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Oct 10, 2007
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Winning Online Promotion With The Benefits of Social Bookmarking for Internet Marketers

Social bookmarking is part of the new wave of Internet-based communities and hosted services.  Sure, it is still all about finding the information you want; but unlike in the olden days when you simply type in the keywords in a search engine, social bookmarking enables you to find information via social networks in the Internet. The bottom line is that social bookmarking is providing a new way for people to find information and market their products over the Web.

Some may say that social bookmarking is another form of spamming, but proponents of this platform insist that it is ethical and nothing more than a way for people to share their favorite web contents in a bookmarking site. Social bookmarking has paved the way for people to compile and give out contents and information using a public Internet-based network service instead of a limited personal browser.  As such, social bookmarking can be very beneficial for Internet marketers in a number of ways, as follows:

Provides Wide Audience And Targeted Users

With social bookmarking, you will be allowed to sign up in any social bookmarking network wherein you will be able to register your personal and favorite websites, including website keywords and description. As this information is going to be stored for public use and not just in your computer, the chances that other people, particularly other members of your social bookmarking network, will be able to visit your own website is higher compared to just leaving your website at the mercy of ordinary search engine indexing.

Offers Designated Keywords For Easy Search

Social bookmarking services include keyword designations for each website address you save or post. With keywords or tags, your website will be listed in a specific category. So if you are in the business of, say, frog skin mouse pads, your website will be listed according to this specific category.  Hence, people will have an easier way of finding your website.

Allows Shared Comments And Rating

Social bookmarking sites are called as such because they allow people to share information with others. Popular social bookmarking service providers allow users to place comments on bookmarked websites. For an online marketer, this feature permits people to learn a lot about a particular website even before they actually click on the address.

If your website is listed on a social bookmarking network, other people will also be able to rate your website. If your website gets high rates, it will surely have an influx of visitors and, perhaps, buyers of the services you offer. Through social bookmarking, a sort of online word-of mouth marketing is available for any Internet marketer.

Maintains Huge Popularity

Social bookmarking sites, in themselves, have tremendous popularity. Submitting and posting your website in social bookmarking service providers is a good way to ride their popularity. If your site is listed in social bookmarking websites, search engines will have a better chance of crawling or finding your website or blog.

Affords Convenient Monitoring

As an online marketer, you will surely need to monitor a number of websites and blogs in order for you to learn new trends, to keep abreast with industry news and to be updated with the kind of information that matter to you. Social bookmarking allows online marketers to easily save and categorize websites over the Internet. This means, you can monitor websites that are important for your business using any computer as long as you are connected to the Internet. No need to memorize all the web addresses, and you do not even need to key in addresses on the address bar.

Imparts A Growing Platform

You know how things work in cyberspace. The latest buzz almost always delivers the goods in Internet marketing, while those who are left with older technology are doomed to perish. Social bookmarking is one of those tools that you must strike while hot. As it grows at a super fast rate, more and more people are using it; this means a growing market segment which any Internet marketer can target.

Indeed, social bookmarking enables an Internet marketer like you to promote and sell services online. In a manner that can never be achieved with other types of marketing, like search engine optimization and traditional methods, social bookmarking has provided you with a steady and focused means of driving traffic to any of the websites or blogs where you market your products or services.

Allen Daniels
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