Apr
Many people like to use social media sites in order to gain popularity, and to heavily increase their traffic if a story that they write hits the front pages of many of the top social media sites.
The problem with some of the social media sites, is that they don’t provide much search engine benefit, because they either use a redirection URL to connect people with your page, or they simply use the “nofollow” tag on your links. (What is nofollow?) Whichever they use, they pass on no search engine ranking benefit, and many of those sites have high PR.
When building links, having traffic sources in mind is a good idea, but your main focus should be links that have “dofollow” (What is dofollow?) because that will increase your search engine rankings, will should be your main goal for your traffic source. Millions of people use Google daily… why not bring some of them who are your for a site like yours, right to your site.
So, here are some of the best social media sites to use for both traffic and search engine rankings:
Digg (PR8)
Many people are already Digging their articles, so continue doing this.
Mixx (PR6)
Mixx is a great up and comer, which makes it a lot easier to rank your articles and pages on the front of Mixx, and you get search engine ranking benefits from your pages and posts being on Mixx.
IndianPad (PR6)
This is a great social media site geared towards the people of India, but since they are growing so fast in all aspects of the internet, this is a great market to reach out to. There are some technology articles on there that have nothing to do with India, that are ranking well, so you definitely have a shot!
Metafilter (PR7)
This is also a great site to submit your articles, posts, and pages.
Reddit (PR8)
A recommendation from a reader to put this on here… it looks decent!
I hope this has expanded your social media selection a little bit, and helped you to focus your traffic building efforts with your link building efforts.
P.S. Be sure to add your site to the profile pages on these different sites!
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I didn’t know about metafilter… I am going to check it out… good list!
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Some nice resources. I haven’t been much of a fan of social media as my articles don’t tend to get dugg much. Anyway, I’ve given Mixx a go and will see what happens.
I see that you’ve dugg most of your articles on digg. How much traffic do you tend to get from them?
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I don’t Digg ‘em, I have a trusty friend who does that for me… too much work for me… i usually get about between 2-7 digg visitors a day… the digg visitors have a high bounce rate though.
Excellent little list. I didn’t know of Indianpad OR Metafilter, thanks!
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You could add Reddit to your list.
PR8 and dofollowed!
I prefer to only submit to a handful of social bookmarking sites for links, so this list is helpful. Thanks!
Right these are all very popular but i am not sure that all are do follow, however if it is nofollow then also we get huge traffic from these website that’s confirm. Indianpad belongs to india.
It is very difficult to come top in digg for that your article should be unique with title and content then only you will get genuine dugg otherwise i have seen many spammers who dugg thier own with different user account but they are not aware that in digg millions of visitors are there per day so they are nowhere in that.
Thanks
Very good article. Also consider that even if you don’t get a link, there are some people that would visit your site so it is not total waste of time.
Thanks!
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What about squidoo? How is that?
Stumble Upon is also good. But i dont know, is it Do follow or not follow. Anyhow great source of traffic too.
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Reddit is excellent. Not just to submit articles to but to even more to read - it does the best job of finding good stuff for me.
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Thanks for the list. Mister-Wong another great source I guess
Thanks for the list. I knew about Digg and Reddit and now I will checkout the other three.
Thanks that is great information!
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