I came across an interest post from Soshable that went over a few tips that you can employ to get your story to the front page of Digg, Propeller, Reddit, Mix, etc. I tend to use these site for the back links they give in addition to finding some interesting stories so I never really gave much thought to getting to the front page.
After reading the article, I may give it a try. They process doesn’t seem difficult, just time consuming. I don’t hold high regard for the quality of the traffic as I have yet to hear of someone make a lot of money from the traffic they received as a result of a front page listing. Do you know anyone?
Oh well, I’ll try it just to have bragging rights and hope that I am pleasantly surprised by a rush of sales.
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Yes. You can get an intense surge of traffic from the social bookmarking sites when you hit a social vein, or something of popular interest.
Getting sales is another thing entirely.
I’m certainly game to learn more about gaining direct traffic from these sites as well. While I have seen little bits, it seems that it was always started by my own bookmarks that others have followed.
However, for the most part, I’ve only developed a ‘friend network’ on Facebook, and haven’t added my Facebook friends to my social bookmarking sites.
I’ve heard of people who use Stumbleupon as their search page, so everything they find has been bookmarked by one of their friends… search results have been pre-screened by people you trust.
As these services mature, search results from the social bookmarking sites gain the power of ’social credibility’. You can bet Google will soon be purchasing one of the top social bookmarking services in integrating their data into “The Algorithem”. (Behaving much like The Borg, it strikes me…)