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Written by Marcus Schroefel on March 26th, 2008

Will Social Bookmarking Sites Really Drive Masses of Traffic to Your Site

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Will Social Bookmarking Sites Really Drive Masses of Traffic to Your Site?

Well, it is certainly possible.

It is certainly feasible that someone might see your post and add it to their favorites, and the more people that do that, the longer your posting is likely to remain visible.

This is a particularly important factor on a site called Digg.

If enough people ‘digg’ your story to keep it on the top pages, then it is almost impossible to imagine just how many visitors that this can drive to your site or blog!

I have literally seen websites use their whole allocated monthly bandwidth in one day as a result of a story really making it big on Digg! But, in the vast majority of cases, the truth is, no, using social bookmarking sites is not likely to generate masses of traffic for your site.

But you should still do it for the simple reason that what it will do is create incoming links for your blog, and these links, are one of the two most important factors that help you achieve good search ranking.

These bookmarking sites are also very popular with the search engines themselves, and the spiders tend to visit them many times a day, so by making sure that your site is featured, you are making sure that your blog is going to achieve maximum levels of what is sometimes called ’search engine love’.

The downside is that, at the time of writing, there are no sites or software programs freely available that can ‘mass submit’ to all of the social bookmarking sites that you might want to have your blog appear in.

As you might guess, it can be a fairly tedious job making the submissions. A couple of tools that, whilst far from perfect, may nevertheless help you in your task, are OnlyWire, which claims to be able to submit your site to 22 social bookmark sites, and Socialmarker, which is supposed to work with over
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