De.licio.us is one of a suite of social bookmarking sites.  It has three main purposes:

1. an online site to store your bookmarks,
2. a place to share your bookmarks with friends, and
3. a site to check out what other people are bookmarking.

An added benefit is you can assign tags (keywords) to the bookmarks.

You can use number 3 to get traffic to your blog.  By bookmarking your posts with your targeted keywords, you can get a relevant link to your blog.  You may also get visitors to your blog who stumble across your bookmark.

Another useful feature of de.licio.us is you can find other popular blogs in your topic area.  Search de.licio.us for your topic and see what kinds of items are popular and bookmarked frequently.

Be sure to be a responsible bookmarker by not only bookmarking your site, but other sites with outstanding content.

One last thought…. to get to the de.licio.us site just type in http://de.licio.us  (no www or .com).

Blog Rush is a brand new way to get traffic to your blog…. and I’ll use this post to review it for you and let you know how it works to generate targeted users to the site.

What is it? Blog Rush is a small box you add to the sidebar of your blog. Inside the box, relevant blog posts from other blogs are listed (and your blog posts show up on other related sites in there Blog Rush box). Your users can click on a post and it opens a new window to a different blog. You can see a video that explains exactly how it works at BlogRush.com video.

So far here are my initial impressions about Blog Rush….

• It couldn’t be easier to sign up. A little bit of info and you get code to insert into your template and the Blog Rush box appears.
• The software has been created by John Reese, Traffic Secrets guru. He was the first Internet marketer to have a million dollar product launch day so I always keep an eye on what he’s doing!
• You can also block certain types of posts from appearing in your Blog Rush box.
• You get credits if another blog signs up to BlogRush from your link, too.

I’ll follow up this post with more details on how much traffic it generates for me. Stay tuned and in the meantime, sign up for your BlogRush account right away.

You can learn how to add audio and video to your Wordpress blog from Mike Stewart, the Internet Video Guy, when he is interviewed by Tom Antion. It’s Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 9 p.m. EST and you can register here. “Point, Click, Talk and Profit!”

Make sure you “Claim Your Blog” at Technorati. Just sign up for a Technorati account and then click “Claim my Blog” to start the process. You’ll need to put a specific code that Technorati gives you in a post on your site so it can verify that it’s your blog.

FutureNow shares a wonderful discussion of The Drudge Report and how it went from blogging unknown to expert guru.  The lessons are particularly useful to new bloggers who are trying to learn how to blog and make it successful.  I especially like the message to Be Persistent.  It can take awhile for your blog to take off, and if you quit too soon, you’ll never know just how successful you could be.