Day 4: Social Bookmarking:
Today, we are going to look at something that is still relatively new in the Internet Marketing arena: Social Bookmarking. Social Bookmarking is essentially using a social bookmarking service to bookmark your web pages or blog posts, so that other users of the bookmarking site can visit. When you bookmark a site, you tag it with keywords, and people can search for the keywords that reflect their interests at the social bookmarking site.
Does it work? Absolutely! In fact, this is a very fast way to generate really good traffic to your site – for free. Again, you will want to try to get them on your opt-in list, once they arrive at your site, so that you can bring them back again and again. Notice that I said ‘really good traffic.’ This is good traffic because the visitor finds your site by searching for the keywords that you’ve used when you bookmarked it. They are essentially looking for you. For this reason, it is important to use keyword tags, for each page, that are absolutely relevant to the content on that page. Don’t try to use unrelated keywords, this tactic simply won’t work.
There are numerous social bookmarking sites out there, and hitting them all, to bookmark each page of your website, could literally take days, if not weeks. Fortunately, there are social bookmarking services that will send your bookmarks and tags to numerous social bookmarking sites in one fell swoop.
Homework Assignment:
Join Only stumbled upon and digg as well as reddit . Register for each site on the list. Add the bookmark icon to your browser toolbar, and go to each page of your website, click the icon, and add it to the social bookmarks and tag each page with keywords.
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Social book marketing is huge now. Almost every blogger that is trying to get visitors to their site use Social Book marketing. It’s totally worth it though.
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I just signed up! Thanks for the tip!
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I signed up for onlywire.com and I must say it is a load of crap and don’t do it, it is a scam.
After spending quite some time signing up for all of the sites they supposedly work with I learned that they are only going to use your account to spam the social bookmarking sites. After all the sign ups I used their tool to bookmark my sites. But then when visiting the social bookmarking sites with my account I noticed they had not submitted any of my links, but rather had posted spam posts under my user account.
Don’t sign up with them, it is only a scam to obtain your username and password to the sites that they will then use for their own spamming purposes!
It took me a good 20+ minutes to sign up for the sites, then another good 30 minutes to revisit the sites and change my password so that onlywire could not use the accounts for spamming. Total Scam!
I have had a lot of luck with stumble upon – not so much with the sites like Del.icio.us…could be interesting
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@EGK Holy crap… dude thanks for pointin this out I have removed the person who had told me about this as well as I had to go back and do the same. Please everyone do not use onlywire. I will be removing this from the article.
Will definitely go and try it out. This whole Social bookmarking is new for me. Thanks for the help, Kweezel.
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