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[_] Pros / cons on community links on your site.

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 16:07:02 BST 2008 

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Karl McClelland
<karlspringfield at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Someone's just asked me what the benefit are from having the deli..cio.us /
>  digg it / stumble across links etc. on your site (al la
>  www.architecturalselect.com and I remember there was a topic on it in here.
>
>  Any new views ?
>
>  Would be interested to see if anyone's getting any additional traffic etc.

We* get loads of traffic from StumbleUpon (it seems to have more
mainstream appeal than del.icio.us et al) but we don't have
StumbleUpon as one of the "share this page on..." links.

We put the links there because the BBC have them. If someone's an
existing user of these services, they're likely to have a bookmarklet
or browser extension. If they're not, then the presence of these links
is, I reckon, unlikely to turn them into a user of said services and
could be construed as yet more clutter on the screen.

Tim

* e.g. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/33647#shareThis