Social bookmarking sites have become a boon for bloggers to drive in amazing targeted traffic.

People in need of a particular content are always on search of the related information, and it is at this point the social bookmarking sites have gained importance.

You may not believe in the claims of the author of an article and authenticity of a post in a blog. But what if some hundreds of similar web viewers believe it really worked for them and they liked the article? Won’t you be interested in reading the post then?

Most of us believe in the reviews of the common visitors than some paid professionals. They simple logic has all it’s means in making the social bookmarking sites a huge success.

Out of many in the lot, few sites like stumbleupon, digg, reddit and technorati have gained huge success and popularity in no time. The user interference and reliability of information of these social bookmarking sites have made both the content hunters and publishers gain success.

Users can find related content and the most recommended blog post for the niche in which they are searching. The relevancy of the original blog post cannot be questioned as it depends on the number of viewer recommendations. If a person having an account in a particular social bookmarking site can recommend your blog post and can share it with his friends in the network.

The hot topic gets a slot in the home page of these social bookmarking websites. This can drive in thousands of visitors to your blog and most of them will be targeted visitors. This ultimately helps in more newsletter/rss subscribers for your blog. The more the subscribers and the visitors to your blog, the more popular becomes your blog.

Thus, in order to drive in huge amounts of traffic to your blog, first you need to create some great content and publish it. Have an account with site like stumbleupon or digg.

Add the socialbookmarking plugins to your blog posts. There are many such plugins available for free if you are using wordpress. Else, alternatively you can also embed a simple html snippet and paste in your blog post. This enables the viewers of your blog to stumble or digg it meaning they liked the post and are recommending it to their friends in the network.

This increases the chance of more recommendation, more views, more recommendations, more traffic. This becomes a chain process and in a very quick time you can see your visitor statistics go high. Have a look on your bandwidth and upgrade it immediately if you feel necessary.

Thus said, it is the content and right strategy to drive in enormous traffic from the social bookmarking sites.

One more reason why bloggers love these social bookmarking sites are they get some relevant information, ideas on blog posts and keep an eye on what’s hot in their niche. Also, these social bookmarking sites are Search Engine friendly and drive in huge traffic through the popular search engines like Google and Yahoo.

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I’ve just completed a bulk load of directory submissions for my Phuket website. There seems to be some debate as to whether it’s worth the time and hassle of submitting your website to directories. For a start, Google views directories less favourably now than in the past, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get some benefits.

I personally don’t see any reason not to submit your website to directories. Doing it one by one is a laborious process, so my suggestion is to pay someone from Digital Point $10-20 to do a bulk submission.

Be sure to select an appropriate category for your website and ensure that you set up a junk email address as some of the submissions will need confirmation and all will need a valid email address.

Submitting to directories is a straightforward way of building links. If you submit in bulk then you can ctratch directories off your SEO list almost right away. Directory links won’t help too much with SERPs, but they will make your website stronger, even if only just a little bit.

Perhaps you’re dead set against submitting to directories. I think it’s better to submit than to not submit given the low cost of getting your link into a couple thousand directories at a time. Share your thoughts.

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There are numerous way you can build links and drive traffic to your blog or website. One of the most effective and one that anybody can do with ease is article marketing. There are lots of article websites that accept submissions on all manner of different topics. You write a unique article, submit it and if it meets the website’s requirements it will be accepted.

Some article directories allow you to include links in the body of the text, but most will only allow links in the resource or bio box. This is where you write a little snippet of text with a link or two to pages on your website or blog.

Deciding what to write your articles on is simple enough. Look at which keywords you’re targeting and turn them into articles. Be sure to include your keywords in the title and body of your articles. Depending on the keywords and niche you are targeting, you could see your article rank well in search engines.

Keep building articles and you’ll be building up relevant links. The traffic will come if you’re articles rank well and contain information that people find useful. If you write something that people want to read, they will be inclined to click on any links you provide to find out more. I have numerous travel articles about Phuket dotted around the Internet.

When you submit your article to a directory, you’re offering it for people to use on their own websites. The bonus for you is that when someone uses one of your articles, they must include the author bio or resource box. Thus, you get even more links and possible traffic. Write good articles and people will pick them up.

You may have seen people offering services to submit your articles to hundreds of directories at a time. Use these services with caution as search engines will not index hundreds of pages containing exactly the same content. However, some people claim that submission to multiple websites has helped their SERPs. It’s really just a matter of experimenting and trying various tactics.

Keep tabs on your articles and watch where they end up in search results. Write different articles targeting the same words and submit them to different article directories – there’s no point in limiting yourself to Ezine Articles.

Though it takes work, it’s not difficult to write a 400-word article about a subject you know well. You could probably write such an article in about 10 minutes. Of course, you should be putting most of your time into writing content for your own website or blog, but once you have an end product that you’re confident people will want to see, you can start hitting the article directories for all they’re worth.

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