Blog Sharing Options

[Prager]

We are currently evaluating a long list of blog promotion and sharing ideas for our website and wanted to ask some of the resident experts here. We post all of our blogs on our Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ pages, but would you suggest using any of these services for an internet marketing company? What would be the main purpose to using them?

1. StumbleUpon
2. Technorati
3. Digg
4. Reddit
5. Tumblr
6. Delicious
7. Any missing from the list?

Is there a list of great sites to ping through WordPress? I saw they provided a list on the http://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services page. Is this good to use? Do we need to create accounts at all of those services first? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[csfarnsworth]

would you suggest using any of these services for an internet marketing company?
Yes, for sure.

What would be the main purpose to using them?

Why, Social media provide the direct opportunity to reach the target audience. The medium or which site to use depending on niche. If not all but many of your clients will surely be using Twitter and facebook. The question is how to reach them.

The sites you mentioned in the list are all big Social bookmarking sites and it is always good to share your great/unique content in these sites especially one i personally recommend is Reddit.

Is there a list of great sites to ping through WordPress?

Ping sites are for fast indexing of your content.You make changes in content or added new content.Use this ping service to make search engines that you make the changes and its ready for indexing. come and crawl the site again please.

I suggest you use Google webmaster fetch and index option for better and fast indexing.

[Prager]

Thank you very much for your response. We are essentially just submitting links to each of the blog posts that we write and then it will send people back to our blog, correct? Also, is it worth sending a ping to all of those services, especially if you are not indexed in their services?

[gfiorelli1]

The question should be not: "What services should I ping?", but what "Social" are the correct for me?

Because, even if they don't look like Twitter or Facebook, all the sites you cited are Social.

So, is it justified for you to share your content in those sites? Is your audience there?

If yes, do it. If not, don't waste your time.