Use Social Bookmarking To Generate Traffic To Your Site

Social Bookmarking is a great way to drive traffic to your website.

What is Social Bookmarking I hear you cry.

Have you ever heard of sites like Delicious, Furl, Digg, Technorati? Well they are Social Bookmarking sites. If you look at the buttons on the bottom of this post you will see the links to some of the top Social Bookmarking sites on the web.

The way you get the traffic is to write a useful article and submit it to the top Social Bookmarking websites. You only have to submit the title of the article and a couple of lines of text as a little taster. To read the full article people will have to visit your site.

If someone on delicious for example visits your site, reads your article and likes it, they can bookmark it. As more people visit your site and bookmark your article the higher up the list it gets on delicious, generating more visitors and more bookmarks.

One of my articles made it to the popular page on delicious and the traffic went through the roof. If you look at the top of this article you can see the Alexa traffic ranking graph. You can clearly see the traffic spike for the couple of days when the article got onto the popular page.

The other benefit of this, is lots of other sites use data feeds from delicious and the other top Social Bookmarking sites. So not only will your site be popular on delicious, it will also be popular on many others too, generating even more visitors to your site.

If you are unfamiliar with Social Bookmarking, just click on one of the little logos at the bottom of this article, and follow the instructions. You will soon get the hang of it. Its well worth doing and its a great way to get free traffic to your site.