Putting A Social Bookmarking Button To Your Blog In Order To Maximize Traffic by Tommie Cardenas

Many men and women who start blogs do this in order to try to get a little extra money, but without site visitors you won't be making any money. People are consistently trying to find new ways of getting more blog traffic. The biggest problem with this type of trial and error is that they seldom work and people never consider what has been proven to work. In this article we are going to explain the importance of using a "share this" button on your own blog. And specifically how this little addition can easily end up driving significant amounts of traffic.

A "share this" button is a really simple way for 1 visitor to your site to share your blog post with many hundreds or even thousands of other people. You may possibly have been on a blog and noticed a "tweet this" button. This is one way for the visitors of that blog to inform their friends about a post that might interest them.

While you can find buttons that will allow you to post to twitter as well as facebook you will want to look for a button that has multiple sites listed. By simply just having one button that merely allows your visitors to post to one social networking site can give you a tiny boost but you will want more. Ideally you will want a multi-site "share this" button that won't limit the sites that your page could be posted to. At the very least you need to add a button for the majority of the preferred social sites. While a number of people may be on facebook, other may only be on twitter and still others may just have a my_space account, in short never skimp on posting options.

If your blog is on a wordpress platform, you have multiple choices of plugins that you can use. Again when looking for these plugins and also "share this" buttons, choose the ones that will allow multiple social website submissions. In the end you want a plugin that includes all social networking sites.

Now lets take a look at just what this simple small button or plugin is able to do for your traffic. Lets say you just wrote an excellent article and someone would love to share this with their close friends on twitter. They make use of the "share this" button and presto, they just promoted your post to 50 of their friends. Now lets say that 50 men or women saw the post but just 7 chose to stop by your site and read the post for themselves. Now lets just say that out of the people that stopped by because someone shared it with them that three of those people decided to share the blog post with other friends on other social sites. And by those 3 men and women sharing, this post may possibly now be suggested to yet another 150 people. And out of the 150 people, lets say that 20 of them visit your blog and 8 of them write about the post with their good friends on their social networking sites. Keep doing the math if you desire, but one good post along with a "share this" button can truly turn in to a load of site traffic.

So well before you decide to buy the next "must have" traffic software program, try getting back to the fundamental principles like a "share this" button in order to have more traffic. And any time you are getting the targeted traffic you need the money will not be far behind.