Traffic Bug- Automated Social Bookmarking ServiceAutomated social bookmarking software – for many webmasters and Internet marketers (myself included) this has been a pipe dream for a very long time. Nowadays though, some of those dreams have become a reality.

Note: From time to time you are going to see some shameless plugs for software and services on this blog. And, YES … Kev and I do get some small commissions if you click through our links and buy, or subscribe. BUT … you are not going to see any software or services that Kev and I are not actually already using ourselves. Which we both believe is the only way we can give you honest reviews or recommendations.

This post for Traffic Bug is one of these shameless plugs :-)

As an Internet marketer you will have realized by now that the key to your online success is TRAFFIC. A rubbish web site that gets lots of traffic will be more successful than the best designed site in the world that gets no traffic.

Plain and simple … TRAFFIC = SUCCESS.

A couple of years ago traffic was easy. It was mostly about “on-site optimization”, i.e. the things that you can do to the HTML code on your own page/site. Basically the process was to bang up a page, sprinkle it to death with your keywords, and the search engines of the time would give you good rankings.

Nowadays, it’s not so easy.

If you want to get any kind of ranking by Google then the key to the game is backlinks (or incoming links). This is known as “off-site optimization, ie. the things that you do on other peoples sites in order to increase the credibility (or “authority”) for your own site.

There are a lot of things that you can do in terms of “off-site” optimization, to increase your number of backlinks that point back to your site ..

  • Make posts on relevant blogs.
  • Partake in relevant forums, and have a link back to your site in your signature.
  • Submit to relevant directories.
  • Create mini-sites on the WEB 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Hubpages that link back to your main site.
  • Create separate blogs on some of the blogging sites like Blogger, Wordpress, Xanga, and Weebly.
  • Post small adverts in the free (or paid) classifieds sites, like USFreeAds.
  • Submit your RSS feed to as many RSS directories and aggregators as possible.
  • Write articles and post them to the more recognised article submission sites, like EzineArticles (the biggest and best of them all), GoArticles, ArticleAlley, etc.
  • Write and publish press releases (Google loves these) on the press release sites like PRWeb.
  • Submit to social bookmarking sites.

In order to maximize your traffic you need to do each and every one of these … and to make matters worse, you have to do it for every single one of your main keywords … over and over and over.

Can you see the amount of work involved in doing all of this ?

The key, dear reader, is AUTOMATION … work SMARTER, not HARDER!

I want to tell you about how Kev and I are automating some of these traffic methods.

The service is called Traffic Bug … and it is a social bookmarking service (it’s actually MUCH more than this) that takes almost all of the time (interpret as “mind numbing boredom”) out of submitting to social bookmarking sites, directories, search engines, RSS directories and feed aggregators.

It does everything for you on complete auto-pilot.

This even includes creating all the social bookmarking accounts that you will need if you had to do it yourself … you don’t even have to do that.

MASSIVE TIME SAVING is the result. Time that you can well spend on researching more niches, building more sites, or writing more articles (if you are not already outsourcing this).

This is how it works.

  1. Log into your Traffic bug account.
  2. Press the “Add new website” button.
  3. Give your new project a name.
  4. Fill in some details, like the URL of the page that you want the software to submit, and your RSS feed URL (if you have one).
  5. Provide up to 6 “titles” for the software to randomly choose for your submissions.
  6. Provide up to 6 “descriptions” for the software to randomly choose for your submissions.
  7. Decide on your “aggression factor” … how quickly do you want the software to post to the all the bookmarking sites, choosing from “low”, “medium”, or “high”.
  8. Finally … press the “GO” button.

You can then log out, and you will know that Traffic Bug is automatically making PLENTY of social bookmarking submissions for you, as well as submitting your site to major directories, and RSS directories, and search engines. All while you go and do something else.

Here’s the beauty you may not have realized about this software yet.

Each of the mini-sites that you create for yourself (be it on Squidoo, Hubpages, Blogger, Wordpress, etc) each has it’s own unique URL, that you also have to promote. Otherwise people cannot find them to view them before they can follow the embedded links to your main site.

Did you just notice that your submission tasks just multiplied exponentially ?

You have to social bookmark and directory submit, each and every one of your mini-sites and all of your published articles as well.

Not a problem for Traffic Bug. Just load up each and every mini-site, or blog, or article, etc. that you have written, and let Traffic Bug do ALL of the submission grunt work for you.

I cannot stress enough how easy I have found this software to use … and, according to Traffic Bugs measurements it has already saved me 5620 minutes of work (and climbing quickly). It’s not joking !!

How do you lay your hands on this handy little tool ?

Simple. Just click on the graphic at the top of this post, and sign up.

The full service costs $24.97 per month … but there is a FREE trial.

By signing up (which does not cost you a single cent … you don’t even have to enter any payment info), you will automatically get 11 days to evaluate the complete fully functional system.

You have got nothing to lose.

Now, I can hear you saying to yourself … “Hmmmm … another $24.97 per month I have to fork out…”.

BUT, let’s quickly put that $24.97 into some perspective.

Let’s say that you make 10 new promotional URL’s a month (and you should be doing WAY more than that), be they Squidoo lenses, Hubpages, or articles. Doesn’t matter what they are, but each has a unique URL that also needs promotion of its own.

Traffic Bug currently submits to 31 social bookmarking sites. To do the same thing, you would need to make 10 x 31 = 310 social bookmarks. That works out to 8 cents per bookmark.

Can you log in to a social bookmarking site (remember, you also need to create the social bookmarking account first if you don’t already have one .. which is more time and effort), and make a bookmark entry for 8 cents worth of your own time ?

And, that does not even include the directories, search engines, and RSS directories it also submits to at the same time.

For myself, it was a no-brainer.

Well, that’s the end of my review (interpret as “shameless plug”). But I can’t stress enough how handy this service is for automated social bookmarking.

Related posts:

  1. Automated Social Bookmarking Software – Traffic Bug Part 2

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