4 Steps To Social Bookmarking

By Tom | Jan 12, 2008

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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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Use Social Bookmarking To Increase Your Traffic

By Tom | Nov 18, 2007

Social bookmarking is yet another way you can use to increase traffic to your own website. It does not matter if your website is focused on home based business opportunities, internet marketing ,flowers, or fishing lures.It can be used to drive traffic to your website, increase your sales and improve your search engine rankings.

Social bookmarking can be explained as the practice of saving bookmarks to a website and tagging with keywords. Bookmarking is simply saving a specific website address in your browser that you wish to visit later. There are hundreds of social bookmarking sites you could register with, store your bookmarks and tags.Visitors to these sites can then search for a specific subject by keywords or tags that the registered user has created.

There are many social bookmarking sites on the internet these days, but the whole “concept” is only a few years old.The oldest and best known services are de.lirious, Simpy and Furl.There are other well known and good services as Technorati, Digg, Sphinn,Mixx, Tailrank, Tumblr and Pownce.

You can use these social bookmarking sites to increase the traffic to your website almost instantly.Because anyone can join and search for information on these services it is simple to make social connections with other individuals interested in just about any topic.This where the importance of tagging comes in.If you write a post in your blog about search engine optimization, you should also tag your post with tags that are related to this.

The more related tags you have, the easier it will be for people to find your information in the social bookmarking service.Users can also see how many people have used a tag and search for all resources that have been assigned that specific tag.This will help you tag your posts better and receive more readers to your content, and more visitors to your website as well.

Write content that is interesting and useful to others, tag your content properly and submit it to the different social bookmarking services in the most accurate categories available.This will also help your search engine rankings in the long run.

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