Social BookMark traffic

Newsvine is a slick looking news site that looks just as good as BBC or CNN, but it’s all edited by users. Major news outlets decide what to report and what not to report, but with Newsvine, it’s all created by users.

Newsvine offers voting and discussion. You can rank articles by clicking on a little up or down arrow. Also, each has a section for comments where you can discuss the story with other users.

If you find an interesting story somewhere, you “seed” the story and it shows up on Newsvine. You can create a pretty detailed profile, which also gives you a blog and your own news column.

Newsvine takes all the stories from Associated Press and posts them as soon as they are released so that you can get the news there first. It has a complicated system of rating stories that takes into account users’ rankings, how many times the story has been read, and how new the story is.
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Gravee is a social bookmarking site that helps its users find what they’re looking for. It also has a ranking system, and features that can help webmasters make money with their sites or blogs.

There’s an entire system at Gravee to rank sites. It involves an algorithm, users’ votes and number of bookmarks. There is an overall Gravee ranking, but also rankings for different tags and categories. This is useful for marketers who’d like to get a high ranking in their particular niche and draw traffic to their site.

For users, you can keep all your bookmarks together on Gravee, and organize them however you’d like to. Gravee has a feature like adsense, that pays you 70% of all the money made from your profile. Gravee tries to be a different kind of search engine by making content providers partners. Their AdShare program works quite a bit like Google Adsense, but AdShare gives content providers more of the money.
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Rojo is a site that’s all about blog feeds. Whatever bloggers are talking about, you’ll find it on Rojo. It helps you find the top blogging stories.

Like a news feed, Rojo’s feeds send you the blog posts as they are posted, so you don’t have to keep checking each time to see if there’s something new.

On Rojo, you can vote on your favorite blog posts each day. The posts that get the highest rankings go to the top of the list. Blogs that get consistently high votes on their blog posts end up getting higher ratings.

You can find the blogs you want under Rojo’s categories. They’re adding new categories at users’ requests all the time. You can also filter out what you’re looking for from what you’re not. You can search for blogs according to tags to get what you want.
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reddit’s a great place to read interesting or funny news stories. It may not be an ideal place to try to sell your site or product, but it could be used well to link up with your blog and get some readers.

On reddit, you read stuff and vote on it. Your voting not only raises or lowers the rank of the story, it also trains a filter to find other stories you would like. In other words, if you keep voting on stories about Bush’s State of the Union speech, reddit will start recommending other articles that are written in the same vein. Of course, you have the final say on what goes on your frontpage.
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Del.icio.us is the most popular social bookmarking site, and it’s one everybody wants to get their website on. It’s owned by Yahoo, which contributes resources and tech help, and makes sure sites on del.icio.us rank on the search engines. On del.icio.us, you can create your own communities and groups and share your favorite websites with friends.

The front page shows you which sites are getting the most hits on its “hotlist,” and you start to salivate when you picture your site getting on there!

Del.icio.us specializes in professional and tech sites, but also has lots of fun stuff. When I looked at what was hot, it was mostly tech and professional stuff, but there were a few humorous sites and image sites. The top site was a page with pictures from space. Other than that, there were some programming and design sites.
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Blogmarks is a site that allows you to keep your bookmarks online via their server, and comment on your links in a blog format. It allows you to share you favorite links with other users and also cruise around and see what other people are looking at.

The site itself is designed like a blog, so its navigation is pretty simple. Like Wordpress or Blogspot, you can create your own blog here and make your bookmarks available for other users.

Blogmarks is free, but they also offer paid memberships that have special features. One of these features is that they block advertising sites that Blogmarks has taken on for business reasons.
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