Comments on: Social Bookmarking Button Madness

By: Billy Girlardo

Billy Girlardo — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:21:33 +0000

This article is pretty funny when you have a whole column of them in your sidebar lol.

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How Many Social Media Icons Is Too Many? | TheVanBlog | Van SEO Design — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:05:39 +0000

[...] the use of social media bookmarklets the earliest complaints were from Chris Pirillo’s post Social Bookmarking Button Madness. These buttons are annoying more than anything else, serving to show the world just how unpopular [...]

By: technology and video games geek

technology and video games geek — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:21:52 +0000

I think it is the traffic craze. Everywhere says add social bookmarking for your visitors to help them promote your site and stuff. I am pretty sure though that it does not work that way…ohh what the hell.. i l ll use just one… :-)

By: The Serrano Boy

The Serrano Boy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:44:03 +0000

I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO USE THIS. hehe

By: Web Digger

Web Digger — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:49:31 +0000

I agree they are a waste of space the way people use them AND they direct traffic away from your site when people follow them. People miss the whole point of social bookmarking sites like Digg and Sphinn from a marketing perspective. The goal is to get lots of people top vote for one story, not to create the same story loits of times. These guys explain it better –

http://www.demonzmedia.com/DemonzBlog/?p=8

Basically if you don’t have all of your visitors voting for the story and THEN (and this is very important) returning to your site, you are unintentionally driving visitors away from your site and making sure your stories are getting buried within whatever social network people may be using. It’s the same old flawed logic as the ‘Bookmark this Page’ link from many old web pages – if people use social bookmarks they don’t need to be reminded that they’re there.

By: Calvin Michel Sidjaja

Calvin Michel Sidjaja — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:45:12 +0000

Actually I’m just thinking to add this feature on my blog. But looking at your thoughts, I think I will consider it again. I also never use the tag button given, they are more like source of annoyances.

Maybe they are useful, IF not too much.

By: Indian web company

Indian web company — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:44:27 +0000

Nice pots, Can anyone post large image sizes button codes?

By: What is Google?

What is Google? — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:29:22 +0000

Don’t forget that the social bookmark links also break HTML validity most of the time, require javascript, and leak pagerank. I truly doubt that they are worth all that trouble.

By: One New Idea » Thou Shalt Not Digg Thyself - but who cares?

One New Idea » Thou Shalt Not Digg Thyself - but who cares? — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:56:50 +0000

[...] Anyway, they’re late to the enlightenment. People like Chris Pirillo and 37 Signals realized Digg buttons jumped the shark long ago. [...]

By: How Many Social Media Icons Is Too Many - Business Online Blog

How Many Social Media Icons Is Too Many - Business Online Blog — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:05:19 +0000

[...] Of the articles I came across that were against the use of social media bookmarklets the earliest complaints were from Chris Pirillo’s post Social Bookmarking Button Madness. [...]

By: How Many Social Media Icons Is Too Many? - TheVanBlog

How Many Social Media Icons Is Too Many? - TheVanBlog — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:51:51 +0000

[...] Of the articles I came across that were against the use of social media bookmarklets the earliest complaints were from Chris Pirillo’s post Social Bookmarking Button Madness. These buttons are annoying more than anything else, serving to show the world just how unpopular your content really is – and I believe that there’s no direct correlation between the number of social bookmarking buttons you place on your page(s) has any direct impact on the number of times those page(s) have been stored in the respective services. [...]

By: Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » I believe that real estate agents are either in marketing or…

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:49:12 +0000

[...] I agree with Chris Pirillo that social bookmarking buttons have gotten out of hand. I’ve not added any to RCG because it seemed like it took up valuable real estate and I’m not sure it provided a valuable service to our readers. The only one I’ve considered adding is del.icio.us, but considering most del.icio.us users have a button installed on their browser (they tend to be a tech-savvy bunch), I’ve never bothered. Adding a button for a site like digg (let alone sites like reddit) seems pointless for a real estate blog since I’ve never seen one real estate article promoted by those communities. (In other words, why would I give them an ad (i.e. their logo) on every one of my posts if they are never going to send me traffic?) [...]

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links for 2006-09-07 at [MacStansbury] — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:39:14 +0000

[...] Social Bookmarking Button Madness Now I’m starting to get nervous I added the link to del.ico.us at the end of posts. (tags: social bookmark design bookmarklets plugins) [...]

By: New Design, Theme, and Style for the Blog at David Brunelle: Geek for Life

New Design, Theme, and Style for the Blog at David Brunelle: Geek for Life — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:01:49 +0000

[...] I decided to get rid of the social bookmarking links that were included on my old design. Why? I sort of think it’s cheesy. I don’t believe it brought any real value to the site. I was thinking that the use of social bookmarking on some blogs was getting a bit extreme. I then read a post by Chris Pirillo, and realizing I wasn’t alone, decided to get rid of “bookmark this post” links. [...]

By: maxpower

maxpower — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:56:33 +0000

This buttons have worked for me in the past. In fact I can say with certainty that without them I would have never received the level of traffic I do now. That said, setting up an icon farm at the bottom of each post to create links for every type of social bookmarking service is just stupid — when I see this I don’t even read the article. The only ones that truly generate traffic (in my experience) are Digg and delicious. Everything else feeds off of these two anyway.