Social bookmarking is free to use and enables web users to save links to their favorite web pages that they want to visit again and share with other people. Additionally, they can vote, comment and discuss about the sites or blogs and then submit the site and get feed backs from other users. If the users like your site, there’s a chance they will visit it again to obtain information and other updates.

New features have actually been added to these types of sites. These include ratings, comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing bookmarks, web annotation as well as groups or other social network features. Although these bookmarks are public, they can be saved privately and shared only with specific groups of people or networks. People with access to these bookmarks can view them in various ways – by category or tags, chronologically or through a search engine.

Social bookmarking provides several benefits to promote your business. Firstly, web users can easily upload and save their preferred websites for other users to view. This alone is an effective way to improve your site’s traffic. Users are always clicking on banners out of curiosity. I wouldn’t be into Internet Marketing today if I hadn’t clicked on an add promoting MLM.

Users can also organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of using the traditional system of folders. Tag refers to a keyword that describes a particular site and category. By using the appropriate bookmarking tags, search engines will be able to look for your content especially when a user searches for information within your category.

What you can do then is to bookmark your own site and get a suitable tag. Once you obtain the right tag on the social bookmarking site, other people will know about your site and will visit it eventually. So this only means that when you have the proper tag, you drive more traffic to your site.

Another big advantage is for your site to be visited by search engines and indexed. A new website has a chance of being visited by search engine robots within a day of submission to social bookmarking sites. Learning the basics of SEO Optimization is important in driving traffic to your site.

Personal branding is a great benefit as well. In other words, by using social bookmarking sites, you are given the ability to develop your own page on their site. With this page, you can list all your web pages, post links to your websites and publish content on any field of interest. This then allows you to establish yourself as an authority in your own niche.

Many people have been spending money just to ensure a high page rank in search engine results but with Social Bookmarking, there’s no need for that as it provides a one-way link to promote your site to other web users at no cost at all. This should, however, be coupled with credibility and a good reputation so that people will learn to trust you and your business. People ultimately do not buy into your product because it solely benefits them. They largely buy into it because of you.

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When you think of it in those terms, it’s really simple.

There are also only three real ways to get in front of the traffic flow. You can buy traffic, borrow traffic, or create traffic.

You buy traffic using pay-per-click search engines. It’s very dependable, and can give you a steady flow of consistent traffic.

The big drawback with using pay-per-clicks to generate traffic is that it can be very risky. Those who use pay-per-clicks to generate 100% of their traffic, and are considered the best of the best, will tell you that as many as 7 out of 10 campaigns that they set up will lose money. The professionals very quickly shut off the losers, and their winners more than make up for the losses, but it’s really not a game for someone not properly trained.

You can also buy traffic using an affiliate program. Since you only pay for the traffic when a sale is made, it’s a very low-risk method. Since your affiliates are sending you their best customers, you can also think of it as borrowing traffic.

I love the affiliate program model, and have numerous products sold via affiliate programs. I also sell a lot of others’ affiliate products. It’s win-win.

You can also create traffic by putting things on the Internet that people are attracted to. You can create content by writing articles or blogging for example. I love content creation and have written over 1100 different articles. My articles teach people how to solve pressing problems, and at the same time point them to me (my sites) as a great resource.

When you create content your big challenge is to get it noticed and indexed by the search engines, so that people can follow links from there to your site. It’s actually fairly easy – but time and labor intensive.

If your content is “viral” it will be something that others will happily share. Examples include in-depth articles, essays that touch people on a deep emotional level, or humorous videos that you post on YouTube.

Of the three methods of getting traffic (buying, borrowing, and creating it) my favorite has to be borrowing it… with creating it second. I generally only buy traffic when I need a really quick surge to test my website’s conversion process.

The key to generating an absolute flood of free traffic is getting noticed, getting backlinks, etc., from high traffic websites such as Google, Craig’s List, Yahoo, YouTube, and the various bookmarking and social networking sites.

This can be as simple is searching through Yahoo Answers for questions on your area of expertise, and then posting a great answer – along with an appropriate link to your website or product.

It can be as simple as searching through YouTube for videos on your area of expertise, and then leaving a comment along with a link sharing that they can find more information on the topic at your site.

It can be as simple as using the search engines to locate dozens or even hundreds of blogs and forums in your niche, and then interacting with these communities.

