Sunday, August 31, 2008

Social Bookmarking Is Gaining Popularity

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Social bookmarking’s system of tags and links—two of the greatest inventions in the past 50 years, according to Kevin Kelly , a cofounder of Wired Magazine —lets users access other bookmark collections and add them to their own. By building community profiles, users with common interests discover one another and resources they might not have otherwise come across, even after endless keyword selections and clicks on a search engine

Social bookmarking can help your site or make you a referrer to a site that you love to visit. Either way, you are sharing information over the web and helping people needing it in the process. Social bookmarking opens the doors to multiple marketing strategies that you can use to improve your bottom line right away! Social bookmarking is all about the collective voice. Most networks increase the profile of items that receive numerous bookmarks. There is a staggering number of people who are visiting Web 2.0 sites everyday. In other words, there is a phenomenal amount of free traffic that you can redirect into your website day and night by submitting links to your articles.

What Are Social Bookmarking Websites?

They are web based applications that allows us to store our bookmarks online instead of on our browser or computer. Whenever you bookmark a web page, you are posting it on the Internet for everyone to view. Social bookmarking is just one of the "newest things" sweeping the Internet. Social bookmarking or social websites are communities based on broad or niche specific topics like Social Community of Webmasters, Social Community of Video these sites allow the user to store links to Web pages in an online account - all at the click of a button. .

Social bookmarks are an increasingly popular way to classify, locate, share and rank news, stories and articles on the Internet . Social bookmarking websites like Digg (http://www.Digg.com) and Stumble Upon (http://www.StumbleUpon.com) have risen in popularity very quickly and it’s a secret that experienced marketers use to push their webpage up in the ranks of the major search engines.Users in these sites tags or bookmark the websites if they like the website or story submitted by you! Social bookmarking sites excel at maintaining an online grouping of websites for many purposes (e.g. You can use tags and comments to help classify and retrieve websites when needed. You also have the option to share your bookmarks online or keep them private.

Social bookmarking produces up-to-the-minute information sources loaded with personal investment and value.It is not necessarily a method for direct distribution. Syndicated feeds do help to create a form of direct distribution for social bookmarking services.

Social bookmarking systems are gaining popularity, a great way to save pages you like and help others find articles, blog posts, lenses and sites you create. In a social bookmarking system, users store lists of Internet resources, which they find useful.

Digg It. The One Social Bookmarking Site You Must Use.

Digg is a mega popular social website that you should use right away. At the point of writing, it has an Alexa rank of 116, meaning that it is the 116th most visited website in the world, according to Alexa’s traffic tracking service. The more “diggs” or votes you have, the higher your ranking. I have broken down into simple steps for you to start submitting your links to Digg.com.

1.Go to http://www.digg.com and sign up for an account
2.Submit the link to your website or blog where the story is at. Be aware that you do not upload your articles to Digg. It just bookmarks your article for people to visit, comment and rate.
3.Choose your media, whether are you submitting an article, video or image.
4.Give your story a catchy headline and description to entice people to read it, and also a nice picture to go along with the article.
5.Choose a topic of your article according list shown, type in the visual password and press “Submit Story”

You can also comment on other people’s post that are in the front page, but make intelligent remarks that are relevant to their interest. In this way, you will attract other commentors and visitors to come and have a look at your site.

Step by Step Action Plan To Submitting To Other Social Bookmarking Websites.

There are many smaller social bookmarking websites that can also drive you loads of traffic. But it would be extremely tiring to go through all of them 1 by 1. At Onlywire.com, you can submit to 22 other popular social bookmarking sites simultaneously. Here’s how you do it…

1.Go to http://www.onlywire.com and create an account.
2.Register with all the other social bookmarking sites that can be used with onlywire.com
3.Input your username and password of your other accounts into onlywire.com
4.Drag the Onlywire bookmark link “savepage” onto your toolbar
5.Go to the webpage where publish your article and click on the “savepage” button
6.Insert your website title, description and relevant tags or keywords about your article.
7.Repeat steps 5 and 6 for every new page that you have.

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Have a bless and successful journey!



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