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]

Well, a "bookmark this site using $SITE_A - $SITE_B - $SITE_C - ..." button bar probably can't hurt, although I myself never use these: I've got the del.icio.us extension for Firefox installed and use that (and before, when I used Seamonkey, I just used regular bookmarklets).

As for searching, I'm not sure about other ones, but it seems to work on del.icio.us, at least. Searching for "comeonboro.com", for example, turns up two hits - looking at them, whether these are spam or not is beyond me, but at least the search function works. :)

I suppose it all depends on what you ultimately want to accomplish - do you want to do your own social bookmarking (in which case d.i.u is probably not a bad choice, although I haven't looked into other sites), or do you want to encourage people to bookmark your site(s) as a webmaster?

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I am effectively interested in increasing visitor figures and reputation of my sites - any idea what the best thing is to do?

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Not really, no.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

No probs - thanks *hugs*