A Brief Review Of PFBuzz
A few months ago, Pinyo from Moolanomy launched PF Buzz, a social bookmarking site focused on the personal finance blogosphere. You can think of it as Digg for personal finance, so if you enjoy Digging and have an interest in personal finance, investing, or related topics you should give PF Buzz a try.
Advantages To Blog Readers
The primary advantage PF Buzz has over other, broader social bookmarking sites is its focus. Digg and to a lesser extent StumbleUpon categories are intentionally left relatively broad to encompass a wide variety of topics, cater to differing tastes, and not dilute their ability to send massive amounts of traffic. That’s fine for webmasters, but it can make finding great articles on specific topics like finding a needle in a haystack. Digg’s “Business & Finance” category is huge, and personal finance articles may comprise only a tiny minority of the total. Since PF Buzz is focused on the topic, it’s far more useful for finding actual content you might be interested in. If you look at the bottom of this post you’ll see a PF Buzz button next to the usual Bookmark button. If you like an article you read on my blog, please take a second and vote for my post!
Advantages To Bloggers
I have noticed PF Buzz traffic tends to be higher-quality than Digg or Stumble traffic. They stay on my site longer and view more posts. Because of this, I also suspect PF Buzz is at least partly responsible for increased growth in subscribers, although I have no way to verify this. That alone should be enough to warrant participation, but I’ve noticed an even better reason. PF Buzz is now used by a lot of (if not most) PF Bloggers, so it’s a good way to get some of your better content noticed by bloggers who might not otherwise read your stuff. This can only increase your chances of getting quality incoming links.
Great dig. PFBuzz is becoming a great tool for increasing traffic and getting quality incoming links, which is very important. But, what about income? Bloggers usually don’t link on your Adsense ads, and the more ads you show without getting clicks the lower Google rates your pages - which could lower the amount you do get from each click. In the long run, quality incoming links increases your PageRank and your search traffic, which increases your traffic of people that are more likely to click an Adsense link. But, I’m not sure the too balance each other out. Any thoughts? In the end, traffic pays, so that alone makes PF Buzz worth the effort.
I agree that PFBuzz generates high-quality, interested traffic.
Kyle, thank you for highlighting PF Buzz. I just checked and noticed that time on site and bounce rate for traffic from PF Buzz is definitely good. The site is also growing steadily, so I am sure it will bring even more traffic in the future.