The red arrows on the right of the image are pointing to some of the top bookmarks on the site. The top site listed has over 3700 diggs. I am sure they are seeing quite a bit of traffic from that listing!

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

To this point we have discussed creating content on various sites that will contain a backlink to your money site. We also discussed publicly bookmarking those content pages as well as your money sites.

When I refer to content pages in this paragraph I am referring to the pages such as Blogger, Hub Pages, Squidoo, You Tube etc where you will create off site (not on your site) content. Now let's discuss the submission of your RSS feed to the RSS aggregators. All of your content page providers will not openly offer you an RSS feed url, but many of them will. In fact some of them will have widgets/plugins that will allow your visitor to subscribe to your RSS feed directly from your content page. From that time on, any time you update that page they will receive a notice that the page has been updated. This not real useful for us as the content pages you will likely be creating will not be updated in the future. It is usually more beneficial to create new content pages as opposed to updating the ones we have.

However we want to submit the RSS feeds to the RSS aggregators because you can pick up visits from folks visiting the aggregator's site looking for feeds on specific subject matter. When they see something they like they visit the site in the feed. They may or may not decide to subscribe, but that is of very little importance to us.  The exception to this would be if you are publishing your content on a blog where youo would be updating the content regularly. In that case a RSS subscriber is a wonderful thing.

Just as with the bookmarking, there are many, many RSS aggregator sites to which you can submit your feeds. Again it is a numbers game so the more submissions you make, the better for your traffic building efforts.

Social Bookmarking at a Glance

Wrapping it Up

Okay, so maybe you'll get traffic from social bookmarks and maybe you won't. But the fact of the matter is that I can submit a social bookmark for my site to several hundred social bookmarking directories and that is one heck of a lot of backlinks. That will do wonders for my rankings in the search engines. So although you may not see a massive amount of traffic directly from the bookmarks, you will see traffic indirectly as your site's ranking improves through the addition of all the backlinks. Make sense? It is also true that some backlinks will have more value than others. I discuss that in more detail in the SEO section. You will also see some traffic from your RSS feed submissions.

There is a great service at www.socialmarker.com that allows you to submit several bookmarks at one time to several different bookmarking sites. It's free and easy to use.

It would be a great deal of work to do this manually. Fortunately software exists that automates the process. Software exists for mass submitting articles to article directories. Software also exists for mass submitting your bookmarks to hundred s of social bookmarking sites. Of course there is also software to mass submit your RSS feeds.  Should you decide to automate your submissions, I have presented my recommendations below. I also recommend the use of a software called SENuke which does all of this and more and is all rolled up into one piece of software. You can take SENuke for a seven day free trial at the link I have provided in the left column of this page. The downside of SENuke is that it carries a monthly fee that is expensive, but it is worth every penny of you have the budget for it.

The submission  work can also be outsourced. You can usually find people willing to do this sort of work in the Internet Marketing forums as well as elance.com. If you need more traffic (who doesn't), then it may be time to kick your marketing efforts up a notch with some social marketing.

Only Wire

Only Wire is a free tool that can get that allow others to bookmark your site. If you can make the process of bookmarking your site as easy as possible it will only encourage your visitors to bookmark it. More bookmarks means more traffic and that of course is our objective.

Once you setup your free account at onlywire.com, you will access a small bit of code that you will need to stick on your website or blog. Don't worry it is easy to do and they offer plenty of instruction for doing this. Once you have the code installed where you want it this button will be displayed on your site.

Now anytime anybody goes to click the button a small popup window will appear offering them a menu of 30 different sites where they can bookmark your site. They simply click on the small icon of their favorite social bookmarking site and proceed to place their bookmark. Here is a screenshot of the options your visitors will be offered through the Only Wire service.

Social bookmarking is a key ingredient if you are looking for free targeted traffic. Start with this general information I have provided to you and increase your knowledge as your comfort level rises.

You have a lot of work to do so you might as well get started. 

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