Comments on: How to Target the Right Social Media Sites

By: böcek ilaçlama

böcek ilaçlama — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:00:39 +0000

Lee,
“a lot” totally depends on what social media sites you’re targeting. Digg and StumbleUpon can send thousands, but smaller niche sites will generally send less. In my opinion, a few hundred visitors from one submission on a niche site is pretty good. Digg will send the most in a short period of time, maybe 5,000 – 20,000 in one day, but StumbeUpon will spread it out a bit more. I had a page that got 70,000 page views from StumbleUpon last month. But I think that is the most I’ve had to one page.

By: RaaVi | Social Media

RaaVi | Social Media — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:44:35 +0000

If we didn’t know that, now you guided us for good choices of right social media sites. I’m a big fun of StumbleUpon, and not for trafic, but for good options to submitt articles.

By: ZaggedEdge

ZaggedEdge — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:36:06 +0000

SU really gets a lot of trickle down stuff, it’s really hard to figure out why they keep coming but they do!

By: David Smyth

David Smyth — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:46:26 +0000

I Really Love Your website! Thanks for all the great tips and techniques that You share!
Wonderful!

Regards,
David I. Braybrooke. :-)

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:32:51 +0000

Thanks for a great article. (We are linking to it to share with our readers!)

We at MyPharmaNote.com are working hard to provide many of the features you discuss specifically for the pharma industry.

By: Geoserv

Geoserv — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:50:46 +0000

STUMBLED!

Great article, with so many of these sites now its hard to know which ones to use.

I personally prefer StumbleUpon.

VOTED for you at:
http://www.newsdots.com/tutorials/how-to-target-the-right-social-media-sites/

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:09:43 +0000

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:38:40 +0000

Thanks Steve, Great Article.

I have done a shotgun approach to this but have found it eats up quite a bit of time. I definitely need to use more focus and will take your advice to limit the sites I get work with.

By: Felex Tan

Felex Tan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:06:05 +0000

I will spend half hour on stumble upon,facebook&friendster each.Won’t spend much time on it.Contents is more important,it determines the long term traffics instead of short term.

By: lee watson

lee watson — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:42:39 +0000

Great Article!

Does anyone have a recommendation for a sports social bookmarking site?

And this is probably a dumb question -but when you guys talk about a ‘lot’ of hits – what is a ‘lot’? more than a thousand? more than ten thousand?

By: kc govens

kc govens — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:06:33 +0000

It is funny to run across your blog, because i have been trying to enter the world of social networks, to help find my niche
audience to promote my website and all of the great features
available. Thanks for your advice and ideas with solutions
this will really help me get the word out , so i can share with others the great opportunities to make money online from home.

By: Adam Bush

Adam Bush — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:32:19 +0000

I had no idea there were so many different social media sites. Nor that there were some specifically catered to my audience!

I have been getting some success with Digg, del.icio.us and Stumble Upon but you are 100% correct about quantity vs. quality traffic as most of those visits are brief.

I’ve signed up to the 4 car/auto sites you have listed. Hopefully I’ll see a new breed of viewer.

Thanks!

By: alex harris - alexdesigns.com

alex harris - alexdesigns.com — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:33:50 +0000

Very informative point of view. Funny, I wrote a post on the same topic, but it focused on Automating your content delivery to the social networking websites and then benefiting from the traffic. Are you automating your content distribution to maximize traffic? http://www.alexthinks.com/2008/04/improve-social-network-traffic.html

By: Aaron from Webspear

Aaron from Webspear — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:49:37 +0000

Great Article Steve!

A couple of my thoughts

1. Even though you compete with fewer submissions in a Niche site, the quality and depth of your articles should be really good to become popular. Participants of Niche sites already know a lot on the subject matter; therefore to get popular you have to submit really good in-depth content.

2. In my view catchy (which make readers curious) and controversial articles seems to be dominating social media sites.

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:07:46 +0000

Suresh,
To see if it’s do follow you can either check the source code of the page (if you see rel=”nofollow” in the link code it is no follow) or you can install a firefox add on like this one.

risoknop,
Is there something specifically that you would like more detailed information on?

By: Satisfyte

Satisfyte — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:12:17 +0000

I’ve definitely seen traffic spikes through StumbleUpon, but I’ve barely scratched the surface of figuring out how all of this works, and if it’s worth it. It doesn’t seem like very qualified traffic, though it’s hard to figure out where to find qualified traffic with a kind of quirky set of content.

I think with any blog it boils down to the right people finding it and then spreading it around to their friends/coworkers/whoever. If you’re not blogging about making money or about blogging itself, I’d imagine it’s hard to push through to that top spot in StumbleUpon unless you go psychotically viral like ICanhasCheezBurger. (love that, btw)

By: risoknop

risoknop — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:40:47 +0000

Nice article but little bit too general. You should have included some concrete recommendations and tips… Just my 2 cents…

By: Garg the Unzola

Garg the Unzola — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:59:00 +0000

I’ve recently joined http://www.onlywire.com which is basically one bookmark you need to post to a list of about 20 social marketing sites. This is only last week, so I haven’t noticed much traffic gain from it just yet.

I was wondering what the general consensus is on onlywire?
Has anyone else used it? Speaking from my limited experience:

The advantages of using onlywire
A single bookmark that you can use to publish to as many available social marketing sites as are available. If I recall, delicious is included in the list.

Onlywire does not need a new widget.This is really convenient.

A disadvantage of using onlywire
The more recent, more well-known social bookmarking sites like StumpleUpon, digg, facebook and entrecard are not featured. Big drawback, since most of my referral traffic comes from StumbleUpon.

By: guardian angel

guardian angel — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:57:23 +0000

Finally, I understood why I am not doing well with SU, Digg and other big social sites.

But surprisingly, I am doing a bit good at some of the low profile ones like Blogsvine. That is why I am focus on it.

In fact, I will submit this post to them. I know it will be a big hit.

Nice guest post. I love it.

Thanks for the tips.

By: Nantucket Art

Nantucket Art — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:05:56 +0000

Great article. Alot of people may bitch about the effort required to get on the front page of various social networking sites – but it’s worth remembering that is also what may keep them relatively abuse free. After all – as soon as someone figures out a fool proof cheat for enough of them that will be the beginning of the end… (step up web3.0)