Using Add This to Generate Traffic on Social Bookmarking Sites

One of the keys to Making Money Online is bringing traffic to your site. After all, sales is a numbers game. The percentage of people who actually click on your ads is generally low; therefore, you will need a lot of visitors to generate clicks.

For example, if your CPM (Clicks per thousand impressions) is only 2%, then only 20 people click on your ads for every 1000 page impressions. Twenty clicks won't buy you a condo on the beach in your lifetime. If you get 10,000 page impressions your clicks jump up to 200. Over a year, 10,000 impressions per day may buy you a used car. If you reach 100,000 impressions per day you are now generating 2000 clicks per day. Now you're making some serious online income.

100,000 impressions per day may sound impossible but it is being done by the successful online marketers. How do they do it? They work at it very hard.

One of the best ways to generate high traffic is to get your site noticed on the social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Stumble Upon, Technorati, Propeller, Reddit, etc., etc. These sites already have established traffic of millions of viewers every day. These sites also have high page rank in Google Search Engines. If you can grow in popularity on these sites your traffic will increase exponentially.

So how do you get noticed on these social bookmarking sites?

First, you need to write good articles which would be of some benefit to the readers. If your articles are newsworthy they will get noticed. When social bookmarking site users vote for your articles it snowballs and other users tend to read the articles which have the most votes.

Second, when you create a good quality article you need to get your article submitted to all of the social bookmarking sites. It can take hours if you submit your article individually to each site. Fortunately there are software applications which simplify the process. We use addthis.com. With add this you copy the code provided on their site and paste it into your blog or website. This adds a button to your site which allows your readers to easily submit your articles to over 50 social bookmarking sites. When they like an article they click on the add this button and choose the site they would like to submit your article to. If they are registered to the site your article is automatically submitted. You can see the "Bookmark" button on our blog on the right side of this page. If you click on the button a pop up box will open listing all of the social bookmarking sites. If you click on one of the sites (we love Digg), this article will be submitted to the Digg website. If it's already been submitted all you have to do is "Digg" the article and your vote is cast.

You can add your sites to the social bookmarking sites yourself...but be careful. If you only add your own articles you will be labeled as a spammer and you will get negative votes, no votes, or your account will be banned. It's very important that you submit articles from other websites and vote on articles from other sites. This gives you credibility with other users and your votes on others sites will often bring them to your site to see who voted for them.

Using social bookmarking sites is a very important element in Making Money Online. It has been our #1 source of traffic/income for the entire existence of our blog. So go to http://addthis.com/ and get the button on your site ASAP. Go ahead and register the Social Bookmarking sites listed on the AddThis button and start generating some traffic. You won't be disappointed.

PS. If this article is helpful we hope you'll submit or vote for this article on your favorite Social Bookmarking Sites.