You have probably heard a lot about social bookmarking lately. As a
matter of fact, you can spend hundreds of dollars right now just to find
out what it's all about. Well, not here. I am giving you this
information.I did the research and found this to be a super way to get
more traffic to your site. The best news is, it's 100% FREE.
What is Social Bookmarking?
It's a public list
of your favorites. Not all your favorites, just the favorites you want
to share with others. You can add any website to your public list and
retrieve it from any computer. (This is done on someone else's server,
not your computer)
When you list a site in your bookmark list, anyone looking for that same type of information can do a search at the bookmark site and find the sites that you have bookmarked. It is like a search engine without all the trash.
When you do a search in a search engine, you get all the sites that have
something to do with the keywords you typed into the search box. It is
easy to get a bunch of garbage sites that are loaded up with keywords
but have poor content on the actual site.
The great thing about social bookmarking sites is the only sites you
will find there are sites that other people have looked at and decided
were worth saving for future reference. Real people have decided to save
(bookmark) the sites, not robots. Real people also monitor the sites so
if trash does get added, it is soon deleted.
The more people who bookmark a site, the more popular it becomes. As an
example, lets say you are selling widgets for a really great price. You
bookmark your home page on many public bookmarking sites. When someone
is looking for a widget, they do a search at the bookmarking site and
your bookmark comes up. They go look at your site and decide your prices
are so good, they might want to come back later when they need another
widget. So they add your site to their bookmarks for future reference.
When someone goes to one of these sites and types widgets into the
search box, your site listing will come up in the search. If many people
have bookmarked your site, you will be listed high in the search
results. It's kind of like a voting system. If you site is good enough
to bookmark, other people will want to see what all the fuss is about.
Unlike search engines where all you have to do is good seo,
the sites you will find in the Social Bookmarking sites are quality
sites that other people enjoyed enough to save. You don't really have to
have a good site to get listed in the search engines.
How do you get started?
Do a search for social bookmarking, many sites will come up. Go to each
site and register for an account. It's FREE! Once you have your account
set up, start listing your site. Make sure you add proper tags to your
listing.
Tags are the same as keywords with a twist. These sites will tell you
what the most popular searches are on their site. You choose the tags
that will work with your site or page and are also part of the popular
list. Many of the sites will also offer a spot to write a small
description of the site you are bookmarking. Add a description that uses
some of your tag words for added benefit.
Building popularity
As with anything that is worth doing, this will take you a while to get
it all set up and running smooth but the end result will be very well
worth your effort.
Start with one bookmarking site and one page from your site. (Start with
your squeeze page and build your newsletter list) Set up your account
with the bookmarking site and add your page to the bookmarks. Make sure
you use the best tags and description you can. (Check the popularity
list on the site) Doing this in itself will help you get more traffic. Now you can go one step further and work both sides of the system.
Add a link to your site that will lead back to the bookmarking site that
has your page bookmarked. Ask your visitors to bookmark your site on
the social bookmarking site.
My example is below
Bookmark my blog site at blibklist.com and access it from any computer, anytime. create a link to the bookmarking site so your visitors only have to click.
You want to make sure the page opens in a new window so when your
visitors are done setting up their account, they will still have your
page handy to bookmark.
Next Page
Now move on to the next page. You will want to offer a different
bookmarking site on each page. Why? So you can get as many bookmarks on
as many sites as possible. Use the same information in the example above
but change the social bookmarking site you are promoting.
Won't this look odd to your visitors? No. Most people will ignore the
suggestion once they have bookmarked your site. They won't even notice
that you have changed the name of the link. They will see, Bookmark my
site, and think, "I already did that", and they will move on.
Final Note:
Don't SPAM the sites. Make sure what you are listing is relevant and
useful. You don't want to bring traffic to a page that has nothing but
links, you will probably get banned form the bookmarking site. Only
bookmark your pages that have actual content. Ask yourself if you would
truly add this page to your own favorites list? If your answer is no
then don't list it.
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