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If you have a site and/or a blog, you should know how the basics of making money off them goes. It's either one or all of these money-making strategies:

* People buy your service or product
* People click on your affiliate links and other advertisements and purchase from them
* The page views and page loads that you get is converted into money by some ad servers

This is, of course, impossible without traffic and attention from potential visitors which is why social bookmarking can help especially if you're just starting out with your business or site. In order to achieve good traffic from these bookmarking sites, you must first learn how to attract people into voting for your articles and making them popular for more people to see.

Listed here are a few tips and tricks (depending on how you call them) on how to create that popular article to promote your site:

1. Offer something unique
I know, I know. Being unique these days is either overrated or too hard to do. My vote is on the latter. With so many “unique” stories popping out everywhere on the internet, people's attention are divided into the many different unique articles being submitted into social bookmarking sites. Try to scour the web for something that you think would make it big; if it's not there, you can bet that it's your time to shine, and if it is, think of some ways on how to beat that existing article that you found....

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So how does one turn a seemingly generic social networking site into a bustling community full of active participants? Here are some ways on just how to achieve that:

1. Offer something that other social networks don't have
Or at the very least, make an existing function better. We see a lot of social networking sites that have practically the same content; the only difference lies in the number of users and usually, their interface. Try to compare the different successful sites that you can find and determine whether they're lacking something that you, as a user, would like to see in those kinds of sites. If you can't find anything, try to see if there's anything that you can improve to make the users' browsing and activity better.

2. Judge your site the way a normal user would
Forget the lines of codes, the costs, the time it takes to develop and all those other technical stuff. Put yourself in the shoes of a normal, average user and criticize your layout, functions, interface and other add-ons to see if they would work well even for those who aren't computer-savvy. I'm guessing that this will be one of the hardest tasks that you have to do since you know your site like the back of your hand so if you get stuck on this one, ask a friend or a family member to do the judging for you....

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