And thats not all either, if you’ve been following the whole ‘Tag and Ping’ trend thats been going on then you’ll also see the added benefit to Social Bookmarking if you own your own Blog and/or Website and how people can spread the word for you ‘Effortlessly’ throughout the many Social Bookmarking services available online today giving your Blog and/or Website even more exposure without you even lifting a finger.

I’m serious, and I’ll reveal ‘How’ at end end of this article.

Now, with that said, for the rest of this article I want to stress to you the TOP 5 reasons why you should consider getting involved with Social Bookmarking.

So with that said, lets go to TOP Reason #1.

TOP Reason #1. Social Bookmarking services are FREE.

This is probably the single most beneficial reason for getting started with Social Bookmarking simply because these services are Absolutely FREE to the public to use at their convenience.

TOP Reason #2. Bookmark as many websites as you want.

Another great reason to use Social Bookmarking services is you can Bookmark as many websites or webpages as you want. Whether they’re Articles, Reviews, Sales Letters, VRE Content Sites, etc.

As far as what kind of websites you can Bookmark really depends on the bookmarking services ‘Terms of Service’, so if your unsure as to what you can bookmark, that is the first place I recommend you look.

TOP Reason #3. Tag your bookmarks with targeted keywords.

This is the single most important benefit you get with Social Bookmarking services and that is the ability to bookmark your websites and/or webpages with whatever ‘Keyword Tags’ you want that will help you locate that bookmark when it comes time for you to want to read that particular information.

In the next TOP Reason I’ll go into a little more detail as to why your ‘Tags’ are so important and why you need to choose your keyword tags carefully for maximum benefit.

TOP Reason #4. Make your account Private or Public.

This is where you have to make a choice. And this choice is whether or not you want to make your account with the particular social bookmarking service a Private account or a Public account.

Now, if you choose to have a Private account then those bookmarks you made will be available to you ONLY. But, if you choose to make your account Public then this is where ALL your FREE targeted traffic will come from because now web surfers and the social bookmarking community has access to your bookmarks under the ‘Keyword Tags’ you chose for the websites and/or webpages you tagged.

That’s why I said it’s VERY important you choose your ‘Keyword Tags’wisely because you want the web surfers or community users to be able to find your websites and /or webpages you bookmarked which in turn could lead to more sales for you.

Also, by making your account Public your profile and websites and/or webpages you bookmarked will be picked up by the search engines and indexed, so you will benefit from the search engines that way, plus you’ll get some high PR(depending on the Social Bookmarking service) ‘One-Way’ backlinks pointing back to your websites and/or webpages Boosting your overall link popularity and search engine ranking for those websites and/or webpages.

TOP Reason #5. VIRALIZE your Blog or Website.

Remember I told you I would reveal ‘How’ you can VIRALIZE your Social Bookmarking efforts ‘Effortlessly’ without lifting a finger if you have your own Blog or Website to multiple Social Bookmarking services.

Well here’s HOW!

All you need to do is add a piece of code to your blog or website and let your visitors do the rest of the work for you. It only takes a few minutes to do depending on your experience with HTML.

If your visitors find the information you offer of quality interest then they will definitely spread the word for you to other social bookmarking networks and communities giving you even more exposure without you lifting a finger.

This to me is a definite PLUS!

If you want to find out more about this pluggin go to ==> http://www.socialize-it.com

Well there you have it, the TOP 5 Reasons you should at least consider Social Bookmarking before getting involved.

I’m sure these 5 reasons alone are enough but who am I to make that decision for you.

Go search out a few Social Bookmarking services for yourself so you can see how easy it is to get started and visit the link above and add that code to your Blogs or Websites so your visitors can spread the word for you.

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Here is first in the series of Project Traffic for you.

Submit articles to the Top Article Directories.This is the grandmaster of traffic generation, the process of which is still very effective, yet very mundane. Fully optimize your resource box with anchor text and link backs.

Provide blog comments on others blogs. Give constructive opinions or quality information to generate backlinks to your own sites. Note that some webmasters will deem you as simply trying to get backlinks if you provide unrelated one liners.

Leverage on affordable offline advertising to drive traffic to your online site. Wear your site if you have to, on your Tees. Or print your URL on your car, external of your house, windows of your high rise apartment, as screen savers, give away URL stickers etc.

Submit articles to blog carnivals. Make sure that you submit only the best from your article collection and do not spam them.

