Social Media is the latest buzz to create traffic to one’s blog or website and indeed, many have shown that it can be a successful model for good amount of traffic. However, what we don’t know is that which of the social media’s are those that cannot be ignored. While some social sites can be ignored or neglected. If you are a blogger who is looking for a professional way to generate traffic i.e. generate traffic for free then these social sites are a must to be updated.

List of 8 Social Media Sites That Cannot Be Ignored By Bloggers:

1) Technorati – Technorati Authority, Technorati ranking – they all matter a lot, to advertisers and also to the visitors. This can boost your reputation apart from generating huge amount of traffic. Always try to get your site voted as a Technorato Favorite – it is totally worth it.

2) Twitter – I really don’t need to tell you much about the capacity that Twitter has to improve your traffic. So don’t ever ignore Twitter. Put all your post updates on Twitter.

3) Digg – The most popular place to post all your links for webmasters, I love Digg personally. The pure ease of updating and the volume of traffic that Digg generates is awesome. Never forget this social media to promote your blog.

4) StumbleUpon – StumbleUpon is another smart way you can promote your posts, but it requires you to be a little active. If you can be an active Stumbler on StumbleUpon then it is another traffic gem.

5) Facebook – Facebook is becoming a growing presence on most blogs,with many bloggers generating fans for their site via placing the Facebook widget on their blog pages. Sharing your posts on Facebook can get you traffic, but need not always be targetted.

6) Mixx – A popular social site, where you can give in your links. It has a very interesting feature of creating your own custom page that displays only the most popular content that currently is linked by Mixx.

7) Delicious – Another social media site which is similar to Mixx, StumbleUpon and Digg.

Yahoo Buzz – It has been found to be effective by some. Although some find it not that much effective. But if you have a group/network of peers who blog then you can get updates your friends and see what they buzzed up – vice versa.

Whethere you want to use all of these social medias to promote your blog or use a few of them, make it a point not to totally ignore the potential that they have. Atleast ensure that all your blog updates are posted on at least three of the above mentioned sites.

Self-doubt is a serious issue for internet entrepreneurs. Many guys those who want to become internet entrepreneurs have a fair share of nerves and hesitation before they venture out. There are many levels of internet entrepreneurship – a person who blogs is an internet entrepreneur and the founder of Digg is also an internet entrepreneur.

So whatever may be your level – your aim should be to defeat doubts you have on yourself first.

There is an obvious thing which you need to consider and that is…

NO Shourtcuts to Success

Every person has a different parameter of success. Some want to earn huge sums of money online, while other have a lot of money but they are targeting the goal of becoming a “guru” in their field. This is all possible- but only with perseverance and hard work. It is important to understand – success takes time to achieve and having to work 8 to 9 hours a day on your online business is quite normal. Just gear up for the work!

Don’t Give Yourself Time for Doubt

It is true that every successful internet entrepreneur did have a moment of self-doubt, but the difference was that they were ready for acting on their plans despite all of it. If they had simply sat worrying, then today we would not have revolutionizing online companies like Amazon, Digg, Twitter etc. When Twitter was launched, how could anyone imagine that micro-blogging would revolutionize entire marketing strategize.

It is better if you put your time into implementing your idea rather than worrying about whether your idea will work or not. Self-doubt will hold you back from opportunities and will kill your morale.

If it were easy to succeed, then there would be more success stories than what we see as “failure”. For success, don’t be demotivated and keep moving towards your ambition.

Kevin Rose is the co-founder of Digg. He is one of the most popular internet entrepreneurs in the world. Kevin Rose is dubbed as the Kid Who Made $60 Million in 18 months.

Kevin Rose is among the most interesting story for a young entrepreneur. He had risked it all to make Digg.com a reality. Rose has also stated that he lost his girlfriend during the launch – as the money which was meant for a house deposit payment went into realizing Digg.

Kevin Rose had pumped in $6000 for starting up Digg.com. The money was meant for the house for him and his girlfriend. This resulted in the fallout between Kevin Rose and his girlfriend. Ruefully, Rose has quoted

No matter what happens with Digg, I won’t put business first again.

After this, Kevin Rose has had a string of public relationships. Most of them which flopped. Sarah Lane,  Roseys Palm , Shira Lazar  have all been Kevin Rose’ girlfriends. It is quite clear that Kevin Rose is not exactly well known for his long term commitments.

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That is Kevin Rose in the picture above. Funny, I never knew chicks digg-ed guys who wore Mozilla T-shirts! And by the way, did anyone catch what Kevin Rose is looking at in the photo above?

At least now we know where the $5,500/hour of that millionaire’s cash is going to…By the way Kevin Rose this is personal website.