Got Chiclets? Learn how to use social bookmarks and social news sites to promote your real estate blog. Need a quick and easy way to promote your posts? Use Chiclets! Chiclets are those tiny social network bookmark icons on blogs that allow you and your users to easily submit your post to social news and network sites like Digg, Reddit, Furl and NewsVine. Want to see what they look like? Go to the bottom of this post and click the “i” icon. When that slides open you will see all our little social bookmarking chicklets. As you roll over each one it will indicate which social network it represents. If you click one, you can easily submit our article to that social site. Yep, it’s that easy. You may have to do a one time registration on each social mediasite, but it is well worth it since you will want to frequently submit your own best posts.
Shout out of the day goes to Jeff Harmon’s article on How to Get Dugg.
To find out what a social news site like Digg is, visit About Digg.
The benefits of including social bookmarks on your real estate blog
By now, you must know how I love to quote and link to Rand of SEOmoz, check out this article that shows you how much traffic you drive by simply submitting your better posts to Reddit. For example RSS Pieces generates a full 22% of our traffic from social sites, excluding ActiveRain. My social sites of choice are Digg, Reddit, NewsVine and Real estate Voices.
Where to find social bookmark Chiclets: Chiclet Resource
- Increases user interaction on your real estate blog.
People like to feel involved. If they like your blog they will want to let other know how much they “dig” you. You’ll be surprised how fast your submissions will get dug or voted on if you include social bookmarks.
- Increases your post’s ability to rank highly on social networks and get “dugg” more often.
The higher you rank (i.e. the more digs or votes your post receives) the more exposure it will get on the social network. Adding Chiclets/bookmarks makes digging your real estate blog easier and substantially increases your number of diggs/votes.
- Increases traffic driven from social news/network sites.
The more diggs/votes you get the higher you rank, the higher you rank, the more exposure you get on the social network, the more exposure you get, the more likely someone will be to click on the article and visit your site to read it. Basically, social networks drive tons of new visitors to your blog.
Social network submission rules
- Submit only your best posts.
According to Copyblogger, whom we love, you can’t Digg every article. You need to selectively choose your best posts, usually only 1 in 20 is Digg worthy. Don’t overwhelm social sites with your posts, you want to submit posts that are your cream of the crop. Clearly, you don’t want to submit your listing or local color posts to these sites, rather you want to submit more generalized tutorial or market research posts.
- Bait your posts by asking both you readers and friends/family to “digg” or vote on your post.
There is nothing wrong with calling your readers to action and specifically asking them to vote on your posts with social networks with some text and link/Chiclet at the bottom of each post. You can also send out an email to friends, family, co-workers, etc. asking them to vote on your post. Even the best of writers bait their posts. It’s not just common, it is accepted. That being said, don’t be a Sybill and create 10 different identities in various social networks to vote on your own posts. Some networks are wise to this method and will ban you and it is just bad netiquette.
See who is digging your posts with this cool tool: Digg Spy
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