Using Bookmark Sites For Traffic

In case you have been living under a rock and haven't heard, the social bookmarking sites are all the rage with huge amounts of real visitors every day. Even for the small website owner they can prove usefully for pulling in decent amounts of traffic.

Let's take a quick and dirty look at four of the more popular social bookmarking sites currently available:

Digg. Digg has so many users that a top story can take down an entire site, that's a huge amount of web page visitors! A nifty feature of digg is being able to add the widget to you blog allowing your readers to vote on your stories.

StumbleUpon is an interesting site, people download and install the StumbleUpon toolbar and then go "stumble" sites. Not only can you stumble interesting sites you can also put a link back to your own site in your profile where other people can find it. As an added bonus you can even buy traffic from StumbleUpon for a modest cost compared with the major pay per click players.

Onlywire allows people to tag web pages of interest but it will do so across many bookmarking sites like Delicious and Furl at the same time. That feature alone can be a huge time saver when compared to using some of the other sites.

Reddit is probably the most plain and simple of the major bookmarking sites. But don't let the look on the surface stop you from making use of it, with an Alexa ranking under 1000 Reddit sees a huge amount of visitors each day.

Don't expect a huge amount of traffic from any one of these sites in particular, however I find that for the amount of time it takes to submit to these sites is worth the steady stream of traffic you will get from them.

Most importantly don't spam these sites with garbage or try to trick them into giving you visitors. Be sure to add something meaningful that others will find interesting otherwise you are on the fast path to getting banned.


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