Social bookmarking is one the best ways of generating traffic and creating a community around your blog. Your goal is to create a blog that is the authority on the subject. Their are probably many other bloggers out their writing about the same topic as you and you want to get in on that as well. To compete with them we are going to use a little elbow grease, some social bookmarking, and watch as the traffic comes flowing to your blog.

Here are 3 steps you can take to destroy your competition:

1. Write the best article you can about your subject. What I mean is, make sure to create an article that everybody in the world just has to read. Think like a reporter. What kind of titles do people use to draw a crowed and grab eyeballs. If you need help finding ideas search through digg.com’s home page and see the articles that have been voted for the most.

2. Submit your articles to as many social bookmarking sites as you can find. This is the way you are going to generate links and traffic to your site. The links come free from every person’s profile page when they vote for your article, and the traffic will come when your article reaches the first page of those social bookmarmking sites. The amount of social bookmarking sites you want to submit your article to is up to you. I usually use only 5 or 6 for my best articles and I don’t bookmark all my articles.

3. Repeat the process. Make sure to try again if you fail to reach your traffic goals. Social bookmarking is great, but the visitors are interested in the article, not your blog…yet. You need to increase your exposure by writing amazing content over and over again. Remember, never give up and watch the traffic flow to your site.

Web 2.0 dominates the internet now. This phrase has to do with the new generation of the internet. As part of this new revolution everyone online is heading towards community sites and sites with more eye pleasing graphics. Video sites are skyrocketing in popularity thanks to higher capacity internet speeds, changing the most common media to be video. In addition to all of this, blogs have become a very huge community drawing tool in every internet markers arsenal.

Blogs have the ability to draw thousands of visitors a day to their sites with ease. The amazing SEO abilities of a blog helps it reach higher in search engines for countless key phrases easily. To assist in your quest to reach higher levels of traffic you must combine your blogging efforts with web 2.0 social bookmarking sites like digg and delicious. These 2 elements internet combine to take a blog from zero traffic to ten thousand in a matter of a week.

One strategy that can help you accomplish your blog traffic goals is to create a link bait post. A link bait post is a post that offers a lot of information to the readers of the blog. Basically the post can have anything of use to the niche you are in. For example, if you own a site that is all about blogging and gaining traffic, you can create a post about the top 20 blogs about blogging. Many people will bookmark the page and link to it because they want to return to it and see all the different recourses.

In no time, you can see your blog getting traffic and links and we know that with enough links you can gain enough search engine traffic to create a real authority site. Increase your RSS feed readership, create a newsletter and get subscribers, create a product and get sales, and watch as your business takes off.

When you start your blog, you want to make sure everything is right. When I say everything, I mean that your categories should be well thought out, your URL should be SEO friendly, and your titles should be SEO friendly. These three aspects of blogs have a significant effect on your ranking in search engines. The reason for this is because search engines use these factors when they decide where your site should rank when people do searches.

Your URL is an important portion of your SEO efforts because it will be your main key word phrase. You want to pick on that is searched at least 1000 times a month. You can use a more competitive word or phrase but it depends on how quickly you want to rank.

Your blogs Categories are another important SEO factor because they are the inner links of your site. When you think of a blog, you think of the column that contains the categories of your site. They are text links and we know that these effect search engine ranking. You want to make them specific so search engines can rank the pages they link to using the key words you use for them. For example, use a key word phrase like, “brazilian dog toys” as your category text so that the general category page can be found in search engines. You can also create links pointing to that page using various methods.

Finally, you should pay attention to the titles of your page. These are a large portion of why your page will rank. You should target low competition phrases in your titles so you can rank well for all of them. These titles are found on the main page of your blog and link to the permenant page of your blog where your article lays.

Putting all of this together you will notice that these 3 factors help your blogs SEO. Your URL will have 2 phrase you are targeting; your main, more competitive phrase, as well as your smaller post title URL. You will also have that article on a page being linked to by your category page using a key word rich text link.

If you create links to your post page using the anchor text of the article title, you will reach the #1 spot in DAYS, yes DAYS, not weeks or months.