How to Use Social Bookmarking to Blast Your Traffic Stats Into Orbit

One of the most popular, and indeed profitable, ways to blast traffic to your website is by the use of a technique called social bookmarking.

Social bookmarking refers to a set of web 2.0 websites where users can share bookmarks, tags and URL's that they use on a regular basis, or that they just find interesting. The amazing thing about social bookmarking is that the big sites such as Digg and Propeller are very high page rank and can really drive fantastic amounts of traffic to your site if used properly.

The first thing to note about social bookmarking is that its very quick and easy to do. Generally, it only takes a few minutes to create an account at each site and then all you have to do to get a high powered relevant back link to your own site from these sites is to enter a URL, a short description and possibly a category for the bookmark. That's it. No articles or press releases, and no hassle. The whole process can be done in under a minute. When the search engines spider you link, which they will do very quickly, sometimes within minutes, you will be rewarded with a very valuable and powerful link.

This comes at a price, however, because the major social bookmarking sites absolutely hate spam and actively fight against it. They also tend to be community driven so, in other words, there are thousands of people who use these sites who are willing to flag you of you are a sspammer and, consequently your account will not last any time at all. This is actually a good thing for the serious link builders among us though because it keeps these site clean and trustworthy in the major search engines eyes. Just be careful bout how you post and don't repeat the same URL over and over again and you will be fine.

Another feature to take advantage of is the ability on some sites to vote stories up and down. Sites like Digg and Stumbleupon all have a social voting system where the members can give positive or negative votes to your story or bookmark. By posting relevant and interesting material here, your site, should it be fortunate enough to reach the front page, will receive unbelievable amounts of traffic. In many cases hitting the front page of these sites, even for a few minutes can generate enough traffic to literally bring your server to its knees.

So, the next time you are planning a web promotion effort make sure that you include social bookmarking as one of your methods, Its cheap, quick and very powerful, what more could you ask for.