Comments on: Must-Have Social Marketing Tool

By: funny true stories

funny true stories — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:53:11 +0000

I’m looking for a reasonable means of tracking my Social Media Marketing campaigns. So many of them are rather expensive and, at this early stage, would not be feasible for my business.

By: Alan Cheng

Alan Cheng — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:33:25 +0000

Leon,
It’s a bit time-consuming to setup, but worth it since it does drive traffic to your website. Glad you enjoyed the post.

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:37:03 +0000

Good post! I wonder how long a service like this will remain free. Better take advantage of it now, because I am sure it won’t be free for long.

By: Alan Cheng

Alan Cheng — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:11:09 +0000

Chris,

Glad to see you posting here and an excellent post as well.

I agree that posting your just your own stuff will get you banned and penalized with some sites. That’s we should bookmark other sites as well.

Your testing with your friend’s Blogger was very interesting and valuable. It makes sense regarding the natural progression thing.

However, your friend’s blog with no links, PR and nothing in Technorati is surprising. Any analysis of why it did better than yours (apart from not submitting to the social sites)? This is very great stuff.

By: Alan Cheng

Alan Cheng — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:04:12 +0000

Matthew,

I use Onlywire too. It’s one of the tools I use when I create a very good blog post (linkbait) or when I submit an article.

For SocialMarker you can exclude the sites listed on Onlywire. But I totally agree, it’s something very time consuming and which definitely needs outsourced. Anyway I use both of them.

I’m going through Jack Humphrey training on social bookmarking from his membership site Authority Site Center. So far it has worked but, holy cow, it does require work. No pain, no gain.

By: Chris Lang

Chris Lang — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:34:23 +0000

I want to tell you that submitting your own content over and over is absolutely the worst thing you can do on social bookmarking sites.

I have tested this heavily and if your profile is full of nothing but your own domain then this is found to be a negative indicator to Google.

Also I have found that if you submit to all the bookmarking sites at almost the same time you get very little credit in Google. Think about it, if your site was actually submitted by different users at all these sites then the timestamp would not be within minutes of each other.

I did a test. My friend blogged an article on Blogger and did not submit to any social sites. I published my own article about the same time. I submitted to all my social sites within 10 minutes of one another. His article was #1 on blogsearch for 2 days, mine never even showed up. My blog is way more powerful. 2000 links, PR 3 and a 19 in Technorati. His no links, PR 0 and nothing in Technorati.

In another test we published one of my articles and then over the course of 24 hours added the post to social bookmarking sites. I went to Websearch the next day top ten and held #1 on Blogsearch for a week.

I call this natural progression and it is so far a true story. I believe that Google is testing social bookmarking sites as a indicator of a blog quality in preparation to buy Digg and begin using them as another blog ranking tool.

By: Matthew Castro

Matthew Castro — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:54:46 +0000

I’ve been using social marker, and comparing it to onlywire, I think that onlywire is better for me.

Social marker takes way too much to update social websites with your blogs new information, since you have to manually go to each website and do it yourself.

Onlywire on the other hand, just makes you hit the submit button once, and sends your information. Not to as many sites as social marker, but I’d rather press the button once, then press the button a considerable amount of times.

That’s why I let my readers do the bookmarking for me. That way, I don’t have to worry too much about it.