Use Social Bookmarking Properly

Social bookmarking sites can generate huge traffic for your website or blog. Being listed on the front page of a popular social bookmarking site can get tens of thousands of visitors to your blog. Some social bookmarking sites allow "do follow" links back to your site. These links will boost your search engine ranking.

Many people submit their blog to social bookmarking sites and expect tons of new readers to their blog. That's not quite how it works. The key word is "social". Social bookmarking sites are a community. In order to get more visibility for your posts you must be active on the sites. Add those with similar interests as friends, comment on posts that interest you and bookmark interesting sites other than your own. These things will get you and your bookmarks noticed in the community.

There are an overwhelming number of social bookmarking sites you can use to get new readers to your blog. It's impossible to stay active on them all. Choose 5 or so that you like and stick with them.

List of popular social bookmarking sites.

Share Your Knowledge On Other Sites

A very effective, but often overlooked way of finding new readers for your blog is to write articles for other sites. There are two ways in which this drives more traffic to your blog. The first, and most obvious way, is by directing readers to your blog via a link at the end of your article and/or your profile on the article site. The second way is that it creates backlinks to your blog. Search engines recognize these links and take them into consideration when ranking your blog.

A common mistake bloggers make when posting to other sites is posting an exact copy of their blog post to the article site. Search engines will penalize you for the duplicate content and this will kill your search engine ranking. Your posts should be rewritten before being posted on the article site. This can be time consuming, but will pay off in the long run. You can save time by using a goodarticle spinning and submission service. Human Rewriter offers a $5 free trial to new customers. If you are just starting out you may want to save some money by using a free article spinning software.

In addition to gaining exposure for your blog, some sites will actually pay you for your articles. Some pay a set fee for the article. Some share advertising revenue generated by your articles. Others allow you to place Adsense or other affiliate links on your article pages.

When using this method you will want to post on as many article sites as possible. Click here for a list of good article sites to submit to.