I have been asked many times what the icons below each post are. I guess that means many of you don’t use social networks. In case you do and don’t know what they are I’ll explain it. If you have a Facebook profile for example and you really like a post I make, you can click the Facebook icon to share it on your own Facebook profile. It shows as a link for me so I’ll probably get some traffic as a result and you get to have interesting content on your profile that you didn’t have to create.
If anyone uses Stumble Upon please stumble any posts you think are interesting. By far I get the most referrals from Stumble Upon. Give me a thumbs up or even review my posts. Stumble Upon is a great tool. You set up a profile and choose some interests and then you stumble sites. Other members give sites a thumb up or down and the thumbbed up sites get put into the mix known as “stumble”. It is a great way to discover sites based on your interests that others actually like. I find a lot of odd stuff and interesting stuff and the graphic design sites are amazing that you find there.
Do you use Digg? Digg my posts and I will see a huge spike in traffic. Digg is way better than Slashdot but if you are old school maybe you still like slashdot. I like Digg because there are so many more kinds of stories.
Share my blog with your friends on Delicious. Hopefully you use one kind of favorites aggregator. Sure you could just save your favorites on your computer using your favorite browser. What happens when you are traveling and you really need that bill pay site and you forgot to write it down? What if you are at a friend’s house and you want to show them that video you saw last night about monkeys doing the Tecktonik? Social book marking sites store your favorites online so wherever you are in the world you can access your web favorites. You can create categories to organize everything just like on your browser. Look into it if you haven’t already.
I have more icons but the ones I actually use are Stumble Upon, Delicious, Facebook, and Digg. Share my posts so I can continue to see my traffic grow. I’m most interested in cracking the Digg code.
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I was wondering though… since I have added a few of the “colorfol icons” to my blog this morning aswell, do you need to sign up for all of them in order to have them on your blog or does that not really matter?
I mean, have you signed up for all those networks?
And, if you have… who is doing your administration, keeping up will all diggs, stumbles, private messages etc etc …
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You don’t need to sign up for them to have them on your blog. Hopefully you added a widget that made all of them available to you or at least you could choose the ones you want. Of course you can manually add them but that would be a pain, a learning experience, but a pain.
In my opinion Stumble Upon is the best. When a post gets stumbled more than 4 times or so I see a huge spike in traffic.
I understand Digg provides a huge boost when you get Dugg a few times but that hasn’t happened to me. I do submit my best posts to all these services myself under my own accounts. I use Awstats and Google Analytics to keep track of things.
I have an idea i am going to email you about, but it is late and I am going to bed.
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