Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking – A New LIFE!
The Benefit of Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking allows you to store and organize your bookmarks of web pages on the internet rather than with your browser. It also allows you to manage these files and has great search algorithms. With social bookmarking, a user can save web page links and share them with others.
Generally the sharing is public, although it is possible to restrict the sharing of bookmarks to restricted groups of people. As bookmarking advances, the ability and popularity of saving bookmarks in combinations of public and restricted areas is becoming more prevalent. As an internet marketer, a person will definitely want to opt for a public setting.
Social bookmarking lets people discover what other people are interested in and how they are labeling or ‘tagging’ their favorite websites, since people tag them with keywords. People can tag bookmarks to categorize them and others can comment on them, creating a complex and
One big benefit of such a network is the traffic it can generate. Once you submit your site with your chosen keyword tags, you can get traffic. Not only will you receive traffic, but it will be relevant traffic. If you use your head and put yourself in the right categories, you will get traffic that fits your site.
If you did a good job with content writing and site appearance, these will not just be one-timers. With targeted traffic and a well built site, you could create a steady stream of repeat visitors.
The Purpose of Social Bookmarking
The purpose of social bookmarking seems pretty obvious. People want to network and share their favorite information. People also want to access their favorite websites from work, home, or anywhere they may be. The purpose of social bookmarking for an internet marketer is to get in the flow of information, gain visibility, and encourage the search engine crawlers to pay attention to their website.
Social Bookmarking Academics
When people save links to web pages, they have an option of organizing them for viewing in chronological order or by categories. They can also use a search engine to search for links. Tags are used to organize bookmarks and most people use informal tags that help categorize the web pages. Tagging is a very important part of social bookmarking because it allows for the organization and sorting of information.
Web Feeds
Web feeds from a social bookmarking service alerts people to new bookmarks as they are used by other people in the system. This is an important tracking service that is discussed further in that section of this book.
‘Voting’
Who Uses Bookmarks?
Since bookmarking hasn’t been around very long, not everyone uses them.But it is growing exponentially every day. This is a huge, dynamic area of the internet.
Many people use it for social or entertainment reasons, but more and more people are using it for business and technology. It is a great way to collect and organize resources for a specific group. The more relevant groups that participate in social bookmarking, the more effective it will be.
Overall it’s a win-win situation for the people searching and for the people offering information. It is becoming more popular among academia and businesses.
The ‘Dark Side’ of Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is an exciting and quickly growing part of the internet with many benefits and constant improvements. It is also playing a huge role in the world of search engines. The down side is that social bookmarking is not evolving in a measured and scientifically devised way. Quite the opposite is true! Most social bookmarking is done by the general public in an organic, ‘messy’ way.
The sooner you jump into the game, the better off you and your visibility will be.Think of it like the use of search engines when they were new. Everyone jumped on them without clearly knowing their agenda. It was easy to manipulate them. Now it’s time for social sites. Also, you will learn to ‘feel’ the movement of the systems. Youwill be on board and ready to change and grow with the entire system.
Bookmarking for Marketers
You know that a lot of movement on the internet is occurring on the bookmarking systems. You know that traffic from visitors will be related to your field and not merely ‘random’ and therefore virtually useless hits. You know that proper tagging on bookmarking sites will direct the search engines in a way that makes sense and gets you ranked according to the proper keywords.http://www.socialmarker.com (FREE, you can post to the bookmarking sites.You definitely do not want to spam. Spamming always cuts you off at the knees in the end.
You need to make the effort to properly sign in and submit to the bookmarking systems.Each site has its own way of preventing spam. You will probably need to register and you will probably need to provide information such as your email address.
By getting on the popular bookmarking sites, you will be sure to attract more attention.As you can see, you may have to prove that you are human and not a spam-bot. You do this by solving an easy problem, reading an item is difficult to read for an automated system, or answering an easy question.
Social Bookmarking Traffic Avalanche
If you remember nothing else about social bookmarking, remember to start at the bottom. What I mean is that you need to be sure that your social bookmark images show up You develop links to your site by using time and energy and possibly a software tool like The technology supporting social bookmarking is very simple. Therefore, the basic premise of bookmarking may end up being used in other areas as it is developed.This means that you will need to be on top of this eventually. You may as well get familiar with it now and be ahead of the pack instead of trying to catch up later and blaming yourself ‘if only’.under each post. Whether it is a blog, video, article, or WHATEVER; make it easy to bookmark.
