Social bookmarking, social networking, social submission: these terms are on the lips of anyone looking to build a community — and as a result, their business — online. The number of sites is growing every day as various niche sites arise, and their various uses are worth looking into. Whether you want to bookmark your favorite sites; see what others marketing-minded folk are viewing; add your own site to the mix; or any combination of the three, these sites are extremely cost-effective ways to showcase your prowess of your company. The following are some of the sites we here at JB Chicago Marketing Agency feel are the most promising: 

Delicious: This bookmarking site allows its users to save all their bookmarks online. It also allows them to share them with others in the community as well as see what others are bookmarking. Del.icio.us will recommend new sites users might like, as well as the most popular. Users apply tags to the sites, which help when trying to find, share or categorize. It’s great for work-related info because you can access the sites from anywhere using your login info, and there is an ability to set some as private (i.e. client-related sites).

StumbleUpon: Users choose their interests (cooking, business, advertising, etc.) from a list, install the StumbleUpon toolbar and then a click of the “stumble” button takes them to a site they might like. Users also click a button to say whether or not they like the site, and StumbleUpon keeps track of the sites you think are worth seeing again. 

Don’t use this site for bookmarking reasons, as organizing info can be better served elsewhere. Take advantage of the networking aspect - it comes into play because others can access your favorite sites by viewing your profile. Add sites you come across, tag them appropriately and others will see those as well — so make your presence known on the site and others will be more inclined to check out your faves.

Digg: One hundred percent of the news articles, videos, images, etc. on Digg are submitted by the community. Once something is submitted, other people see it and digg what they like best. If your submission receives enough diggs, it is promoted to the home page of its category — or even the front page. 

Users can customize their home page and see only stories they would be interested in. However, there is no bookmarking capability to organize info, and no way to keep information private. You do not add tags; the site keeps track of your history and recent history, which is public record. This is another site that’s great for shameless self promotion. 

Reddit: Much like Digg, this site aims to place what’s up and coming in front if its subscribers. Basically, users customize what they’re interested in. According to the site, those votes “train a filter,” so users only see things they might like. (You determine what shows on your front page by saying if things are “hot” or “cold.”) Also, Reddit has no advertising, which some people prefer.

Yahoo Buzz: The site, much like its name suggests, gets popular topics from searches Yahoo searches. Then it displays the most popular stories within those topics based on activities like voting (either “buzz up” or “buzz down”) and the number of stories e-mailed to friends. People can then comment on those stories, and the most “buzzed up” stories might end up on Yahoo’s home page.

According to the Yahoo Buzz FAQs, it’s different from StumbleUpon, reddit, etc. because the rankings “also take into account things like trends in search queries on Yahoo Search, the number of comments left on Buzz, and the number of times that content is shared with friends over e-mail from Buzz.” 

Yes, the options can be overwhelming, but the good news is, there is no harm in choosing too many. The majority of these sites have the same purpose: to expose you to new material, which you then get to deem worthy (or not) of your attention. And you get to add to that new info, which means increasing your viewing audience exponentially. Add new content on a weekly basis (at least), and make sure it is nowhere near run of the mill - posted information that is seen as “cold” or not “dug” fades quickly. In a perfect world everyone would love your company info, but patience is key — as is participation. Making a name for yourself and establishing a good (i.e. not pushy or ego driven) reputation are two of the first steps. From there, it’s important to stay involved.

Network by checking out other’s favorites, and offer relevant comments whenever applicable. And be sure to check out submission tools such as Social Poster and Post Toaster, which allow you to upload your material to many sites at once. The odds of your material reigning supreme on any given site might be low, but just like mom always said, you never know unless you try — so get out there and explore.



By: JBChicagoMarketingAgency

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Listen, we know web promotion is not a fun thing to experience. Especially when it comes to something like social bookmarking. It could literally take you hours upon hours to go from one place to another and add what you need in order to build backlinks to your website. Then of course by the time you figure it all out, the Google algorithms have changed and you have to work on something different.

This is just one of many things that the Bookmarking Demon Social Bookmarking Software talks about on its sales page. If you aren’t sure what “bookmarking” is it won’t matter because after reviewing their sales page they seem to have covered pretty much everything for you. However, if you’re still not satisfied simply Google it and figure it out on your own. Regardless, the idea here is to learn how to use this to your advantage.

What Are The Benefits to Social Bookmarking

Well let’s see. We should probably start off by telling you that as you make your way down the sales page there is a box that shows four different benefits you’ll receive with the Bookmarking Demon Social Bookmarking Software. It all starts with getting more targeted traffic. Seriously, why would you even bother trying to get traffic in today’s world if it isn’t targeted. High conversion rates is what you need and according to this program, they can help you with it.

Another thing that is crucial to getting traffic to your websites through this Bookmarking Demon Social Bookmarking Software is by having faster search engine indexing. See they will explain how spiders go through social bookmarking sites constantly and literally get your links crawled immediately. This translates into quicker traffic at higher rates coming in constantly.

The other two involve higher search engine ranking and better page ranks. While we don’t want to overwhelm you with unnecessary information right now, we will tell you this is very important. This allows you to link to your new and existing site with a substantial amount of money potential. At least this is what we gather from the information provided on their sales page.

The Just Of It All

When it’s all said and done the Bookmarking Demon Social Bookmarking Software will save you a ton of time. As we continued reading down the page we realized there is no sense in putting your information on each of these sites one by one. Instead this system allows you to take control of them all at once. So each time you want a new link put on a social bookmarking site you can have them sent to hundreds at a time.

