Archive for December, 2007
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a new trend in search engine optimization, which has gained recognition as part of a new type of website optimization, termed “social media optimization (SMO).” Social Book marking, also referred to sometimes as “social bookmarketing”, is the term used for bookmarking sites on the web and sharing them with friends. It is similar to bookmarking a site on your pc, in the “favorites” of your web browser.
There is an increasing number of websites available on the web that provides this as a free service for bookmarking your sites or blogs on the web. These sites are known as social bookmarking sites. Once you have created a free account, you may begin adding bookmarks to your account. The advantage is that once you have bookmarked any site then you can access them from anywhere on the web, and also share them with friends.
These are some popular social bookmarking site: del.icio.us, Digg.com, Simpy.com, blogmarks.net, feedmarker.com, myweb2.search.yahoo.com, lookmarks.com, bluedot.com, furl.net and etc.
So how is social bookmarking useful for SEO you ask?
Social bookmarking sites are “tag based”- which means you can “tag” them with keywords so your visitors that bookmark your site can find them easily later. Search engines index these tags, as well as the link, so you are essentially getting free one-way links from high-traffic sites, with all of your keywords attached to them! It is a great way to get your website visitors working for you. However, choosing proper tag names is critical and plays a very important roles if you want to truly get social book marking to work for you in your search engine optimization process. The interesting thing is that there are no limitations for the number of tags you can attach to your link. The extent to which you declare tags will allow for your site’s information to be stored. Additionally, when someone bookmarks your site, the bookmarking site checks the tags to see if the link already exists. So by periodically changing your bookmark tags, you can get multiple links with different tags on the same site. In other words, your site will be stored in different pages and you will get links from the different pages of the same sites.
Because these sites are regularly crawled by search engines, your site will most likely also be crawled more often by having bookmarked links on these websites.
By: Amit Kothiyal
About the Author:
There is an increasing number of websites available on the web that provides this as a free service for bookmarking your sites or blogs on the web. These sites are known as social bookmarking sites. Once you have created a free account, you may begin adding bookmarks to your account. The advantage is that once you have bookmarked any site then you can access them from anywhere on the web, and also share them with friends.
These are some popular social bookmarking site: del.icio.us, Digg.com, Simpy.com, blogmarks.net, feedmarker.com, myweb2.search.yahoo.com, lookmarks.com, bluedot.com, furl.net and etc.
So how is social bookmarking useful for SEO you ask?
Social bookmarking sites are “tag based”- which means you can “tag” them with keywords so your visitors that bookmark your site can find them easily later. Search engines index these tags, as well as the link, so you are essentially getting free one-way links from high-traffic sites, with all of your keywords attached to them! It is a great way to get your website visitors working for you. However, choosing proper tag names is critical and plays a very important roles if you want to truly get social book marking to work for you in your search engine optimization process. The interesting thing is that there are no limitations for the number of tags you can attach to your link. The extent to which you declare tags will allow for your site’s information to be stored. Additionally, when someone bookmarks your site, the bookmarking site checks the tags to see if the link already exists. So by periodically changing your bookmark tags, you can get multiple links with different tags on the same site. In other words, your site will be stored in different pages and you will get links from the different pages of the same sites.
Because these sites are regularly crawled by search engines, your site will most likely also be crawled more often by having bookmarked links on these websites.
By: Amit Kothiyal
About the Author:
Author is a website marketing executive for Phoenix & Las Vegas, based web design & marketing firm – Vision Media Corporation. Vision Media is Specialize in rich web application development, search engine optimization, custom website design, multimedia production, and other rich web applications.
Andrzej
Social Bookmarking – How Can it Help in an Online Business?
Social bookmarking is a fun activity on the web. It’s a great way to make friends online or to meet people with the same interest as you are. But more than that, social bookmarking is a way for internet users to organize and store websites, articles and blogs. Social bookmarking sites are popular among internet marketers and to those with affiliate marketing programs. Through these sites, they can use it for free in promoting a product and it’s an effective way to get back links and drive traffic to website and or blogs. The more number of links on the internet that points back to your site will increase your page rank. Especially when people will like your site and most probably will tag your site.It’s a great way to make money from websites and increase visibility and earnings from affiliate marketing programs.
This is bookmarking with an added features. While you can mark a document for later use, you learn from your networks too. It’s a way of sharing sites or pages of a website that you come across with. If you have been thinking on promoting your websites, you can just post a link to your profile for your friends and friends of your friends to see it. Joining in a social bookmarking sites is easy. You have to consider the sites that is related to your site. Relevant sites will make it easier for you to promote your product. Also consider the popular bookmarking sites which have the most traffic and where you can make the most of social bookmarking .
