How To Use Social Sites To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

There are some blogging truths you need to discover as you commit more of your time to digging out the skills that will open your eyes to how top fliers drive massive traffic to their blogs. Please remember that you can make money without getting people in numbers to read or view your blog.
What has social or bookmarking sites got to do with your blog traffic? That is what you will find in this article culled from blogging truth.com

'Social Bookmarking (adding your sites to bookmarking sites like Digg) sometimes known as SB in short is one of the biggest traffic generators to the blogs.
They help in following ways : -
Wide Exposure - Your posts after being added to social bookmarking sites like Indianpad, Digg would show your posts to a large audience who would come to know about your blog.So this is a big exposure and way of getting new feed subscribers & traffic.

Direct Traffic - If your article is good enough & few people vote for it, then that would bring you a bunch of traffic to your blog which can help improve Alexa ranking which is crucial. You know the sites/links which get enough vote in Digg.com to appear in front page get about 50000+ unique visits per day if they stay in homepage for sufficient time.

Good Backlinks - Many social bookmarking sites like Digg provide quality backlinks as they are the one very much liked by Google and usually come at top of searches. indirectly you get google juice as a part of SEO and organic traffic from Google search. Also search engine ranking of your blogs increase due to lot of incoming links. Still you have to remember that not all bookmarking sites pass Google Juice to links. StumbleUpon which is much known for targeted traffic it provides has all the links in nofollow so does not pass PR or SERP.

How To Boost Blog’s Traffic & Exposure : -

Select Social Bookmarking Sites According To Niche - Some bookmarking sites like Digg are general and don’t comply to any niche. So posting your top blog posts there would bring traffic. one advice is never post all your articles there as either they may ban your site due to spam or you and your articles may not be liked by Diggers who would bury your items instead of digging. For General news, entertainment news,Hollywood etc the bookmarking sites are Digg, Indianpad,BestOfIndya (Indian entertainment niche) and at last but not the least my own social bookmarking site Urlpix.Com which may be new but gets good traffic as it is well promoted.

Not All Bookmarking Sites - I’ve seen many professionals give service like submitting your site to 50,75,100 etc bookmarking sites but we have to remember that they may provide backlinks but not traffic. Sites like Digg.com where the users vote for articles provide real traffic & more votes->more traffic. But bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us are meant to share & store links/bookmarks online. If many people would save your article then chances are there you may appear at their homepage which consists of most saved articles, but that is very difficult for content sites like blog. So you should not waste time by submitting to those sites where each article does not get exposure at instant but in social bookmarkings like Digg your articles would appear on upcoming news to be digged & taken upwards.

Submit Best Posts Only - Submit best of your posts to these bookmarking sites but for bookmarking sites like Indianpad.com, Urlpix.com you can submit all your posts regularly as they would provide good traffic.
Keep Submitting Everything Before Your Blog gets Popular - one thing i marked is after you keep on submitting good posts to these bookmarking sites, you would get a bigger audience - more daily traffic, more feed subscribers after few days even tough you don’t submit any more to those bookmarking sites. this is because your site has got good exposure & hence something like a buzz is spread to many potential readers.

Stumble Rumble - StumbleUpon is more a social networking than bookmarking where you share a link(may be some of your top blog posts) but it is made in a way where people visit your site if interested and traffic is targeted to your content(you should use appropriate tags while submiting)'.