Social Bookmarking - My little experiment

Discussion in 'Social Networks' started by haywire, Jan 3, 2008.

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    I thought I would share this with you guys. On Christmas eve I was looking at www.noradsanta.org trying to show my daughter where Santa "currently is". Anyways he was at Guantanamo. The thought of Santa visiting Gitmo Bay seemed rather humorous to me. I realized at that moment that I needed to post this to Reddit and see what kind of response I would get.

    I took a screenshot, uploaded the image to a new post on my blog. I then came up with the catchy headline of "If waterboarding won’t work, just send Santa." I figure that would get the attention of the people on Reddit.

    Anyways, this posting got downmodded pretty quick, but by the time Decemeber was done, I had 352 unique hits from that one post. This shows the potential that these social bookmarking sites offer as a source of traffic.

    As a side note, you might noticed that the current location in the screenshot was not Gitmo. I tried to get a screenshot but hit control-print screen instead of function-print screen that my laptop required. So I had to go back and select where Santa had been. This may have contributed to the downmodding.
     
    haywire, Jan 3, 2008 IP
  2. webdigo

    webdigo Banned

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    Glad it worked for you.
    Many people using the social networking sites to catch the Traffic Ramp. Its great way of introducing a site to new audience in general.
     
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    I agree - nice example of why timing is so important with social bookmarking.
     
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