Drive Blog Traffic With Social Bookmarking, Digg, Ballhype, Yardbarker

Drive Blog Traffic With Social Bookmarking, Digg, Ballhype, Yardbarker

First let me explain Social Bookmarking. When the Internet started there was no way to organize everything till search engines. Now you can go to Google and find anything you want. Well Social bookmarking is another revolution in the Internet. People will bookmark a page and all of their friends, or people with the same interests, can find it easily.

So if you like college football, you can go to a social bookmarking site like Digg.com and find sites that people have bookmarked as a great college football site. You can also submit a story/post to these sites. It is not hard to get started. You fill out a simple application and you can get started in minutes.

How do social bookmarks help bloggers? You can submit your own stuff to the bookmarking sites. There are so many of them. You can literally spend hours submitting your stuff to bookmarking sites. The trick is to submit your work to the right ones. For sports bloggers they are Digg.com, Ballhype.com, Yardbarker.com, Stumbleupon.com, and very few others, but those are the best. The reason is that digg and stumbleupon are the biggest and yardbarker and ballhype specialize in sports bookmarks.

Do not just submit your stuff and walk away. You need to interact within the networks. Vote for other peoples stories/posts. You can leave comments. If you notice someone likes your favorite team or votes for your posts, ask them to be your friend. Join groups that are of interest to you.

Do not spam the sites. Submit your bestwork and never submit advertising posts etc… You might even want to submit someone else’s work like NESWSports.com :-). That way you do not seem like you are just self promoting.

Why would you go through all of this work? Submit your work because no one else will see it on those sites, if you do not do it. You network on the sites to build up a following of people that will vote for your stories. You want votes because that is how a story/post gets popular. When your story get enough votes, you might get on the front page and you will get more visits from those sites. That is what is known as the Digg Effect. Some sites have had server crashes because of all the traffic Digg.com has brought them.

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