Social bookmarking is a great way to build up your business online. However, too many people are just wasting their time by spamming their own website over and over again. This has lead to many bookmarking sites locking down their rules. Utilizing social media traffic, on bookmarking sites is critical to your success, but don’t spam the net
Don’t Just bookmark Your domain
Diversity in your bookmarks is critical to real long term success. You want diversity in your social bookmarking accounts. Bookmark content for other site owners. This helps their content be found, and you get some goodwill with those site owners.
Let’s say you want to get a guest post on one of my blogs, for example. If you contact me and say,”I want you to let me post an article to your site so that I get some free back links,” your request will probably go in the trash.
However, if you contact me and say,”Hey I have been following your blog for a while, I love your blog and share it with my freinds on Digg, and STumbleUpon, and FB”, (then include a link to your profile where I can see the bookmarks), If you have joined in my community, added comments on the blog, and provided value to my site, and offer to build links to my blog, promoting your own content posted there, I am more likely to sign you up and let you have a guest spot( and yes, I am open to guest posters here).
Another thing that you can do with your social bookmarking is to bookmark your social sites, and even your bookmarks on other sites.
I have bookmarked a Digg on about 100 other sites, and see that Digg post jump in the rankings within a few hours. This gets more views, people rating my digg, and visiting my site through the link. This is leveraging the power these social sites have to get fast rankings and drive the traffic you crave to your site.
Social sites love video. I always make sure that I bookmark my YouTube channel. Again, don’t just bookmark your own. Bookmark other videos you like, and share cool stuff that you find.
Finally, don’t ignore the social aspect of these sites. It is not all about search engines. You can get a lot of traffic to your site fast by building your friends lists on the popular social sites. This does not take long.
I spend about an hour every week on Digg, Mixx, Reditt, and other social sites, checking other bookmarks, leaving comments, and building my friends lists. By doing this, your bookmarks will be seen by more people, and you will get a lot more benefit from using these sites.
Of course, if you don’t want to do all this work, you can always let me handle your social bookmarking for you. Check out my social bookmarking packages, and let me help you today.
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James Pruitt – who has written 234 posts on IMRelations Media.
I Started my internet marketing journey in 2008, as I began building simple affiliate sites. Through the years I have worked as a freelance writer, publishing my own blogs and websites, written several ebooks, and now work mainly to help others build their online business through my marketing consultations, personal coaching, and relationship building.
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James, This concept has been floating around in my head for sometime about how to integrate and make Digg, Stumble Upon and other bookmarking sites work for me. In one focused blog post you have defined what hours of searching on line could not elicit. Even the Guru sites didn’t cover this topic or make it this simple to understand. Show the bloggers you like some bookmark love and make them aware of it, if it is necessary. Thanks a lot for this tip.
Thanks Joseph. When I bookmark, i rarely bookmark my sites. I will bookmark my content on other sites. For example, i have done bookmarks on about 400 different bookmarking sites to my guest post on Famous Bloggers. however, I rarely bookmark my own site content.