Getting Traffic from Social Bookmarking
According to Wikipedia, social bookmarking is a method for internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages.
Many internet users take social bookmarking to another level. Some call it social spamming, others call it just being smart, but pretty much everybody who makes money online does it: "dropping" bookmarks of personal web pages in the social networks to get traffic from that exposure.
Now, I deliberately used the word exposure because exposure alone doesn't give you any traffic. It is the way you write your bookmarks that does the trick. The more enticing your bookmark is , the more traffic you will get. (Doing some basic keyword research is pretty important as well, but I will get into that in a later post)
Social bookmarking can be a time consuming process, so you better get things right straight away: make sure the title and description of your bookmark catches everyone's attention - like a normal ad would do - but avoid a blatant style. Just make it interesting.
Your next step is to "share" your "discovery" (ahum). Most social bookmarking sites require you to sign up. It's a quick process but you have to use a real working email address to confirm your subscription.
A social bookmarking service like SocialMarker is a great starting point and is designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark blogs and websites. It's a free service and once you're subscribed to all the bookmarking sites SocialMarker supports (+/- 50), you can easily share your bookmark in less than 10 minutes.
Some people prefer to use more advanced tools for this. One of the best social bookmarking tools out there (in fact it is THE best) is called bookmarking demon.
Edwin Brian just released a new version of this brilliant software package. It's not cheap ($147) but it's worth every penny. You'll save tons of time and effort with it. If you can afford it, then go get it now!
bookmarking on February 11th, 2009
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