Even people who don’t know much about social bookmarking may do it if you provide the easy to follow buttons with your post.
Plug-ins put bookmarks for the biggies, like
The following screenshot shows a plug in for their eggs in one basket? I’ll tell you why – it’s a HUGE basket. If you find yourself on the front page of Digg, you will score over 100,000 visitors. Not only are these visitors swarming to you on a large scale, but they come to you with trust in their eyes because they found you on a major site.
This is massive free traffic – from social bookmarking! So do you want me to go over the fast track of how to do this again now that I’ve mentioned these numbers?
1. Create content to fit the Digg audience. A year ago, 92% of the users on Digg were males ranging in age from 18 to 34 (demographics change over time). Make sure you target the social site and your market at the same time! If you choose to target a different social bookmarking site, learn about its demographics so that you know how to approach the visitors there.
2. Make buttons on your blog/article/video/etc. to encourage bookmarking
4. Get friends/family/relevant participants and NOT whoever to comment and vote on your post..
What NOT to do!
Do approach with good content and friendly interaction – DO NOT spam. DO NOT roll out a big, obvious sales pitch. Not only will this go over like a lead balloon, but you may get shut down. The best case scenario is that they will tell you to knock it off. Quality content will bring people back and give you more success.If you are hiring people to comment, vote, respond, bookmark, and basically perform your
web 2.0 work:consider that the search engines notice things like when multiple accounts only bookmark one or two sites over and over again. They will also notice if they have the same affiliate code.
Automatic Bookmarking
Bookmarking is FAST
Bookmarking may not have the staying power of other forms of internet marketing,but it can work quickly. The search engines will respond quickly and you can get action and traffic within minutes simply because social bookmarking content changes as a news channel but MUCH faster.
Use Social Bookmarking
There is so much buzz about social bookmarking so I’ll cover this in detail in the appropriate section. In this instance, set up bookmarks and submit content to social bookmarking sites. Be cautious how you go about this because spamming will not do you any good.
As with other terminology in this book, don’t be intimidated by the phrase‘social bookmarking’. As a matter of fact, you have probably already done it even if you’ve never heard the phrase before.
Have you ever sent a link of a good website to a friend? Have you ever read an article about a breakthrough for a medical condition and sent it to a relative suffering from the condition? If so, you have already done it.
Social bookmarking simply means that you are tagging a website and saving that tag. However, instead of saving them to your ‘favorites’ list on a browser,you are saving them to a bookmarking service where they can be accessed by others.
Social bookmarking started out as a way for people to store and manage bookmarks of web pages. In a social bookmarking system, links to web pages that a person wants to share are saved publicly so that others can view the bookmarks. Social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks.This allows subscribers to spot new bookmarks.
They also allow ratings and comments on bookmarks and import, export, emailing, and other manipulation of the bookmarks. People like using these sites because they can not only share their links with others, but they can browse through different subjects and categories to see what is new and interesting.
Use Social News
Social bookmarking for news can be found on websites such as
http://Digg.com
People go there to check out news items such as politics, technological advances, and world events. Visitors love the site so much that some are ‘addicted’ to it and visit it throughout the day.
Use Link Baiting
With fresh and lively content, you will get backward links made to your site.This can be accomplished by creating noise about a subject. You need exceptionally good content for link-bait. Stir things up, provide cutting edge information, and get people talking. That is the best way to get links.There have been sites who have tapped into an extremely interesting piece of information and their link popularity skyrocketed over night.
This is a legitimate and effective way to get noticed by the search engines and gain rank.
Encourage People to Post on your Blog
Carefully design your website to encourage other bloggers to post on your blog. You need those links! You can upgrade visitors to a level that enables them to post on your site. You may be getting a little nervous and thinking, “I don’t even want my cousin to mess around with my administration area. I definitely don’t want to give a bunch of bloggers free reign over my controls!”
Don’t worry. There is a way to let them post without giving them the keys to your kingdom.They don’t need a password into your entire administrative area plus there is a setting within the admin how you want to proceed with such comments.
