How Do You Use Social Bookmarking Sites To Drive Targeted Traffic To Your Site?

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How Do You Use Social Bookmarking Sites To Drive Targeted Traffic To Your Site?

With the social bookmarking site's ever increasing popularity, it's a good idea to get in the game early, and try to harness the power of social bookmarking networks to drive quality targeted traffic to your website or blog. As a beginner, it may seem like such a difficult task, or a not worthy method of generating targeted traffic, but once you start the process, you will find out why so many website owners and bloggers and online money makers in general, are using social bookmarking networks as a means of growing their online business. Some of the most well-known and used social bookmarking sites are: Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious and mixx. These sites are basically there for people to share their favorite websites, blogs, article, video, audio and etc, with their friends, family and the whole world. But, how do you, as a blogger or a webmaster, use this powerful source, to increase targeted traffic to your site? Here is a simple beginners guide, that will show you how to use social bookmarking networks as a tool for driving targeted traffic to your site.


BookMark Your Links To increase your traffic, take advantage of the popularity of these social bookmarking sites, by simply registering and bookmarking each and every one of your posts for others to see. Make social bookmarking a part of your article publishing. Every time you publish a new article, open another browser and bookmark the link on couple of your favorite bookmarking sites. That will put your content in front of millions of people.

Submit To Correct Category Making sure you submit your links to the correct directory will give you better result. As it will be shown to the visitors who are interested in your niche, which for you means higher chance for getting quality targeted traffic. Get Your Links Book Marked By Others Another important point to keep in mind, is that the more an article of yours get bookmarked, the more likely it will be shown on the front page of which ever social book marking site you are using. Take Digg for example; The bookmarking process on Digg, is called “dig”. So the more your article gets “dugged” by people, the more traffic it will generate to your site.

Don’t Get Banned Before using any social bookmarking site, make sure you


read and understand their rules and regulations and use accordingly. You do not want to lose such a great source of free targeted traffic to your site.

Rank Higher On Google Another great benefit of using social bookmarking sites, is your site’s ranking. As you know, Google ranks websites based on their importance, and the relevancy of the keywords used. So, by simply getting bookmarked on a high ranking social bookmarking sites, such as Digg or any of the above mentioned sites, you are increasing the value of your site in the eyes of search engines, such as google. It tells a search engine that your content is valuable, and people like to read it. Based on that, your site will be getting a higher page rank.

Social bookmarking is a powerful and effective way you can use to drive targeted traffic to your site. Use it wisely, and you are sure to get unbelievable positive results. Quality targeted traffic is one of the most important things, if not the most, for making money from your website or blog.

Satrap is the founder and author of controversial blog, BlogStash.com. A blog full of great how-tos and information about making money online. Visit blogstash today to get your share of this valuable information and learn different ways to make money online.


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