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Thanks, Marketing Mama! I appreciate your taking the time to pos that.

I get a good response from my ezinearticles, and so-so response from Associated Content - when I say "good", I mean I now seem to average 50-60 visitors a day.

I have tried social bookmark sites - they just don't seem to work for my type of site. My site talks about how to get into a particular type of school, how to get loans and grants, etc. The few visitors I got from Propellor, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Digg left immediately and didn't go to any other pages. Basically it was like a free marketing test for me - which told me that this particular site doesn't work for that type of user.

I suspect if I had a different type of site, say a celebrity gossip site, or a parenting site, or a travel site, or a style and beauty site, and I made some semi-controversial posts and submitted them to social bookmarking sites, I would do better. There's just a broader range of interest in those topics - and it's hard for me to come up with anything provocative and intriguing about getting into a particular type of school. I have good, original information on my site - but it's only of value to people who want to go to that kind of school or find loans and grants.

I will probaby experiment with a different type of site next to see if I can promote it better.