No traffic from social network and book marking sites

[techreform]

It helps to create content thats resonates well with your audience, for example if you posted celebrity news on digg, chances are it'll get low traffic, but if you submitted technology related content then you'll get a much better response from digg.com users, bear in mind digg.com is a techie hangout, the new slashdot.org if you will. so the point is;

"create content what is useful to that specific community".

So the celeb content should be posted on lipstick.com: celebrity news that matters to you (owned by reddit / conde nast)

[purple]

Cool lipstick is a new one to me and will be handy for a few sites of mine.

You are very right there is digg type sites for every genre, so very true posting to a techie crowd could be a mistake if u got celeb gossip content

[GarethCrew]

I think Stumble is a great way to market; but you have to, like everyone else have said, approach it from a social view point, and not any other. If you just bookmark your own stuff, people will avoid you like the plauge - but if you bookmark/stumble loads of stuff, and interact as a person - people will help you.

No one's mentioned Twitter yet...what are people's thoughts on this???

[bluebird]

Originally Posted by foxtucker As for the bookmark networks, many use the rel="nofollow" tag and therefore prove utterly useless from an seo stand point.

Here's a list of follow/nofollow links for social bookmarking sites:

List of follow/nofollow links from social bookmarking - DevHunters.com l Webmaster Forum - Web Advertising - Web Design - SEO Forums

[ep90]

Is Squidoo mostly targeted at the Amercian Market?

[strayman]

Originally Posted by jess1 Is any one making money from social networking? As APA is just content and we have an aff group on fb (no one comments btw) but we have 550 members now and we get around 1% of our traffic to APA from there, so we know people are clicking through. We have one client on FB (They did this themselves) where they get a few sales trickle through. So I am still of the opinion that the only people making real money are the social networks themselves, what do you think? I still think web 2.0 is just another way of ripping people off (personal opinion) Were the compuserve forums a social networking platform back in 98?

I think there are a few people making money out there from social networking. Im just having trouble identifying which ones

The sheer volume of visitors available on there is quite large. Ive done a few tests and havent received much traffic. I received more traffic by not directly advertising anything at all. Whereas when I actively advertised the affiliate links I didnt receive any hits at all.

I received a better response from soft selling social activities like dating sites (if can call selling a dating site soft)

The thing is I think web 2.o is here to stay and we just have to find good ways of monetising the platforms.

[bizcoaching]

Rank your lens at Squidoo and you'll definitely get a lot of traffics. Focus on other media too! If your offering services for professionals, go for a site with a lots of professional in there, answer their problems and give solutions. Then, if you want to get a quality and converted traffic, rank your keywords at search engines.

[Leadfinanceman]

Originally Posted by foxtucker Perhaps, the problem is a result of trying to particpate in so many [social networks] at the same time. It's difficult to contribute anything of value when you're spreading yourself thin. As for the bookmark networks, many use the rel="nofollow" tag and therefore prove utterly useless from an seo stand point.

Even though you get no link benefit - if you are getting links even on forums and blogs (from comments), if they are authorative sites, will it not build that authority for your site?

Interested to know what people think on the debate of nofollow and dofollow?

[jess1]

Was chatting to the MD of advaliant.com Jivan Manhas and his CPA network they are seeing some pretty amazing results from affiliates using the likes of myspace and facebook. One of the things he said was linking ads through to blog endorsements of products.

[craig123]

Hi

I think we can get results from Social Websites, but need to understand them before start working. Every Social website have there own methodology of working and they follow the same. Submission should very ethical and genuine. Join as many communities as you can. Give them the fresh content with good quality. Apply new techniques and Interlink all of them to each other like a web and than see the boost up...

Thanks

[EmmaFlower]

I've found twitter to be a fairly steady traffic source, ppl visit my site from there every day, it's easy to maintain and communicate on there too

[jhulott]

You can build product pages for free in Facebook. Build pages around each of your products or sites. This may give you some traffic

Try this:

Why Facebook? Social Networking for Fun and Profits! by Mari Smith Blog Archive How To Create and Promote Your Facebook Fan Page

Might be helpful.

Jason

PS. I get enquiries via Facebook but I am in the service side of things not selling products directly via facebook

[studentcredit]

Yes, experimentation. By doing this and that, and you'll discover some secrets. I would say I need to learn a lot. Keep doing it and you'll see some results then.

[dangregory]

There's social networks (Myspace, Facebook, Friendster, etc.) and then there's social bookmarking. For me social bookmarking makes me thousands each month while the social networks earn me nothing. The exception is Squidoo. If you build a nice Squidoo lens on several important keywords relevant to your site and build it over time Google favors Squidoo lens and will put you on the first page generally. This will drive major traffic to your site so it's worth doing.

Social bookmarking sites are a great way to get the search engine spiders interested in your site. The human traffic comes as a result of a)the search engine spiders coming around to index your content b)if you're targeting the right keywords you'll be rewarded with getting on the first or second page of Google with your latest article update or blog entry and c) THEN the human traffic comes because your page is getting such nice placement in the search engines.

At my company we usually socially bookmark at anywhere from five to twenty pages on sites like technorati, delicious, stumbleupon, and so forth for each and every site update. This will bring you nice traffic even with a very new site and is a great boost to your sales if you do it correctly.

Dan

[websatan]

Understanding Social Media Optimization

I hope the above post helps!!!!!!!!