Are you capitalizing on the revolutionary technique of building traffic and links that is social networking? You should be.

“The reason that social bookmarking has exploded in the last year is obvious — storing your bookmarks online instead of in the browser just makes sense.” - Scott Gilbertson

There are hundreds of blogger’s losing out on traffic and links everyday by not utilizing the awesome power of social networking. There are many reasons for this, lack of understanding is one of them, in this article I aim to eliminate this handicap.

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What is Social Networking

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.

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