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Interesting experiment.

It’s been informative to me as I’m very much new to the idea of social bookmarking.

In a casual web-search I’ve found dozens of social-bookmarking sites. I’m sure they ALL can’t be popular… which ones would you say make the most sense? Because I imagine it’d take quite a lot of time to create and maintain profiles on ALL of them.

I’m eager for that next video/post in which you describe how to use Youtube to your advantage. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for one of my site’s in particular.

So yeah, keep it coming and keep up the good work!

Shaun

However, think about this: If Digg has 5 million users and the average number of posts, from the Digg top 100 to the user who no longer participates is 1 post per day, that is 5 million posts.

How can you possibly expect that Google will see your 1 link in Digg in 5 million others as a backlink to your site. In fact if you submit your site to Digg and no one else Diggs it, I have come to feel that is a negative indicator in Digg’s eyes. the worst thing you can do is submit your Digg posts yourself and then get no Diggs.

One of my friends on Social Marketing Central wrote an article that went hot on the Internet. He got like 1500 visitors in a few days and 80 comments. The bad news is that he only got 18 Diggs. Now tell me this: Don’t you think that Google, that has access to the popularity of posts on Digg just like we do, would not see 1500 visitors and 18 Diggs a negative indicator of this blog and the blog post itself?

I can easily get 100 to 200 Diggs for any article I want in Digg in 2 days. I do that through my own strategies and participation.

So social bookmarking if done wrong can actually hurt you. Social marketing is about being social, so be social on social bookmarking sites, don’t just submit you own content and expect that this will bring you results.

Thank you for the replies… you have my upmost respect…
You are true master and i can not what to learn more from you soon…

Thanks for joining in the conversation here.

I agree with you that networking is a vital part of building a business. In fact, it’s a vital part of the strategy I’m employing on this site. However, I also find that learning from a mentor/coach or expert has tremendous value.

Over the years I’ve probably invested $30,000 or more on attending seminars, buying coaching and information products. Some of them were worthless, but when I studied the one’s who REALLY knew what they were doing: I got a lot of value. I often found that not only did I learn what they were teaching, but I got a new level of understanding all my own. This let me take off from their ideas and actually improve on them. In fact, I can say with certainty that without all that mentoring and coaching early on: I would never have successfully created the various businesses I have now.

So my motto is: If it isn’t something I can become skilled at quickly: Find someone else who does and let them either teach me or have them do it for me.

Thanks for the comment.

I like to use FeedBurner for my RSS feed subscriptions, but I use Aweber for email. I’m going to release a special Wordpress plugin that will help you set up both of these and tie them together on your blog. As a subscriber I’ll let you have first crack at it to help me test it out. It’s not quite ready yet, but I’ll email the subscribers when it is. Keep an eye out for it.

Good luck with your blog!