Social Bookmarking Sites to Drive More Visitors to Your Blog

A simple tool you can use to get more traffic to your website is social bookmarking sites.

You can bookmark web pages in your browser, but only you can see them.

A social bookmarking site is similar, but other people can see your bookmarks.

As you can imagine, there is some real potential here to drive more traffic to your website or
blog.

This is especially valuable for content oriented information like high value blog posts.

Of course, they key is to get other people to bookmark your pages. Take time to cultivate relationships with other bloggers who are willing to cross-promote you. This way, there is an added incentive for ongoing support.

Here are 5 great sites to start using:

Digg:
http://www.Digg.com

StumbleUpon
http://www.StumbleUpon.com

Delicious:
http://www.Delicious.com

FriendFeed:
http://friendfeed.com/

BuzzFeed:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/

Here are a few more sites that also give you the ability to share content:

Pinterest:
http://pinterest.com/

ClipBoard:
https://clipboard.com/

Diigo:
http://www.diigo.com/

You can bookmark your own sites and you can bookmark others.

In fact, Twitter is also a great site for bookmarking. You can post a message and then click on the Favorite button. You can look at your own favorites and you can look at others.

Start bookmarking your blog posts online. Find other people who are willing to bookmark your blog posts. And you will see a surge in traffic to your site over time.

Rick Cooper
Online Marketing and Social Media Trainer