How To Get Traffic From Using Social Bookmarking

Everyday, there are lots of people visiting Web 2.0 sites. In other words, there is a phenomenal amount of getting free traffic to your website, which means you can redirect into your website day and night just by submit the links to your articles.

Speaking of social bookmarking websites, what actually that means?

Social bookmarking websites are web based applications that allows you to store your bookmarks online instead of on your browser or computer. Whenever you bookmark a web page, you are posting it on the Internet for everyone to view. It is a powerful tool in promoting a website.

Social bookmarks are an increasingly popular way to classify, locate, share and rank news, stories and articles on the Internet through tagging.

The sites like Digg (http://www.Digg.com) and Stumble Upon (http://www.StumbleUpon.com) have risen in popularity very quickly. It’s a secret that experienced marketers use to push their web page up in the ranks of the major search engines.

Digg It. The One Social Bookmarking Site You Must Use.

Digg is a mega popular social website that you should use right away. At the point of writing this article, it has an Alexa rank of 162; this means that it is the 162th most visited website in the world, according to the result from Alexa’s traffic tracking service.

The more “diggs” or votes you have, the higher your ranking will be. I have break down how to start to submit your links to Digg.com into simple steps, you can follow these steps to improve your sites ranking.

1. Go to http://www.digg.com and sign up for an account, it is free.
2. Submit your website or blog story’s link. The thing you should know is that do not upload your article to Digg, it just bookmarks your article for people to visit, comment and rate.
3. Choose your media in regards to what you submitting, whether it is an article, video or image.
4. Give your story a catchy headline and description to attract people to read it, if you have a nice picture, then click on the picture and let it go along with the article.
5. Choose a topic of your article according list shown.
6. Type in the visual password and press “Submit Story”

In the Digg front page, you will see there are lots of other people’s post, you can write you comment as well, but remember to make intelligent remarks that are relevant to post owners’ interest. Because by doing this, you can attract other people and visitors to come to comment and have a look at your post and your site.

Beside the Digg, there also have many smaller social bookmarking websites that can drive you loads of traffic as well. If you go through all of them one by one is very time-consuming and downloading all tool bars is madness! It can be extremely tiring. Thus to submit your story links to those sites, Onlywire.com can help you. Through this site, you can submit to 22 other popular social bookmarking sites simultaneously.

Here is the step of how to do it;

1. Go to http://www.onlywire.com and create an account, again, it is free
2. Register with all the other social bookmarking sites that can be used with onlywire.com (this step will take you bit of time to finish)
3. After you finished step 2, then input your username and password of your other accounts into onlywire.com
4. Drag the Onlywire bookmark link “Save Page” onto your toolbar
5. Go to the webpage where you publish your article and click on the “save page” button
6. Insert your website title, description and relevant tags or keywords about your article.
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for every new page that you have.

Follow above these steps and start bookmarking, after while, you will be able to watch as your site or your blog begins to rise in the search engines, and more and more people begin to find your pages. Eventually, your website’s traffic can get improved dramatically.

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Article by Ann Liu, a certified professional internet marketer and author of Online Profiting: A Simple Way To Start Your Own Online Business. To learn how YOU too can succeed in Internet and affiliate marketing, please visit http://Marketingbyann.com

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