Submit your posts to Social networking sites. This is the age of new media, social networking is a free and effective means of communication. You should leverage on this channel especially when your targeted niche are between 15 35 years old which forms the largest group of social site users. Do active Social Bookmarking. Help them help you make more friends and visitors to your sites by creating bookmarking icons on your blog.

Use offline meet ups to create exposure for yourself and your site. Around the globe and around the year, there are never-ending seminars be it internet or your related niche. Attend them and generate exposure. You may even be able to forge online and offline joint ventures via collaborations.

While some are more powerful than others, always bear in mind that every little tactic you deploy will eventually yield you some traffic, albeit not instantaneously. The key is patience.

I will leave you here so that you could start your traffic generation activities and do stay tuned for the next article in the series.

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Viral marketing is about getting others to spread your message for you. It works on the same principal as pyramid spelling! For example, you tell two people about your offer, and those two people each tell another two people and so it goes on. You only spoke to two people, but within a very short space of time hundreds of people know about your offer!

We’d all like a marketing system that worked in that way wouldn’t we?

Usually for a piece of content or a product to go viral, one of two things needs to happen:

Your content or product needs to be so unique or funny that people see it and automatically feel the urge to tell their friends or list about it

Or

You need to provide an “incentive” for your visitors to tell others about it!

In the first scenario, where no incentive is required, you can expect the viral process to happen rapidly, in some cases thousands of visitors can be generated in hours.

In the second scenario, the manufactured traffic won’t come as fast, but never the less, it will come, and keep coming for a long time. Even with scenario two, your content needs to be good, and in particular your incentive that promotes the viral behaviour needs to be of real value!

Setting up an affiliate scheme for your product and then offering high commissions to the top players in your niche is one form of viral incentive. Another is to give away rebrandable ebooks and software. Another is to use a tell-a-friend script with the offer of a reward for people who “tell their friends”.

Now for the secret tactic that I promised you in the title, it’s a tactic I use and it works!

What about offering your visitor a free gift in return for a link on a page of their site? Sounds ok, but not that viral?

Well think about it for a moment. You get backlinks, and the backlinks improve your rankings. Improved rankings bring you more traffic. The additional traffic generates more backlinks, which lead to even better rankings and even more traffic!

Now do you see the viral potential? This is a little used viral tactic that can bring big results.

I’ve presented the viral tactic above in it’s simplest form. Even in this form it can be highly effective, but with a simple “tweak” it can bring an avalanche of traffic quickly in addition to the traffic that comes from the improved rankings. All you need is to think big, and think viral.

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Hundreds of ebooks and articles have been published, all of them discussing how to use social bookmarking to get potential leads and customers. No doubt it would be possible to read all of them, but as long as you concentrate on certain key principles, you can use social bookmarking as a useful weapon in your traffic arsenal.

A crucial component of social bookmarking is tagging. By tagging your blogs with the keywords you are targeting, users can find your blog easily. These users will also be targeted, as they are interested in the topic you are discussing.

Once you have published your blog, you can then ping it using services such pingoat.com to get a flood of traffic quickly. This process has been called blog and ping and its very easy; it dosent take more than 2 minutes to ping it with many blog directories. Your blog will appear on many websites which have a high traffic flow, guaranteeing you visitors.

All in all, social bookmarking is a really effective way to increase your web presence without much effort. All it takes is a little updating to your blog every week, and you will be guaranteed a steady stream of additional traffic. It should be your only traffic source, but it is certainly a useful one!

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Social Bookmarking Tip #2: What is interesting to the public you wish for to get in touch with? The single method to find out as regards their favorites and what they will or will not hold is to observe their movement, in addition to the way of life of the community you desire to contact and generate. By monitoring, you will reveal not only the thoughts to construct or organize related gear, services or promotions, but also the techniques and plans for constructing indisputable anticipation and contribution.

Social Bookmarking Tip #3: Observe what social websites your patrons and influencers visit, and assist them achieve somewhat innovative there. This does not signify placing in your product as a social media personal ad. It may denote presenting a request that amuses or notifies, or opening and budding a community established in the region of your clients subject of attention. Warning: Establish it, help it, but do not attempt to rule it.

Social Bookmarking Tip #4: Add in a widget into your then online advertising line up. Widgets are moveable applets that come into sight on blogs, Web sites, and social networking websites. These self-sufficient functions permit page holders to personalize their websites rapidly and with no trouble. All at once, widgets permit you to hold your viewers with convincing content while as well tactically and delicately branding your business or merchandise.

Social Bookmarking Tip #5: Discover something that influences clients at an experimental stage. SOME TIME AGO, you constructed it and they arrived. These days, they will not turn up except you efficiently hold them. Explain your clientele that you were aware about them at a human being stage and not as purely clients.

