Bookmarking Campaign May 4th

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Bookmarking Campaign May 4th

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Started 2 years ago by Jym
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Jym
Member
Hey folks,

We're going to try this again. It's very simple but the benefits to us all in terms of exposure and traffic could be significant. Anyone who's not sure about what to do or how to do it is welcome to post questions, technical or otherwise (or get in touch with me, I'll help if I can)

Here are the rules as they stand so far:

0. We recommend adding the 'AddThis' Toolbar to your browser before you start, it seems to be the most reliable and easy way to submit and vote for content on sites such as these (an many others besides). It's very simple to use.

1. Everyone who wants to participate joins StumbledUpon, Digg and Reddit, and adds buttons for those to their blog (If people can't find your buttons, they may not be able to vote for you!)

2. In each campaign, we all add our link* with a short description (use the meta tag for your post perhaps, or the first couple of sentances) and suggested categories for submission (eg business, technology, personal development etc)

*No overtly affiliate promotions or business opportunity posts.

3. As we add our link, numbering it along the way (as with the commenting campaigns) we go to the previous poster's site and submit their post to the agreed bookmarking sites. The following poster does the same for us etc. Poster #1 will submit the links of #10 (10 posters this campaign while we get things running, this number may go up in later campaigns)

4. Once Poster #1 has submitted the last link, all submissions are ready to be voted for by simply clicking the buttons. Of course, you don't have to do them all at once, but they will not all be ready for voting until the final submission has been made.

So - let's go!
Share this on Facebook
Tweet This!
Share this on Linkedin
Digg this!
Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon
Posted 2 years ago #
Jym
Member

Here's my nominated link:

#1 http://jymtarrant.com/perfect-online-marketing-blog-post-writing

It's already been submitted to Digg and Stumbled, But not to Reddit.

Description: Content is King, and writing regal content is absolutely the key to a successful blog, beyond (but not excluding!) all the SEO, widgets and technical stuff. Here are the exact principles to follow to crown your content every time and get your readers subscribing and coming back for more…

Categorys: Blogging, writing,

Thanks! Next person submit this link, and so on....

Posted 2 years ago #
Oliver
Member

Thanks Jym for starting this campaign...I go now to your post and vote for it and submit it to Reddit

Here's my request: http://www.askolivertausend.com/2011/05/mlm-success-thinkgrow-rich-oliver-tausend-pt-1/

The next person joining may please submit my post to the bookmarking services and vote for it.

Description:"MLM Success With Think And Grow Rich And Oliver Tausend Pt. 1: Introduction - Thoughts Are Things, Oliver is going to prove it to you."

Categories: Entrepreneurship, Home-Business...

Aboout me http://www.olivertausend.com/

Posted 2 years ago #
Tim
Member

@Jym I thought we agreed on using the "addthis" plugin to our blogs...yours is still the button thing...

follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/myincomerant
Let's be friends on Facebook: http://facebook.com/oketimothy
On my blog- I share alot of case studies. You'll enjoy them...I promise! @http://internetincomerant.com

Posted 2 years ago #
Stacy
Member

I'll have to look into the AddThis button today.

#3: http://growwithstacy.com/2011/05/04/tips-writing-posts-when-feel-uninspired/

Description: Every writer runs into writers block at times. These sure-fire tips will get your creative juices flowing!

Category: Blogging, Writing

I'll go submit Oliver's post to the sites.

http://growwithstacy.com/ - Inspiring Your Success Through Personal Development

Posted 2 years ago #
iDevesh
Member

Hello Everyone,

Great to see you guys are rocking with bookmarking campaign!

I just submitted oliver's and stacy's post to all the social networks.. !

Here's my request for this campaign:

http://www.technshare.com/grab-your-visitors-attention-with-simple-graphics/

oh it seems i haven't added a reddit button. Going to add it now.

PS. How about adding delicious, linkdin and blokube in the list?

Technshare - Make Money Blogging Tips Blog
Blokube - Social Networking site for Bloggers & Internet Marketers

Posted 2 years ago #
Oliver
Member

@Tim: The AddThis-thing is a Firefox plugin, that's why it works independently from the blog and any button plugins...

