Social bookmarking along with other types of free web promotion technics is a very popular practice among bloggers and affiliate marketers. Adding social bookmark links to your blog or web site makes it easy for readers to save and share your content. In a social bookmarking system, users store lists of Internet resources that they find useful. These lists are either accessible to the public or a specific network, and other people with similar interests can view the links by category, tags, or even randomly.

You must have seen “share this” or “bookmark this”after an article or a blog post. This is a common way to encourage users to social bookmark your articles. It greatly helps any website to acquire good positions in search engines for relevant keywords. Social bookmarking has more recently inspired the more successful social news movement which includes websites like Del.icio.us, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Digg and the famous Netscape portal.

These days, social bookmarking has become an indicator of any website’s popularity. There are many ways to learn how many people have bookmarked your blog or website on these social bookmarking websites. SocialMeter.com is one of them.

SocialMeter helps you measure the popularity of your website, blog or articles on various social bookmarking websites and blog search engines. Social meter scans the major social websites to analyze a webpage’s social popularity. Currently?it scans Bloglines Links, Del.icio.us, Google Links, Rojo Links, Shadows Links, Technorati Links, and Yahoo! Links. The process is very simple, you just have to type your blog URL and socialmeter will fetch the details of all stories on social websites that link to your blog. So I hope you will definitely bookmark this article.



By: Daniel Russo

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Do you feel like you are a serious Internet marketer? There always appears to be different levels of seriousness as you begin to analyze successful Internet marketing businesses. One area that is definitely true is when it comes to social bookmarking.

If you blog you should be social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is part of social networking and it is way to get your blog message out to the public. You certainly want readers coming back to your blog and your RSS feed does that for you.

But how do you get readers to your blog in the first place?

One of the best ways to do that is to social bookmark each blog post that you make to various social directories. Depending on the blogging platform that you use this can be extremely easy to do.

For example, Wordpress offers a plug in that contains many different social directories that you can submit to. Another thing you can do is go to Onlywire and join over 20 social directories at one time.

Then every time you make a blog post you go to only to your Onlywire account and submit one time and it will then be bookmarked to all of these different directories. This is a quick way if time is an issue for you.

However, we would suggest that if you are a serious Internet marketer that you take the time to bookmark your blog post to a handful of other top social directories. These should include the Digg, Propeller, Stumbleupon, Technorati, and others!

What happens when you social bookmark a post is you are creating a link with a short summary back to the blog URL itself. This is a great way for readers to come to your blog and discover more about you.

This also creates search engine bait as the search engines will spider these top social directories more often than they will your own website or blog. When you social book you create a backlink and the search engines will come and spider you on a consistent basis.

If you properly blog by targeting specific longtail keyword phrases, then you will find yourself ending up on page 1 of some of the top search engines for your blog post. This will create even more traffic for you.

As you can see there really is no choice comes to social bookmarking. If you are not doing that you are missing out on tremendous traffic and of course potential income.



By: David Ogden

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Social bookmarking has become an immense force both in online marketing in addition to mainstream culture. The wildly popular Social Networking site MySpace was offed to News Corp last year for $580 million in spite of having no real measurable income. The value placed on the site was from the tremendous traffic it yields and even at over a half billion was believed a bargain. YouTube sold to Google for 1.65 billion with only 20 million in revenue. These high-ticket sales just attest how fashionable and how crucial such sites are.

Okay, enough news. How does one really use these sites to make money? First of all, let me forewarn you that just like broadcasting out B.S. emails and assembling SPAM blogs or SPLOGS as they are known online, mistreating the social bookmarking services will result in getting your internet site banned by them and you will get precisely the opposite outcomes from what you are looking for. With that said, I propose you pay close attention to what I talk about in this article as well as about of the resources that I am going to propose to you.

Like many internet marketers I am forever on the lookout for new methods and methods for driving free traffic to my sites and try to cut back the use of techniques such as PPC (pay-per-click) and co-registration promotions. Whenever you can get plenty of your target keyword pages to show up in the top of the major SEs you more or less have a license to print money without having to put out any of your own.

There are quite a few bookmarking sites out there but for the aims of employing them for online marketing we are going to concentrate on a few of the more favorites such as Furl, Digg, Spurl, and the one I genuinely love, Technorati. There are numerous automated tools that I will help you to automate the process of bookmarking your sites.

All of the leading bookmarking sites will help you to get traffic and if you have a blog you will obtain the greatest benefit by delivering constantly updating content that can then be transmitted to the directories when your blog updates. They love new and UNIQUE content. There are software plugins you can employ that will put buttons on your blogs which make it user-friendly for someone to recommend the articles or content from your internet site or blog. One of the other bookmarking sites that has become exceedingly popular recently is Digg. The site was started by Kevin Rose for below $1,000 and now with over 400,000 members and 200 million page views is one of the biggest news sites on the web. Just to give you an estimate of how prominent they are, their readership is nearly as massive as the New York Times.

Personally, I like to give my readers numerous options which is why I will put buttons to Digg, Furl, Reddit, Ask, Blinklist, Blogmarks, Google, Ma.gnolia, Spurl, Yahoo, and another service called Socializer that covers a lot more. This gives me a heavy coverage of all of the major sites. In addition to the buttons that I put on my blogs I will also create “tags” for Technorati and add them to my posts. These tips can help you get much more traffic to your blogs.

