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How I Got to Delicious Front Page 3 Times

Filed Under (Google and Web Traffic, Viral Traffic) by Traffic Guru on 24-06-2009

This is an article I had my good friend Darko over in Macedonia write.

In looking for ways to branch out, give you more relevant ideas and experiences from people who’ve gotten the results you want to get, and also overall bring more value to your social media efforts I want to start featuring articles from you in the TaggZilla community.

This is your community and I want you to feel and be more connected in it.

This is the first of those articles. When you have an idea for an article that would bring good value to TaggZilla social media marketing community members e-mail me the title for the article and I’ll let you know.

Don’t write out the full article until you get approval back from me because I want to avoid you spending all the time to write an article that might not be right for TaggZilla.

Now on to delicious…

What is the secret to getting on delicious front page?

No, this isn’t gonna be an article full of hype and impractical advice. I have noticed that most of the advice given on how to get on the front page of [insert a name of a big social networking site here] is not really that implementable. You can’t go there and do those things and get instant results.

This article is going to try to give you practical advice on how to get on delicious front page.

So, what is delicious? Just kidding I’m too sick of stuff that’s giving me the ‘secrets on how to get on the front page of digg’ and the second paragraph is ‘what is digg’

So, instead of asking ourselves what is delicious we should ask what gets on delicious front page? I have studied their front page for a month or so and tried to make some categorizing:

-    Stuff connected to programming and technology
-    Cool news
-    List posts (in the last few months I have noticed that the more the post has a bigger number the more popular it is. 52 ways to get on delicious front page will work more than 7 ways to get on delicious front page, probably because of the perceived value.)
-    Cool websites (the home pages)
-    Something innovative (that’s viral by nature by the way)

So, who am I to talk about this? I’ve been on delicious front page 3 times. And I don’t claim this is the ‘ultimate way’ to get there. Actually, I believe there are many ways to do that, it’s just that I haven’t discovered all. I’ll stick with the white hat stuff (I don’t prefer black hat techniques because they are not good over the long term.)

So, I’ve been to the top of the delicious mountain 3 times…and honestly I hadn’t even INTENDED to get there. Which made me a bit curious…and then I realized…

If you get popular on other social networks, your probability of going to delicious front page goes VERY HIGH.

In all 3 cases I’ve been featured on StumbleUpon. And even then (after few hours or the next day) I’ve seen that I’ve gone delicious-viral. If you’ve experienced something similar then you’ll know that I’m right.

So wait, you may ask, you want to say that in order to go viral on delicious I don’t need to focus there at all?

Well, the only thing you can do is to somehow figure where delicious users go on other social networking sites. Here’s the list of sites according to Google Trends (see ‘also visited’). So if you get popular on StumbleUpon (that means, get more than 20,000 views from stumbleupon) or Digg expect in 60-80% of the cases to get featured on delicious too. And if you get popular on both Digg and StumbleUpon then the procentage is 90%+.

For those of you who expected a super-duper secret, sorry. I’m just telling you my experience and what worked using white hat methods.

That’s the nature of delicious.

In case you don’t know what type of content to write that will increase the odds to get featured on delicious then read this problogger article. Although named ‘7 Ways to Get to the Top of the delicious.com popular page’ it should write ‘7 ways to write content that’s likely to get you featured on delicious.’

By the way, delicious doesn’t bring much traffic like Stumbleupon, for example. But the backlinks you’ll receive from each profile…that’s very valuable especially in SEO terms even though the links are nofollow.

There’s mounting evidence in Google webmaster tools that some nofollow links are counted. What’s I’m seeing and is definitely true is the more votes/bookmarks you get to a page the more Google values it.

Obviously, if 60-80 people or more on Delicious bookmark the page you submitted Googlebot looks at that as 60-80 people liking the page and will rank it based on the topic much more highly than some random page of the same topic.

Of course, there are many factors in the Google algorithm but the basic point is more votes means higher Google rank.

Happy Deliciousing. Leave your comments on what you’ve observed getting lots of play in social media. And of course success stories you have.

Originally posted 2009-02-19 07:13:54. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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