Sunday, July 26, 2009

Can a Dating Site Get Traffic From Social Bookmarking?


By: Nico Kurniawan

Getting traffic is one of the hardest tasks for new dating websites. You will have to be well versed with the concept of internet marketing and perform those techniques in order to drive traffic to your website.

Unfortunately, you will be learning the exact techniques other dating sites use to drive traffic to their pages. So, you will find yourself in a very competitive situation if other webmasters offer the similar dating services like yours.

Recently, social networking websites seem to be everywhere on the internet. As much as people are on these sites, there are also chances of driving traffic to your dating business using them. Connecting your dating website to the social sites is one marketing strategy that is doing well for several businesses since they help drive traffic to a site.

Just like directories, you can submit your site to social bookmarking sites. The difference is that they have social networking and online bookmarking fundamentals to them. Websites that are bookmarked by many users have a tendency to show on the popular results persuading more folks to bookmark them and visit your site. This will drive lots of traffic to your dating website.

It's good to start with one or two social bookmarking websites and submit your URL right away. You will then be asked to give it a header and a description. Remember that the wordings you use for the header and description will determine the level of exposure you get.

Ensure that the headline is catchy and properly formatted and back it up with a short and momentous description. Don't forget to include tags relevant to the content so that people searching for similar content can easily find your dating site. Also submit your site to the correct directory.

You can submit your site to these popular social bookmarking sites

1. Digg.com
2. StumbleUpon.com
3. Reddit.com
4. Del.icio.us
5. Fark.com


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