Reach out to the Social Bookmarks

A great way to get backlinks and traffic is Social Bookmarks. Everyone knows that, but you need to reach out to them for it to take effect. Afterall, you aren’t going to get millions of social bookmarks by doing nothing at all.

Some tips recommended to reach out to websites like Digg, Stumbleupon and Propellor:

• Bookmarking Icons - At the bottom of the blogpost/webpage, put a lot of social bookmarking icons. That makes it easier for people to bookmark your site, and therefore making it a lot more likely that they will do so.
• Submit it Yourself - Submit your page to the social bookmarking websites yourself, and maybe ask a few friends to do the same for you. That way, on websites such as Stumbleupon, people can just stumble your site easily since the website is already in the database.
• Swaps - Do social bookmarking swaps between people. Everyone wins that way.
• Auto-Bookmarking - Some websites provide robots for certain websites that let you use it to bookmark your website a lot of times so it gets more attention. Some of these aren’t free, but if they are for popular websites like Digg.com, it can be highly effective.
• Good Content - People aren’t going to bookmark your website if the content isn’t good. Provide it nice and clearly and make it interesting too!
• Write About Them - If you just want your site to get attention in general, write about these Social Bookmarking websites. For example, if you make a long list about something to do with Digg.com, and then you submit it to Digg.com, users like these lists and you may get a lot of Digg’s for it.
• Don’t Leave it - Ask - At the bottom of your website, provide a small text asking for bookmarks. People won’t get that annoyed if its not in the way, and if the content is good, you may just get that extra few bookmarks that you need.

If you follow these tips, you should get your pages getting traffic from the Social Bookmarking websites in no time.

Stumble it!