Social Bookmarking: Day Four of ProBlogger’s 31 Days to Building a Better Blog
Day Four of ProBlogger’s 31 Days to Building a Better Blog concerns something called social bookmarking. Wikipedia defines the phenomenon as “an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize (see folksonomy) a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others.”
ProBlogger says that the benefit of such sites to bloggers is that they “have the ability to push vast quantities of visitors around the web at the drop of a hat.” Most of them apparently allow you to submit posts which they then link to, thereby acting as sort of an online billboard, driving interested passers by to your site. According to ProBlogger, most accept all submissions provided that you don’t spam them, but some, like Slashdot are more selective. The traffic one might get from such a tool can apparently be quite dramatic, and while the increased traffic might be short-lived, it gives you an opportunity to catch a few regular readers.
ProBlogger specifically mentions and links to the following social bookmarking sites:
The Wikipedia Social Bookmarking entry, though, has a very comprehensive list.
I’m going to check out some of the links myself, submit some of my better posts to some of the sites, and I’ll report back.
Mike said,
October 15, 2005 at 3:17 am
Since you are about to check out a couple of social bookmarking sites, I was hoping that you might like to check out www.blinklist.com. It is a relatively new site so while we will not (yet) send you buckets full of visitors, hopefully we will get there over time. Especially since we think of BlinkList as a “Personal Discovery Engine.” Would love to hear your thoughts if you have the chance to check out the site. Mike