Its been a while since I posted to this blog. My time has been focused on learning about how Social Media Networks can help increase targeted traffic and be a useful tool in my marketing efforts without distracting from my business development. Read more

Social Media Marketing is the big buzz in the Internet Marketing world right now. I have recently been testing some new ideas behind driving targeted traffic to my sites and found a simple process revealed recently by Michael Campbell in his IMS newsletter. Anyone can make this work and pick up good traffic. Here’s all you do:

1. Create a new post on your blog or add a new page to your website
2. Go to Digg, Propeller or any combination of news aggregation sites and submit a snippet of your post
3. Go to Del.icio.us, Reddit or any other social bookmarking site and bookmark the URL of the snippet you created when you submitted it to the news aggregator (an example of this would be http://www.digg.com/my-new-snippet)
4. Ping the social bookmark RSS feed and watch the traffic roll in.

With this technique you are filtering for traffic that is interested in the post and notifying the search engines of your it in almost real time. If you are targeting specific keywords then make sure they appear in the title of the post, the title of your snippet and in the social bookmark as well. When I started using this technique I saw my targeted traffic triple. What would that do for your blog?