But why do we need to participate in social bookmarking? One thing is that, it is the best way to express different perspective on information and resources though social bookmaking is an informal organizational structure. It’s the great way to influence other people and a great opportunity to gather information in order to create a new product. The information provided by social bookmarking can be a great business asset if you do it right. Also a great tool of knowing your prospects and make these prospects into a customer and encouraging them to keep coming back. Simply put, social bookmarking serves as an advertisement for your business. Providing more information to readers through the social bookmarking sites, definitely you will have customers especially when you know what they want.
Social bookmarking needs to be crafted well for what you are promoting is important. A very good content will definitely please a reader and most probably will be interested to your product. Submitting quality content is essential and once you get traffic flowing into your websites and blogs, the sales will follow naturally. You have to be unique and being plain will make you just like a spammer and nobody likes a spammer. More importantly, you have to make a lot of friends to help you promote your blogs and affiliate programs. Also, you have pay attention to other blogs, articles and websites that are bookmarked the most and ranked the highest because this will give you an idea of what people like to see. It is important to know your audience especially when you are promoting affiliate programs. Social bookmarking when done properly can be an efficient way to get traffic to your website and promote your online business.
By: Gwyn Estember
About the Author:
This is bookmarking with an added features. While you can mark a document for later use, you learn from your networks too. It’s a way of sharing sites or pages of a website that you come across with. If you have been thinking on promoting your websites, you can just post a link to your profile for your friends and friends of your friends to see it. Joining in a social bookmarking sites is easy. You have to consider the sites that is related to your site. Relevant sites will make it easier for you to promote your product. Also consider the popular bookmarking sites which have the most traffic and where you can make the most of social bookmarking .
But why do we need to participate in social bookmarking? One thing is that, it is the best way to express different perspective on information and resources though social bookmaking is an informal organizational structure. It’s the great way to influence other people and a great opportunity to gather information in order to create a new product. The information provided by social bookmarking can be a great business asset if you do it right. Also a great tool of knowing your prospects and make these prospects into a customer and encouraging them to keep coming back. Simply put, social bookmarking serves as an advertisement for your business. Providing more information to readers through the social bookmarking sites, definitely you will have customers especially when you know what they want.
Social bookmarking needs to be crafted well for what you are promoting is important. A very good content will definitely please a reader and most probably will be interested to your product. Submitting quality content is essential and once you get traffic flowing into your websites and blogs, the sales will follow naturally. You have to be unique and being plain will make you just like a spammer and nobody likes a spammer. More importantly, you have to make a lot of friends to help you promote your blogs and affiliate programs. Also, you have pay attention to other blogs, articles and websites that are bookmarked the most and ranked the highest because this will give you an idea of what people like to see. It is important to know your audience especially when you are promoting affiliate programs. Social bookmarking when done properly can be an efficient way to get traffic to your website and promote your online business.
By: Gwyn Estember
About the Author:
Gwyn is a employee of DotComSecrets which teaches varioaus internet marketing strategies to internet business owners.
Efrain
Social Bookmarking For Link Building
Social bookmarking is the habit or practice of saving bookmarks to a web site and “tagging” .Social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links.
But do not let the use of NoFollow fool you, the search engines are looking beyond the incoming links from social bookmarking sites to gauge their value to their search indexes. The external metadata compiled via user generated descriptions, tags, titles and categorization is incredibly valued by the search engines, as in the same philosophy as anchored backlinks, descriptive content about a web site defined by the users of that site who are not associated with the marketing or coding of that site, can be extremely powerful in gauging the importance and relevance of the content and tags which are used on that site.
Bookmarks show how a site is perceived, and when these sites allow voting, they also show the engines or whatever classification system which monitors voting, how people feel about the quality of the site. Furthermore, social bookmarking can introduce a site to the search engines, as in some cases, people may find and bookmark a site or a site’s internal pages before a search engine can find those pages via another form of inbound link.
Social bookmarking is a web 2.0 phenomenon that allows users to create and share “bookmarks”. It is the equivalent of adding a website to your list of favorites, but you can use this set of bookmarks on any computer by logging into your account. The reason why it is called “social bookmarking” is because the users that create the bookmarks can also look at related pages created by other people.
Social bookmarking sites are search engine friendly and within seven days of submission, links start to appear in all major search engines. If you are serious about your sites Link Building, Ranking and Traffic Social Bookmarking is a must.
