Ever since Furl was taken over by Diigo, I’ve been using StumbleUpon to bookmark my favorite pages. There are lots of great social bookmarking services out there, and the most popular ones are: Mixx, Reddit, Digg, and Delicious. But have your ever tried bookmarking with Twitter?
Here’s a simple yet very valuable information about social media, reblogged from http://100musicalfootsteps.wordpress.com -> check this site out, a lot of interesting stuffs here.
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if you use twitter, SU, digg, facebook, flickr, reddit, etc, these principles will have you nodding your head:
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1. if you want people to pay attention to you, you have to pay attention to them.
put simply, you must RECIPROCATE. without this, nothing will happen for you. You can add as many friends as you want, spew out as many messages as possible, but people will just ignore you. Social media is about Establishing Relationships. This, first and foremost.
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2. no more spam
bad behaviour is punished with a simple block or unfollow. Instant lifelong banishment. Goodbye to the spam of the email days; in social media YOU have control over what you see and what you don’t see. Big difference.
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3. good stuff spreads. Fast.
this is like the word-of-mouth effect in the real world, except times 100. even 1000. Good stuff reaches ‘1 person’ they pass it onto 7, then 7 times 7, in a chain that ripples out in MINUTES. Stuff that is GOLD does rise to the top. Fast.
I recently observed that I’m being quite enthusiastic about social bookmarking sites; I find myself reading and studying more about them these past few weeks. Well I guess no one can blame me about that, because social bookmarking is indeed fun and very useful.
A lot of bloggers are venturing, incorporating their blogs with social bookmarking sites. But I observed, as I read across forums and blogs, that almost 70% of bloggers says that social bookmarking is not working for them, and that they prefer to use other services such as MyBlogLog and Entrecard. Well I guess this is so because they use bookmarking sites to only one purpose: To generate traffic. It’s their only basis whether social bookmarking is for them or not.
Generating traffic is just one of the power social bookmarking sites has. If a blogger wants to be successful in social bookmarkings, he must learn how to explore and exploit the powers it possess:
In bookmarking sites, bookmarkers bookmark contents that they find interesting and valuable. Which means quality contents are sifted out from mediocre contents, making the resources in social bookmarking sites very rich. Gaining free access to these rich contents is indeed a privilege.
If you ran out of ideas to post in your blog, contents from social bookmarking sites can give you brilliant post ideas. You can share, reblog, recycle, or use it as reference. Just don’t forget to pingback.
The members of social bookmarking sites are very diverse, from big time entrepreneurs to plain house wives. With this, social bookmarking sites are firm grounds to build-up rapport. You may prefer surrounding yourself with like-minded people and share personal interests; or perhaps with fellow entrepreneurs and exchange business ideas.
Sharing, discussing and gaining new knowledge from the person itself is something we should treasure. Me, as a blogger, have learned a lot from more experienced bloggers. I seek advice and ask for some tips. I even had a great opportunity to let Marko of HowToMakeMyBlog.com assess my blog and give his recommendations.
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Social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon, Mixx, and Furl can greatly contribute to the success of your blog or website by giving your articles priceless exposures, and page ranks. These sites are gold mines, imagine having your articles promoted to millions of users. No wonder social bookmarking sites are also being abused by some users, and a must-target by spammers.
If we want long term success in social bookmarking sites, perhaps we should think about the success of the bookmarking site first. How can we be successful if the bookmarking site we are in starts to go down?
Here are some ways to contribute to their success:
Social bookmarking sites has only one purpose – to bookmark; Well at least that’s the ‘main’ role of bookmarking sites. But then it is called “Social” bookmarking, which allows us to share what we are bookmarking. Not only that, these services also helps us organize bookmarks and collaborate with other bookmarkers. As we all know, social bookmarking is a great way to socialize and increase traffic (for bloggers).
But there’s a better news for us bloggers. Social bookmarking does not only help us increase our traffic, but increase our Page Rank as well.