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For example, a common way of getting backlinks is exchanging links with other people’s sites — that’s called “reciprocal linking.” However, a much more valuable link in the search engine’s eyes is a one-way link from someone else’s website to your own.

Furthermore, the best one-way backlinks are from sites that are about a topic that is the same or similar to yours. So, for example, if your site is about fishing, then getting a link from another site about fishing is the best type of link you can get. The search engines call this “relevance” and relevant backlinks are always better than links from websites that have nothing to do with the subject of your website.

One of the best ways to get one-way, relevant backlinks is by submitting your site to directories, which is usually a free service, but some directories do charge a nominal fee. You can find a plethora of directories by going to Google and typing “search engine friendly directories” in the search bar.

When you visit one of these directories, you will see that a directory is a categorized index of websites. You will see main categories, such as Arts & Entertainment, Business, Computers, etc. Under each main category, you will find subcategories.

To submit your website to a directory, go to that directory and click on “Add URL” or a similarly named link, and then add your website to the appropriate category and subcategory. For example, if you are submitting your fishing website, look for the “Recreation” category (or something similar) and then the subcategory “Fishing.”

You will need to enter your website URL, the title of your website, a short description, a list of keywords, and an email address. It’s best to provide an email address related to your website. So if your website domain is myfishingsite.com then you would want to use an email address like webmaster@myfishingsite.com.

If your submission is accepted by the directory, then a link to your website will be published on a page that is only about fishing, thereby giving you a great one-way and relevant backlink. As a side note, you do not have provide a reciprocal link, although most directories will offer that option …

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But how do you do this?

Ranking high in the search engines. Search engines are the kings of the internet, they receive thousands of visitors everyday and at the same time they are responsible to driving traffic to thousands of other sites and these sites receive all that traffic because they rank high on the search engines. When people search for a particular term on a search engine the sites receiving the most traffic are the ones that appear in the first few pages of the search results.

Most people say the key to ranking high is to optimize your pages with the right keyword density, keywords in your title tag, keywords here, keywords there and all of these techniques work but the one with the most value to the search engines are the links pointing to your site from other sites which are known as backlinks or inbound links.

In the early days of the internet webmasters figured out the search engine’s algorithms and they were ranking high for a whole different variety of terms in order to send people to porn sites. Let’s say you searched for the word “Golf Clubs” you could easily end up on a porn site even though the search result said otherwise. The search engines needed to come up with a solution to this problem or their business would be in trouble.

They came up with the link popularity system where the website with the most backlinks would be consider more relevant than websites with a lower number of backlinks. Google in particular will give much more credit to websites with a lot of backlinks. So if your site does not have any other sites linking back to your site the chances of receiving free traffic from the search engines will be low.

In order to determine the amount of links pointing to your site you can simply go to https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites and type in your domain name in the search box, click on explore URL and they’ll show you the amount of backlinks you are receiving.

Building backlinks to your site it’s extremely important if you want your site to rank well in the search engine and become an authority site. Start building those valuable links today and enjoy the free traffic.

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The nice thing about social bookmarking is that people can comment and rate the bookmarks that you add to a social networking site. In this way, you can have great exposure for a site and allow others to add their own ideas to it too. An example of a social bookmarking site is del.ici.ous.

News, If your blogs are more about current events, the latest technologies, or even politics, than you will want to use social news sites like Digg.com. These sites offer round-the-clock news and can be particularly popular with news hounds. They show up to comment and rate stories and depending on their popularity, you can land on the front page and get lots of traffic! So, be sure to use this site if your blog is appropriate for it.

Tags, When you write up a post, the blog interface will have a place for you to put tags in to identify what the article is about. You can simply type in some key words there, or you can use a plug-in like SimpleTags to help you identify good tag keywords. Either way, the more relevant the key words and the more searchable, the easier it is for people to find your blog. So, be sure to add that information in if you want to attract people to your blog.

Comments, As you begin to understand the blog world, you will start to develop relationships with other bloggers. You can use that networking to help you create more traffic for your site simply by going to other blogs and commenting on a popular entry. When you comment, many blogs automatically put in your blog URL in where your name appears, if you are in the same community. And, you can also use html to add your own link to an article that might be relevant to the post.

People who come to read the other blog will read the comments and if your’s is interesting they may follow your link or click on your name. Either way, this will produce much more traffic for you than simply sticking to your own blog.

