Internet Marketing Success

Social Book Marking and Web 2.0

The Power Of Social Bookmarking

Boost Your Traffic

It is not an exaggeration to say that traffic is the lifeline of a business, any business, off-line or on-line. Businesses survive only through traffic. The more traffic you attract, the greater is the number of conversions from visitors to customers; the greater number of customers means, greater is your sale and this is what puts money into your pocket. Now you could proclaim you are making your online business a great success!

How do you get traffic to your website? You could pay for traffic or create traffic through search engine optimization (SEO). You need to understand how Internet marketers use Google Adwords, how they pay for clicks in order to get traffic. But not everyone could afford to spend on Google Adwords. There are other ways besides Google Adwords to build traffic to your website.

The magic wand used by millions out there is called Social bookmarking, part of the Web 2.0 concept. This tool helps to create instant traffic without spending a dime. Web 2.0 is an application that includes user generated content, blogs, wikis, free websites such as Hubpages, Digg, StumbleUpon, Youtube, etc. Out of these Digg and Stumbleupon are social bookmarking websites, there are many more like these all over the net. How do these operate as social bookmarking sites? What do they do pull traffic?

Basically social bookmarking sites work like this. Registered members of social bookmarking sites post information from the Internet that gets their attention, such as websites, blog posts, news, etc. Members could post any information on any subject with tags, with keywords. These keywords are brought to the attention of other members of the site. These members look through the posted item, review it, and if they want to vote it up or down. This is the usual process. You could check into a couple of sites such as StumbleUpon, Propeller, Digg, etc. How does this benefit Internet marketers?

There are simple ways of using social bookmarking sites to gain immediate traffic to your site.

You could register yourself in a few social bookmarking sites to start with. Make friends with other members. Bookmark websites you think are attractive or useful to you and share these sites with others. Through this process you could include your own website if you see it fit your community needs.

When you have put up a new site, post your pages to a number of social bookmarking sites, not just one or two. It is advantageous to you if you are an active member of the community at these sites. If your website is good your posts would not get voted down. With so many community members from different social bookmarking websites and with good posts, your chances of getting a lot of traffic are quite good. This is quite an effective marketing strategy.

Even a brief publicity on social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon or Digg could get a flood of traffic to your site. Once Google sees it, your site gets ranked higher. The cycle goes on once you do your groundwork by posting your site on social bookmarking sites. You get paid again and again; such is the power of social bookmarking!