Have you wondered how you can help reach more type 2 diabetics? As an online type diabetes community we can help more people by using the tools the internet offers us. If we rely on one person to get the word out the process is very slow. If each of us do what we can do we have a very powerful synergistic effect.

Diabetic-Diet-Secrets.com has 1088 members as of 4/13/2009. It took us a little over two years to get to this point. Getting the site on the internet and well indexed in the search engines was part of this, but only a small part. Most sites get 90% of their site traffic from the search engines like Google, MSN Yahoo etc. Less than 18% of our site traffic comes from the search engines. That means we have a lot of people telling their friends and family about the site. That's great and appreciated but there are simple ways we can reach a lot more.

If several people are bookmarking pages on the site the site goes higher in the rankings on the book marking site and more people see it.

Each time a page on our site is bookmarked it gets a link back to the site. Each link back to our site helps increase our ranking with the search engines so we are placed higher in the listings and again more people will come to the site.

Most of the book marking sites have high ranking with the search engines. High ranking sites linking back to our site increase our ranking even more.

As you can see, the more we use the bookmarking sites the more type 2 diabetics we reach and the more people we can help.The book marking looks like this in the menu:

Faves

There is a new phenomenon that lots of people are using that can also help a lot. Twitter, MySpace, FaceBook and a few others are being used by a lot of people. Many of you probably already have a free account with one or more of them. Use your account to help reach more people. It's easy, just write something about food, type 2 diabetes or something similar and add a link back to Diabetic-Diet-Secrets.com The same applies as with the social bookmarks above.

There is a new phenomenon with Twitter.com. This one is a little different than the others. You will need a Twitter Account. (It is free also.) Once you have a twitter account all you have to do is follow me. The more people I can get as a follower on Twitter, the more we as a site, can reach new people. You don't even have to use your twitter account if you don't want to. Just getting the twitter account and following me on twitter helps build site traffic. Twitter has a google PR of 9/10. That is just about as high as it gets. Every time you post a short message on twitter with a link back to www.Diabetic-Diet-Secrets.com  or a specific page in the site or the forum etc. we are getting links from a very highly rated site and our site rank goes up as well.

There is a module in the left side menu where it is easy to follow us on twitter. it will look similar to this: