Getting famous is all about who you know...

Just so you can get more fully into the Social media loop, and take advantage of all those now abundant opportunities to put your stuff in front of all kinds of surfers, here’s a great overview of that.

Earlier this week I ran a post on an excellent article I found on successful blog launches. Yet, their comments on seeding your posts to bring in traffic from social book marking sites was so great, I decided to pull it out and run it right here. (You really need to read this launch article if you haven’t – it rocks!)

Here’s what they wrote:

Hundreds of thousands of content hungry readers are using social bookmarking sites every day, and many track specific keywords. By seeding your best articles, and by using a mixture of both popular and specific keywords as tags, you can bring a new crop of readers to your site on a weekly basis. The best way to select the tags for your article is to think of social bookmarking sites as a form of search engine. By including both broad keywords and narrower keywords you are certain to get a blend of both low quality/high volume readers (AdSense baby!) and high quality/low volume readers (links). The following is a list of the top 10 bookmarking sites which you should submit your top articles to:

1. Digg: Mammoth traffic; tech-focused; savvy users

2. Delicious: Pretty big traffic; somewhat tech/design-focused; a lot of bloggers browse Delicious for “things to link to”

3. Netscape: Pretty big traffic; a mix of topics; less savvy users

4. Stumbleupon: Medium traffic; weird stuff/literary articles; normal users.

5. Yahoo MyWeb: Medium traffic; general interest; normal users

6. Reddit: Lower traffic; politics/random stuff; normal users.

7. Furl: Lower traffic; tech-focused/some random stuff; normal users

8. Newsvine: Lower traffic; politics and news; normal users.

9. Lookmarks: Low traffic; gets spammed a lot; less savvy users

10. Blinklist: Low traffic; gets spammed a lot; less savvy users

Anyone have others to add to the list? Or more seeding ideas of your own? Has this worked for you?