Social media websites are great sources of free traffic for your blog! So, don’t miss this chance. There’s not a big secret how they work. You should have a great article, submit it to a social media website ( like digg, stumbleupon, reddit ) and then, if the people will like it, they will rate it and visitors will come. If you get popular on digg, you may get around 60k visitors and you can convert them in returning visitors if you have interesting content. That’s nice, isn’t it?

But a good article isn’t always enough. Another thing that you should know and do is building your profile! Well, that’s all about your activity there, how many friends you have on the respective social media website and so on. More friends = more people to rate your articles = more visitors = more returning visitors = money and satisfaction.

So, how do you build it? This takes time, usually, older profiles that had some activity too rank better and have more authority.

Another tip is to tell your friends about your profiles, or write on your blog (if you have one) like I wrote here. Who knows? You may get some friends from your blog too!

Another thing that you should know - don’t abuse! That’s right, don’t abuse! Don’t submit every single article from your blog. You should select only the ones that you think are interesting. Yes, I know … you would say “all my articles are interesting” so that’s why it’s good to ask a friend what he thinks about that article.

And don’t forget, your profile is like your blog. Keep it fresh, have some activity there!