Comments on: The Most Predictable Social Media Users

By: Wayne Liew

Wayne Liew — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:37:40 +0000

I guess you are right as well. Looking back at your Vandelay Blog Design alone and those post which I think had brought you success with del.icio.us, I can roughly see the trend.

However, after I compared my vague idea with the popular items there, it confused be by not only putting me wrong that other types of niche post can be successful as well but it also proved to me that news item like those on Digg can perform well there.

Anyway, after reading your reply, I guess where do we expose our contents play a major role as well.

Thanks.

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By: Jacob Share

Jacob Share — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:03:35 +0000

Unlike SU, where almost no one will actually go and search through their 'bookmarks', delicious users really will. So yes, they do want something of reference-quality. Based on the success of my Beautiful Resumes article (2400+ bookmarks on delicious) and studying the /popular pages, I came up with this: The Success Checklist I Used To Hit #1 on del.icio.us

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:57:29 +0000

Wayne,
From my experience Delicious has a more specific audience than some other sites like SU or Digg. My primary blog fits nicely into that audience, but many things don’t. For example, I don’t expect to make the front page with a post on this blog. Also, some guest posts I’ve written for other blogs have struggled with Delicious when I think it would have done well with a specific audience. If you don’t have Delicious users reading your blog you’ll have to find another way to get them, such as funneling them from another site. I had a post that got a link from LifeHacker, and they have a big audience that includes lots of Delicious users. That post of mine hit the Delicious front page as a result of that link.

By: Vinh Le

Vinh Le — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:57:17 +0000

@Steven: Thanks for the advice. I had quit on dzone a while back, because I wasn’t getting any results from it. But I will try it again. I’ll update you later and tell you how it goes.

@Wayne: Yeah, people are getting immune to lists unless it is unique or very huge. Steven is the master at it.

By: Wayne Liew

Wayne Liew — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:30:29 +0000

Delicious is one social media site which I have failures with, the possible reason might be my failure to spot the trend that you are talking about here.

One trend that I have found in my observations on social media sites is that resource lists (those with just links and simple explanations) will not do well with a small number as the title unless it is very unique like the Flikr resource list that you had previously came up with.

Good job on your research in the social media field.

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:00:06 +0000

Vinh,
One piece of advice I would give you if you want to target delicious, try submitting to DZone. I’m sure some of your design content would do well at DZone and there are tons of delicious users there.

By: Vinh Le

Vinh Le — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:51:12 +0000

I haven’t managed to get any success with delicious yet, but then again I haven’t really tried yet. I will give it a shot though with my next article and see how it goes.

I personally find most social media users to be a little fickle, but generally good content seems to do well as long as it is advertised well.