Social Sharing: Getting Your Ning Network Dugg so People Can StumbleUpon It
Ning’s Tips and Tricks Updates
If you’ve been reading along, you know we’re pretty excited about the ways we’ve integrated with Twitter and Facebook. Both services provide tremendous audiences for sharing and syndicating content from your Ning Network, but we also know they aren’t the only game in town, at least when it comes to social sharing.
For a while now, there’s been an issue with how Ning Networks framebust, making it difficult to use various services for sharing content across the Internet. While it isn’t possible to remove the framebust entirely, we put in a fix this week so that content opened within a frame will framebust to the correct page, not to the main page of your Ning Network as it previously did. This fix will make sharing content through these services — and driving traffic back to specific pages on your Ning Network — much more effective.
With this fix in mind, we asked a couple of Network Creators to share some of their favorite social sharing services they recommend you get started using.
Jen, from the Ning Directory and PetBrags, likes using StumbleUpon:
StumbleUpon is a free service from where internet surfers can find (stumble-upon) new sites according to their interests. For Ning Network Creators, it’s a great way to submit interesting content or stories from your Ning site, for others to stumble it. What I really like about StumbleUpon, this service gives anyone the opportunity to share content. Also keep in mind, even if your story isn’t noticed the first time around, it’s likely to get indexed by Google. This will bring you traffic in the future.
Alice, from My Modern Met, shares content with Digg and Reddit:
Though Digg has more visitors [than Reddit], both sites are equally good in helping a website gain traffic. Due to their size and popularity, a website can gain a good amount of exposure if their content lands on one of these sites. You can also expect a lot of links back to your site if it’s found on Digg or Reddit. These sites usually trigger other bookmarking sites and blogs to see you as more of a source or content provider
For both StumbleUpon and Digg, you can share content directly from your Ning Network. Click on the “share” icon on any piece of content, and choose the service you’d like to send content to.
What services do you like using to share and syndicate content?
How about adding LinkedIn to the sites that are accepted.
We use several RSS feeds to promote our NING site on Linked In.
I am sure we lose a lot of visitors because of this issue.
Why is it not possible to get rid of framebusting altogether? Or give us that option?
Truly enjoyed Gina’s enthusiasm, passion and energy on the topic of social networking that she shared with Charlie Rose. I’m a believer!!
I enjoyed Gina on Charlie Rose. This is my first look at Ning. It looks small on the site options. I don’t see the 52 million she talked about. Is there an easier way to see the big picture? Mel
125 visits in 1 day from StumbleUpon vs 0 visits in 1 day from Digg
Laura — great post, but I have another motive here, and that is to tell Gina how much I enjoyed her appearance on Charlie Rose. Such an articulate, knowing and reverent understanding of the internet medium. We have too few spokespeople who resonate with the excitement of what is actually happening. So please pass this along to her. She did a great job evangelizing the excitement of the times we are living through. As good as any I’ve ever heard, perhaps the best I’ve ever heard.
I LOVE the new Twitter button–thanks for adding it!
Fantastic!
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Seems like a great solution for those of us that use Hootsuite, which is tied to ow.ly as their URL shortner. When you use ow.ly, the target site loads in an iFrame.
This is a huge deal for our network, My Modern Metropolis. Whether it be from Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Google images, Yahoo images, etc, now people will see the link they click on versus getting redirected to our homepage. This will surely increase traffic to our site, and perhaps increase traffic significantly due to the fact people can give us more “thumbs up” and our content will go even more viral because people can actually see our link.
Great work, Ning. Thanks for listening to your community!