Social Bookmarking

[nthdegree]

First Bill-
Thank you for your time and kharmic kudos to you!

I found you 2 shows ago on Social Dominator...the May experiment.
I see that your YouTube video has had 50,000+ hits, and I looked up the url via linkdomain and link in Yahoo and Google respectively, so, it definitely worked....but, I found it in January.

Can you do a show on what steps you took and how long it actually took? I missed all of the in between...between May 2008 and January 2009 and am not sure if you were really "up and profitable within days" as your experiment promised.

I'm in the process of launching some affiliate sites and need the traffic, but social bookmarking is widely contested out there....some "gurus" say that you should do it very slowly over time so as to not get "slapped"...while others don't mention the actual speed or process at all...

Again! Thanks Bill!

[billmcintosh]

Thanks for your nice words.

I ended up dropping the SD experiment after a couple weeks. I got pulled into one of my bigger businesses and had to take care of some emergencies. So I never did finish it. I can tell you that 6 months later I still get subscribers every day to the opt-in list even though I've done nothing on the site for 6+ months.

As far as social bookmarking goes: Just use it as part of a balanced linking campaign where you're getting other types of links too. Then make sure you're doing your linking at a rate you can sustain for a few months. If you gather 1,000 links this week and then none for the next 4-6 weeks Google gets suspicious. If your content is somewhat viral and you expect natural links to build up on their own over time (like the case with SD) you can get away with a more aggressive linking campaign since it will keep getting links on it's own.

Hope that helps.

[guardinator]

I also followed the Social Dominator Experiment. I was starting a new site at the time and I followed along. My site when from the bottom of Alexa to 404,000 in less than 4 months.

Digg and Stumbleupon are good for me. Digg is good because I have a wordpress plugin that asks fellow digg users to "digg" an article if they like it.

I also joined many of the smaller social bookmarking sites too.

I find that if I write a whacky article with a strange headline and then "Digg it," it goes viral and gets listed high in google and yahoo. I like to use many of my keywords in the desciption area of the digg submit box.

Social bookmarking will really give you a jump in rankings and force Google to index your site.

[billmcintosh]

There are SO many "social" sites out there now this is a wide open field.

You can use sites to get top 10 Google rankings & you can use some of the sites like Digg for traffic.

I'd encourage everyone to work social bookmarking & social media into their marketing plans.