Q. Are there any rules? A. Yes. Members can call a voting session on their articles only once every 15 days. In the request message members must add a link to the page where members can go vote, and each voting session must use only one social bookmarking site. Secondly the post, article or page requesting a voting session must contain quality content and must be original. Q. What is the relationship between votes in social bookmarking sites and traffic? A. According to my experience, initially every vote translates into 10-20 visitors per day. This means that even with a small number of votes, say 50, you should be able to receive some 1000 additional unique visitors in a single day. This simple rule only count for the initial votes, though. As soon as your post or article reaches some critical mass of votes the traffic might grow exponentially. A page that gets listed on the front page of Digg.com or Reddit.com can boost hundreds of unique visitors PER MINUTE! Q. Is the SGB trying to cheat social bookmarking sites? A. No. And that is why members are accepted only on a invitation basis. The purpose of the SGB is not to create traffic alone, but rather to promote quality content that would otherwise get lost over the internet. That is why we require every post or article requesting a voting session to have quality content and to be original.
interesting concept. from my estimations it takes abt 50-75 adds to make it into del.icio.us and digg's top 100. would be keen to join if we can get the mass. cheers.
20-25 votes should bring some 500-1000 uniques already, then yeah around 75 would probably put a post in the top 100, which would bring insane traffic I already have some 10 blogger friends interested, lets see if we can put it up
I'm not saying that you are trying to cheat the system but if Digg think you are they will ban you. A lot of DP members got their digg accounts banned not that long ago.
It is a ban for sure.... Actually even this thread is a reason to ban your sites (and this has be done in the past)
yeah maybe you guys right, i did not intend to cheat the system, playing transparent is the best way to go, will just drop the idea
let's see. ask digg if it's ok, to corral a whole bunch of people. get them to collectively digg someone else whom they may not have read? sounds kinda suspect, doncha think?
I think the one thing it has going for it is that the articles are reviewed first. Many times really good articles get buried before they ever get a chance. Probally Digg would say no, but if you don't ask they can't say yes.
You should read some threads here on DP about Digg banning members because of clans. What you’re trying to do has been done before and ended up with Digg banning all users involved. I would think twice before starting something of this nature.