~ Promoting your blog using social networking.
What is a social / bookmark network?
It’s an online community where you can share your stories or bookmarks with others. Take digg for example. You submit your blog story to the network, allowing other members to vote and comment on it. More popular stories that receive a certain number of votes get promoted to the front page. Most social networks are different. Some even allow you to export a large number of bookmarks straight from your browser. Sometimes you come up with a great blog story. You know it will drive you a lot of traffic but you have a problem. not many people know about your great blog post. In order to get maximum attention you need to spread the word around. This is where the social / bookmark networks come in handy.
Why social networks?
· Social networks get a lot of traffic due to their nature. Users often return to read the latest stories and share their own.
· Readers are usually only one click away from your blog. A popular submission can bring you thousands of daily visitors.
· Most social networks are free and take seconds to register and submit your first entry.
· There is a remarkable number of other websites that use feeds from various social networks. A good story can spread across the networks like wild fire.
· If your story will not get to the front page you can always submit another one. In most cases there is no limit on the amount of stories you can submit.
· Most social networks are search engine friendly. Not only your story will be picked up by major search engines in no time, in most cases you will also get a reciprocal link. Some social networks have very good google page rank (PR)
Tips and tricks:
· An interesting, catchy story is often a must. Your main target is to get promoted to the front page by getting enough votes. You need to convince other readers to vote for your story. Strange, shocking and controversial stories often do well.
· You can always ask your friends to join and vote for you in order to get more votes. Don’t create fake accounts because you will simply get banned.
· The more stories you submit the better. If you want a steady flow of traffic you will need a steady flow of submissions, However you need to keep in mind the quality of the stories you submit, low quality stories will most probably get you nowhere.
. Also make sure to include a link to your website in your profile, people tend to often seek out the information on other users.
. Try to interact with the community of the social network you are using, voting and commenting on other people’s stories will build up your rep within the community.
There are a lot of various social networks around you can use, most notably: del.icio.us, Digg, Fark, Reddit and StumbleUpon.
Just enjoy your experience. its certainly more interesting compared to other methods of blog promotion, such as link development, but remember that a sudden surge in traffic to your blog isn’t always a good thing, so make sure that your blog is prepared for it 
chikapappi on Mon, 26th Nov 2007 9:08 am
Well, I have my own methods
bas that’s pretty cool 
Qwaider قويدر on Mon, 26th Nov 2007 9:11 am
Here’s my take on this angle
The issue is to first get someone to do the honors of pushing the article.
I’m sure this nut has been cracked, someone must have found an automated way to ping all sites (like through pingomatic)
Now most users are lazy, they wouldn’t even bother with a single extra click to support an article if their life depended on it! It’s an extra click. But it’s counter intuitive.
That’s why aggregators sites which pull your articles shine. They’re steady and very predictable. But can get over whelming at times.
Anyway, the answer is with an active community. You don’t need to be someone’s friend to support your community.
Ola on Mon, 26th Nov 2007 11:31 am
sounds cool!
Khaled on Mon, 26th Nov 2007 3:57 pm
Hmmm, I’ll try that on a post i’m going to publish in a moment, and see what will happen.
Bakkouz on Mon, 26th Nov 2007 4:43 pm
Chika: You and your methods
Qwaider: Once you’ve established yourself within the network, getting your stories promoted would be easy, plus aggregators cannot generate as nearly as much traffic.
Old: it sure is
Khaled: Yes, try it, but as i said: be persistent and keep submitting stories, and vote on other people’s stories too
Hani Obaid on Wed, 28th Nov 2007 1:30 pm
To be honest with you I was wondering what those sites were for, and too lazy to look into it. Thanks for the heads-up.
Tom on Fri, 7th Dec 2007 10:59 pm
I tried social networking but they just don’t seem to work..
Sorry about those smilies, just wanted to see how it looks to find so many at the same place..
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radotex on Fri, 12th Dec 2008 8:54 pm
you could also even create your own social network with a lot of the social network software that is out there.
jenna on Mon, 19th Jan 2009 12:45 pm
I know its a good technique but the difficult part is to get votes for the story so that it is visible on the homepage and gets you immense traffic. Not a link building technique but certainly can be termed as traffic building machines
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Eldo Arfendika on Fri, 20th Mar 2009 5:31 am
Wow, this article is great. Now I can understand well about social network. I’ll try to find out more..