Social Bookmarking

The secrets of Social Bookmarking: You may wonder how to get your blog noticed? How to get huge traffic to your website? Are you finding it difficult? Well in a certain way it is. Nevertheless certain techniques such as Social Bookmarking help you to gain traffic to your blog.

What are Social Bookmarking websites? As definied by wikipedia, “Social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links through the practice of folksonomy techniques on the Internet or Intranet.

Have you a few examples of social bookmarking websites? How do they work? The most known is Digg! Digg is a large community, where as a member you have the possibility to add a summary of your blog/website articles with a link to them. Your short article summary can the be accessed by all members of the social bookmarking website. With Digg for example, when someone finds your article interesting they can digg it. The more poeple digg your blog article the more people will have a look at it. Nevertheless in order to get digged you need to submit a link to a unique quality article otherwise people will not be interested. So beware, submitting simple non interesting articles will not bring you traffic. FURL or del.icio.us are other social bookmarking websites that are good.

Are there any restrictions or moderations to links and articles submitted? With Digg, FURL or del.icio.us there is no real moderation unless you are spamming. This is a real good point, as you can therefore submit or suggest any article or link being sure it will be submitted! Other sites such as Slashdot have a heavy moderation system which is really annoying so prefer the 3 cited above.

What types of submitions will bring me traffic? I would recommend you to submit your best posts only. Your weak posts even if submited will not bring you traffic. Keep the weak ones for your regular blog readers. Basically the more quality content your post have the more popular it will be and the more traffic you will have. The more traffic you have the more chances you have of making money with Google Adsense! Dont submit spam posts or your posts will be deleted/burried and your reputation will be bad.

All in all Social Bookmarking is an essential part in order to have your blog successful and attract readers. I am currently working on getting more traffic, and i have had the best results while submitting quality articles through Digg. Give it a go!