Nowadays, social bookmarking is a very popular technique for the bloggers to drive traffice to their blogs. Even without doing much search engine optimization, you can generate an acceptable amount of traffic by using social bookmarking.

Some SEO professionals say that they use social bookmarking as part of their search engine optimization strategy. Some will say it is last on the list. But how would we know which would be better among the two techniques to drive traffic to your site?

If I am just looking for an audience to my site, I may prefer to do social bookmarking “only”. But I were to offer something, I’ll do both SEO and Social Bookmarking.

As you may know, if your site is highly optimized for a specific or variety of keywords, visitors from search engines going to your site maybe considered as targeted and there’s a possibility that it can be converted to a potential customer. That’s why social bookmarking is widely used in blogosphere since bloggers won’t sell something, except for advertisements which only needs viewers, and they just need regular readers to their blog.

To have more traffic visiting to your site whether you just want readers or not, consider doing both SEO and Social Bookmarking since it won’t hurt your site if you will be doing these two strategies in driving traffic.

For Social Bookmarking, you must keep your readers enticed with your writings to keep them visiting your site. There’s a lot of tips you can found within the blogosphere, I can’t write all the tips here since I have not tried most of them. If I can see some good results with the product of their wild imagination, I’ll share it, but if not, just leave it.

Start doing SEO and Social Bookmarking now and keep traffic flowing to your site.