Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking
Social Bookmarking is similar to URL submissions in that you submit the page or link to a Social Bookmarking site. However, the difference lies in the type of site you are submitting to and the additional work you need to do after submitting your website’s URL.
Social Bookmarking Explained in Plain English
One added task is to socialize with the other members of the Social Bookmarking site. You can do this by:
- joining groups of similar interest as yours
- participating in community discussions
- sharing bookmarks with your friends
- contributing comments or reviews on the sites bookmarked by others
- rating or voting the bookmark as either positive or negative
There are approximately 300 plus social bookmarking sites existing on the web today. Some are nothing short of spam but others are good quality sites that can give you the PR and traffic boost you need. Here are three of the most popular Social Bookmarking sites being used in traffic generation. These sites, however, place a NoFollow attribute to links which is not good for Page Rank boosting.
Read More About NoFollow and DoFollow Links
StumbleUponStumbleUpon is one of the most popular social bookmarking sites on the web today. It requires that you install a toolbar for you to be able to “stumble” a site, or to give a page a “thumbs up” response. It also provides a member his or her own page to store Favorites and to add friends from the SU community.
Sign Up at StumbleUpon and install the StumbleUpon Firefox Addon.
del.icio.us is a famous example of a domain hack, which is a formulation of a domain name by creatively arranging letters and numbers to fit a whole word or idea. It is also one of the most popular online social bookmarking sites. More information on the site can be found at Wikipedia.
Sign up at del.icio.us and install the del.icio.us Firefox Addon.
Digg.com
Digg is another popular social bookmarking site with a twist. It allows you to submit a page or story’s link and a short summary or description of it. The most important factor about using Digg for link building is the traffic increase by staying on the first page of Digg. To achieve this your link should be “dugged” by as many Digg users as possible and should as many comments it can gather.
Social Bookmarking Tools
For those who need to submit to as many social bookmarking sites as possible, you can use the following services:
Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness! That’s where SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website.
Why SocialMarker.com?
It can help you spread a link on 47 of the best social bookmarking sites in under 15 minutes!
- It helps you get a lot of backlinks.
- It helps you increase your traffic.
- Your link gets indexed by Google in a matter of minutes.
- Best of all, it’s free!
How To Use Social Marker
Instructions For This Task
For this task, you are required to submit your blog’s URL to at least 5 social bookmarking sites. List the names of the sites (not the URL) in Notepad. Save the file as
socialbookmarking.txt
under your folder.
To submit using SocialMarker.com you must fill in the fields in the bookmarklet:
- Title refers to the name of your blog/site
- Link (URL) refers to the URL of your blog/site
- Text refers to the description of your blog/site
- Tags refer to the keywords being used for the optimization of your site or blog
After filling in the data, click on the Submit tab on the top right. This will open SocialMarker in a frame. You will be led to each social bookmarking site listed on SocialMarker.
On top you can see a series of tabs which follows a process for bookmarking your blog or site. For each bookmarking site you must:
- Register first, then check your email for verification. After that you must…
- Login with the username and password you have chosen during signup. When you are logged into the website…
- Submit your blog details, and then wait for confirmation that your submission is successful.
- Now you can move on to the Next bookmarking site on the list, or you can move Back to the previous bookmarking site.
You will know which bookmarking site you are in at the moment by checking the upper right hand corner of the SocialMarker frame.
Additional Social Bookmarking Tools
SocialPoster is similar to SocialMarker in that it has the same bookmarklet and auto-population features. It does require the same step-by-step process of registering, logging in and submitting your link’s details.
OnlyWire differs from SocialMarker and SocialPoster because it offers a submit-once service. All you need to do is to give OnlyWire the usernames and passwords for each of your accounts in the social bookmarking sites of your choice.- Tagenie is a submit-once bookmarking service that only requires your link’s title and URL. If you want to submit only 1 URL in 130+ Social Bookmarking websites then all you need to do is simply write your URL and Page Title and click the “BOOKMARK THIS” button.
- SocialList.net – Social Bookmarks Services List and Submitter boasting 484 sites to submit to
- SocialMarking.com – SocialMarking.com is a FREE service which allows you to easily submit a link to 130+ social bookmarking websites.