By: Gregg Hall

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I’ve been getting really excited lately about the whole social bookmarking trend in internet marketing. This is because I’m on a traffic kick, testing out new things to bring my website more traffic - something all webmasters want to do.

Social bookmarking is one of the top techniques that you can use to promote your website and build more traffic. If you’re not involved, it’s time to get with the program!

Social bookmarking started for me when I joined a few of the top social bookmarking sites. You may think this is all you need to do to get involved, but trust me - there is more to social bookmarking than simply joining the social bookmarking circles!

The first thing to do is visit a few of the top social bookmarking sites: Digg, del.ici.ous, Furl, and Yahoo, just for example. You can do a Google search for these to find them if you’ve never been there before.

Then, sign up for a free account with each of these. When signing up for an account, you will have the opportunity to select buttons that you can add to the end of each of your blog posts. This will allow readers of your blog to “Digg” your post over at the Digg social bookmarking site.

When someone clicks on your Digg button, it will bring them to the Digg site, where they would login with their account username and password. The blog post or article would then appear as a URL, and the person who clicked “Digg” will have the opportunity to post a comment about your post.

This can do nothing but good things for your website. If everyone gives your post a Digg, think of all the links in Digg you will have pointing back to your site. This will certainly increase your traffic when someone goes onto Digg looking for a post on a topic that interests them.

This is where I initially went wrong in my social bookmarking efforts. You don’t want to stop after just joining these social bookmarking sites and leaving a button on your blog posts for everyone else to find and click. You want to get actively involved in the social bookmarking process by becoming an active member of these sites.

What I mean by being “active” is that you want to visit these sites, and find topics of interest to you, or topics that relate to your online business. Once you find other posts on your topic of interest, then you have the opportunity to bookmark, or “favourite” those posts, and add a comment.

Doing this can really increase your traffic, as evidenced by my own increasing website stats just by doing this one thing alone. If you “favourite” other people’s sites and they “favourite” your site and you each comment on other’s posts, then you will soon have a network of links pointing back to your site.

This important piece of the social bookmarking puzzle is something I didn’t even realize myself until I got involved with my latest social bookmarking site called “Squidoo”. Apparently, Google just loves Squidoo at the moment, so I jumped on the bandwagon along with others I know joining the site.

The great thing about Squidoo and sites like MySpace is that you can create a “lens” which is just like a mini web page, or landing page that gives visitors to that lens a quick overview of what you have to offer. This will hopefully entice them to click your links and bring you more traffic.

I’ve made darn sure this time that after creating my lens I did not just leave it at that. I have visited other lenses on my topic of interest, added those lenses to my “favourites” list, and sent comments to others in hopes that others will visit my links as well. So far, this has increased my traffic very quickly and I may even reach a personal goal thanks to this technique alone!

Next, I am going to try creating more than one lens and link one to the other, which will hopefully entice visitors to read one of my lenses, and then click on to the other, increasing my traffic even more!

The thing to watch out for when using social bookmarking sites is that you don’t want to be a spammer who is out there just to get your links seen and clicked. As with anything in internet marketing, like forum posts, no one likes someone who is just there to advertise themselves. You want to offer valuable information, and make a valuable contribution by offering good advice, and great content.

By: Liane Bate

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Are you interested in driving crazy traffic to your website with the power of social bookmarking sites?

Yes that’s free targeted traffic for you. The purpose of this article is to show you how to drive all the free traffic you can imagine starting today.

These 6 steps can drive crazy traffic to your website using social bookmarking…

Step 1 - Use Catchy Headlines.

Step 2 - Article Descriptions.

Step 3 - Catchy First Para.

Step 4 - Amazing Content.

Step 5 - Include a Bookmarking Button.

Step 6 - Right Category.

Lets get into bit detail. Social bookmarking sites like digg.com, stumbleupon.com and reddit.om can bring you truckloads of targeted website traffic.

This can happen if your listing gets appeared in the front pages of the sites.

Just imagine, adding 1000 visitors to your site per day can really boost up your sales.

6 Amazing Steps Makes Sure to Drive Crazy Traffic from Social Bookmarking Sites…

Step 1 - Use Catchy Headlines.

Titles play the most important role. If your article headline is not interesting enough your article will not get read by as many surfers.

When the users search the listings they will be presented with the titles.

So if you want your articles to get read you have to make your titles catchy.

Step 2 - Article Description.

Provide detailed and interesting description of your articles.

As you have attracted users to read your articles give them benefits with a summary that they will get by reading your articles.

Step 3 - Catchy First Para.

Write an attention grabbing first para. Make sure you write a killer introduction that will hook your readers to read the rest of your article.

Step 4 - Amazing Content.

One of the main reason that internet surfers read articles is that they get quality information.

Therefore make sure that your article body contains quality information in your niche.

If you do this they will trust and respect you and in turn end up purchasing your products and services.

Step 5 - Include a Bookmarking Button.

Make sure that you insert a book marking button at the end of your article.

If your articles are useful and of high quality your readers will bookmark it.

Step 6 - Right Category.

If you want your articles to be easily found make sure that you put them in right categories.

By: Murtuza Abbas

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