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Posted By: LtDraper 191 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://promote-my-site.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Well, there were, at one point, that many. But many are dead, zombies, or link farms. Here is our two-months-to-compile list of what's what out there in the land below Digg.....
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from boondoggie 191 days ago #
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I don't understand why the Sphinn community isn't all over this.

People post a list of 18 sites and it rockets to hot, but when the biggest list I've ever seen comes out it gets a yawn. Hard to figure.

from SlightlyShadySEO 191 days ago #
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Oy that's a lot of accounts to sign up for. Although I actually have 600 or so of em from past ventures...nice additions though! hehehe

from katfrench 191 days ago #
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As God is my witness, the VERY next time I have some content that is of interest to Zambians, I am SO all over that list!  :)

Seriously, though, post a list of two thousand social bookmarking sites, and Sphinners will get a headache at the thought of all the time it would take to register. 

Now, if some bright egg would code an app that would allow you to register for all 2,162 with one submit, THAT would get people excited...

from OliverTaco 191 days ago #
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Hey, if you were running a travel company (http://www.affiliateconfession.com/ anyone?) you OUGHT to write a story about Victoria falls so you could get juicy link goodness from them.  Totally appropriate, and they'd probably be jazzed at the 'furriners' showing up.

I looked at ever single one of these and signed up for all the "live" ones and found an approprite article to test them.  I still get nighmares.

-OT

from DoshDosh 191 days ago #
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@boondoggie

Because a lot of these sorts are junk and dead, i.e. they don't send traffic or provide exposure for your site. I guess they are useful if you want to purely use them for links.

Selective recommendation adds value for readers, especially if its based on personal experience.

Having said that I still sphunn this for the effort in putting all together. :)

from OliverTaco 190 days ago #
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Dosh -

Hey, I left the "dead" ones in there because I keep seeing them in lists of "28 social sites you should know!"  Foooey, people just republish stuff without checking.

I am also hoping to get people who make lists to start shoving them up on google docs so that they're more useful.  Sure, we all know how to pull things off web pages, but why should we have to go to the trouble?

As for the junky ones, well, see, this is they the list is downloadable with some commentary.  If you have a hugely successful blog then a pligg site that can send you three visitors a day is not so keen.  If you have a blog that gets 20 people/day then it's a godsend.  If you're a big name, then digg is your friend, if you're small fry, well, then maybe you should spend some effort elsewhere.

-OT

from DoshDosh 190 days ago #
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Not disputing the value of the list for some. I did like the fact that you put it up on Google Docs. It's a form of sharing data that I think more people should practice.

Personally, I don't see any real ROI (in terms of time/traffic) from inactive/junk sites... and I don't think Digg or SU etc. is only available for small fry.... it's all too easy to write a digg-friendly piece and get it popular, even for sites with zero influence/readership. Happens all the time on Reddit too.

I know because I've done it and seen many 'nobody' blogs do it too.

If you only get 3 visitors from a pligg site, you'll be better off pimping a link in a forum or commenting on a high profile blog. Just my two cents.

from OliverTaco 189 days ago #
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Dosh - Agree with all your points, but I also don't see it as an either/or thing.

As a small example, my father has a political blog that he writes, gets around 1K visitors a day, but either can't/won't write something digg friendly, so even though we've posted a fair number of things there he never gets more than a few people and then only for a few days.

However, last year, when he did a piece on Jindal and how he's gonna win we posted that to eight or ten Indian focused pligg sites (jigg.in, etc) which resulted in hundreds of people/day coming for a few weeks.  Plus around a thousand inbound links from blogs.  Heck, some of the links were even "Jindal in American Politics" and not "read this!" :-)  He's gets a fair amount of google search traffic for Jindal terms even today.

Final bit - That is the 'mega list' and it is not super-clean.  We're continually checking 'formerly live' sites and finding them dead/changed and we're also finding new sites (latest: idrive.in, a PR4 auto review site with dofollow links) so we're having a bit of a ponder on the best way to make that list available and useful to the public.

-OT


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