Social Bookmarking Traffic: Can I Get A Little Social Love?

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Do you want more traffic coming to your blog? How about free traffic? Dumb questions, right! For some bloggers it’s not because they’re still learning about blogging, traffic development, and a multitude of other internet jargon. If you answered, “Yes” to these questions then its time to learn about SOCIAL BOOKMARKING.

Here’s the simple definition of Social Bookmarking:

“Social Bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages.”

Now pay attention to the definition and note the words “share and search”. What happens when someone finds a website and they share it with their friends? More {free} traffic! What happens when a social bookmark site user searches the Tags for things that interest them and click on a link to your blog that is listed under that Tag? More {free}, but even better TARGETED traffic!

Here are the benefits of using Social Bookmarking plugins in your blog design:

• Subscriber Participation

Engage your readers and allow them to participate in your site. Setting up a Social Bookmark plugin will allow them to bookmark and promote your blog. This sort of SOCIAL LOVE will lead to additional traffic.

• Targeted Traffic

Bookmarks are based on the use of TAGS and bookmark site users will find your site based on the Tags associated with your site.

• Website Indexing

Most Social Bookmarking sites are spidered frequently and this will enable your links to be crawled very quickly. I tested this with Digg and the post I used was crawled within 2 minutes. Forget about paying for links, just give your posts some social love.

• Keyword Linking

Want to improve your Search Engine Ranking? You need lots of one-way links and this can be achieved through social bookmarking. The more social love your site gets, the more links you will have.

• Increased PageRank

Social Bookmarking sites all have high PageRanks and this leads to link love for your own site which will improve your PR.

What are your favorite WordPress Social Bookmarking Plugins?