Theme: Become Friends With All Social Bookmarking Sites
February 27, 2008It’s argued that you never want to put all your eggs in one basket when it comes to monetization of your website. Why? There’s just not as much money to be made when you rely on ONE program. But, if you spread out and try many different things, there’s no denying that you can make more. It’s how John Chow went from making $350 his first month earning on his blog to a little over $30K last month, a MASSIVE difference in a year and a few months.
The same can be said about the social bookmarking sites that we use to try and push traffic to our sites. There are many different of these and they all provide different things. Some are better for some things and some are better for others, but they are as big as they are because they provide us a service. But, the thing to remember is never to rely on one alone. Why? They don’t provide you with ALL the traffic there is to potentially get alone.
That’s why you want to take time to become friends with all the different social bookmarking sites. What one offers is different than the other, but they all offer what we, as webmasters, want: traffic. Because of that, we need to become friends with each of them. To do that, I recommend taking the time to find what articles work best on each one and then submitting one of your articles to it. If you use multiple methods to gain traffic, you’re going to get more.
But, one of the hardest parts is knowing which one to try and which ones are stupid. A lot on the web are not worth the time of day, but there are a few that I really recommend and I have found that I am getting more and more interested in submitting to these. The four that I recommend for people for the great increase in traffic are:
Each one looks different and each one provides something a little different. Some are better for bringing traffic very fast and some are better for bringing smaller amounts of traffic over a consistent period of time. Overall, though, they are all wonderful for bringing traffic. Get to know them and learn to rely on them for traffic. But, the same statement of ‘not relying on any one thing’ can be said about this; never stop building your links for search engine purposes and do blog comments to gain traffic. Do everything you can. But, get to know the social bookmarking sites. It really can benefit you.
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