Just reviewing one or two competitor's sites this morning, and saw one with a nice chunk of the front page devoted to -- well, I'm not sure how to describe it... Icons that apparently add that site to people's "social bookmarking" favorites on something called "BlinkList", "furl", etc. Some of these I've heard of before -- apparently Google and Yahoo sponsor some form of them, as well as del.icio.us, etc... Not a strategy I've seen before (I don't get out much), so two questions: 1. Is it worth doing? 2. If so, are there scripts or what do I need to gather from these different sites? Thanks!
Social Bookmarking Tabs are great, if someone decides to bookmark your site and others follow him, you might earn a couple of organic links from webmasters and get a ton of traffic! I think Digg is the biggest at the moment right now...
Are you using a CMS? your CMS might have a social bookamrking plugin that gets placed in all your articles. They bring you traffic...so of course worth it..
Yeah, but from what I know, the conversion rate for Web 2.0 traffic is typically very low. They come, the go, they don't purchase anything, and they eat up all your traffic -- fast I'm not saying "don't go for Web 2.0 " -- after all, social bookmarking is an awesome way to spread the word, it's good old conventional marketing -- but don't expect great conversions either. Just my thoughts. Warkot
Yes it is worth it. See this thread. I have the script to add it to your site. forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=125901 Sorry i am not allowed to post live links. So just add http://
LOL. Every page of my site is lovingly hand crafted, using notepad. Most of the content is actually pdfs. Sales of ebooks and gear is negligible, Adsense pays the bills but the bills are low, etc. It's closer to a successful hobby than to a business. Thanks all for the feedback -- esp. infonote for the not-quite-a-link to the script. I'll see if I can't mod it to an asp version and give this a shot.
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them. Descriptions may be added to these bookmarks in the form of metadata, so users may understand the content of the resource without first needing to download it for themselves. Such descriptions may be free text comments, votes in favour of or against its quality, or tags that collectively or collaboratively become a folk sonomy. Folk sonomy is also called social tagging, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content".