{"id":25906,"date":"2016-04-14T17:17:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T15:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mention.com\/blog\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2024-10-12T14:59:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T14:59:42","slug":"social-bookmarking-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mention.com\/en\/blog\/social-bookmarking-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"How You Can Get Massive Traffic with Social Bookmarking Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the past 30 days at Process Street<\/a>, around 11% of the traffic to our blog came from social bookmarking sites like reddit<\/a>, Inbound<\/a>, and GrowthHackers<\/a>.
That\u2019s tens of thousands of visitors landing on our blog this month because of social bookmarking<\/strong>, with an average session duration of around 8 minutes. It improves our brand visibility and helps us get in front of people we would have never attracted otherwise.
The thing is, we don\u2019t even promote<\/a> on social bookmarking sites that often. We\u2019ve posted around 10 times this month on reddit, most of which are either posts that mention us or guest posts, so these wouldn\u2019t show on our analytics dash.
Still, we\u2019ve had our good and bad times on these sites as we learn (in a hit-and-miss way) what resonates with different communities and what they despise.
We\u2019ve had everything from intense hate and negative upvote counts to hundreds of comments and votes, and learned a whole lot on the way.
So, while we\u2019re still on our way to perfecting social bookmarking promotion, here\u2019s what we\u2019ve learned about it.
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How to promote your content on popular social bookmarking sites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Posting on Reddit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ah, reddit. You are the 31st most highly trafficked<\/a> site in the world, and a tough nut to crack.
The difference between reddit and other social bookmarking sites is that reddit was never supposed to be a directory of links. Instead, it\u2019s divided up into distinct communities called subreddits.
Some subreddits, such as \/r\/startups and \/r\/entrepreneur, don\u2019t even allow users to just post links. That\u2019s the tricky thing about reddit, as opposed to something simpler like Inbound: you\u2019ll often have to write original, conversation-provoking content, targeted at the community to avoid having your post deleted.<\/strong>
Subreddits we use, and are active enough include here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n