Blog traffic - How to Increase Blog Traffic using social bookmarking

What is Blog Traffic ?
Blog traffic is the number of visitors coming to a blog.
What is the use of blog traffic ?
If your blog remains unnoticed by people, then whats the purpose of blogging.
Will I get traffic to my blog for free ?
Yes there are many strategies on internet useful for increasing your blog traffic for free.
How much time it will take ?
If done properly, sometimes within a day you can get many visitors to your blog.
Is this process automatic ?
No you have to make some efforts.
Will traffic lead me to monetize my blog ?
That's the first reason for what you are here for.
How much traffic my blog can expect to get ?
It's all up to your efforts
Will it increase my blog readership ?
Obviously, if your blog has some good traffic , your blog readers are going to increase rapidly
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Lets begin by knowing what is social bookmarking and how can we increase our blog traffic with it. We all know what are bookmarks. We keep bookmarks in order to remember any page or a particular point. But what if everybody around us, get to know which pages we have bookmarked. This is called social bookmarking. Its very useful in the sense that the people around us can also bookmark the pages that we did, then the friends of our friends will also come to know about those pages, thus increasing traffic for our blog.

Increasing traffic with social bookmarking is really easy, if your blog has many readers. And if your blog doesn't have many readers, no need to worry, you can increase your blog readers via social bookmarking sites.

Digg is not only a bookmarking tool, its much more than that. With digg we make friends, share bookmarks with friends and the world and comment on bookmarks of other people.

The only basic of increasing blog traffic with digg is to use it properly.

If digg is used properly it can give some huge traffic to your blog. Digg has a very simple formula of working. It allows users to bookmark web pages across the internet and the power of digg is the amount and quality of traffic it receives worldwide, eventually giving that traffic to your blog.

Any bookmark on digg.com is given a rank and the more people bookmark that blog post or website, the rank increases. The better the rank in digg the better is the traffic. How? because all the highest rank bookmarked websites or blog posts are listed on the front page of digg, thus giving those blogs or websites some quality traffic directly from digg's front page.

Digg also has some targeted categories, if the rank of your bookmark increases and it is able to rank higher in a particular category, still you get huge traffic and it keeps on increasing.

Digg also helps in increasing blog readers , as I have already said that digg has very targeted traffic, and many among those are blogger who are in search of good content.

Socializing on digg can actually increase your blog traffic by huge margins. So keep digging your blog posts and keep increasing your blog traffic and readers.

For many bloggers stumbleupon is better than digg to increase blog traffic. Stumble upon doesn't works on the principal of the digg. It doesn't rank its pages, rather it allows its users to write reviews of the bookmarks.

On the basis of reviews and ratings, stumble upon places a that bookmark on the home page of a category. Thus increasing traffic for your blog or website, which you have bookmarked.

Their are 2 more features that I liked about stumbleupon.

The first is its toolbar. It allows a user to bookmark a web page right from the browser, without the need of going to stumble upon. This tool bar also has many cool features, all of which can not be discussed right now.

The second feature is socializing. Socializing on stumbleupon is much strong than digg. With some good friends on stumble upon you can expect to receive some great review for your blog posts and a good increase in your blog traffic.

Delicious as a service is very easy to understand. Its just a bookmarking service with not much socialization build into it. If you are thinking that to increase blog traffic you definitely need socialization than you are somewhat wrong, when it comes to delicious.

Delicious works very differently from other social bookmarking sites. It does not deals with ranking or reviews. Delicious asks users to tag every bookmark with some keyword and bookmarks are searched by other users with the use of these tags. Tagging a post correctly is very important in Delicious.

According to my study of delicious a blogger need to have a good post, and a very useful post to force other members of delicious to press the "SAVE" button next to the bookmark. And now your delicious bookmark becomes viral because the bookmarks saved by anyone are viewed by his/her followers on digg, Thus increasing traffic for your blog effectively without the effort of socializing.

Reddit.com is an ugly looking social bookmarking site, but with some good potentials. It allows a blogger to increase his blog traffic by submitting his posts as bookmarks on reddit and being viewed by other users.

The very big increase in the traffic of a blog, what reddit can make, is by allowing other users to follow you. So whenever you bookmark your blog post other reddit users who are following you get to know about your bookmarks and indirectly increasing your blog traffic.