Comments on: Which Social Bookmarking Sites Bring the Most Traffic?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:26:06 +0000

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.

By: Robomaster

Robomaster — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:56:21 +0000

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?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:30:56 +0000

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

By: Polprav

Polprav — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:28:17 +0000

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

By: Stefan

Stefan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:24:53 +0000

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.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:02:26 +0000

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.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:31:20 +0000

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.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:07:34 +0000

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?

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:48:11 +0000

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.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:05:26 +0000

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.