Usuario:ShumpertHurley397
De Wikis en Educación
Social Bookmark - Social bookmarking is the practice of posting links to articles and web pages to various "link aggregator" or social bookmark sites, for example Digg, Stumbleupon and so on. Social bookmarking sites rise and fall in popularity pretty quickly, but they generally have a couple of common features:
1. Users can submit links which other users can browse, providing a great way to expose your content.
2. Links go into large pages of lists, which can be normally very easy to navigate, and are also usually divided up into a "main page" of the best links of the day, and various sub-sections which help one to get exposure in relevant circles.
3. Links can usually be "voted on" to determine which links have more airtime on the front page of varied sections. The more votes your links get, the harder traffic they get.
4. Some sites, like Digg, fasten a weighting to certain actions and users, so an individual who submits very popular links will have a vote that carries more weight.
5. Most social bookmarking site users are fairly jaded when it comes to the internet, and will ignore items that aren't interesting, funny, or very entertaining. This is simply not a place for your boring pr announcements.
6. Most bookmarking sites usually have some kind of "social" element in their mind, allowing users to create profiles, have a friends list of other users, etc., in the hope of getting users to talk about content between themselves.
Social Bookmark - These are the basics, so let's take a look at how best to approach social bookmarking. I'm going to use Reddit and Digg as my main examples, however that Reddit itself takes a great deal of familiarity with its culture before you are able to submit links that anybody even clicks.
Choose your niche
Submitting articles on growing bonsais to the front page of Reddit won't get you anywhere - you'll get 30 visitors maybe, none who will buy your products. But submitting it to /r/bonsai, although it only has around 1,100 readers, will most likely garner you more attention from interested people.
Ironically, submitting to /r/trees may have much less of an effect, because /r/trees is dedicated to marijuana culture. The lesson here is: know your subreddits.
Write an appealing title, and use an image
Standard newspaper/advert headline formats fail to work too well on the net, because everyone has become resistant to them. Instead you should think of a clever title that interests people enough to find out more about what you're writing, or at best promise pictures of cats.
Most bookmarking sites add a thumbnail from the page you're linking to, or one you provide. Take the trouble to do this - it generates much higher click throughs.
Keep at it, making your links simple to share
Social Bookmark - Social bookmarking is focused on persistence, so if nobody clicks your first link, make another article, come up with a more clever title and check out again. Put a social bookmark submitting widget on your website or blog, and encourage people to talk about your articles. If you've submitted them already, and they've accounts, it only takes an additional to click an "upvote" or "like" button.
If nothing else, having links to all of your articles on six social bookmarking sites is great for SEO.