IBM’s Dogear provides an excellent example of an enterprise social bookmarking tool in action. The developers from IBM Research, David Millen, Jonathan Feinberg, and Bernard Kerr, optimized Dogear for intranet use, resulting in tagging capability combined with authentication of the tagger. You can tag intranet as well as internet material, and your corporate-directory presence can have your tags (as can your blogs).
You can see others within your firm with the same bookmarks as well as the bookmarks of individuals. IBM added collaborative filtering to infer stuff that people might want from their tagging activity and let them know about it. IBM has also integrated its enterprise social bookmarking system with its corporate search engines, giving the user access to the benefits of both.
So, the question,? Should you pay any attention to social bookmarking?? And the answer is, make your site worthy of bookmarking. Bookmarks appear to web crawlers as links to your page, and that makes them very valuable SEO tools. For some search engines, the more bookmarks that lead back to your site, the more ?votes?
So, visit some of the social bookmarking sites on the Internet. Learn how they work. And set up your own account. Then, create your own list of links that includes your web sites, as well as other web sites that users might find relevant or useful.
On the web-site side, be sure to include the code snippets provided by social bookmarking organizations that allow users to tag your site easily. Then, maintain it all. Don’t just forget your account completely. If you do, eventually it will disappear and all the advantage of having one will go as well. Instead, continue using social bookmarking. Over time, the rewards will be increased traffic to your web site.
Social bookmarking sites are looking for extraordinary content, not just run of the mill stuff. It doesn’t matter how great of a writer you are, every single thing that ends up on your blog or your web page is not “vote-worthy”. Social bookmarking has become so competitive that people are asking for votes for every single thing that they put up on the Internet, which entirely defeats the purpose of the entire social bookmarking industry.
With regard to creating a high-quality search engine, a social bookmarking system has several advantages over traditional automated resource location and classification software, such as search engine spiders. All tag-based classification of Internet resources (such as web sites) is done by human beings, who understand the content of the resource, as opposed to software, which algorithmically attempts to determine the meaning of a resource. Also, people tend to find and bookmark web pages that have not yet been noticed or indexed by web spiders.
Social bookmarking leverages the popular social software phenomenon of tagging. Users can apply tags, or keywords, to the bookmarks they save. In social bookmarking, tagging creates a grass-roots taxonomy for the shared bookmarks. Users can search by tags to find bookmarks relevant to their interests. Taxonomies created through bookmarking are called “folksonomies.”
Social Bookmarking websites are basically sites that categorize and store ‘bookmark links’ (links which take one to a specific website). Millions of visitors flood these Social Bookmarking sites to search for information.
The implications of social bookmarking are many, and some are not so obvious. Marketers can use social bookmarking sites to collect all kinds of demographic information from a users personal bookmarks, then personalize that user’s advertising experience (one can only imagine the companies advertising to those who have bookmarked the vanishing point site referenced above).
The result would be a much more effective advertising campaign by the vendor than the current scattershot methods, and those social bookmarking sites could in turn charge much more for their advertising space. An interesting proposition if you’re a company looking to target a niche audience.
But could social bookmarking work within the walls of an enterprise? Could a company offer social bookmarking as a reference tool on its intranet, allowing developers, sales executives, janitors, and engineers alike to create their own (or department) repositories for information relevant to their jobs? This could mean the end of the reference manual, as well as the three-hour meeting in which two of those hours are spent reviewing a projects progress. Make the project notes and reference manuals available as bookmarks on the intranet, and that meeting time and brainpower could be put to better use.
By: Todd Ash
About the Author:
But do not let the use of NoFollow fool you, the search engines are looking beyond the incoming links from social bookmarking sites to gauge their value to their search indexes. The external metadata compiled via user generated descriptions, tags, titles and categorization is incredibly valued by the search engines, as in the same philosophy as anchored backlinks, descriptive content about a web site defined by the users of that site who are not associated with the marketing or coding of that site, can be extremely powerful in gauging the importance and relevance of the content and tags which are used on that site.
Bookmarks show how a site is perceived, and when these sites allow voting, they also show the engines or whatever classification system which monitors voting, how people feel about the quality of the site. Furthermore, social bookmarking can introduce a site to the search engines, as in some cases, people may find and bookmark a site or a site’s internal pages before a search engine can find those pages via another form of inbound link.
Social bookmarking is a web 2.0 phenomenon that allows users to create and share “bookmarks”. It is the equivalent of adding a website to your list of favorites, but you can use this set of bookmarks on any computer by logging into your account. The reason why it is called “social bookmarking” is because the users that create the bookmarks can also look at related pages created by other people.
