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Website Traffic Series Part 15: Promoting Posts That Link to You on Social Bookmarking Sites

By Mark Felix 25 Comments Reading Time: 3 minutes

First of all a small announcement: I will publish all the “Website Traffic Series” posts on Thursdays now. This should encourage me to write them more consistently, and the readers will know that every Thursday they will find a new traffic generation strategy posted.

Now about today’s post. Last week we talked about how you can use social bookmaking sites to promote your own content and generate traffic. Well, curiously enough, you can also promote other people’s content to generate traffic to your own site!

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The concept: You probably know that social bookmarking sites can generate tens of thousands of visitors to a website that gets featured on them right? Now, what if a particular page or post receiving a huge amount of social media traffic was linking to one of your posts? You would end up with a good amount of referral traffic.

The idea is simple therefore: whenever you come across a high quality page or post that is linking to your website, help to promote it on social bookmarking sites. Practically speaking, give it a thumbs up on Stumble Upon, digg it, bookmark on Delicious and so on.

Notice that I mentioned “high quality page or post” because it would be useless to go around voting for every post that is linking to your blog. They need to be appealing to social media as well, else your efforts helping to promote it will be fruitless.

Does it work?: Yes, although the referral traffic you will get will not be huge. Conversion rates for links inside posts gravitate around 1% (rough estimation for the sake of the argument), so if 100,000 people visit the post that is linking to you, you should expect 1,000 to click on the link that leads to your website.

The traffic is not huge, but every bit helps right? Additionally, this is a win-win situation, because you will also be helping someone that was willing to link to your site on the first place. It is a way of saying “thank you” for the link love, if you will.

Finally, if people notice that you are willing to help them out, they will be glad to help you in return, perhaps promoting your articles on social media as well.

How to get started: Applying this strategy is really easy, you just need to keep your radar up for people that link to you blog. Most blogging platforms display the recent backlinks on the control panel, so that is a good place to start.

You can also use blog tracking services like Technorati to monitor that. Try to identify that posts that have good value (e.g., a big list of resources, a comprehensive analysis on some topic) and then just promote them on social media.

Over to the readers: Do you have the habit of promoting posts and sites that link to your own? Have you noticed any traffic coming from it?

Website Traffic Series

  • Part 1: Using Web Design and CSS Galleries
  • Part 2: Submitting Your Content to Blog Carnivals
  • Part 3: Leaving Comments on Other Blogs
  • Part 4: Faking A Website Sale
  • Part 5: Pulling an April Fools Prank
  • Part 6: Using Forum Signatures
  • Part 7: Putting A Blog on Your Static Website
  • Part 8: Adding a Forum to Your Site or Blog
  • Part 9: Buying Targeted Traffic
  • Part 10: Using Email Signatures
  • Part 11: Putting Your URL On Online Profiles
  • Part 12: Emailing Bloggers to Showcase Your Best Content
  • Part 13: Faking a Hacker Attack
  • Part 14: Promoting Your Content on Social Bookmarking Sites
  • Part 15: Promoting Posts That Link to You on Social Bookmarking Sites
  • Part 16: Promoting Your Content on Social Networking Sites
  • Part 17: Using Article Directories
  • Part 18: Exchanging Links with Partner Sites
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About Mark Felix

Mark is an digital entrepreneur from New York City who recently acquired DBT. He started his ventures buying growing then selling several businesses and content blogs on Flippa. A perfect night for him constitutes pizza, wine, slow jazz and WordPress! He's an SEO expert and a growth strategist. When he's not working on his businesses he enjoys sharing his learned lessons with the DBT community.

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  1. medyumon says

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    Great Idea something I have come across various times but still need to put in to action.

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  2. List of 150 Social Bookmarking Siteson says

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    Here is the list of social bookmarking site you also could use!

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  3. Daniel Scoccoon says

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    @Stu, it could help, though comment links will have an even lower conversion rate.

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  4. Four20on says

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    Agreed. . .the post just seemed to look like you actually did the calculations

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  5. Stu McLarenon says

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    Do you think this method is effective if you are engaging in a conversation within the comments?

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  6. Daniel Scoccoon says

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    @Ali, got that already :), and thanks for the mention.

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  7. Daniel Scoccoon says

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    @Four20, yeah that is right.

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  8. Nick Stamoulison says

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    This is a great tip as the more quality content you put out on the social networks, the more credibility you gain and thus people will pay attention to posts later submitted. Great stuff!

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  9. Four20on says

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    I love how Daniel just throws in the %1 click through rate in there. There is no way to determine this. It would be different for each social media website(digg, stumble, buzz, etc). . .it would be different for each link(where it’s at, how you’re linked). . .it would even be different for the person that submitted you to the social media website.

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  10. Ali Hale (from Alpha Student)on says

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    What a cunning tactic! I can see how this could work well not only for you, but also for the blogger kind enough to link to you. May go and try it with my guest post on ProBlogger (“Choosing Your Categories” if anyone’s interested in having a read) …

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  11. Thad Pryoron says

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    Thanks Daniel, some great tips — appreciate your hard work.

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  12. Todd Andrewson says

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    A good idea, but seems like a lot of work for a smaller percentage of clickthroughs.

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  13. Clog Moneyon says

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    This can be really affective, you just have to look at John Chows success from this method. Be prepared to spend a lot of time befriending users on these sites before you have any chance of getting your articles promoted to the top positions mind…

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  14. TechZoomInon says

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    I didn’t tried yet with these.

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  15. Ben Morenoon says

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    Brilliant idea Daniel! I already got 2 great posts in mind. Thanks!

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  16. Harmonyon says

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    I am just tapping into the SN idea…(I know SLOW).
    Could you direct me to one of your posts that might help me get the foundation understanding of how and why they work for your blog, which one to start with, and how to cultivate it’s effectiveness?
    Thanks so much for all you publish here!

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  17. Luca – Reach Success Onlineon says

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    Great tip. I’ve got a bit of catching up with these posts and will start to apply your traffic tips.

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  18. Nancy Sutherlandon says

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    Thanks for the great post. Would this idea work if every time that someone posted one of my ezine articles on their site I promote it? I am trying to understand the concept. I never put the ezine articles on my own site.

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  19. Muhammad Siyabon says

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    A really good tip this,

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  20. Adam – Creadiv.comon says

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    Great post, I think it this method has been nicknamed Link Boosting. Because as you boost the site linking to you it will boost the power of your link and possibly the pr of your site.

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  21. SEO Geniuson says

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    Great Idea something I have come across various times but still need to put in to action.

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  22. Youngon says

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    Thanks, Daniel.

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  23. Daniel Scoccoon says

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    @Young, I use Stumble, Digg, Reddit and Delicious daily.

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  24. Youngon says

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    What social bookmarking sizes you usually use? And how often do you bookmark a site?

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  25. interwebhunton says

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    its a great way to promote your own content a little more subtlety then bookmarking your own site. Not to mention you’ll end up getting a little more link juice in the long run more then likely.

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