Traffic from Social Bookmarking sites

Posted by sparkz9 in Blogging, Promotion,... | 12.09.2007 - 5:43 pm

Traffic, traffic and more traffic! If you have traffic to your site, you can sit back and relax. If you are trying to make money through your site, and if you have high amount of traffic, your earnings will grow exponentially. New bloggers will have a hard time driving traffic to their blog. Don’t worry….. This is perfectly NORMAL. Search engines really need some time to index your pages.

Basic promotion techniques are discussed in the Promotion section, but there are a few more ways of driving traffic. One of them is Social Bookmarking.

Social bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages. In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, but depending on the service’s features, may be saved privately, shared only with specific people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, via a search engine, or even randomly.

Some of the top social bookmarking sites are: Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, del.icio.us, etc.
These are very easy to use and can potentially drive a lot of traffic to your site. When you bookmark your site/post to a certain social bookmarking site, people around you will notice that you have bookmarked and eventually visit your site. If they like it, even they will bookmark, and this will result in more visitors. So, join these sites, create some good quality unique content, and submit it to as many social bookmarking sites as possible. Submitting an article to StumbleUpon will result in atleast 50-100 pageviews. Apart from traffic, these sites will provide you quality backlinks which is a definite plus for SEO.

Use ready made some social bookmarking widgets/plugins/scripts like Addthis, Share This, etc. on your site for the convenience of your visitors to bookmark your site. Just search for social bookmarking tools in any search engine, you’ll find tons of free tools.