Reward the Contribution of OthersThere are many ways to reward people who contribute to your social power linking. You can set up a network of writers who will write for your site for the benefit of the exposure. Not only do you get free content and fresh ideas for your site, but the people submitting to your site can link to your site,creating more links and traffic. This is a win-win situation because you get traffic from their site as well as relevant links for the search engines to detect.
Tagging
Tagging is essential. You can use plug-ins to help you with this. We’vealready discussed how SimpleTags helps you to tag your posts with keywords. If you choose not to use this plug-in, make sure to use something else to meet this need.
This works with
http://www.technorati.com/
Technorati started with blogs and now is on the cutting edge of parts of the web that are constantly changing and updating. Technorati searches and organizes blogs and other constantly updated, user made content. Like I said earlier blogs have their own search engine so keep this in mind for later.
Trackbacks
A trackback is a method that links blog posts together. When blog entries are related in some way, a blogger who posts a blog can reference another post by filling out the trackback section. When the post is published, the posts are linked by a trackback through the comment section in the related post. WordPress blogs very simply link to the other post using a simple trackback URL.
This is an excellent way to get legitimate and relevant traffic to your site. Regardless of the direction of the trackback, it is a good idea for several reasons.
1-You get traffic that is looking for what you have
2-Trackbacks have a way of spiraling into more trackbacks and creating more links.
3-Trackbacks create a sense of community in your field and can make a great stage for you to set yourself up as an expert.
4-More links mean better results from the search engines
A cool tool for your blogging efforts is
http://www.bloglines.com/
This is a site that will help you spread the word efficiently about your blogs. In fact,they will tell the world about every new post that appears on your blogs. So be sure you create an account there.
Social Bookmarking TIPS
1-Identify each site's general preferences, and bookmark accordingly as every site caters to a particular market/audience.
3-The ultimate goal is for our social bookmarking sites to be our personal search engines which can search full-text by a subject field which is a tag. However, many times the selections of tags are not done properly as the result the search for a particular tag gives nil results. So the selection of tags and the indexing should be carefully done to reflect the site it represents.
4- Do not submit press releases to social news sites. Instead encourage bloggers to write about your news and once that’s done publish your news through Social Bookmarking Sites.
5-Do not paste all bookmarking icons on your blogs as they may confuse the visitor giving an impression that your blog is desperately looking for traffic. Instead bookmark with communities related to your field and list only those icons as options. 6-Always submit your own content. Note plagiarism is a taboo in social bookmarking.
7-Invite people who would really be interested in the content, not just people who will give you a vote without question. Those interested will also leave the best comments, which can generate good traffic.
8-Almost every site makes it possible to connect with other people. If you are not connecting, no one will find you.
9-Do not give-up after a short while. Social Bookmarking is about making and sustaining connections. The only way you can grow your influence is long term. Stop crying - if you hate the fact that it takes time, don’t do it at all. Every marketer does it!
10- Use these tools to link to other resources. If you only link to your website or blog and never bookmark or link to other interesting resources, you will never gain the respect of your audience.
Social Bookmarking MISTAKES
1-Not reading the submission guidelines before posting your links on a bookmarking site.
2-Submitting to a bookmarking site that does not have your category or submitting to the wrong category.
3-Using online automated bookmark submission tools as a mass submission tool such as onlywire.com and
http://www.socialmarker.com
Bookmarking every single page of your site solely to create a backlinks to your website.
4-Pasting all possible bookmarking site icons into your blog.
5-Commenting on other peoples bookmarks expecting them to reciprocate.
6-Registering for as many bookmarking sites as possible and posting only your own links and no other.
7-Not making use of other features made available to connect to other users.
8-Not researching who is interested in the topics you are interested in, and thus not discovering new influences.
9-Spamming, lying, scamming and not providing good content.
List of Helpful Sites
www.Bookmarks.linuxquestionns.org
– email links
bookmarks
bookmarking
off, but it is now a player in bookmarking and social networking
www.sourceforge.net/projects/scuttle
Multiple accounts. Also remember that the search engines will notice if all of the accounts are from the same IP address. While it may be helpful to use an account with high ranking to propel a new project, consider that it will not stand alone.
http://del.icio.us/
http://www.wordpress.org/
that allows you to make buttons for people to use called MicroPat.
Some people focus solely on one site, such as Digg or StumbleUpon. Why would they put highly influential network.
