Ways to get traffic from Social Bookmarking sites

June 26, 2008

You can bring a lot of traffic on your website with the help of digg.com, stumbleupon.com etc. Although it might seem difficult to get to the front page of these websites, in fact it is easier than you might think. Below are a few steps to help you get to the front page of social bookmarking websites:

The first and most important point is that your headline should be catchy. Many great articles go unnoticed just because their headlines are not catchy. Remember the headline is first and in some cases the only thing seen by users. So if you do not have a catchy headline you will have little chance of getting to the front page.
The second thing which comes after the headline is a short but meaningful description. Once you have got the reader’s attention with the help of your headline you now need to keep it - and a meaningful description is vital for this. Many users do not bother to read anything over 100 -150 characters, and so one needs to think how to describe the article as briefly and interestingly as possible.
As I mentioned above, to keep the users’ attention you need to make everything catchy and interesting and the third factor in this attention catching game is the first paragraph of your article.
It’s only the first paragraph of your article which helps you to get your users’ attention. The next factor is content. If you write something trash there is no point in bookmarking it. You might get banned from social bookmarking sites if you continually post rubbish.

I will discuss more on this topic in my next post.
Nadeem Hussain
SEO Programmer