In the past month I removed the default image at the end of my each blog post which says Bookmark ! I replaced it with a custom designed bookmark image which can be seen in the above image . If you read carefully the custom image says “Enjoyed reading do me a favor share with your friends before you leave” . This was done intentionally to get extra bookmarks from my visitors which I actually did received . Remember that with every extra bookmark on any of the social bookmarking sites you can get a free backlink to your blog from the favorite’s page of the person who just bookmarked you .
The following photo shows the number of bookmarks this blog got during this little experiment .
As you can see that the highest number of bookmarks came from stumbleupon users who kind of enjoy reading Kashifblog.com. So the point here is that if you modify and do little effort you can also get extra bookmarks for your blog which will bring extra traffic to your blog .
So the first thing you better do is design an eye catching bookmark image , NO . The first and the most important thing you should always be concentrating on should be writing interesting blog posts that others might find worth reading and then if they think it really deserves a bookmark then they no doubt will look at your image and say ok this is a really nice post and it deserves a bookmark and here it is . So this is the way you better be planning on getting more bookmarks and hence more traffic to your blog .
Drop me a comment on what you think about my little experiemnt and what else you think can be done to further increase the number of bookmarks . I am always open to interesting sugestions and opoinions .