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Social Bookmarking Sites – Do They Provide Quality Visitors?

In my recent Simple Blog Promotion Tips post, I recommended using various social bookmarking sites to promote

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your blog. Well I have been doing some research with these avenues of promotion and I am not convinced that they drive “quality” traffic to my blogs. I have been playing with post titles and my review comments when submitting my content to these sites and noticed these 2 trends:

• If I created titles to resemble a news story, I immediately had a rush of visitors. In one case, approximately 230 in 7-8 minutes. I then checked the bounce rate (the percentage of visitors that exited my blog on the same page they entered) on Google Analytics and found that 85% immediately left my blog
• People using these sites are typically just browsing and are not really intent, at least at that moment, on digging deep into the sites they surf

I am not saying that these are a waste of time but these visitors usually DO NOT stay to check out the rest of the blog content. I have been asking in forums and other bloggers I know and they all agree with what I found.

Do not get me wrong, I will not stop using these sites. Maybe out of every few hundred that I drive to my site (with a few clicks of a button), I may get lucky and receive 1 subscriber to my feed.

If you have a different experience, please comment and let me know. I would like to know what is working out there!

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Simple Blog Promotion Tips

Next to providing GREAT content, promoting your blog is a necessity for gaining followers. Here is a list of simple steps I have accumulated from various blog posts I have read.

• If you have a great post, ask other bloggers to link to it (use the contact page of other blogs to email the blogger privately)
• Use social bookmarking sites – Simple Delicious, Reddit, Digg and my favorite: Stumble Upon are just a few
• Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Youtube  (Your post may go viral)
• Submit your blog and feed to directories such as: Blogged, Blogcatalog, Bloggeries, EatonWeb Blog Directory, Bloggernity, Bloghub, Blogarama, Bloggapedia, Blogoculars just to name a few.
• Ping blog services using Ping-o-matic
• Link posts within your blog
• Article marketing on sites such as: EzineArticles.com and ArticleBase.com
• Comment on other blogs
• Ask readers to subscribe either to feed or by email
• Advertise your post or blog using Google Adwords or any similar type service

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