One of the most successful social bookmarking web services out there is del.icio.us. del.icio.us (pronounced as “delicious”) is a Yahoo! online service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The primary use of delicious is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On delicious, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders. Since delicious is a social bookmarking web service, it is a good tool to drive traffics to your blog.

In order to drive traffics to your blog, it is essential that your posting is featured on the delicious HOTLIST. Postings that are featured here will be spotted by users at the delicious main page, RSS feeds, and other RSS aggregator services eg. popurls, digglicious and many more. When somebody sees your link at a social bookmarking website like delicious, they might bookmark it. This is a great opportunity for your posting to go viral and in turn drive in more traffics to your site.

Here are some simple guides on how to drive traffic to your blog by using delicious.

1. Write attracting headlines. Headline is the first point of contact for your posting. Users that browse through daily RSS feeds will bookmark it on delicious for future reading.

2. Content is KING. There is no doubt content is the most important part of a posting. Great content and attractive headline are the basic ingredients for a posting to be successful.

3. Encourage your readers to bookmark. Provide delicious button at the end of your posting to make it easier for them to submit to delicious.

4. Get social. Delicious is a social bookmarking service. In order for others to bookmark your posting, it would be good if you have more number of contacts in your delicious network. Build your network by connecting to users with similar interest in delicious.

5. Proper tagging. TAGS, or keywords that describe the topic of your article, are important to save when you post your blogs on any social bookmarking site as this is the reference that search engines use to pull up your article when someone is looking for information on the topic. Tagging can be a lot easier and more flexible than fitting your information into preconceived categories or folders. For instance, to view everybody’s bookmarks about sweets, visit http://del.icio.us/tag/sweets. To see the most popular items tagged as sweets, visit http://del.icio.us/popular/sweets.

Hopefully these simple tips will help to boost up your blog traffic. By the way, have you bookmarked this posting on delicious yet?.