As you know, traffic is the life line of your business. To survive you need to have visitors to your website, specially those visitors who are keen to purchase your product and services. Getting such a targeted traffic for your website is a great challenge especially for the new ones. Social bookmarking can give you a hand! It can produce instant traffic to your website irrespective of its credibility or backlinks. Let us see how!
There are many ways of getting more and more traffic. One of the quickest ways of getting more of traffic is by pay per click advertising, but it can get expensive as you have to be quick in tracking conversation to be successful. Traffic for long term can be achieved by article marketing, it take lots of hard work and patience. But it’s very unfortunate that there is no magical formula for getting quick traffic. The process has to be well thought out and needs combination of approaches to make it work.
Getting traffic becomes easy when the methods which are overlooked are used with prime methods like paid advertising and article marketing. Social bookmarking websites can be used as an effective method.
Basic idea behind social bookmarking is to have more and more bookmarks saved online instead of saving on personal computer so that they can be shared by others too. Social bookmarking has come to existence since past few years and is a great phenomenon. Bookmark links in this online account exist in public pages of a social bookmarking site, which in turn count as a backlinks to your website. A back link from social bookmarking sites can have good amount of link value as it has high pagepank in google. Though Google has been decreasing the value it assigns to the social bookmarking links in last few years, but large set of such links can be useful in increasing the pagerank of your website.
Social bookmarking sites were set up so that people could share their bookmarks. As a result your bookmarks can get explored by the arrival of other people on your bookmarks. This helps in achieving social verification by getting listed on the social bookmarking sites and can get traffic directed to your website.
How can you achieve these social bookmarking links .There are hundreds of such sites and the most common being Furl, Delicious and StumpbleUpon. You have to just sign into these sites, download and install the given social bookmarking toolbar. You have to just find a site you have to promote, and click on the toolbar icon and it will create a bookmark for you. In some cases you may have to write some information about the site.
Main problem with social bookmarking technique is, bookmarking your own site as there is only one of you…so all you can get is only one link to your website. It can make you think that how you can be benefited by others. But you can even find someone like Submitera.com who can provide the social bookmarking service to your website for all the highly trafficated bookmarking sites at affordable rates.
March 5th, 2010 at 3:57 am
Such a very nice written article. I agree to what you have said in this. Social bookmarking is really a big help to have a high traffic and another thing is, social bookmarking sites with higher page rank could really help the site to rank faster. For instance, you used ‘pool chemicals’ to bookmark your site, if you fortunately bookmarked this in social bookmarking sites with high page rank then, there is always a big possibility to rank the site as well as to get much higher traffic. This is the reason why, social bookmarking is one popular way in getting traffic and unique visitors.
March 13th, 2010 at 11:48 am
Useful article, i agree about traffic, which you can get from Social Bookmarking. Now i will try to work with Social bookmarks, because i will get traffic and some backlinks too. In this article i red some information that i didn’t know before, thank for information!
May 22nd, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Thanks for posted this helpful info on social bookmarking. I’ve had some success with social bookmarking, but I don’t think I do it enough. I’m not too concerned about getting direct traffic from social bookmarking sites, but if the one-way links they provide are nice.
June 6th, 2010 at 7:47 am
Great read, recently I noticed a huge traffic surge after bookmarking all my posts on wordpress! thanks
September 20th, 2010 at 12:02 am
Great idea! I say switch between articles and social bookmarking in order to receive a wide range of traffic.
September 27th, 2010 at 1:45 am
I say that paid linking is good for building your site, but you have to be smart about it. You can always do it the old fashion way by commenting on blogs and forums, but very time consuming.
October 11th, 2010 at 1:17 am
Social Bookmarking sites are truly an authoritative resource for producing highly targeted back-links to your websites.
I have personally used many highly ranked social book marking sites to build credibility and one way back-link to boast my websites onto page one using the methods described in this article post.
Social Bookmarking is one of the many arsenal and one you cannot do without in generating massive targeted traffic to your websites .
October 18th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Social Bookmarking remains a great way of building links and getting traffic – another ‘trick’ for greater traffic is making friends with the uber users on sites like Digg, and letting them know when you bookmark something… if a few big users get wind of your post and digg it you can be on page 1 within hours!
January 13th, 2011 at 4:21 am
Now I work with social bookmarks according to your guidelines. I would like to thank you very much for this valuable article. Thanks a lot once again..
February 23rd, 2011 at 4:35 pm
Social Bookmarking is also a powerful tool to get traffic though its a bit time consuming, but I think its worth it. Though there are software that can be bought to do the job for you, It is not 100% reliable. Might as well do it yourself
March 2nd, 2011 at 9:35 am
Very helpful article, you could very well be helping a lot of people struggling with their SEO efforts. It is tried and tested that social bookmarking is one of the best strategies that could generate highly targeted traffic to any website.
March 29th, 2011 at 1:50 am
I definitely agree that getting traffic can be indeed easy when the methods which are overlooked are used with prime methods and that social bookmarking websites can be used as an effective method to generate the amount of traffic that you have always dreamed of to be able to get your websites booming.
September 1st, 2011 at 2:48 pm
There are indeed many people visiting these social bookmarking websites. This is not my favourite strategy but, like any other, if you do it with commitment it will pay off eventually. Social bookmarking links are not so powerful but they still are links so they still matter. If it’s possible and you can afford it, I think automating this activity would be very beneficial.
January 9th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Social bookmarking sites come and go, but the premise behind it will always remain – I think.
As more and more people go online on their phones it’ll be easier and easier to go to sites like Reddit and explore (and contribute). Spreading stories via your social network will only grow from here!
January 9th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Here’s someone that understands the online world – a blog with Keyword Luv installed!
I made a comment a second ago yet it dissapeared… hmmm. My main point was that as more and more people go online on their phones, it’ll be easier and easier to dip in and out of content. The need for someone to have already highlighted interesting stuff (I’m thinking highly rated Social Bookmarks) will only grow.
Cheers!