Archive for October 12th, 2008

Target Social Bookmarkers

DIGG is the biggest social media tool on the Internet. In the last couple of years, many others have joined their ranks. Here are the top social bookmarking tools according to ALEXA as of today:
DIGG - Alexa rank of 237
Technorati.com - Alexa rank of 401
MIXX - Alexa rank of 1044
Propeller.com - Alexa rank of [...]

DIGG is the biggest social media tool on the Internet. In the last couple of years, many others have joined their ranks. Here are the top social bookmarking tools according to ALEXA as of today:

DIGG - Alexa rank of 237
Technorati.com - Alexa rank of 401
MIXX - Alexa rank of 1044
Propeller.com - Alexa rank of 1183
De.licio.us - Alexa rank of 2508
REDDIT - Alexa rank of 7726

This is not 100% accurate, but pretty close. Since many other companies have joined DIGG as a premium social bookmarking tool, it is very important to talk to social bookmarking users differently. For example, if a user arrived to your website from MIXX.com, show a MIXX counter on your articles. If a user comes from DIGG, show a “DIGG THIS” button on your articles. I would still include the ability to bookmark through any other service (maybe at the bottom of the articles), but make the referrer the prominent choice.

There are a few ways to automate this. Here are a few tools I found:
Blue Hat SEO - They show you how to do it in PERL, PHP and JavaScript (any site can implement with JavaScript)
Big Blue Dev - Displays welcome messages depending on the referrer.

If you’re not technical, hire a programmer via RentACoder.com and have the programmer create a script where a specific message or icon is shown if the user is from DIGG, StumbleUpon etc.

Here are some other general social bookmarking tools:
The Bookmarketer
Wordpress Plugin To Include Bookmarking Tools
WP Notable - Include social bookmarking links.

Other links of interest:
5 Social Bookmarking Tips
7 Social Bookmarking Tips
7 Social Bookmarking Tips That Will Get You Traffic Now