I have made the same observation as you that squidoo brings a lot of visitors. I am not sure it can be called a bookmarking site… For me, it is rather a kind of article database. From what I see, the traffic from squidoo comes from the fact that a squidoo page ranks very easily in Google, and hence gets visitors. I have not tried StumbleUpon yet.

I have tried delicious, technorati and similar sites (pure bookmarking), and I got only marginal visitors from them. I have much doubts that a link from a bookmarking site has a significant influence on google ranking. I have monitored carefully my feeder sites and found that many links takes over a month to get in google cache. For me, it means that google does not ‘like’ particularly these pages. On the contrary, a squidoo page gets cached very quickly.

The logical conclusion would be to concentrate on forums, squidoo and stumbleupon. I would also add wordpress.com and may be drop the rest…

Anyhow, it is always interesting to compare results.

Remy

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Most of my traffic comes from Social Bookmarking and Forum Posts, and it’s divided about 50/50 in terms of traffic sent to my sites.

Some social bookmarking / social networking sites work better than other though… with my current favorites being StumbleUpon and Squidoo.

Also note that authority site blogs will start to get a lot of search engine traffic for long tail keywords. I’ve hard the term “post and rank” bandied about, and I would say these types of sites do exactly that. It seems that every day I rank on the first page of google for half a dozen new long tail keyword phrases with a direct link to this site or indirect through my social bookmarking / networking sites.

Hope this helps,
Steven

Your process mixes 2 strongly different methods to get traffic.

On one side, you participate in forums and you answer questions with an attractive signature in blogs, yahoo or else. All these are known to be super top methods to generate traffic.

On an other side, you place bookmarks and you ping sites.

Can you give us an idea of what amount of traffic you got from bookmarks and pings. Intuitively, I’d imagine the majority of your traffic is due to the first method.

Remy

Thanks

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