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Which Social Bookmarking Sites Bring the Most Traffic?

Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by Andrew in Blogging, Social Networks, Traffic
Which Social Bookmarking Sites Bring the Most Traffic?

Do you track your visitors? Do you know which social sites are responsible for driving the most, and the most targeted traffic to your website or blog?

I’ve been very busy over the past week. Some of my work has included researching the most popular, valuable and effective bookmarking sites that drive real, quality traffic to blogs and websites.

Let me tell you that it hasn’t been an easy task. With more than 200 notable social bookmarking sites being talked about across the interwebs, none, other than Digg, StumbleUpon, Technorati and a couple of others seems to stand out.

It seems that, while millions of people are very actively using the many social bookmarking sites to promote their own and other sites content, there is no real quantifiable data on which sites outside of the top 5 are the clear winners when it comes to driving top quality traffic.

I’d like to ask you to help out by voting on this poll. We are simply asking you to answer which of the listed sites brings you the most traffic. Choose up to 3 answers.

If you know of a site that is not listed but should be on the list, leave us a comment and let us know about it.

Once I have gathered enough useful data, I’ll write a post and discuss the findings.

Which social bookmarking sites bring you the most traffic?

  • StumbleUpon (77%, 10 Votes)
  • Technorati (23%, 3 Votes)
  • Digg (15%, 2 Votes)
  • Delicious (15%, 2 Votes)
  • Reddit (8%, 1 Votes)
  • Mixx (8%, 1 Votes)
  • Ask (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Bibsonomy (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Bebo (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Propeller (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Simpy (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Spurl (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Utterli (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Tumblr (0%, 0 Votes)
  • identi.ca (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Diigo (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Blinklist (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Yahoo! Buzz (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Kaboodle (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Propeller (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Newsvine (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Fark (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Slashdot (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Clipmarks (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Dzone (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Faves.com (0%, 0 Votes)
  • hi5 (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 13

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13 Responses to “Which Social Bookmarking Sites Bring the Most Traffic?”

  1. InternetHow Blog

    09. Oct, 2009

    I seem to get more traffic from digg and stumble. I don’t really use any other apart from twitter.

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    • Andrew

      09. Oct, 2009

      I was tempted to add twitter and a couple of other micro blogging sites to the list but since I really only want to collect data on actual bookmarking or voting sites I decided against it.

      Thanks for your feedback.

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  2. Waltsense

    09. Oct, 2009

    Stumble by far and then Mixx for me…followed by google. I also get a lot from image searches…which is a nice little trick to drive traffic.

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    • Andrew

      09. Oct, 2009

      Nice! Thanks for the contribution.
      Stumble is a great traffic driver. I’m really trying to find if there is any really useful sites other than Digg,SU,Technorati, that are still effective today. P.S. I’ll add a vote for Mixx for you since you didn’t add a vote for it.

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  3. Stefan

    10. Oct, 2009

    I have never really managed to succeed with getting tons of traffic from social bookmarking sites. Most probably because I have done most of my work in Swedish and with small niche sites which doesn’t seem to be that interesting for social bookmarking sites.

    With that said I do get some traffic and StumbleUpon gives me most of it. Besides those you mentioned I also get a lot of traffic from Twitter, but I don’t really see that as a social bookmarking sites.

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    • Andrew

      10. Oct, 2009

      Thanks for that feedback. I agree about Twitter. Even though it’s very popular for promotion it’s not really in this classification.

      What methods do you use then to drive Swedish speaking visitors to your sites?

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      • Stefan

        10. Oct, 2009

        Most of the backlinks actually comes from myself since I have so many sites. It’s like a big network with different levels where my new small sites link to each others and then to one ultimate site where I try to build trust.

        According to me building backlinks is the single most difficult task when it comes to making money from your sites.

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        • Andrew

          11. Oct, 2009

          I’d say that’s true if your only focusing on search engine traffic. In that case backlinks are the most powerful yet most difficult thing to get.

          Also just be careful that Google doesn’t penalize you for link wheeling. What you’re doing is a great strategy, and works well but the big G doesn’t like it.

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          • Stefan

            13. Oct, 2009

            I would say it’s OK if they are related and helps the visitor, which my links are. But sure, you have to be careful.

  4. Polprav

    17. Oct, 2009

    Hello from Russia!
    Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?

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    • Andrew

      17. Oct, 2009

      Hi Polprav. Yes please do, but please don’t copy the entire post. Use of citations is absolutely fine.

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  5. Robomaster

    29. Nov, 2009

    Easily stumbleupon. The 3rd day after my blog was ‘live,’ I got a review on Grooveshark (http://www.coolappsite.com/grooveshark-listen-free-music-online/) thumbed up several times and I got a huge wave of thousands of stumblers.

    It really helped a little community to begin on CoolAppSite, but stumblers never link. Ever. And my search engine traffic now makes up about 0.01% of my traffic…How do I get backlinks?

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    • Andrew

      29. Nov, 2009

      What a great result. Was it good traffic? I find that even with a lot of stumble traffic it brings with it a very high bounce rate. At least for this blog it does. Backlinks are the one constant of search optimization and search marketing. The methods for back links just don’t change. Good linkable content, site sponsorship, and paid advertising such as banner adds. But the easiest way is promote great content that people will want to link to.

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