Posted 2 years ago #
Oliver
Member

@Dev: I am open to adding Delicious and Blokube, and also Linkedin - they're all contained in the AddThis toolbar.

Posted 2 years ago #
Jayne
Member

HI Everyone, I am a bit of a non-techie, anyone know HOW to add additional buttons to the Share Bar? or the Add-this thing... hmmm. perhaps I should look at it. Any suggestions...

I want to have my buttons right before I submit.

Thanks in advance.

Jayne

Posted 2 years ago #
Ilka
Member

I'm with you Jayne, I am totally lost...

To clarify, we are talking about the addthis plugin for Firefox NOT the ShareBar I have seen on some of you guy's blogs, right?

Sorry to be technically challenged. I just want to make sure I do everything correctly.

It's not a female thing is it? :)

Thanks,

Ilka

Posted 2 years ago #
Ilka
Member

Never mind. Figured it out and just installed it into Firefox :)

Posted 2 years ago #
iDevesh
Member

@Oliver
Great to hear. I'm going to add Linkdin button on my blog, tomorrow.

@Jayne,
Just got in Settings > Sharebar > check the buttons that you want to show and click the "save settings".

Posted 2 years ago #
Ilka
Member

Quick Question:

Wouldn't it be much easier if we all just installed the OnlyWire plugin for WordPress?
It would be a lot easier and quicker to submit to any bookmarking site of our choosing.
They have a free account where you can submit up to 300 submissions per month.

StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit would only be 3 submissions and since we only do
campaigns Mo We Fr we'd be well under the limit.

Just wondering, as this is how I do it over at TribePro

Cheers,

Ilka

Posted 2 years ago #
Tim
Member

@JYM AND ALL- The addthis button I'm referring to is the wordpress plugin...I browse on mobile due to my country so using firefox is not an option, that's why I have the addthis plugin on my blog since it's painless to install and use for my situation...

Maybe we can consider using this. It does not disturb your having the same plugin on your favourite browser, just that it should be installed on your wordpress blog,

Tim

Posted 2 years ago #
Oliver
Member

@Ilka: Glad to see you here. I used to use OnlyWire and I dropped it because it didn't work reliably and it slowed down my blog enormously. It was pure accidence whether posts were submitted or not...that's at least my experience. What do the others think ? Glad to hear that you were able to install the toolbar :-)

@Jayne: Glad to see you here too. Here's the link to the Firefox AddOn you need: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/addthis/ It's independent from your blog and works more reliably than the Share buttons, especially with Digg. Sometimes, when I wasn't able to Digg a post with the Share buttons, it still worked with this AddThis toolbar in the browser.

Posted 2 years ago #
Tim
Member

Here's my request.

http://internetincomerant.com/blogging-foundation-are-you-formidable/

Category- blogging, business, technology

Description- If you're running a business, this is what you need. A wrong foundation will guarantee a quick failure. Use this tips to get ahead and build a solid foundation.

I.ll begin submitting and voting now!

Tim

Posted 2 years ago #
Bob
Member

Let's continue the discussion over on Facebook

Posted 2 years ago #
Bob
Member

Posted 2 years ago #
iDevesh
Member

Hello everyone,

I Hope everyone is having great time.

Just to let you know Digg may not happy to see this and it can result in ban or blocking your site or something. So i was thinking what if we can make this thread fully Private ?

Thanks,
Dev

Posted 2 years ago #
Ilka
Member

Finally got it all figured out ;-)

I will be submitting Tim's link as he's the last one so far and the one above me :-)

Here's mine:

#6 http://enlightenednetworker.com/seo/google-1-gain-unfair-advantage-competition/

Category: SEO, Technology, Social Media

Description: Google has wanted to get in on the “Social Media” game for a while and has been jealously watching Facebook. So now they created their own “like button” and put their own little spin on it.

Thank You!

