I don't use them so I find it hard to imagine that others do. Has anyone found these to be a useful addition to the their site (based on tracking statistics)?
i feel like a better implementation of them would be something similar to how the digg button works. create some sort of widget that determines what networks you're logged into, and only display those buttons. that way, its not a wall of buttons, but a custom menu of the sites you're at least making use of as a registered user.
should be possible by reading the browser's cookies for each of those sites, assuming the user is using autologin. but i suspect publishers might be reluctant to take away buttons for potential bookmarkers just in case they don't use autologin.
On my non-technical site, I got about 1 add in the last 100,000 page views. Its mostly a waste of screen space and user attention.
However, when I publish pillar reference content aimed at geeks, the simple Delicious button which shows number of people who already added it performs VERY well for me. (Incidentally: that social proof is totally missing with ShareThis/AddThis/etc. I wish they would incorporate it.)
Delicious also generates long term traffic, whereas most of the other social sites do not.
I'd suggest reserving it for pillar content. When I say pillar content, I mean "If I had a CV, this article would be on it." Otherwise you encourage blindness of it in your users. (A major problem with ShareThis, etc.)
I just added it to my site but I don't see any option for displaying the statistics you were referring to - i.e. how many people have bookmarked something with it (except on the delicious website, of course). Maybe you're using a different button?
I'm using the button you can see way at the bottom of this page, which is right below instructions for implementing it. (Copy/paste a line of Javascript as I recall.)
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However, when I publish pillar reference content aimed at geeks, the simple Delicious button which shows number of people who already added it performs VERY well for me. (Incidentally: that social proof is totally missing with ShareThis/AddThis/etc. I wish they would incorporate it.)
Delicious also generates long term traffic, whereas most of the other social sites do not.
And just so we're on the same page, you're talking about this, right:
http://delicious.com/help/savebuttons
I just added it to my site but I don't see any option for displaying the statistics you were referring to - i.e. how many people have bookmarked something with it (except on the delicious website, of course). Maybe you're using a different button?
http://www.bingocardcreator.com/articles/rails-seo-tips.htm