For a SEO newbie the answer to the question can social bookmarking sites increase traffic or Help Website SEO? Will quite obviously be NO. However this is an absolute false answer. We can agree that social bookmarking can be less useful but not completely useless.


Only a SEO services provider can have facts to prove the usefulness of these sites in increasing the traffic to a website. Here are a few tips which can help you use the social bookmarking sites in the most effective manner:

•    Have an attractive headline and short description.
•    Use social bookmark buttons to make it easy for others to bookmark your site.
•    Select the most appropriate category to submit your article or news.
•    Check on all your errors, nobody likes to read an erroneous content.
•    Let the topic you want to write on be latest or the most interesting.
•    Give the links to related articles or other useful articles this will keep traffic pouring in even if your post is not on the first page.
•    Add links to popular articles or something similar that can draw visitor’s attention to other stuff on the site and make them read more than one article.
•    Have the newsletter subscriptions, RSS feeds, affiliate marketing programs and others on the top of your page. These can help your popularity.
•    Automated services have a malware and often can negatively affect your online reputation. Avoid using them and make efforts to do it yourself.
•    Comments are also a great way to keep the ball rolling. Reply to comments on your post and also make an effort to post comments on other interesting posts.
•    Make sure your server has the capability to handle huge traffic or else it might break down every two days. To stay away from such a situation a better quality server is always advised.
•    Divert all your efforts to rank well on one of the most popular social networking sites you will automatically rank well on the other similar sites.