Why Should You Use Social Bookmarking?

If you are an internet marketer and write articles regularly to promote your business and products to earn an income, social bookmarking is one of the most effective ways to get seen online.

The reason for submitting your content to social bookmarking sites is because you will get back links from them.Back links will drive traffic to your site with time, as one way back links to the pages of a domain give authority in search engines, so this is a long term strategy of building traffic.

A strategy of building links to your site is by bookmarking your content in social bookmarking sites that do not use the “no follow” -tag.If you post a comment on a blog, your link will not be followed by the search engines to create a back link to your site if this tag “no follow” is used.This is a way to prevent comment spamming.Spam comments will not get through anyway in Wordpress blogs because of the akismet plugin and by manually approving comments. Personally, no spam comment has ever made it all the way to my blog.

Fortunately, the “no follow” tag can be disabled quite easily in Wordpress, and other blogging platforms too. People that make a good and useful comment deserve to get a backlink to their site in my opinion. If you want to get back links from social bookmarking you need to use the sites that use “do follow”, and unfortunately all the big social sites use “no follow”.

The big sites will still be useful to you, don´t skip them. You need to participate in them, vote on stories, and make comments.This will bring traffic to your site because you will have your URL visible in your profile.It takes time to build strong visibility.Just by logging in daily and voting and commenting on a few stories will make a huge difference in a few months time.So, joining Digg and participating actively will increase your traffic.

Here is a short list of social bookmarking sites that are using “do follow”.Submit your content to these sites for back links.There are lots of smaller social sites that gives a back link, just make a quick search on Google.

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Short list of “do follow” social sites:
MyPIP.com
Bibsonomy.org
Diigo.com
Bookmarktracker.com
Mister-Wong.com
LinkaGoGo.com

The Dofollow blogs directory, www.dofollowblogs.com

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There Is Money To Be Made On eBay

Garage sales and flea markets are so 20th century. Today, if you have stuff to peddle, just sell it on eBay. You’ll be joining thousands of other like-minded people who seek to make money selling their wares on the popular web site, there is money to be made on eBay. Since everyone is hip to the online selling gravy train, you’ll need to make your items stand out in order to make more money on eBay.

Sizing up the Competition:
You need to size up your competition before you list your items for auction, you can do this by checking out the completed items listing at eBay.Here, you’ll see what products are up for sale, their prices, and how they are presented.You might also get a better idea on how to title your product to produce a higher price.It is important not to overload the auction site with items. Selling just a few items at the time on eBay auctions will put more money in your pocket.

Describing Your Items:
The product information area has limited space, so you need to write a very good description in a few words. Avoid words like “Look”, or “Wow” in the title of your auction title, because no one types in these words to do a search. You need to use words that potential buyers actually search for. Pay attention to the auction description and make it as good as possible.Include information that potential buyers might find useful, for example product details. If you have a picture of the item you are selling, even better!

Shipping News:
Your aim is to make more money on eBay, so high shipping costs may turn off the buyers.So, don’t tack on too high shipping/handling costs for your auctions.The buyer can get a better deal from another seller.

eBay Auction Support:
eBay provides sellers with several tools to help them navigate the auction process. Automated listing tools allows sellers to post additional listings without going through the “Sell Your Item” process every time. With eBay’s Turbo Lister, you can sell your wares without having to visit the web site - and it’s free. If you are selling a very expensive item, it may be beneficial to purchase an auction upgrade from eBay. These upgrades generate more potential buyers. However, the cost of auction upgrades will eat up the profit on lower priced items.

Selling The Right Items:
Another way to make more money on eBay is to have unique, high quality items for sale.Estate sales are great places to find specialty items such as antiques, vintage clothing, and jewelry.You may also find a few nuggets from liquidators who purchase discontinued or last season’s merchandise from manufacturers and retailers.

More about eBay:
I recently wrote an article called “eBay guide for stay at home moms“.It is a newbie guide for people interested in starting a home based business selling items on eBay.

Learn how you can start making money selling on eBay with your own eBay business.

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4 Steps To Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking, Web2.0 techniques and tactics are extremely popular as people are searching for information on the internet. Everyone who submit content to social bookmarking services, article directories and other sites, makes comments, votes and links to content which can be good or bad, are using Web2.0.

With social bookmarking you can store web addresses important to you, and let other people with similar interests view them as well, this will have a huge impact on your business.So, submit your website to a social bookmarking site and target the audience.It is also very important to visit other peoples links and vote for them.

Your activity in these sites is measured all the time.If you only submit your own content, you will quickly be seen as a person who abuses the system and might get banned. You need to interact with other people and build your contact network.The people who you make friends with on the social sites are the ones that should bookmark and vote for your content.

Here below are 4 steps to social bookmarking.Follow these steps and see how the traffic will increase to your website over a short period of time.

1. Do a search to find bookmarks related to yours on the social sites.

2. When you write a new blog post or article, submit the URL to social bookmarking sites. Also submit other peoples content to the social sites to avoid your account looking like a spam account.Remember to tag your post properly.

3. You must keep your website/blog updated with fresh content weekly.Avoid duplicate content, write your own articles if possible.When people find excellent content on your site, they will visit you over and over again. Relevant, unique and interesting content is one of the most important things.

4. You need to market your site regularly, I prefer on a daily basis.It does not have to be for many hours per day, just do something.Make a post in a forum or make some new friends at the social sites. My advice is to join the biggest sites first, read the FAQ-section of how to use the site and then get involved, participate!

There is a lot of information about Web2.0, social bookmarking and linking techniques on the internet.It is wise to learn from people who are doing it successfully and then use the strategies to increase your website ranking and traffic.

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