Free Traffic Tips

Some people think Facebook, is a waste of time.

And it can be – IF you’re prone to time wasting. You don’t have to be if you learn how to use it properly.

There are plenty of less vocal people who believe StumbleUpon is for amateur sharers. And of course there is the big camp of people who think all social media, including blogging and social bookmarking, is a huge waste of your resources that you won’t get anything back from.

What’s so often missed here is that, under different circumstances, the view of tools as useful and/or useless are right. A powerful weapon in the hands of a novice is impotent.

And yes, I mean that the dirty way.

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As you finish with basic sharing of sites, you’ll likely want to move on to the subset of those sites that you want to vote for, or submit to a social news site.

What you’ll run into at some point is that as you’re submitting stories, many of the links you’ve submitted are already present. The way you’ll find this out is as you’re submitting- this can quickly turn into a waste of time. Or, if you’re often the first submitter, by the time you’re visiting other submissions and voting, there’s a pile of new sites to see and vote on.

You can overcome this by setting aside time to look on the popular and upcoming page for stories you’ve already read at other sites and voting for them, when you first log onto the site, before your submissions.

Then, when you’re adding your sites, you’ll have an idea which ones to skip. Of course, if you want to be the first to submit a great story, this can get in the way. But you’ll build a better following by keeping most of your submissions to completely new discoveries rather than brand new submissions from sites everyone already knows about..

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Depending on what industry you’re in, or what country you’re from, you will find that a particular time of day drives more attention to the links that you have submitted to your favorite bookmarking site. There are also dead spots in the day, or certain days of the week where it’s harder to get noticed.

Experiment with the time of day that you share and take note of the effect. Extend that to the day of the week, or even the seasons.

Since the links you are submitting will be for other people, you can’t tell from the server logs which link is getting the most traffic, because of course, you can’t access that information. What you can do is look at other signs that might give you a clue that the site is busy at the time you’re online.

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