There’s only one problem with most of the methods that I just mentioned. They can be time consuming and labor intensive. Just locating active communities in your niche can literally take hours.

I do have a secret. I use automated software to monitor and notify me of active blogs, forums, and communities in my niche. I use automated software to notify me when they are discussing my area of expertise or there is a new video posted pertaining to my area of expertise.

When I discover a new resource, I then analyze it, and if appropriate, I interact with that high traffic site, and leave a link back to my site, which is a perfectly acceptable practice.

So there you have my secret for generating literally hundreds of thousands of free hits to even my newest sites. Of course, your site has to be about something that people are interested it.

I do strongly advocate using software to automate many of the mundane processes such as just finding these sites.

Many webmasters really struggle with Website Traffic Generation, and there is absolutely no need to. You merely find the huge pools of traffic interested in your topic, and then you stand underneath the waterfall, and enjoy the cool, refreshing flow of new visitors.

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Well, we don’t want to be sold anything. If I want to buy something then I’ll go looking for it.

I spend a lot of time searching the internet for information. Am I looking for sales pages? No, not unless I want something and then I go searching.

The results I tend to click on and read are information.

Fortunately, the top results for most queries seem to be article websites. These are ones showing relevant articles based on my web search.

What’s the lesson to be learned here?

Basically this. If we all mainly look for information before we look for sales pages then this is the way to get buyers. How is this?

When we make a decision to look for something to buy it’s usually because we’ve heard about something that interests us.

My friend Tony met me in the bar 2 weeks ago. He knew that I was still using dial-up internet. Not broadband. I wanted it already but wasn’t sure, for quite some time, which one to go for.

Tony told me how he’d recently changed his broadband supplier. He said how brilliant it was, what it did and the price deal. I was very interested.

So next I started looking for the person selling this deal. After which, I shortly signed up. I’m very happy with my decision.

The point I’m making is…

I wasn’t looking for this man to sell me broadband. However, after hearing information about it I decided to go off and look. What are these two steps?

Quite simply, (#1), I got information about something and then, (#2), went looking where I could buy it. What does this mean?

I don’t mean you just write articles recommending products. But if your article points out advantages or pitfalls and how a particular purchase helps…then this works. Or…

It could be an article about how to do something or the solution to a problem. After, you mention that a perfect tool (product) helps them carry out your advice. There’s a problem?

The way most people write articles, titles and link to their website is not right. Often, the readers and website traffic could be far higher if the article titles, text and website link were written differently.

I’ve seen this problem with most of the articles out there. Think about it.

Why do just a fraction of articles become popular?

They do something different…that’s why. I’ve found out (quite by accident) the best way of doing this.

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Most of us know the two greatest factors that create incredible website traffic if worked the right way. These two things are links and most importantly quality, keyword optimized content on your site. What many do not know, and I hope to shed some like on the topic, is the several ways you can bring traffic to your site through non traditional methods of link building and content creation.

When we start our first website, we are told to find as many reciprocal links as possible. This means finding quality, relevant websites and requesting to link with them. Reciprocal linking can be good but I have found that there are other things I could be doing with my time that will pay off more than just reciprocal linking. As reciprocal linking is not a bad thing, I would not say to stop doing it. I would just say do not spend hours a day on it. The number one linking strategy I have found to provide the best results and in turn sending loads of website traffic to my site is what I call triangular linking.

Triangular linking is the result of website a placing a link to website b, now website b places a link to website c and website c places a link to website a. This completes a triangle and the search engines love it. The benefit to triangular linking is that search engines will see a one way link to each site without a reciprocal link but all three sites will benefit. I believe a combination of reciprocal linking and triangular linking is the key.

Submitting articles to article directories is probably the number one technique in getting links back to your site and most importantly visitors. I try to write at least three articles a week and submit to as many article directories as possible. Not only does this provide your site with one-way links, it also brings in website traffic directly through the article if the reader is interested and clicks.

Now that I have talked about bringing in a lot of website traffic through linking it is time to talk about the actual content of your website. In my experience, the basic principle of creating as many informational, keyword optimized pages as possible along with a good linking campaign is the best way to bring in massive website traffic. I have found that including the keyword for each individual page approximately six or seven times per every four hundred words provides the best results.

Keep these thoughts in mind when building your websites promotion strategy and you will see great results in a short amount of time. Lastly, people like good, clean, informational sites. Providing a quality site that is worth taking a look at will always prove to bring in repeat traffic to your site.

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