increase traffic using social blogging sites?

Recently I've been using a social blogging site to drive traffic back to my personal blog, and I'm curious if any of you are doing the same.

www.echodemic.com is the site I have had success with, and Im wondering if you've had any success with this site, or with any other sites like it.

The idea is simple. You can post your blog enteries on the website, and they are ranked (in echodemics case, the ranks are called "echos"). The blog posts with the most ranks get put on the front page, visible to every visitor on the site.

I have put up posts on echodemic and received traffic back to my personal blog from them.

Have any of you been doing this? What sites do you use?

 

Looks like that site is pretty new, the weekly Alexa rating is still > than 250K so it can't get too much traffic.

Isn't it basically the same principle as Digg or any Pligg site except they have an excerpt of the article available without clicking?

 

seem that there is no traffic. New domain and low alexa rank

 

I haven't tried that social networking site. I will soon try it.

 

Ya, same principle as digg...just catered to bloggers and blog posts only...ive used blog engage for a while, and recently started using echodemic.
From what I can tell I've done better using sites like these instead of "lense" sites like squidoo or zimbio, except maybe lense sites are better for incoming links.

 

If the echodemic site is posting the entire blog post on echodemic as well as the users blog, then its counterproductive for the blogger because now they have to compete over which site is more authoritative and will rank for that specific article. (Think duplicate content)

 

Yes, this came accross my mind as well...
In the amount of time I have been doing this, I haven't seen my page rank hurt at all, or my s.e. results phased.
From what I can tell, the original poster is seen as the authority, and the social blogging site is seen as the duplicate content site...So no sweat off the bloggers back, he can just get traffic off of his uploaded posts.
Having said that, I have always focused on user experience, email lists, niche blog site posting, etc... much more than I have ever focused on S.E.O.

but anyone else use sites like this? Just wondering what other resources are out there.

 

I think on social bookmarking sites, if you can add your site articles to them it cannot hurt. It may move up and become ranked higher, that and also you can get in early if the site does make the top 1,000 in alexa and get the traffic as it gets there. That is just something to think about when evaluating social bookmarking sites.

 

Which social bookmarking sites do you use?

 

You have to promote to get visitors to the second blog, right? So why not just do it for the first one?

Why double your work to get the same amount of visitors?

 

Yes exactly, this is why I will not be adding my own blog there. Also I have a feeling the OP owns this network considering that with an alexa lower than my 2 week old blog, it can be assumed that there isn't actually a large viewership.

 

dude it is tym waste da...if @ all ur doing it u need 2 popularize it very very fast......but 2 sum timeas d alexa rank does't make any change it remains d same .....so better don't try things which is not required......

 

I never tried that before but it look promising.
I have used digg and it get me huge traffic almost used up my 20GB BW after i publish my site at digg

 

Hi folks,

Any thoughts on ZenZuu, I've been a member for a month or so, and have signed up for the ZZREP, but not much else. Any thoughts on it at this time?

 

article submission is best way to generate traffic

 

Id have to respectuflly disagree and say that quality content written passionately about something you care about is the best way to generate traffic....

People will relate to you, and tell their friends to check you out...

 

What's the difference, isn't content and an article pretty much in the same thing there? Or are you saying that the term article submission being the act of submitting an article to an article based site versus the content on ones own site, being the difference? Which I can see a little, but they are still somewhat the same, and I know that generally, an article is thought of as longer than just content. But they can be the other way around!!>>

 

Id think of an article being something that you generate to bait readers into being curious about the content on your site.

 

i will try it

 

is there a list that someone might have of social blogging sites?