How to Make Your Articles Social Bookmark Friendly
The best way to explain social networking is to give an example. One of the social networking leaders is Digg. Which recently almost got acquired for $200,000,000 by Google. Basically you can do two things on Digg.
* Submit - On Digg you have the choice to Digg either an article, picture or video. This can be your own work or others (hint hint dofollow link)
* Digg - Once something has been submitted to Digg you have the option to ‘Digg it’ if you think the content is worthy of your ‘Digg’. Basically this is like voting for a candidate in an election.
If the submitted item gets ‘Dugg’ by enough people in a certain period of time it will appear on Digg’s front page. This provides great exposure to to your blog. A typical front page listing can send you around 20,000 unique visitors within a couple of hours, if your host can handle it.
How do I Make My Articles Social Bookmark Friendly Then?
If the thought of thousands of visitors has enticed you to delve deeper into the world of social networking you’re probably wondering what you need to do harness this great power. Below are the two simplest ways to get started in social networking.
* Create an Account - How can you expect to be sociable if you’re not a member? Quickly create an account on all the ‘big’ social networks, you can find a great list here: List of Social Networks
* Meet some people - Once you have joined up its time to meet some people, if you can find people sharing you interests they are more likely to vote for your stories to become popular.
* Make your posts ’sociable’ - One way to use the current traffic you’re receiving is to ask them vote for you. A great way to do this is with Joost De Valk’s ‘Sociable‘ Plugin. You can see this in effect at the bottom of a lot of pro bloggers posts, why? Because it works.
Once you have set up your profiles and made your blog social bookmark friendly the next thing to do is write great content and promote the heck out of it!
I hope todays article will be the first stepping stone on your way to social networking domination and I will be sure to write more articles in the future to increase your knowledge of this area even further. If you have enjoyed todays post please leave a comment
