by Brian Cody

Created on: January 02, 2011   Last Updated: January 06, 2011

Developing a well thought out social bookmarking strategy, can be a cost effective on-line traffic building method. You should write on-line article content that will solve your readers problems that are related to your article topics.

Social bookmarking strategy systems will increase your on-line traffic to your web site.  The purpose of article content writing is to build your on-line reputation as a trusted authority source of accurate information.

Consumers today are doing their on research on your products and services.  Those consumers will most than likely purchase your products and services after they see a neutral 3rd party recommendation.  Social bookmarking sites can provide that 3rd party referral recommendation.

One of the easier steps that you want to take is to add an RSS feed to articles, blogs and websites. The readers will then be able to get any further updates from your blog or website with the RSS feed.

Another step that you can take, is to build your on-line branding.  You need to utilize the same professional photo, also write a tag line that describes, you and your business.  Provide your contact information on all the bookmarking sites that you subscribe to.

Some of the top social bookmarking sites include the following;  Delicious.com, Digg.com, FriendFeed.com, Ping.Fm.com, StumbleUpon.com.  These bookmarking sites can add 100's to 1,000's of on-line traffic hits to your web site.

You want to be consistent with posting your article's on-line.  Set up a regularly schedule time to post your article on a weekly basis. Consider posting at least  two or three articles weekly. Sunday's, Tuesdays, and Thursday night are high traffic days.

Build a profile on the following sites;  www.Facebook.com, www.Linked In.com, www.My Space.com,  www.Twitter.com.  You can then post your articles URL on to the different sites.   Your fans, and friends can then choose to read those article postings.  Those fans and friends will then forward your article to their fans and friends.

Within FaceBook, LinkedIn, My Space, and Twitter you can join groups that relate to your article topics and businesses.  You can also post your article within that professional group to gain additional readers. 

Other social bookmarking strategies include joining on-line discussion forums groups that relate to your business and article topics.  You want to participate within those discussion group's  by offering helpful relevant answers to  readers questions.

Generating on-line traffic hits to your blog and web site is a time consuming effort.  However, that effort will pay off with increased traffic hits and increased sales.

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