I see a lot of people adding social bookmarks and other buttons to the
bottom of their blog posts; I think it is to promote their blog. I
have a blog I try to keep clean and rich text and free of unnecessary
clutter. However, if these plug ins are useful to create long term,
not 1 day traffic I will consider it. For example, I think a 'digg
it' button will only create a once day spike. Further will readers
really uses these buttons. I am curious what others think?


Mark
http://www.claritaslux.com/blog/

On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:04:58 -0700, markbiernat@yahoo.com wrote:

>I see a lot of people adding social bookmarks and other buttons to the
>bottom of their blog posts; I think it is to promote their blog. I
>have a blog I try to keep clean and rich text and free of unnecessary
>clutter. However, if these plug ins are useful to create long term,
>not 1 day traffic I will consider it. For example, I think a 'digg
>it' button will only create a once day spike. Further will readers
>really uses these buttons. I am curious what others think?
>

Doesn't the digg link on some users link list means you will have a
link from their page with whatever PR that users digg page has?

Does that get you a. PR, b. incoming links to improve SE position?

TBH I don't know if it does or not but sure someone here must know the
answer?



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On Jun 9, 2:04 am, markbier...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I see a lot of people adding social bookmarks and other buttons to the
> bottom of their blog posts; I think it is to promote their blog. I
> have a blog I try to keep clean and rich text and free of unnecessary
> clutter. However, if these plug ins are useful to create long term,
> not 1 day traffic I will consider it. For example, I think a 'digg
> it' button will only create a once day spike. Further will readers
> really uses these buttons. I am curious what others think?
>
> Markhttp://www.claritaslux.com/blog/

It's a really good idea. Just put one or two sites, maybe del.icio.us
and sphereit, and "Ctrl-D to bookmark this page" too; I don't see
enough people doing that. There's probably a good wordpress plugin
that does it all. A lot of people also use addthis.com or
ekstreme.com.

The dumbest thing ever is putting the html linking code that you want
people to use, unless you run an seo contest, which is either
exponentially dumber or pretty smart, I'm not sure which yet. It seems
to be working for these guys, shopauto.ca/seo.phtml , at least for
'used car classifieds', where they rank 17th. They rank 29th for 'used
cars'. I'm not sure where they ranked before.

On Jun 9, 2:04 am, markbier...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I see a lot of people adding social bookmarks and other buttons to the
> bottom of their blog posts; I think it is to promote their blog. I
> have a blog I try to keep clean and rich text and free of unnecessary
> clutter. However, if these plug ins are useful to create long term,
> not 1 day traffic I will consider it. For example, I think a 'digg
> it' button will only create a once day spike. Further will readers
> really uses these buttons. I am curious what others think?
>
> Markhttp://www.claritaslux.com/blog/

It's a really good idea. Just put one or two sites, maybe del.icio.us
and sphereit, and "Ctrl-D to bookmark this page" too; I don't see
enough people doing that. There's probably a good wordpress plugin
that does it all. A lot of people also use addthis.com or
ekstreme.com.

The dumbest thing ever is putting the html linking code that you want
people to use, unless you run an seo contest, which is either
exponentially dumber or pretty smart, I'm not sure which yet. It seems
to be working for these guys, shopauto.ca/seo.phtml , at least for
'used car classifieds', where they rank 17th. They rank 29th for 'used
cars'. I'm not sure where they ranked before.