The 5 bookmarking secrets every blogger show know

One of the best ways to promote your blog is through social bookmarking. There are two main reasons for this.

First, social bookmarking drives traffic. People on social bookmarking websites are looking for interesting things to read, vote on and comment on. They want to read your blog. And many of them will be loyal repeat visitors for the very reason that they tend to be hungry, drooling blog readers. We assume, of course, that you post riveting content to your blog on a regular basis.

Second, social bookmarking helps you build better search engine rankings in two ways. One, because the links from social bookmarking websites are fairly valuable, especially if your content gets voted to the home page. Two, because other bloggers who frequent social bookmarking websites will often build on your ideas in their own blog posts and link back to your post.

What social bookmarking websites should you use?

Some of the more important platforms include...
- StumbleUpon
- Digg
- Reddit
- Yahoo Buzz
- Delicious
- Mixx

There are also some worthwhile niche social bookmarking websites...

- BizSugar (for business-related posts)
- Tipd (for finance-related posts)
- Tipbo (for any post with tips in it) - Zoomit Canada
- Sphinn (for SEO-related posts)
- PFbuzz (for finance-related posts)
- MMO Network (for money-making posts)


There are many more, but these are all good. Here are 5 tips to promote your blog posts at these sites.

1. Make it easy for your readers.

2. Bookmark your own posts

3. Participate

4. Don't spam

5. Make the title sing

There you have it - the top five tips to make social bookmarking drive traffic to your blog.