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Web-savvy analysts and SEO’s can’t say enough about just how social bookmarking sites like Newsvine
BEENclicked
Reddit
del.icio.us or StumbleUpon etc are very important when trying to increase traffic to a new blog or website. Often times however
many great articles go unnoticed on social bookmarking forums and sites since their front pages or headlines are not catchy enough.

Creating a good impression on web users has got to start foremost with the way your headline sounds. A site’s headline is the first
and most often the main thing users will see from your article
so if you don't make the effort to provide a catchy headline
your chances of getting to the main page are nil.

Create Attention-Grabbing Headlines

Crafting the headline is crucial in drawing web traffic. However
if you want to keep that attention always
create a meaningful description. The description must be slightly stimulating since this draws more attention but still
never use lies and false facts to provoke interest. For instance
if your write “This article will reveal to you the 10 sure ways to deal with stress once and forever and live a relaxing life from now on.”
visitors will hardly think that your story is true and facts-based.

A simple example of this would be:

Original headline : The Two Types of Cognition
Improved Headline : Learn to Understand Your Own Intelligence

Craft Interesting First Paragraphs

You could also might be lured to using long tell-it-all paragraphs to describe your masterpiece; however bear in mind that many users will not bother reading anything over 100-150 characters.

Maintain Good Content

However
the first paragraph is not key to everything. Going further along the chain of attracting
as well as retaining the users' attention
is key to top-level content. If your articles are just trash or plain bland
then bookmarking them would be useless. You might get away with it and cheat users once
but don't count on them coming back for repetitive visits. To make things worse
you can get your site banned from social bookmarking sites
when you persistently post useless trash.

Make Full Use of RSS Feeds And Newsletters

SS feeds
newsletter subscriptions
affiliate marketing are all forums wherein the traffic from social bookmarking sites could be of great help. A lot of people who come to your site and like it
will subscribe to RSS feeds and/or your newsletter.

Don’t Rehash Old News

Submitting old news will not help you in becoming a respected user. Yesterday's news is history. However
if you still need to re-submit old stuff
consider placing feature articles
howtos and similar pieces that would remain up-to-date for quite some time.

Despite the differences in the likes of the different social bookmarking forums and communities
there are striking similarities. You will soon discover that if a post is well-liked inn one of the major sites
this generally drives it up on the other major and smaller sites. An example would be that usually it is posts on site like Digg that become popular on StumbleUpon or Reddit; however there are many other examples. To use this fact to your best advantage
you may want to concentrate your efforts on getting to the front page of the major players only
and take chances on the snowball effect to drive you to the top on other sites.