Social bookmarking sites are search engine friendly and within seven days of submission, links start to appear in all major search engines. If you are serious about your sites Link Building, Ranking and Traffic Social Bookmarking is a must.
IBM’s Dogear provides an excellent example of an enterprise social bookmarking tool in action. The developers from IBM Research, David Millen, Jonathan Feinberg, and Bernard Kerr, optimized Dogear for intranet use, resulting in tagging capability combined with authentication of the tagger. You can tag intranet as well as internet material, and your corporate-directory presence can have your tags (as can your blogs).
You can see others within your firm with the same bookmarks as well as the bookmarks of individuals. IBM added collaborative filtering to infer stuff that people might want from their tagging activity and let them know about it. IBM has also integrated its enterprise social bookmarking system with its corporate search engines, giving the user access to the benefits of both.
So, the question,? Should you pay any attention to social bookmarking?? And the answer is, make your site worthy of bookmarking. Bookmarks appear to web crawlers as links to your page, and that makes them very valuable SEO tools. For some search engines, the more bookmarks that lead back to your site, the more ?votes?
So, visit some of the social bookmarking sites on the Internet. Learn how they work. And set up your own account. Then, create your own list of links that includes your web sites, as well as other web sites that users might find relevant or useful.
On the web-site side, be sure to include the code snippets provided by social bookmarking organizations that allow users to tag your site easily. Then, maintain it all. Don’t just forget your account completely. If you do, eventually it will disappear and all the advantage of having one will go as well. Instead, continue using social bookmarking. Over time, the rewards will be increased traffic to your web site.
Social bookmarking sites are looking for extraordinary content, not just run of the mill stuff. It doesn’t matter how great of a writer you are, every single thing that ends up on your blog or your web page is not “vote-worthy”. Social bookmarking has become so competitive that people are asking for votes for every single thing that they put up on the Internet, which entirely defeats the purpose of the entire social bookmarking industry.
With regard to creating a high-quality search engine, a social bookmarking system has several advantages over traditional automated resource location and classification software, such as search engine spiders. All tag-based classification of Internet resources (such as web sites) is done by human beings, who understand the content of the resource, as opposed to software, which algorithmically attempts to determine the meaning of a resource. Also, people tend to find and bookmark web pages that have not yet been noticed or indexed by web spiders.
Social bookmarking leverages the popular social software phenomenon of tagging. Users can apply tags, or keywords, to the bookmarks they save. In social bookmarking, tagging creates a grass-roots taxonomy for the shared bookmarks. Users can search by tags to find bookmarks relevant to their interests. Taxonomies created through bookmarking are called “folksonomies.”
Social Bookmarking websites are basically sites that categorize and store ‘bookmark links’ (links which take one to a specific website). Millions of visitors flood these Social Bookmarking sites to search for information.
The implications of social bookmarking are many, and some are not so obvious. Marketers can use social bookmarking sites to collect all kinds of demographic information from a users personal bookmarks, then personalize that user’s advertising experience (one can only imagine the companies advertising to those who have bookmarked the vanishing point site referenced above).
The result would be a much more effective advertising campaign by the vendor than the current scattershot methods, and those social bookmarking sites could in turn charge much more for their advertising space. An interesting proposition if you’re a company looking to target a niche audience.
But could social bookmarking work within the walls of an enterprise? Could a company offer social bookmarking as a reference tool on its intranet, allowing developers, sales executives, janitors, and engineers alike to create their own (or department) repositories for information relevant to their jobs? This could mean the end of the reference manual, as well as the three-hour meeting in which two of those hours are spent reviewing a projects progress. Make the project notes and reference manuals available as bookmarks on the intranet, and that meeting time and brainpower could be put to better use.
By: Todd Ash
About the Author:
Todd Ash Is An Entrepreneur and A Master Of Network Marketing.To Find Out More About Succeeding Online Click Here To Visit Toddash.com For Free Information
Brian
What Is The Best Social Bookmarking Secret
If you have a blog and you are not social bookmarking your articles you are making a big mistake. As a matter of fact, you are missing out on a tremendous amount of traffic and all of the benefits that go with it. It makes me wonder if this really is a secret that people are not aware of.
It shouldn’t be a secret of all but if it is let me dispel the that notion right now by saying that you should take a few minutes and social bookmark every blog post that you make. To rely strictly on blogging and pinging to get your post out into the marketplace is short changing yourself.