Posted 2 years ago #
Ilka
Member

Okay, I actually had some problems with Tim's site

1) In Digg it said it was already submitted (3 hours ago) so I could only digg it. ( I did)

2) In StumbleUpon I only had the option to put in "Topic" and "Review" so I assumed that means TITLE and DESCRIPTION, right? Well, I submitted it that way.

3) Reddit went okay, except I didn't see any place to add a description.

Gosh, this is harder than I thought.

@Oliver.... I have used OnlyWire for almost 18 months now and haven't had any problems to speak off. Sometimes a submission didn't go through at first try to a particular bookmarking site, but then I just tried it again a couple of minutes later. I think it had to do with the Captcha. But since I'm a paid member now (which takes care of Captcha) I haven't seen any problems so far. It's sure easier to just click a button and let it do it's thing versus having to manually submit ;-)

Posted 2 years ago #
Tim
Member

I've digged and stumbled and reddit everyone's post.

@JYM- your page loads endlessly and waste a lot of my bandwith (I'm on mobile using opera mini cos that's the best connection for now.) It uses about 2mb each time...my problem though...

Tim

Posted 2 years ago #
Oliver
Member

@Bob: For some reason, the bubbles are empty ;-)

@Dev: What exactly do you mean with Digg not being happy ?

Posted 2 years ago #
Oliver
Member

@Ilka: In SU, the topics are the categories or tags and yes, the review field can be used for the description and/or a comment

Posted 2 years ago #
Oliver
Member

OK, my friends, this campaign is now closed. Make sure you do all your bookmarking and voting before we start the next one at midnight US Eastern time. Who goes first ?

Posted 2 years ago #
Jane
Member

Guys I am a bit lost and am hesitating to participate in this bookmarking campaign.

1. I don't understand one thing: Do we share all the posts in the campaign or only the post from the previous person?

2. And then, is using the Addthis button a must? I presume not!

3. I have Digg, Stumble and Reditt buttons on shareaholic at the bottom of every post, so I hope that is OK.

4. And, I strongly support adding blokube to the list. I have that button in the sharebar.

May be I'll participate in the next campaign :) after I get a clarification from some kind friend :) I really look forward to participate and see the results!

Cheers,
Jane.

I share the elements of successful problogging at my blog Problogging Success. I offer two ebooks "Problogging for Newbies" and "Your guide to better Time Management" for free.

Posted 2 years ago #
iDevesh
Member

@Oliver,

They may ban us for exchanging diggs. Recently one of my friend got banned for doing this.. he was like exchanging 100 of diggs with other people to come on frontage..

Posted 2 years ago #
Stacy
Member

Have all of the posts been submitted? I'm ready to vote everyone up!

I took a few of the buttons off my sharebar because it was getting too busy. I've got reddit, stumble, and digg on the addthis bar on the top of my posts and also on the shareaholic/sexy bookmarks at the bottom. I also have the onlywire share option at the bottom which I think has all of those too. Nobody can accuse me of making it hard to share my stuff!! :)

Another question: Can we submit the same post to a commenting campaign and the bookmarking campaign? Does this bookmarking campaign count as our required two campaigns to stay in the tribe or are the two required ones for commenting only? (Sorry that was 2 questions.)

Posted 2 years ago #
Jym
Member

Hi Everyone, Glad to see we're still having fun working this all out. I'm going to attempt to answer all the questions that have been asked in this thread...

@Tim - I also thought we were talking about the Firefox toolbar, not a WP plugin. I'm not keen to change voting buttons for visual design reasons but I'll look into it. I'm sorry you're having problems with my site, given your internet connection I don't mind if you hold off voting for my stuff for now. I'll also look into getting something sorted for people viewing my site on mobiles... Hope we can work it out anyway.

@Devesh - I'm happy to vote also on the others sites especially Blokube (Jane mentioned that as well?). Not sure about Digg. As long as we're also Digging other content outside of these campaigns, it should be fine? I agree on the privacy. Have you got any thoughts about Only Wire slowing blogs down?

@Jayne - to add additional buttons to the ShareBar, you will need the HTML code for them. Just click on 'Add New Button', and paste in the code. The main buttons are all on there already and just have to be enabled by ticking the bloxes beside them. Let me know if you need more help with that.

