Are social bookmarking sites worth the hassle?

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  1. dingbat New Member

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    Are social bookmarking sites worth the hassle?

    Are they REALLY worth it? Looks like to me to get anything out of them you have to be a bit active? What benefits apart from maybe minimal traffic does social bookmarking sites have?
    dingbat, Jul 24, 2008
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  2. midlandi Can you smell that?

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    They are

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    Hope that helps!
    midlandi, Jul 25, 2008
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  3. businesscr New Member

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    I do social bookmarkings for creating back-links, of course, I choose the sites with high-PR. :):

    It helps me somehow.
    businesscr, Aug 11, 2008
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  4. DoctorTree New Member

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    few of my blogs get real good traffic from social bookmarking sites ... especially from Digg, Stumble upon and nowadays have been trying to get traffic from Twitter

    Digg was a good one to get backlinks but now its also a nofollow tagged
    DoctorTree, May 12, 2009
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  5. masterweb New Member

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    In past got some traffic from Digg, recently i'm profiting from Twitter and Facebook. Anyone can tells me what about MySpace?, how to drive visitors from it?.
    masterweb, May 12, 2009
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  6. DoctorTree New Member

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    i haven't tried getting traffic from myspace yet as the niche is not useful with it .. but i would too like to know how to get some from it
    DoctorTree, May 12, 2009
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    myspace is falling off if you ask me
    acolon85, May 13, 2009
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  8. hmds New Member

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    Well, recently I did join Twitter. I am hoping to get some quick traffic from Twitter as well. I got most of the visitors from various directories at past. Now I am running out of quality visitors. I am really fighting up to get return visitors.
    hmds, May 13, 2009
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    sazymi, May 14, 2009
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    Hey thanks a lot for your list. I shall now try to submit my site to these sites. Hope it works. Moreover, your list shall also help TriPhp's other members.

    Now let me take out some time from this forum and submit my site to these social bookmarking sites. Lol..!!
    hmds, May 14, 2009
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  11. BingoGames New Member

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    hey Thanx luckyheart for the list which u prefer for social bookmarking ur sites. i was using 3 to 4 of them and was confused which to use more.
    i am trying to get more from twitter nowadays as its hot fav going on
    BingoGames, May 26, 2009
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  12. YooHee Member

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    yes.... as long as the social bookmarking site is a quality site it's worth the time you spend :D
    YooHee, May 26, 2009
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  14. YooHee Member

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    yes... specially when the social bookmarking site is a high quality site.. like dofollow and high PR social bookmarking site, that's really worth the hassle :D
    YooHee, Jul 7, 2009
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    i couldn't agree with you more! these sites really deliver results. although the main thing social bookmarking does is give you exposure. the quality backlinks would still have to come from article or content writing8)
    coleman, Jul 7, 2009
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  16. ~kev~ Active Member

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    Social bookmarking sites help with deep links. But for traffic, they are a waste of time. Traffic from the big social bookmarking sites such as stumble have a 90% - 95% bounce rate on my forum. That is not worth my time.
    ~kev~, Jul 28, 2009
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  17. Adam H Administrator

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    Yeah id agree with that , although i never think that they actually covert to well on forums anyway. Ive tried quite alot over the years with forums and things like stumble upon, although you sometimes get a couple of members from it they never seem to stay long.
    Adam H, Jul 28, 2009
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  18. ~kev~ Active Member

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    If I am going to spend my time on something, its going to be on something that gets my site targeted traffic.

    Time is money, and the more time you spend on getting traffic with a 90% bounce rate, the less time you have to work on other projects. The more time you waste, the less money you make.
    ~kev~, Jul 28, 2009
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