The Top Five Social Bookmarking Tips Every Blogger Show Know
One of the best ways to promote your blog is through social bookmarking. There are two main reasons for this.
First, social bookmarking drives traffic. People on social bookmarking websites are looking for interesting things to read, vote on and comment on. They want to read your blog. And many of them will be loyal repeat visitors for the very reason that they tend to voracious readers of blogs. We assume, of course, that you post riveting content to your blog on a regular basis.
Second, social bookmarking helps you build better search engine rankings in two ways. One, because the links from social bookmarking websites are fairly valuable, especially if your content gets voted to the home page. Two, because other bloggers who frequent social bookmarking websites will often build on your ideas in their own blog posts and link back to your post.
What social bookmarking websites should you use?
There are some big ones...
- Digg
- Reddit
- Delicious
- StumbleUpon
- Mixx
- Yahoo Buzz
There are also some worthwhile niche social bookmarking websites...
- Tipd (for finance-related posts)
- BizSugar (for business-related posts)
- Zoomit Canada (for Canada-relates news)
- Sphinn (for SEO-related posts)
- PFbuzz (for finance-related posts)
- MMO Network (for money-making posts)
- Tipbo (for any post with tips in it)
There are many more, but these are all good. Here are 5 tips to promote your blog posts at these sites.
ONE: Make it easy for your readers.
Your readers are your fans. They want to share your posts. Make it so easy that they have no excuse not to social bookmark your content by including a social bookmarking tool at the end of each post. Here is one social bookmarking script you can use.
TWO: Bookmark your own posts.
The whole value in the links and in the eyeballs that see your submission is in getting voted "popular". That requires a lot of votes, votes that will come only from people who bother checking out your submission. A network of allies in the community sure doesn't hurt.
FOUR: Don't spam.
OK, this seems to be a no-brainer, but too many people miss this. Social bookmarking is for sharing p[ages that will be of interest to people. Generally, these are informational. Submitting a home page is considered spam at any of the significant social bookmarking websites. So is a product page or any page about your company. News, opinion, strange facts, cute or wild photos - these are all good content. And make sure to stay on-topic; don't submit a hair replacement article to Tipd or Sphinn, for example. Study what has already made it to the home page on a social bookmarking site, and you will know what will fly there.
FIVE: Make the title sing.
Chances are you've already come up with a snappy title for your blog post. If so, you might want to just use that title when you submit to social bookmarking websites. On the other hand, it is worth reading carefully what works and what doesn't at each site. You probably need a longer title at Reddit. You might need a shorter title at Digg. You might need to emphasize the financial aspect at PFbuzz. But make sure the title is optimized to lure people in with curiosity.
There you have it - the top five tips to make social bookmarking drive traffic to your blog.
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