By Marc Ilgen

 As you know, traffic to your website is the lifeblood of your business. You need to have visitors come to your website, especially visitors who are predisposed to purchase your products and services. But getting traffic to your site can be a real challenge especially for fairly new websites.

There are several ways to get more website traffic. The quickest way is to use pay per click advertising, but that can get expensive very quickly and you must track your conversions to be successful. Article marketing is also a good way to get traffic over the long term, but that can take a great deal of work and some patience. Unfortunately there is no magic bullet solution to getting more traffic. You simply must use a combination of approaches to make it happen.

The good news is that there are some new and/or often overlooked methods of getting traffic that can indeed be quite effective especially when used in combination with the more established techniques like paid advertising and article marketing. One of the best such techniques is using social bookmarking websites.

Social bookmarking is a web phenomenon that has come into existence over the past couple of years. The basic idea is that instead of a user saving his or her bookmarked website links on their home computer, instead the user saves them in an online account. Bookmark links in this online account exist in public pages on the website, so a link to your website on a social bookmarking site counts as a backlink to your website. Furthermore, social bookmarking websites usually have high pagerank in Google so a backlink can have a good amount of link value. While it is rumored that Google has been decreasing the value it assigns to these links over the past year, it is still true that a large set of social bookmarking links can help increase the web site rankings of your website.

It is also true that social bookmarking sites were set up so that people can share their bookmarks. As a result, people can often arrive at your bookmarked website simply through exploring other people’s bookmarked links on these sites. So your site can achieve a certain amount of social verification by being listed on these bookmarking sites and can get some direct traffic that way.

So how do you get these social bookmarking links. There are dozen or perhaps hundreds of such sites, although the most common ones include Delicious, Furl, and StumpbleUpon. Usually you just sign up on these sites and download and install a social bookmarking toolbar in your browser. Then when you find a site you like, such as the site you wish to promote, simply click a toolbar icon and it will create a bookmark link for you. In some cases you may be prompted to add some written information about the site.

The main problem with social bookmarking your own sites is that there is only one of you, so you can get only one link to your site. It is helpful to find ways to get other people to help you out. There are forums where you can work with other people to share social bookmarking tasks or even pay a fee to get someone to do some social bookmarking for you.

The best approach is to work together with a large number of people where everyone does social bookmarking for each other. This way everyone shares the work but everyone shares the reward of lots of backlinks.

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