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Are You Getting Blog Traffic From Social Directories

By Imran Al Khairy

Republish: EasyPublish™ Published: 15Mar2010 Word count: 454 Viewed: 520 time(s) Get Free Content For Your Site

It is amazing how many Internet marketers are using their blog as their primary website. This makes sense because of the many benefits blogging offers Internet business owners.

However you will need to work extra hard at developing blog traffic and in this article we will talk about using social directories to do that.

Every time you post a blog article you should be submitting it to social directories. This is known as social bookmarking and is actually very easy to do.

You have probably seen icons at the bottom of a blog post for you to share an article with other readers. Some of the most popular social directories for this include Technorati, Digg, and Stumbleupon. You can even use a service such as OnlyWire.com to bookmark your post to multiple directories at a time.

The key point is that you can use these directories to drive traffic to your blog. Social directories are organized to find content based on tags that you place at the bottom of your blog posts. These tags let search engines as well as readers know what the blog article is about.

When you post a blog article anyone described to your RSS feed will be notified that you made a post which can bring you traffic. But if you rely strictly on this you are shortchanging your potential blog traffic.

By bookmarking a blog post to the top social directories you increase the potential of new readers as well provide valuable search engine bait for search engines.

Many people use WordPress for their blogging platform and they offer plug-ins that allow you to quickly bookmark individual directories. Also if you do join Onlywire you can install some code which allows you to bookmark to numerous directories with one click.

When you bookmark a blog post you can also add comments to it as well as the tags to let your readers know a brief description of what the blog post is about. By making this interesting you increase the odds of somebody clicking on it in the social directory and coming to your blog to read the article in total.

We've also mentioned search engine bait and that can lead to great traffic. Search engines will not spider your blog as often as they will these larger social directories.

Every directory has a link back to your blog which will allow the search engines to find you. When they get there if they like what they see the potential for you to rank high on individual keyword phrases increases.

This can lead to even more blog traffic and long term traffic if you land into a position on a search engine organic page and stay there.

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