2. 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.
4. 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)
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
19. Bookmark my site at Blinklist.com and access it from any
computer, anytime. Create a link to the bookmarking
site so your visitors only have to click.
20. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
25. 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.