Day 4: Blog Traffic via Social Bookmarking Websites
July 17, 2008 by Antony
Today we are going to focus on different methods and ways to gain traffic to your blog. Traffic is the essential key to any successful internet website. Without it your website, blog, or whatever you are doing will fail. Unfortunately that’s just the fact. With internet traffic comes things like advertisers, sales, and even a profitable ‘site’ that could be resold.
Obviously, traffic is money! Most beginners don’t know where to start to gain traffic and typically partake in different methods, blackhat or whitehat, that may harm them in the long run. Yes, even some traffic CAN harm you! So the goal isn’t to get any and all traffic but to get targeted traffic as well as legitimate methods for obtaining that traffic.
Most specifically today I’m going to be discussing social bookmarking websites and how you can use them to gain a significant amount of traffic. Over the past 4 or so years the internet has transformed from Web 1.0 into the 2.0 realm. Web 2.0 is here and with it has come the social bookmark websites.
The concept of social bookmarking is to provide a medium in which users can organize their bookmarks while displaying their bookmarks and having a place to find other interesting websites. Due to the increased popularity over the years these social bookmarking websites have a tremendous readership and thus can equate to a tremendous amount of traffic if you have a proper method of ‘attack’.
How can we use these social bookmarking websites to our advantage? Well simply by putting our websites out there and bookmarking our own websites. That won’t guarantee an instant success though, your website WILL need to have some sort of benefit to the readers. Therefore the first key to having a website or blog that is popular among the social bookmarking websites is to have content! I know what your thinking, more content? When can I ever stop having content! Truth is that your websites will always need content and as technology progresses and Google updates their algorithm’s towards benefiting original content you want to stay ahead of the game.
Take a look at your blog, or website, and determine if you would actually WANT to read that blog or website. Look at it from an objective point of view, try taking out all your emotion involved and determine whether that website will actually benefit the reader in some shape of form. If you have determined that your blog or website fills that criteria then it is time to jump to the next stage.
It’s time to start bookmarking your website on social bookmarking websites. I’m going to list some of the websites below (it will be a long list) that you can go to and bookmark your website. This will be a long and tedious task but it will be worth it in the long run. It’s a great way to build a readership! Below this list I will tell you the lazy man’s alternative, a method that I use and LOVE!
Social Bookmarking Websites:
- Backflip
- Bibsonomy
- Blinklist
- Blogmemes
- Buddymarks
- Connotea
- Delicious
- Delirious
- Diigo
- Faves
- Furl
- Linkagogo
- Linksroll
- Magnolia
- Mister-wong
- Netvouz
- Propeller
- Simpy
- Scuttle
- ScuttlePLUS
- Searchles
Phew, what a list. Anyways, these are the best and only social bookmarking websites that I use. The rest I haven’t noticed any real benefit from and I typically won’t waste time with them. Here are some tips for you in regards to using these social bookmarking websites efficiently.
Tip 1: Don’t use your real name!
The goal of a social bookmarking website is that someone ELSE on the internet found your website and then decided to ‘bookmark’ it. It isn’t meant for website’s to spam them time over time again and have them as the only one to bookmark the website.
Tip 2: Use a different email
Again, the point isn’t to use your main and only email. Create an additional email if needed to create these accounts to use. The point is having someone ELSE and not yourself bookmarking your website. If you keep bookmarking your own website you are risking having your IP banned by the social bookmarking websites. NOT what you want to happen. Use a different email, like hotmail, gmail, or yahoo.
I could really go on and on, but the key to doing a successful bookmarking campaign is to not SPAM the services. Play within reason and play smart.
LAZY MAN’S ALTERNATIVE!
Obviously social bookmarking techniques are time consuming but extremely beneficial. As with any business idea of venture it is best to try and automate the process. Freeing up your time and allowing for everything to go on auto-pilot.
Thankfully a program called Auto Social Poster was designed. Auto Social Poster was created to automate bookmarking for your blog posts from hundreds or even thousands of blogs! No more messing around with each social bookmarking website adding your page after you have made a blog post.
Auto Social Poster will add your new blog posts to an unlimited number of social bookmarking accounts. Did you read that correctly? UNLIMITED! The only caveat is the time to set up the social bookmarking accounts! Auto Social Poster will tell you how to correctly set up many social bookmarking accounts although as I stated once you have created the account and set it up in your back office of WordPress you can then have them all bookmark your website, or design how you want them to bookmark.
Social bookmark websites rank your website according to how many people ‘bookmarked’ it. The more, the higher your blog will be in the social bookmarking pages. Thus, what if you had 100 or so accounts setup to ‘bookmark’ automatically instantly after you published your latest blog post.
Very impressive if you ask me. Check out this picture.
Yes! That’s a result of traffic generated from the use of this automated program. I can’t even believe what it has done for me, obviously it will work great for you.
Feel free to check out the website for Auto Social Pro. It is somewhat expensive but easily one of the most beneficial automated programs I have purchased to date. I can’t even express the benefits of this program. I used to systematically bookmark my websites for all the social sites listed above. This took on average 1 1/2+ hours and that was for ONE account and only one blog posting! Now I bookmark instantly with more then one account.
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Thanks
Social bookmarking is tremendous, no joke the results I have seen are f’ng fantastic. Nice write up.
It is an important point you make to place the more important key phrases/terms earlier in the link, however to place an actual number on what Google cuts at is unrealistic from this test.
A dozen (200+ possibly) other variables may effect this, some possibilities I can think of on the spur of the moment are page length, word relevance (random character strings are not going to seem very relevant), main-text length, link length of all links on page, link length of all links to the target page, etc.