Yahoo Groups is huge. With over 5 million members, the right message can make all the difference to your associations, and possibly your success.
If you are already familiar with Digg and Propeller (AOL’s social site) this won’t be a stretch. Yahoo Buzz has just come out of beta and is open to publishers. These communities are user-generated. People submit interesting stories, pictures, or videos (either their own or interesting things they have found) and the content is "buzzed’ by readers. It can go either way and you certainly do not want negative votes, you want to be buzzed up.
The highly buzzed submissions make Yahoo Groups front page, and your submission will be seen by literally millions of eyes. For example, today I spotted a news item from the Wall Street Journal about an upcoming Shoe Drive sponsored by Shoe Carnival (a chain of shoe stores) and Soles4Souls, an impressive non-profit that has given out over 3 million pairs of shoes to over 60 countries.
Here is a link to my site, HappyFeetz.
I added a note about it and submitted that to Yahoo Buzz. There was nothing in this one for me; I really hope there will be some "buzz" and people will donate shoes. But talk about free publicity.
If you are interested, you need to first sign up with Yahoo. It’s free. Then get a button to place in your website, or submit a news item that links back to your site. If you have any sort of traffic tracking software (Google Analytics, Eweb Counter, etc.), you will see a bump of traffic to your site. The amount of traffic depends on how much interest your submission created.
You can even go back to your account and monitor your buzz activity. This is going to be a big deal; I wouldn’t wait on this one.
