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Many think that social bookmarking will help to boost their sites traffic. But what you shouldn't do is to depend on social bookmarking sites in the initial stages of your blogging. As soon as you write a beautiful article you look for people who love to read it but people aren't interested to read some one who has just wrote his first or second blog post instead they like to read from some top notch blogs.
Mashable is one of the worlds top most blogs and if you submit an article in Digg for instance it would receive 50 plus Diggs within 15 min of its posting though the article is informative or not. But if you have written an article taking lot of struggle and posting it in Digg even for days your article will not get a Digg. This is not your fault this is how the audience respond to new sites. But as soon as you link an article from some top blog instantly you will see people voting.
As your blog came into existence recently it would not be indexed by the search engines not even one search engine would crawl you. So posting in some social bookmarking may help with one or two visitors but when ever people search for something which is in your blog they dont get your blog but they'll get the social bookmarking site first than your blog. This means you are being dominated over by a social bookmarking site. Your blog will not have its own identity but rather a social bookmarking site does.
So you might be thinking then what is the use of publishing an article in social bookmarking. For a newbie blogger he should build his blog with care not to depend on some other sites for its growth. But as your blog grows big and get noticed by search engines you need not publish your article in directories people themselves do and at that time you dont need to worry about the votes and traffic it gradually increases. Even your article does gets its search ranking above the social bookmarking site. So forget social bookmarking for traffic and start building your blog. Quality does pay you but it takes time never do a mistake in letting your blog go down all by yourself.
