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10:11 pm
March 5, 2012
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Dividend Ninja
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Hey guys,
Twitter and facebook are the big social media that people use to share posts. Do people even use the other social media venues like Digg, Reddit, or Stumble Upon? Should I even bother having like buttons for these??
I really have no idea, so I'm putting it out there for you guys 
Cheers!
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10:19 pm
March 5, 2012
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sooverthis
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Every now and then someone submits one of my posts to Reddit – if the title is interesting enough, I get a fair amount of traffic. I've never had anyone share a post on Digg, and only on rare occasions with StumbleUpon.
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11:31 pm
March 5, 2012
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jonrhodesuk
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Occasionally I write a post that gets loads of traffic from Stumbleupon so I would say that it is worth having the button.
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11:47 pm
March 5, 2012
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The College Investor
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If the buttons for Reddit or Stumble are there, I always share it. If they hit, they usually hit bog!
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3:21 am
March 6, 2012
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dmateer25
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I will admit, I spend a lot of time on reddit. Reddit can be a very good source for generating relevant traffic.
If you have an interesting topic, submit to the correct sub-reddit, and respond to comments on reddit, you can get some good traffic. But I would recommend that you don't try to submit all of your posts. Only submit the posts that have really good content. Redditors can be harsh if you just dump a lot of links looking for traffic.
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3:27 am
March 6, 2012
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Derek@LifeAndMyFinances
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I've used StumbleUpon, and it draws traffic once in a while, but nothing compared to Facebook or Twitter. If you have time, go for it. If not, stick with the big dogs and forget about these less important social media tools.
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4:28 am
March 6, 2012
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MoneyBeagle
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I think once I got a big spike from StumbleUpon but mostly it's just a click here or there. It can't hurt to have the buttons, you never know what can come of it.
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4:57 am
March 6, 2012
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Glen Craig
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Of the 3 you mention I use Reddit and SU most (rarely on Digg). In fact I'm the moderator for the financialplanning sub on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Financ…..lPlanning/
I don't have buttons for these though, I stick to G+, Twitter, and FB.
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8:19 am
March 6, 2012
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The College Investor
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Of the 3 you mention I use Reddit and SU most (rarely on Digg). In fact I'm the moderator for the financialplanning sub on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Financ…..lPlanning/
I don't have buttons for these though, I stick to G+, Twitter, and FB.
Put the buttons! I don't submit unless the buttons are there – it is too hard to do it the manual way.
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8:29 am
March 6, 2012
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Van Beek
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I do get traffic from StumbleUpon after I submitted a post myself. Never get any traffic from Reddit or Digg.
As mentioned above, with Reddit you can only very occasionally submit your own posts. Your account can be earmarked as spam and not displayed to anyone else without you knowing it.
Digg provides in any case a link back to your side.
I have at the bottom of each post an Add to Any button that people can use to share the post. Before I used an Add to Any widget, but is barely used except by myself. Therefore now just a button. That is cleaner.
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9:49 am
March 6, 2012
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Dividend Ninja
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Thanks, everyone for your feedback! I really appreciate it
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11:56 am
March 6, 2012
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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I get bursts from Reddit and occasional hits from Stumbles, but Digg is dead.
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12:43 pm
March 6, 2012
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AverageJoe
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I use StumbleUpon, but never the other two. I just want to have as many buttons as possible for people w/ ADD like me.
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1:01 pm
March 6, 2012
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Watson Inc
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I favor Reddit of the three for more routine submissions. I have received >50,000 visitors from Digg from 2 posts going popular there, so it can be good too.
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1:06 pm
March 6, 2012
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MoneyIsTheRoot
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When I started out blogging, the first 3 or 4 months, I used all those, and Tip'd as well! Now, I am a little lazy about it all…the traffic from Reddit was always the most significant…but just too much to do to keep submitting to those sites.
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1:16 pm
March 6, 2012
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Modest Money
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In some cases it might be better to hire someone to submit your better posts to sites like these. Since it is time consuming work, but easy enough to do, you could hire a virtual assistant from overseas.
One warning about Stumble Upon though, I've heard that traffic through there typically stays the shortest amount of time on a site. So that quick bouncing traffic could bring down your user metric stats. If you rely on google traffic, that may be a concern. Then again, if you are truly submitting quality posts, that might be less of a problem.
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5:33 am
March 7, 2012
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Glen Craig
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Put the buttons! I don't submit unless the buttons are there – it is too hard to do it the manual way.
I submit to Reddit from my toolbar. They have a chicklet you can drag into your toolbar that makes it super easy. A lot of sites have that too, like Tip'd.
For SU, I have the SU toolbar set up in Chrome. When I want to sub or thumb I click the icon and the SU toolbar shows. Very easy.
Remember, the more buttons you have on the site the more code which also can slow things up as far as loading time is concerned.
I might install Pinterest soon but right now I have Google Plus, Facebook, and Twitter. I think those are the basics that more readers know. As big as reddit or SU is, the average person really has no idea what to do with them.
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1:02 pm
March 7, 2012
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Daisy
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I've never had anyone submit any posts to any of them. I don't really even know how they work.
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2:17 pm
March 7, 2012
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Paul @ Make Money Make Cents
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I like Digg. I rarely go to Stumble Upon or Reddit.
By the way, you've just been Dugg!
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2:26 pm
March 7, 2012
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Hunter @financiallyc
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Stumbleupon has a major advantage over Twitter and to a lesser extent Facebook. SU will refer a top article for months, whereas attention from Twitter is very brief, and unless a post on FB is shared often it too will only drive traffic briefly.
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