Below are some of my top picks for the best Web 2.0 marketing sites for the Friday Traffic Report so far this year.
MyBlogLog – As you can see on the right, I get a lot of regular visitors from fellow bloggers registered at MyBlogLog.
Despite the spam scare early on, where someone would come in an sign up anonymously and visit each and every site each and every day, you can see that is not a problem. Everyone on the right has a face or an icon. And they are as targeted as you can get for readership for FTR.
Netscape – I started posting here after I opened my log files one day and noticed a nice big chunk of new visitors all coming from Netscape. Last time I used them was like 6 years ago, so I naturally wondered what the heck was going on. Turns out they are a Digg-like site now and someone had posted one of my posts there.
Then blammo! 500+ visits in less than 24 hours. From one posting. Get an account and use it like a real community member. Mark up other peoples’ posts as much as your own or you will get banned and rightly so.
Technorati – This is a no brainer. Technorati is the “google” of blogs. Simply posting content and tagging it properly gets a steady stream of traffic from Technorati each and every day.
StumbleUpon and Reddit – These are simply link engines. They, like most, have buttons you can put on your browser to instantly submit a new place to them and tag it with good keywords. Again though, using them just for your own stuff will get you far less love than using them as a real community member. Don’t be a spammer.
Here are some tips from Michelle MacPhearson on getting the most from StumbleUpon.
Plime – This is a relatively new place that really rocks. It is a Digg-like news story aggregator with news submitted by the 2006 person of the year – everyone.
Unique new twists to the user voting system and a ranking based on your participation in the community give this a ton more features than Digg. I am already seeing how giving people levels to achieve (based on activity) is making this community much tighter than most.
Digg – Hit and miss traffic if you don’t regularly publish geek-driven content. Although they have expanded their categories to weakly try and include more people in their community, this is a geek site through and through. It always will be.
So if you can turn on the geeks, you’ve got a massive traffic generator sitting there waiting for you. Learn their quirky community though. Mess up and they will rip your insides out in public and with glee.
OnlyWire – This is just a tool, not a community in and of itself. It allows you to post links to all the top social bookmarking sites on the web with the click of a button.
Authority Black Book – This is where all of my tactics for social media [tag-tec]Web 2.0 marketing[/tag-tec] are listed.
Literally thousands of links and tips to drive your traffic-crazed brain haywire for months to come.