The great part of getting website traffic from social bookmarking sites (like Digg , Yahoo buzz , Technorati , Stumbleupon , Delicious etc) is that you do not need to wait for your web pages to get crawled , indexed and climb high in SERP (search engine result page) . With very little effort , your website can get thousands of free hits from social bookmarking sites in very short amount of time . But this is not the case most of the time . Spammers exploit such fast growing Social bookmark sites for their spammy sites due to which policies of such sites are getting revised quickly and above all users are also getting very touchy when they view a new site that looks a bit fishy and they will only vote in favor of it if they feel that it is worth sharing with others . The point here is that quality content never gets wasted but to expose that content and make sure that it is spread in a manner it was meant to be , one needs to strive just a little more harder .
To attract more website traffic many webmasters are placing social bookmark icons on web pages that are easily accessible by their visitors . So if a visitor enjoyed reading that page then it is more likely that he or she will click on one of those icons to bookmark that web page and share it with other people in the same interest group and thus increasing traffic to that page .Many webmasters particularly bloggers are very effectively utilizing social bookmaking sites to get more traffic but there are still many new bloggers those are not aware of the fact that if they generate quality content and get it listed on social media networks then social bookmarking traffic can make a huge difference .
Few weeks ago I did a small experiment and placed a provocative image at the end of each of my blog posts . The image contained icons of some of the most popular social bookmarking sites and it said “Enjoyed reading do me a favor share with your friends before you leave” . I kept this custom bookmark image for few weeks and the results were very promising . I used to get few bookmarks in a month from my blog visitors but this custom image increased blog traffic and bookmark count by almost 10 times . Currently I am using default bookmark image and it is also working fine for me since after I changed my blog template I have less wider post area . Maybe some day I will design another custom image to fit into my posts .
The best part of using the above bookmark icons / links is that you only need to write quality content and then your website visitors will do the rest by sharing your quality pages with others . It is also not a bad idea to ask your visitors for a bookmark and it works most of the time .
If yo do not currently use those icons then you can get them for your blog for absolutely free . Here are few of the sites that can provide different designs of social bookmark buttons that will fit well in any web page .
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