Everyone wants their forum, website or blog to be well know so why not let your members show it off? Social bookmarking, like deli.cio.us, Digg, Technorati and StumbleUpon is a great form of viral advertising and a way to increase your site’s traffic. It allows users to showcase a single post or an entire site that they found interesting. The more people like your site and the more they bookmark it, the more your site gets seen all across the web.
The top 5 Social Bookmarking sites are Digg, StumbleUpon, Propeller, Reddit, and Delicious. Digg can have up to 80,000 hits per day!
Below is a list of 40 of the top Social Networking sites on the web:
| Blinkbits | http://www.blinkbits.com |
| Blinklist | http://www.blinklist.com |
| Blogdigger | http://www.blogdigger.com |
| Blogmarks | http://blogmarks.net |
| Buzznet | http://www.buzznet.com |
| Citeulike | http://www.citeulike.org |
| Co.mments | http://co.mments.com |
| Connotea | http://www.connotea.org |
| Delicious | http://del.icio.us |
| Digg | http://www.digg.com |
| Fark | http://www.fark.com |
| Feedmelinks | http://feedmelinks.com |
| Feedster | http://feedster.com |
| Findory | http://findory.com |
| Flickr | http://www.flickr.com |
| Furl | http://www.furl.net |
| http://www.google.com | |
| Ice Rocket | www.icerocket.com |
| Linkagogo | http://www.linkagogo.com |
| Magnolia | http://ma.gnolia.com |
| Netscape | http://www.netscape.com |
| Newsvine | http://www.newsvine.com |
| NowPublic | http://www.nowpublic.com |
| OnlyWire | http://www.onlywire.com |
| Propeller | http://www.propeller.com/ |
| http://reddit.com | |
| RocketNews | http://www.rocketnews.com |
| Scuttle | http://scuttle.org |
| Scoopt | http://www.scoopt.com/words |
| Shadows | http://www.shadows.com |
| Simpy | http://www.simpy.com |
| Slashdot | http://slashdot.org |
| Smarking | http://www.smarking.com |
| Sphere | http://www.sphere.com |
| Spurl | http://www.spurl.net |
| StumbleUpon | http://www.stumbleupon.com |
| Technorati | http://www.technorati.com |
| Webride | http://webride.org |
| Wists | http://www.wists.com |
| Yahoo | http://www.yahoo.com |
For Your Blog:
One great way to add social bookmarking to your blog is to provide links to all the top sites under each of your posts. For Wordpress users there’s an easy way to do this via the Sociable plugin. This plugin automatically adds links to social bookmarking sites right at the end of each post. It includes 66 of the top sites and one link that allows users to email the post to a friend.
For more information and to download the plugin you can visit Yoast.com.
For Your Forum:
For everyone who runs their forum on PhpBB3 there’s a great hack that adds 11 social bookmark buttons to the top of every thread. It’s also easy to add more if you’d like. I’ve uploaded this to the blog’s server and you can download it here: Social_Bookmarks_for_phpBB3.zip
For Your Website:
AddThis.com offers a great service for easily adding social bookmarking links to your website. Simply sign up, get the code, and insert it into any or all of your pages. With AddThis you can even see statistics on how many people have bookmarked your website. Below is an example of the Add This button in action.
There is also a Wordpress plugin available that adds the AddThis button to the bottom of every thread. Once you’ve signed up you’ll be able to download it.
Overview:
Whether you’re running a forum, website, or blog you’ll find that social bookmarking can make a huge difference in terms of readers, members, and potential customers. Nowadays, it’s easier than ever to use it as a method of viral advertising and to see results of it working. It only make sense to use it to your full advantage.
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