Social bookmarking sites aren’t dying. They have just become a victim to overkill. As soon as any idea starts to do well on the Internet all the marketing get rick quick types have to copy it. When they flood the Internet with too many sites they start to die off. There will be a survivor, eventually. It will be the one that sticks around and changes with the tide.

I will stick with Twitter, StumbleUpon and Tumblr unless they change for the worse in a big way. I try new sites as they come along but I prefer sites that have passed the test of time and proven they can adapt and keep growing in good ways.

My take on social networks: yeah, they are dying. When I started blogging, I focused on twitter and facebook, and I’ve never regretted it. I thought I might, but they have only gone down in importance. Digg especially has had a bunch of issues.

But in twittwer you wont see such kind of people variations.

But however i do feel that twitter is best for business and if you have celebrity or fun site than go after facebook.

but however you will see them all around the globe.

I think common people and visitors who do not understand this use them too often.

yes people started to use it as to get backlinks.

There are still many websites which is providing do follow links.

another website which is coming under limelight is blogengage or similar to that.

Quite good one if you are blogger.

That anonymity has become an excuse for treating total strangers like crap just because they don’t happen to share your opinion.

I’ll take Facebook and Twitter where I know my “friends and followers” and can have a civil discussion even when we don’t see eye to eye.

1. Link juice : No – there are better ways
2. Exposure – Yes but mind you there are almost the same people active on almost all the top SN websites.
3. Unique Marketing – Exactly

The third point is what i feel is important. The most unique way of viral marketing is Twitter and i feel we should stick on to Twitter for long. And Facebook due to the max exposure it gives. Then i would say Technorati authority is important if you are a blogger.

all others are just another source of traffic without juice. You think now!!

warm regards
Josh

But serious net users are still using it and enjoying the benefit of it.

But yes twitter and facebook are largely responsible for this.

Bookmarking sites are not heavily used nowadays, since your browser can do the most of the basic stuff.

In my opinion, social networking and book marking sites are dying for bloggers. We do not get traffic like earlier or how we expect.

Thanks for your thoughts Daniel.

The question is what is going to replace them??

Simon

I never used those “Share” buttons exactly because 90% of the options they had for sharing were never used by anyone.

Yeah I also noticed some sites still get good traffic from SU, but very few of them as you mentioned.

The average joe used to be able to play in SU too, but not anymore apparently.

Good point.

Agree with that and say that LinkedIn is really underreated re lead generation and brand development.

@ivanwalsh

Did you ever have a “Share This” button or something similar?

In addition to my “Tweet” and “Facebook” buttons, I also have a button with multiple sharing sites on it, but the only one that really gets used is “Share via Email.”

Interesting article, Thanks!

Reddit is similar, some of my clients get more traffic from Reddit than Facebook or Twitter, again it really comes down to your target audience.

Delicious is dead. I’ve switched over to Diigo but I doubt it will be effective at sending traffic. I just use it to keep all my bookmarks that I want to refer back to.

Now, the beauty of using social bookmarking site it allows you to create social backlinks.

Now, under its new algorithim, even a few stumbles won’t send an article out.

It used to be, that a single discovery on SU would send an article out to hundreds of people.

That said, if you look at sites like ‘the oatmeal’ they’re still getting massive hits from SU. I would guess that with a humor site such as that, enough people give thumbs up to make it so that SU actually sends it out to its users.

I have no idea why SU changed its system, seemingly for the worst!

I’m actually happy with it, traffic from Twitter and Facebook is great for me.

Reddit is awesome website for sharing stuff, very active, not sure how much it’s useful for bloggers though…