Get Free Traffic

One of the easiest ways to facilitate the sharing of your site URL is by providing links for readers or visitors to “share this site” with others (as the ones you can see below this post) usually in the form of little favicons or buttons–basically a recognizable image that is linked to a social network, a feed reader, or a link aggregating service. Examples of these types of sites include Stumble Upon, Delicious, or Google Reader.

If you post regularly on a company blog, it makes sense to have these buttons automatically inserted at the ending of every post. If a reader likes what you have to say, they can choose the button that is appropriate, and send a link to your blog post to other via a tweet on Twitter, a link on Delicious, a Digg, or even by email.

There are almost unlimited sites through which you can share, though you need an account on whichever ones you personally want to share through. To post the buttons on your blog post, you do not need to have an account with each site.

If you use a self-hosted Wordpress site, consider adding a plug-in that will automatically add these sharing buttons to each post. Your readers can then easily share your site with the click of the mouse, and giving them this convenience helps bring in more consistent traffic, at no cost to you.