Posted 4/12/08 - Kellex
I've got to admit that I am a complete newbie when it comes to YardBarker. I had heard of it but for some reason had never taken the time to really use it or play with it or participate on it. Well those times have surely ended as of this past week!
I decided to finally start submitting content to YardBarker last week just to see what it could do. The numbers definitely do not lie and I am now slapping myself for not jumping on this thing earlier.
On Wednesday I wrote up an article on my basketball blog titled NBA Draft History: The White Boy Busts and thought it was decent enough to submit to some social bookmarking sites. It actually found 51 Diggs (not too bad) and only 12 Hypes through BallHype (This issue is another post in the making.). So overall, Digg brought in some traffic even though 51 is not enough to reach the main page and BallHype has been jacking me around lately and it only reached 12 there.
At this point I decided to throw it up on YardBarker just to see what might happen. Sure enough, the readers there loved it! Right now it is sitting at 43 points and 22 comments! It sat on the main page for at least a full day and hovered in the top few pages for another. 299 visits later to my little basketball blog and I'm not complaining!
These numbers aren't anywhere near what Digg could provide with a front page article but this definitely provided a nice boost to a slow Friday while I was out of town for work.
As a sports blogger, please don't wait as long as I did to use this great site but remember that YardBarker is not a social bookmarking tool for spam. The content you submit here should be your best or you'll be run right out! Some of the people that comment here are nasty and Pro athletes also blog here so make sure to keep it legit!
I tried out Ballhype first, and didn't really get much in the way of results with it, then a friend told me about Yardbarker, and I haven't looked back since.
It's great for sports bloggers, not only because it caters more to us than the likes of Digg do, and it also provides a way for top-notch sports blogs to get noticed and to have success with the Yardbarker Network.
So yeah, I second that comment at the end - if you're a sports blogger, don't waste any time in heading over to Yardbarker.
By the way, great blog - I saw your EC ad on Problogger recently, and I've found a lot of great tips already.
Hey Eddie! Thank for stopping by. We're still pretty new here but hope to keep putting out useful stuff for all you sports fans/bloggers out there.
i love yardbarker, it always drives big time traffic (especially when i post about the eagles, philly fans are all over that site).
ballhype hasn't been to kind to me. so i dedicate my time to digg and yardbarker.
nice article and another great tip.
Paul- I'll keep that in mind. Maybe start writing some linkbait philly stuff. :)