Posted on March 25th, 2010Blog promotion is an important part of blogging. You want people to read your blog, hopefully share it with others, so you should take some time to actively promote it yourself. But, there is a method that allows the blog to promote itself. Social bookmarking can help you to do this easily and effectively.
By submitting your blog to social bookmarking websites people can see your blog details and a snapshot of your blog on another site. Your blog can appear in the sites search results and you can enter keywords relating to your individual posts so that people can find your blog more easily.
Social bookmarking also gives your readers an opportunity to rate and comment on your blog giving you essential feedback, but more importantly, attract other people to it. Some bookmarking sites allow a registered member to vote or give a thumbs-up for the blog which makes them even easier to find and so more people start to add comments. This voting allows people to find out what’s hot at that particular time and spread the word about a blog that is something worth reading.
Social bookmarking not only gives you vital traffic from their sites but can also be great for your ranking in the search engines. These sites tend to have great ranking themselves and so every link to your blog counts as a quality link; and the more successful your blog, the more links you get because every user’s profile who rates your blog will show a link to it.
As with most things on the internet, more is better. There are lots of social bookmarking sites now so it is well worth registering with as many as you can because they will all bring traffic, and also promote your blog for you without you doing a thing.
Joining a social bookmarking site is easy, and can also be a great place to look for other blogs you may want to read, comment on and recommend. By doing this you will also have those blog owners looking at your blog in return, and hopefully, recommending you too. It really can become a social experience and a great way to get more visitors and start a buzz about what you’ve written; and you never know your score could be well on its way to being one of the top blogs of the month, or even all-time.