Social Bookmarking Links

[lupestripe]

Does anyone have any experience using social bookmarking links such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit etc? How do they work and how does a website become prominent with them?

I have registered a few websites with these facilities but whatever I do, I cannot get any links to appear in their databases. Can anyone help?

Comments

[schnee.livejournal.com]

I'm using del.icio.us, myself. Tagging websites on there certainly DOES cause them to appear; of course, in order to get prominent, there'll have to be a significant amount of people tagging/bookmarking them.

[sphelx.livejournal.com]

I use StumbleUpon occasionally, I don't really see it so much as a social bookmarking thing; I just use the toolbar.
It takes you to random websites (within certain preset catagories that you choose) and you can rate the website/file-link as good or bad, it uploads the ratings and so on and so forth.

I've actually found quite a lot of decent stuff with SU

[enteirah]

Welcome to the world of SEO. Basically social networking sites are a goldmine for the search engines, given they show links to pages that lots of people have thought of as valuable content. Except every man and his dog has cottoned on to this and tries to submit their pages in the hope of climbing up search engines, thus most won't show up unless lots of people link to the same page, and will drop off or not show up quite quickly.

If you want to get websites prominent there's no easy route. You need to focus on making valuable content first, and *theoretically* people will link to it themselves!

[baloki.livejournal.com]

As has been said add a shortcut bar so people can digg/slashdot/delicious/stumble you, the more people who then click the links the more prominent you become on those sites and in turn the more people click the links, etc, etc. Or that's how it's supposed to work anyways.

Another factor on delicious to consider is submitting your pages under a varity of tags, it'll increase exposure.

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[metamorphosys.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I don't :( Good luck with it though.