Social Bookmarking sites like Digg and del.icio.us are growing in popularity rapidly.� Users share their favorite web pages with others.� These sites allow news and stories to be passed on very quickly.
What does this mean for your site or blog?� These social bookmarking sites can send the popularity and traffic of your site through the roof, literally within a few hours.
I would suggest that you have an account at these sites and use them to bookmark interesting sites aswell.� Bookmark a few of your best stories and see how it goes.
How do you get others to bookmark your stories? For other users to bookmark your stories, the stories need to be UNIQUE and INTERESTING (possibly humorous).� The stories that are up to par have an almost viral effect.� The more the story is bookmarked, the more opportunities� there are for people to see it, driving up your traffic.
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