To be able to actively generate more traffic to your own site or blog, there are a number of methods you can follow. An important means of creating instant traffic and instant link juice is by firstly, posting relevant articles to your site or adding posts to your blog consistently, and secondly, by submitting these articles / posts to a number of social media and social bookmarking sites.
Social bookmarking (SB) has made this entire process more manageable and successful which results in generating website traffic that is both more consistent and more targeted. By posting your articles to social media and social book marking sites, which have large user bases, you are increasing the exposure to your article or post and thus increasing exposure to your site and its content. This in turn increases direct traffic to your site, improves Alexa ranking and is effective in creating valuable backlinks.
Social bookmarking sites such as digg.com, reddit.com and stumbleupon.com provide quality backlinks as they are deemed important and relevant by Google and come up at the top of searches. So by submitting your articles to these sites, you are indirectly gaining link juice and organic search results from Google searches.
You do however need to be careful as to what bookmarking sites you are submitting to as not all of them will generate traffic even though they provide backlinks. Here we are mainly referring to sites where articles do not get instant exposure once posted.
The social media and bookmarking sites you want to submit to are those where your content appears instantly once submitted under, for example, the “new” or “latest” category – where users can read and then rate or vote on those articles to keep them current. An example of where this occurs is South Africa’s muti.co.za.
Certain social media sites require you to categorize the new submission and / or to submit tags which pertain to the content of the post. Relevancy is of utmost importance here.
You also need to be careful not to be a spammer. This is where you submit irrelevant content or submit the same content over and over. Also your content needs to be of a high quality and standard as well as informative and value adding. If this is not the case your site will lose credibility with readers and will ultimately result in a decrease in traffic to your site.
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So what are you waiting for? Take some time (at few hours at least) and create accounts for all these social media and bookmarking sites to which you wish to publish your new content. You then need to publish posts and articles consistently to your blog or website and then submit the new content to all these social media accounts. This will then in turn increase exposure and traffic to your site.
Alternatively contact us @ DiscoverSEO and we can save you the time and energy by handling everything from writing the relevant keyword dense content to uploading it to your site and then to submitting it to at least 15 social media and bookmarking sites for you. This can be done on a regular basis to ensure optimum results.
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http://blog.opencircle.co.za/social-networking/dofollow-nofollow-social-bookmarking-list/
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A great post. If only more people would realise the power that Social Media presents. But one thing is for certain tho, many who do use Social Networking to promote their blog or site, have totally lost the whole idea of Social Networking.
Social Networking is not a free marketing tool, it’s a networking tool. Build up that network, help others, be of service, then when you do promote you blog post, your followers would only be too pleased to read.
Why? because they know you have something to offer, and that you’re not just trying to take from them, but you’re also giving.
A good post.
Social Bookmarking can be tricky. I agree 100% about adding only good stuff and to the right categories.
There are special niche social bookmarking sites. So searching on niche(that you have your business in or want to have a business in) and find those social bookmarking sites. This will increase your efficiency a lot compared to only competing for attention on the big 15 sites.
Excellent post!
I am completely agree with both of you Mr. Bravery and Mr. Lonn. Using Social networking, Social bookmarking or Social media sites are great and effective way to build backlinks or traffic to your websites and sometimes we have to be creative. And this is something i do for small local business to promote their products or services. I enjoyed reading your post. Thanks and keep it up!
Social Bookmarking is important but relevancy doesn’t start or end with the articles and content we publish, WHERE and what social sites we choose is as important. What I would discourage doing is posting the exact same content on all social sites as it was suggested only because many people do use more than 1 website, unless the content gets changed up to relate more to users who will read it, having same posts on 20 sites just seems like spam and those with multiple accounts will take it as such. I would suggest taking your message and tailoring it to 20 different audiences, think about what they care about not what you care about and what it is that is helpful to them, not to you.
While Googling a search term is still by far the dominate way to conduct a web search, more and more folks are finding that they can better sift through all of the clutter out there if they search through Twitter or other networks. Or better yet, they can often post a query and receive numerous personalized responses in just minutes—something that’s just not possible yet with traditional search. Social networking is starting to change how we see web search.
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Social bookmarking is a great way to get your pages index quickly. The record I have is 34 mins on a blog post that I have made.
Nice article Meg, explained like a pro. We must be sure that there are no no-follows on our links from the SB sites. Digg has started to no-follow their links so no link love there. You also only really get the good link juice if you make it to the front page.
Hey Meg, a well written article. Well Done. I think it’s time we start our own internal SM workshops to discuss these ideas with our clients.