Have social bookmarks helped your site?

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone would mind sharing their experience with social bookmarks? I haven't been using them on my site because I assumed the only people who would make use of them would be a tech audience, but my assumption may not be correct and I want to make sure I'm not missing out on something that could help my site.

So, has anyone enabled social bookmarks on their site, and if so, have they helped?

Thanks!

I have heard some great stories about particular threads that got Digged, landed on page one, and got huge traffic influxes, and more links back to the thread because of it.

I like having them in place.

Thanks, Joe. All I have to do is enable them via vbseo and they'll just appear and be setup correctly?

Yes, you should just enable them in vBSEO CP and they will appear automatically (no template changes required).

You also could try to change the looks for your current bookmarking icons a bit, matching perhaps to your current forum layout. Smashing Magazine as an example here.

People tend to click on shiny things more often, than a couple of buttons they're not sure about what they do.

A better/up-to-date FAQ about bookmarking might also help.

Thats a great website Taragon. Thank you for that.

Great question too.

I've enabled them and they appear under the linkback menu in threads, but I very much doubt many members ever check the linkback drop down menu.

Is there an easy way to make the social bookmarking options much more prominent?