Here in the second of three posts on the effectiveness of specific Web 2.0 social bookmarking sites at driving B2B website traffic, based on my two-month test, are the mid-tier sites. These sites drove a meaningful though not large volume of traffic across the half-dozen B2B websites and blogs in the test. In ascending order, the mid-tier sites are: 7) Newsvine Though much more heavily-used than WireFan, results were similar. Categorization of news items is helpful but overly broad. 6) Simpy Works better with IE than Firefox. 5) MarkaBoo Clean design, easy to use, respectable results. 4) NowPublic News-oriented, a great place to expose user-targeted, thought-leadership PR. 3) del.icio.us Given it's incredible popularity, B2B traffic results were surprisingly second-tier (though near the top of this group). 2) RawSugar Primarily for blog promotion, but works for B2B thought leadership content as well. 1) Reddit The best of the second tier, though the delay it im...
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Troy Malone
Pelotonics
This is Mamod the Founder of Feedoor.com, and I would like to comment on feedkiller review and it's caparison to Feedoor
You said what makes feedkiller standout is that you can select how many stories from each item you can select, well, Feedoor has that feature too :) and has a very advanced filtering options to include/exlude posts accordig keywords, author and date
Feedoor also has a javascript code to copy and paste in your website to ceate a widget of stories
Now my own opinion of what makes feedkiller standout is it's simplicity and straight forward interface where you can find your way very easily and create a combination of feeds with no effort, for that I really love feedkiller too :)
Thanks for the heads-up on Pelotronics! I will definitely check out, and who knows, it may make the Best Of list next year!
Tom
I appreciate the credit back to TechJaws.com. This post is world class and I enjoyed the read!
Glad you enjoyed the post, thanks for the positive words, and thanks also for the heads-up on ScribeFire.
You're welcome, it's noteworthy, and don't worry - I will!