If you have built a savvy and well-designed real estate website that offers benefits to your readers and visitors, you can help direct traffic by the truckloads with bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon, Digg, and Del.icio.us. These websites have millions of members who design their web searches to find content such as yours. Take advantage and make the best of what these website traffic builders have to offer.

StumbleUpon

Create a user account with StumbleUpon.com and post a link to your real estate website. Although StumbleUpon does not condone self-promotion of websites, you can post a link on your account profile, gather friends, and encourage them and others to view your site. Each time a viewer is directed to your real estate website they can rate it “thumbs up” or “thumbs down”. If you can acquire even a handful of positive ratings StumblUpon’s magical algorithm technology can subsequently send hundreds, even thousands, more visitors.

Digg

Digg.com is another social bookmarking website similar to StumbleUpon, but the content on Digg is submitted and promoted by its members. When your real estate website is submitted to Digg, it will become viewed and rated. The websites that receive the best feedback may also appear on the “front page” of Digg, where potentially millions of viewers can suddenly flood to your website.

Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us also uses the power of community sharing to promote websites. With an account at Del.icio.us you save your favorite websites as bookmarks and share them with your friends and others using Del.icio.us. You can save your best article content on Del.icio.us and promote and direct traffic to your real estate website.

Here is a great definition found on Search Engine Watch,

social media: A category of sites that is based on user participation and user-generated content. They include social networking sites like LinkedIn or Facebook, social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, social news sites like Digg or Reddit, and other sites that are centered on user interaction.

Social Media sites can assist you in attracting visitors to your real estate website and can also be a great branding tool for you or your brokerage. Social sites are also an excellent way to obtain one-way-links, traffic and attract attention to your websites content.

Below is a great list that will assist you in generating direct backlinks to your site. Establish profiles on the social media sites below, and place a link on your profile, back to your web site.

1. Digg
2. Propeller
3. Mixx
4. Kirtsy
5. LinkedIn
6. Current
7. PostonFire
8. BloggingZoom
9. CoRank
10. Technorati
11. MyBlogLog
12. Bumpzee
13. LinkaGoGo
14. Bibsonomy
15. Mister-Wong
16. MyLinkVault
17. ClipClip
18. 9Rules
19. AssociatedContent
20. Blogoria