Today I will continue with my series on how to drive traffic to your website by sharing some of the ways you can utilize social media, social bookmarks, and social networking websites. Below I have listed three services and how you can utilize them to drive traffic to your website.
1. Digg.com
Digg is a social news site that allows you to submit any web address, video, or image as news. Users of Digg then choose to "Digg" your content if they like it. This ends up working as a realtime voting system with the most voted for content appearing as top news stories on Digg's homepage. Where this really helps you however is with your search engine ranking. Google knows Digg is a great resource for realtime, human reviewed search results. So when you submit your content to Digg, Google is right on the spot to scoop that content up and display it amongst it's search engine results. This is a great way for you to get a website found on the search engine very quickly. In fact, I've done this in less than an hour.
2. Delicious.com
Delicious is similar to Digg but rather than require users to "Digg" content they require users to "Bookmark" content to determine it's relevancy. This is commonly referred to as social bookmarking. The idea being that you'll bookmark a relevant link and then provide some relevant tags along with that bookmark. Delicious will then determine which content is more relevant by the number of people bookmarking and tagging a particular page. In the same way Google finds Digg content relevant they also find Delicious content relevant and well sorted as well. So having a lot of well tagged bookmarked links to your website on Delicious will help your search engine ranking as well. All of this works to drive a tornado of traffic to your website.
3. Twitter.com
In recent years Google has become increasingly more obsessed with showing up to the second, relevant search results. They know by showing their users they have the freshest, more well organized information they'll be perceived as the most relevant search engine. Therefore they've gone to great length to strike deals with micro blogging service Twitter. Basically anything you post on Twitter is automatically fed to Google. Google then displays Twitter results under it's real time search feature. If you make a post to your Twitter account and include a targeted keyword or keyword phrase it will appear on Google's real time search results feature in a matter of less than a minute. So make free posts to Twitter and include the URL to your webpage along with the keyword or phrase you want to target for your website.
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