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In the beginning, before your site is established, promoting it yourself is particularly important. Things change once your site becomes quite popular. At that

In the beginning, before your site is established, promoting it yourself is particularly important. Things change once your site becomes quite popular. At that point the social/sharing buttons will help you get more votes for stories you’ve submitted, and you'll see the occasional submission of older articles by your visitors. It's mostly a number game. Even if your CTR (Click-Through Rate) for those buttons is very low, you'll get several clicks if you receive thousands of visits. So they are generally worth having. Just be careful, as I caution in the book, too many buttons dilute your call to action message and lead to a lower CTR.

przemoc 15y ago
Maybe I didn't write it clearly enough, but you missed my point. Sharing/social buttons are nowadays used for submitting stories. And if resubmitting old stories by visitors is not happening often (+), then it's pretty stupid. Why? If I'm already submitting my posts myself to social sites, these buttons should point to already created there entries. Even by only assuming that votes are the main concern in such sites, it's easy to tell that having "splitted" entries instead of the main single one is purely wrong. But crucial benefit here is social consolidation, so your visitors can easily check reddit or HN comments, if there are any. And I believe my idea is really good, yet I don't understand why people go with mostly useless submitting buttons requiring additional work of the precious visitors. I also don't believe I could be the first one with such simple yet efficient solution. (+) It's kind of the question here, I don't know whether there are any statistics about it.
- acangiano 15y ago
  > Why? If I'm already submitting my posts myself to social sites, these buttons should point to already created there entries. Generally speaking, intelligent plugins/buttons already do that for you. If the article hasn't been submitted already, they let you submit. If the article was already submitted, they let you upvote.

przemoc 15y ago

Maybe I didn't write it clearly enough, but you missed my point. Sharing/social buttons are nowadays used for submitting stories. And if resubmitting old stories by visitors is not happening often (+), then it's pretty stupid. Why? If I'm already submitting my posts myself to social sites, these buttons should point to already created there entries. Even by only assuming that votes are the main concern in such sites, it's easy to tell that having "splitted" entries instead of the main single one is purely wrong. But crucial benefit here is social consolidation, so your visitors can easily check reddit or HN comments, if there are any. And I believe my idea is really good, yet I don't understand why people go with mostly useless submitting buttons requiring additional work of the precious visitors. I also don't believe I could be the first one with such simple yet efficient solution. (+) It's kind of the question here, I don't know whether there are any statistics about it.

acangiano 15y ago
> Why? If I'm already submitting my posts myself to social sites, these buttons should point to already created there entries. Generally speaking, intelligent plugins/buttons already do that for you. If the article hasn't been submitted already, they let you submit. If the article was already submitted, they let you upvote.