Our Overall Analysis

Before we’ve come across many different products like this one and ended up with a bad taste in our mouth. Why? Well they talk about it on the sales page, but many of the ones most people have used before we’ve had nothing but problems. Either they’re overpriced, they duplicate content, have a monthly fee, or worst of all are designed for only specific sites. You may want to take a deeper look into this, because they stress that it has none of these.



By: Brian Garvin

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Social Bookmarking Service Offers Submission to Over 500 Websites

Social bookmarking has become the easiest and quickest way to make sure that your new or established website gets ranked and picked up by search engines.  By employing the services of Social Bookmarking Submission Service, you are placing your website out there in front of the general public that is the internet.  The service posts your website to a number of bookmarking sites for you depending on the package size that you buy.

Social bookmarking to over five hundred websites is a very huge feat for any website, especially when the bookmarking must be done by actual members of the sites and not website owners.  For this reason, most websites rely on their readership to make sure that their site gets catalogued and recognized.  New website owners don’t always have a huge body of readers in the beginning though, and may be looking to jumpstart their site.  That is where the service provided by Social Bookmarking Submission comes in.

With the aid of a team of individually registered employees of Social Bookmarking are able to manually get your website registered into some of the most well known social bookmarking websites.  Lesser known sites that are centered on the topic of your website are also used, and these bookmarking websites have a lot of value as well.  By each member of the company’s website adding the link manually to the bookmarking website, your site is guaranteed to remain listed and not get marked as spam.  

For additional information or to purchase the services of Social Bookmarking Submission visit the company’s website at www.socialbookmarksubmission.com.  Social Bookmarking Submission is an online service that provides its users with a legitimate way to submit their website to over five hundred social bookmarking websites and create permanent one way backlinks.



By: Srinivaasswathi

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Ever since people first began browsing the Internet, they came across websites that they wanted to keep track of. The easiest way for them to be able to do this was to bookmark the webpages so that they were easily accessible within their web browser. Since that time, however, things have really changed and now people access the Internet through a variety of different methods. Not only do they access it through their computer at home, they also access it at work and at times, even whenever they are on the road. This can make it very difficult for them to find what they are looking for, particularly if they leave their bookmarks at home. This problem has been overcome, however, through the use of social bookmarking, a process in which people store their bookmarks online instead of keeping them on their computer.

This has several distinct advantages to an individual, but for us that are involved in Internet marketing, it is a literal gold mine. The people that leave their bookmarks on the Internet and the social bookmarking websites typically do it out in the open in order to share their bookmarks with other individuals. The fact of the matter is, the search engines love these websites just as much as their users do and this creates a unique opportunity for us to be able to get recognized by the search engines quickly. The only hard part about this is that posting the information to these websites can be a very time consuming task. That is, of course, unless you have some social bookmarking software that will automate much of the process for you.

A good piece of social bookmarking software is going to be able to automatically log into all of your accounts and add a bookmark of your choice. The only difficult part about all of this is typically going each and every one of these websites and signing up for the individual accounts. Some social bookmarking software has actually overcome this by automating the process as well. The best part about it is that once you put one of these programs to use, you are going to find that you are not only recognized by the search engines quickly, you will rise through the ranks quickly as well. It is certainly one piece of software that anybody who is involved in Internet marketing should make good use of.



By: Deep Arora

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Social bookmarking is not something that is new. It has been around for a few years now, and more and more online visitors are using such sites for bookmarking and sharing their favorite sites. That is the primary function of social bookmarking - to keep track of useful and interesting websites, and to share them with family and friends.

To share means being able to post bookmarks publicly. When you use a social bookmarking website, you first need to create an account. Creating an account is free, and will just take a couple of minutes. Once you have an account, you may then add as many bookmarks as you want. There may be additional software available to help you bookmark sites more conveniently (like a toolbar). However, it is not mandatory to install such software. You can just add a link to your web browser to help you bookmark URLs.

It wasn’t long before Internet marketers started to target social bookmarking sites to perform SEO. You see, SEO (short for Search Engine Optimization) requires the Internet marketer to build as many inbound links as possible. There are many different ways to build links, and some are easier to execute than others. For example, marketers submit URLs to a bunch of well established web directories in an attempt to get as many inbound links as possible in the shortest possible time.

Some of them then moved on to social bookmarking, with the primary intention getting their sites to rank higher in the search engines. However, because of such practices, the user experience of the social bookmarking sites has taken on a different form. Users are now posting bookmarks not because they like the content or the sites. The bookmarks are there because of SEO.

Now the community doesn’t care about SEO. The social bookmarking sites are released to help others find great content. So SEO doesn’t really align itself with the goals of the major social bookmarking websites.

In addition, to prevent marketers from manipulating the search results, Google has announced that they will enforce the “nofollow” policy. In other words, all links with the attribute “nofollow” in them will not be crawled, and there will be no benefit whatsoever for these links.

The social bookmarking sites welcome this move tremendously, and soon, most sites started to implement “nofollow” links.

Of course, this doesn’t stop the Internet marketers from using social bookmarking to help increase their link counts. This is, after all, the Internet. Everyday, new social bookmarking sites like Masyt are springing up. And the good news is, these sites are still “DoFollow”! For instance, Masyt is a DoFollow social bookmarking site that has already acquired a Page Rank of 1. That means anyone who submit a link to the site will enjoy all the SEO benefits that come with the link.



By: Gen Wright

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