@Ilka - Sometimes a post will already be submitted, so then we just vote. You're right - swap 'Title' and 'Description' for 'Topic' and 'Review' on StumbledUpon. Don't think there's anywhere for a description in Reddit (all the more need for juicy titles)... ONLY WIRE - not sure - I was using it and it is super-easy, but I also heard that it's a major culprit for slowing blogs down. Perhaps we should look into it? Ian mentioned it on an earlier thread too... It may be a good solution.

@Jane - 1. We all vote for all posts, but we each submit only the person before us. Reasons being that it takes longer to make the initial submission, and it's better if you do not submit your own posts. It takes too long for one person to submit all, so we simply submit the previous poster's link.
2. Nothing is a must, but obviously if you don't have buttons, it will be more difficult to get submitted and voted for. The AddThis toolbar is something you install on your own machine which enables you to submit any page you're viewing. Tim is using a mobile so he suggests we use a different button from the sharebar type which he can't seem to see as easily (I think).
3. Sounds like you have the main buttons, so everyone should be able to vote for your posts.
4. I agree, Blokube is a good one to add.

The main problems I see here are getting clear how it works (just needs the rules explained better), and getting our technology in place to make it easy for everyone to vote. I know Tim's keen on AddThis plugin. The idea of OnlyWire is (I think) worth looking at. We want to find something that makes it easy and quick to do all the voting that may be the best option, although there's a question about it's impact on blog speed.

Also - when we have enough participants, I think we should consider scrapping the Monday/Wednesday/Friday arrangement, and just allow a number of participants for each campaign.

Love to know if that helps, or any more thoughts from anyone?

Posted 2 years ago #
Jane
Member

@Jym thanks for the excellent clarification. I'll jump in at the next bookmarking campaign. Thanks my friend.

Jane.

Posted 2 years ago #
Adrienne
Member

Okay, read through everything and I haven't had time to set everything up so will just wait until I have that in place to participate. Thanks for all this information, very helpful...

Adrienne

Posted 2 years ago #
Ilka
Member

@Oliver @Jym ...

Thanks for answering all of my questions! This makes a lot more sense to me know!

Just one more... When we "vote" on the participant's content that means we go back to their blog posts and then click the StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit buttons to vote, correct?

Thanks!

Posted 2 years ago #
Oliver
Member

@Ilka: Thank you :-) I don't see a difference between "submission" and "vote" - or am I mistaken ?

@Jym: Thanks for the excellent explanation !

@Tim and @Jym: There's a plugin for mobile devices - look at my post at http://www.askolivertausend.com/2011/02/oliver-tausends-blog-mobile/ This plugin even supports social bookmarking - at least Delicious, Digg and Reddit - and the Blokube button if installed.

Posted 2 years ago #
Ilka
Member

@Oliver...

This is the point I am getting confused on....

<i>4. Once Poster #1 has submitted the last link, all submissions are ready to be voted for by simply clicking the buttons. Of course, you don't have to do them all at once, but they will not all be ready for voting until the final submission has been made.</i>

So what does that mean? how do we do that?

Posted 2 years ago #
Tim
Member

@Oliver do you have a quick guide or a tutorial that helped you with all the options? It's installed already on my blog but the options to set are way too much.

Tim

Posted 2 years ago #
Oliver
Member

@Tim: The options of this mobile plugin ?

@Ilka: I guess that there's no difference. And if there was one, why not doing the submission and the voting in one step ? Saves time.

Posted 2 years ago #
Jym
Member

@Oliver & @Ilka - A Submission counts as a vote on any of these sites, so you don't have to go and vote for a post you've submitted.

The idea is, we all submit one post from another member, then vote on all others including our own. This whole run around is to avoid submitting our own posts, which is frowned upon by most bookmarking sites.

@Oliver and @Tim - This plugin for mobile devices may solve the problems. I'll look into making my site more friendly to mobile users. Thanks!

Thanks everyone for patience and asking all the right questions!

Posted 2 years ago #

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