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11 Nov 2012

Are You Using These Powerful Traffic Channels?

Powerful Traffic Channels
You've probably mastered the art of content promotion on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and the rest; doing some blog commenting and guest posting for traffic is not a bad idea either.

But if you’re too focused on these, you’re probably missing out on the opportunity to tap into some of the most powerful traffic sources which, when used correctly, can do magic for freelance writers and bloggers. Have you heard of the bookmarking websites?

Bookmarking websites, like StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg, Del.icio.us and others allow users to bookmark the pages they liked or that they want to revisit. They are generally much better organized than your browser’s bookmarking options, and people can interact with others, create relationships and followers – not as much as on social media, but still you can expect a chain reaction if your post gets picked up by some people who have more connections.

For a blogger or a freelance writer who wants to promote his work, bookmarking websites allow you to submit your posts; with the right title, description, tag and category, you can use them as a sort of search engine for serving related content to the interested groups.

Benefits of using social bookmarking websites

People who use bookmarking websites are in search for quality content they can read; they’re not your usual surfers who are looking for a quick info, and they value good content and are willing to share and recommend it. That’s why it’s relatively easy for a post submitted to a bookmarking website to go viral – of course, if it suits the audience there and if it’s submitted the right way (there is also the wrong way of submitting the posts, but more on that a bit later).

These websites are being used by hundreds of thousands of people, and many of them are bloggers who are looking to stay informed or to find an inspiration for their next post; if your article resonates with them, it can get backlinks from their blogs, which will bring you even more traffic, and is certainly good for SEO – this is the kind of backlinks that “normal” websites would kill to get.

From an SEO perspective, since search engines bots visit these websites very often, submitting your new post to them will make it indexed more quickly than it would be if you’d only publish it on your blog and tweet about it.

How to properly use bookmarking websites

First of all, no decent bookmarking website will allow you to post only your content – they would flag you as a spammer, and probably ban your account. But even if that wasn’t the case, you’d still want to mix in a lot of “bookmarking” of other articles if you want to make connections with the people there: they don’t care much to follow someone who is only posting his own stuff, much like on Facebook or Twitter. You have to share other interesting and useful content, and to be consistent with the type of the content, so that people can easily recognize what you’re all about.

When submitting your post, it’s crucial to check if it’s the right fir for the audience there. You may even want to study the posts that got the most shares, to see what kind of subject goes well and what should the formats of the title and of the article be like.

Then you have to be careful about the category and the tags that you assign to your posts. It’s best to submit the post to more narrow categories, because even though they have less members, the people interested in that sub-category will find your post more easily.

  Andrew Handely

About the Guest Author:

This article was written by Andrew Handely on behalf of http://www.midislandcollision.com/. If not all of your posts do well on these websites, it’s ok, others will. And once you get a hang of it, you will easily create the type of posts that the communities there will love. Just try it, it will cost you nothing.