Are you getting traffic from bookmarking sites? Is social bookmarking a good source of free traffic?

If you're not getting traffic from social bookmarking sites you might be making a mistake. However, you shouldn't blindly listen to what people are trying to tell you. Social bookmarking can definitely be a great source of traffic, but it is not the silver bullet to solve all your traffic issues.

Here are a few things you need to know about traffic from social bookmarking....

The ever classical tips & tricks post might not seem like the most obvious money-maker.

The fact is that most people love tips & tricks they can use to make their life easier. In fact, if your blog gains a reputation for having the best tips in your niche it will enable you to build long-term traffic.

That's good!

Traffic is the key to making money so you definitely want as much of that as you can get. Additionally providing the best tips in...

Digg is one of the top 200 websites in the world. This social bookmarking site use a voting system to estimate which sites are most popular!

If you get one of your blog posts on the front page of Digg you can bet you have a sure-fire money-maker on your hands. However, that means you need to take the quality of your content up a notch.

Whether your content is humorous, serious, factual or pure fiction it needs to be of the highest quality you can muster.
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The key to sustainable blogging income is authority!

That means you and your blog need to be perceived as authorities within your market. To do that you need to create content that proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that you know what you're talking about.

That means the authority post!

The authority post is generally a relatively long blog post detailing a big issue in your market. The post needs to be at least 400 words long, preferably more!
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Are you wondering how you can make money directly of off your blog?

If you are you should considering writing a review!

A review on your blog serves more than one purpose. First of all, it allows you to make money through affiliate commissions. Affiliate commissions can serve either as the main monetization method for your blog or as a decent way to make even more money with your blog.

The other advantage of a product review is the many searches that...