RSS Feed

This feature is automatic on Wordpress blogs and a plug-in in other blogs. You should have it enabled because it allows people to subscribe to your RSS feed. This feed gets sent to their newsreader every time you update your blog, so it keeps people motivated to keep visiting, but only when new content is posted. The more regularly you update your blog, the more frequent the RSS feed is updated and the more people visit your blog.

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So you have built this website and you are wondering what to do next. How do I get visitors, how do I drive traffic, and how on earth to I make money. These questions are being asked by thousands, and for the most part remain unanswered. I believe what happens to most of us, is that we get so excited about building that first site, that we automatically think it will work on auto-pilot, just like we were told by the so called gurus.

Well, believe me it just is not that simple. After you have constructed your site, there is still plenty of work to do. You need to make the effort to get visitors to your site, sort of like an invite. Once you have sent out the invite, you task now becomes to convert them into a customer. Now these two tasks is where the real effort begins to have a successful site.

Traffic, traffic, traffic, did I mention traffic. Lets face it, if you had a brick and mortar store front with no traffic, you’re dead in the water. With out traffic, no business can survive. So, we need visitors to our site, and we need a plan to get them there.

It will be easy to say “advertise”. Create a budget, and buy ad after ad, and hope for the best. Well to me that would be a huge mistake, unless of course you have deep pockets and can afford the huge risk for little return. I for one can not do that, although I can say, “been there, done that”.

I will say though, “backlinks“. Backlinks are important for every web page. Sure anybody can make the argument about keywords, content or adwords, but backlinks are vital to the success or failure of your website. Acquiring backlinks has never been an easy task. Posting on forums, submitting to directories, buying or subscribing to get links, what ever your approach, it takes time and effort.

Backlinks are important to climb the page ranking in the search engines. Backlinks tell the search engines that you have a site of interest to others who have linked to it. Your marketing campaign for your sites, has to include the effort of obtaining links. Links can be bought or you can obtain them for free, simply by listing in directories. Beware though, that submitting to directories takes time, a very tedious task.

Any promotional effort for your site has to be obtaining those one way links, not the reciprical links that get lessen the quality of your site to the search engines. You want the one way links, pointing to your site. A terrific way to obtain the one way link is to write a simple article about you niche. I am not talking a promotional piece, but something the reader has interest in…just like you are doing here. If you just read that last sentence, you then have an interest in this article. You hope the article you write gets picked up by others and used as conten, all with a link to your website.

So, start focus your website promotion, for the first couple of months, on getting those quality backlinks!

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One innovative way to get the clicks where you want them is take part in a Social Bookmarking site. If you have not yet heard of the phenomenon, there are sites where you can store your list of bookmarks online. This is convenient for the person who’s always hopping from computer to computer; you’ll always have all the information you need at your very fingertips. Even better, you can make your bookmarks public; you can share things like your favorite news sites, or your top ten favorite webcomics. The big advantage to this sort of service comes when you realize that you are an expert. Make a list of bookmarks that feature other sites that are like yours and make it public.

Social bookmarking sites work because of the selection involved. As more people become wise to the concept of Search Engine Optimization, they are a lot more wary of the first ten hits that come up when they check Google or Yahoo. Social bookmarking works because it has the endorsement of another real person. A real community can spring up around the idea of social bookmarking and it becomes a network of people who are trading information. With the right list of bookmarks made public, it will take a very small amount of time before your blog will be getting more hits than ever before.

To get started with social bookmarking, there are a number of sites that you can go to. http://www.technorati.com/ is one of the first sites to take advantage of this phenomenon and the interface is quite usable. You’ll find more technical bookmarked lists here, which is ideal if you have a blog on computers, televisions, or general gadgetry. At http://www.stumbleupon.com/ you will find a more social atmosphere, and there is more of a focus on entertainment. If you have a blog on the latest celebrity doings or even of your photography, this might be the place for you. Though it might look less polished than the other two, http://del.icio.us/ packs a lot punch with a history that goes back almost five years. Del.icio.us is a wonderful place for almost anything you might want to find and more and more people are using it to find the information they need.

This is also a good way to find out how people are coming to your blog. What searches are they using to get there? Once you can pinpoint that, you can can tailor your blog to meet the demand and receive more traffic as well. Many blogs also offer subscriptions, which will tell readers when you have updated, and in this way, with a list of readers at your disposal, you can play your content to an audience that you know better.

Social bookmarking is a trend that any blogger who wants more traffic to his site should take advantage of and with sites like Technorati, Stumbleupon and Del.icio.us, you have many avenues waiting for your personal touch.

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