Promoting your blog is more than just making a blog post. Promoting your blog is taking the extra step to social bookmark it to the top directories in a couple of very simple ways.
The benefits of social bookmarking are many. First of all you really will get more traffic when people know that you have an article that they want to read.
If you social bookmark your article into a directory such as Stumble Upon you are going to find traffic coming to your blog from the back link created when you do that social bookmark. If you have any doubts about this install Google Analytics code into the footer of your blog file and watch where your traffic comes from.
Social bookmarking also gives you search engine bait because the search engines love blog posts. You have to be smart about how you do this in terms of keyword relevancy, but it makes sense a search engine will spider a directory such as Stumble Upon way before they will spider your own blog.
Every time a user can find your website you are making it easy for them to do. Once they get there they can bookmark your RSS feed and then be kept up to date every time you make a new post. But until they know about you they can never do that. This is what social bookmarking does for you.
Another interesting point is you are not limited in the number of times you can bookmark your posts. If you are writing interesting articles and stories these directories relish the fact that you are bookmarking those into their directory.
If you have any doubt about what the best social bookmarking secret is the answer is just do it. Bookmark every chance you get and you will benefit from it.
By: David Ogden
About the Author:
It shouldn’t be a secret of all but if it is let me dispel the that notion right now by saying that you should take a few minutes and social bookmark every blog post that you make. To rely strictly on blogging and pinging to get your post out into the marketplace is short changing yourself.
Promoting your blog is more than just making a blog post. Promoting your blog is taking the extra step to social bookmark it to the top directories in a couple of very simple ways.
The benefits of social bookmarking are many. First of all you really will get more traffic when people know that you have an article that they want to read.
If you social bookmark your article into a directory such as Stumble Upon you are going to find traffic coming to your blog from the back link created when you do that social bookmark. If you have any doubts about this install Google Analytics code into the footer of your blog file and watch where your traffic comes from.
Social bookmarking also gives you search engine bait because the search engines love blog posts. You have to be smart about how you do this in terms of keyword relevancy, but it makes sense a search engine will spider a directory such as Stumble Upon way before they will spider your own blog.
Every time a user can find your website you are making it easy for them to do. Once they get there they can bookmark your RSS feed and then be kept up to date every time you make a new post. But until they know about you they can never do that. This is what social bookmarking does for you.
Another interesting point is you are not limited in the number of times you can bookmark your posts. If you are writing interesting articles and stories these directories relish the fact that you are bookmarking those into their directory.
If you have any doubt about what the best social bookmarking secret is the answer is just do it. Bookmark every chance you get and you will benefit from it.
By: David Ogden
About the Author:
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Eddy
Social Bookmarking?
master4250 asked:
How to earn with social bookmarking? Any E-books?
Carlton
How to earn with social bookmarking? Any E-books?
Carlton
Social Bookmarking Is The New Tag Superweapon!
I’m sure you have heard much Social Bookmarking. What is it exactly? 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.
For all intents and purposes- Social Bookmarking sites are not that much different to Search Engines but they offer users so much more than the traditional Search Engine site. In any social bookmarking site -your screen will show a range of tags which are in different colors size and intensity which marks the popularity of the tag. Social Bookmarking is FAST becoming ‘THE Way’ to generate hordes of FREE and super laser targeted traffic to your websites!.
There were (and still are) lots of bookmark managers and browser tools to help keep track of the hundreds and thousands of links people amassed. Finding other people with the same interests via bookmarked tags as you is always a good way to meet interesting friends. Some of the best known sites include Blinklist/ Blogmarks/del.icio.us/ Furl/ Kaboodle/ ma.gnolia/ Simpy/ Spurl and Wink to name just a few. How To Put Social Bookmarking on Autopilot!
post those!. About 6% of my referrers this month are http://del.icio.us related including .8% off the home page meaning that people click on my link when they see it pop up in their RSS feed. Check out http://www.trafficwebsecrets.com/socialbookmarking/bookmarking_demon.html.
But by organizing your bookmarks online; you can help yourself (getting organized/ getting my content exposed) and help others at the same time to finding great content. There’s usually a list of related social bookmarked tags as well so you might find a few things you’d forgotten about. Social bookmarking is all about sharing and exposure and if done properly- you can be as aggressive as you want to be about sharing information. Put Social Bookmarking on Autopilot!
By: Anthony Ellis
About the Author:
For all intents and purposes- Social Bookmarking sites are not that much different to Search Engines but they offer users so much more than the traditional Search Engine site. In any social bookmarking site -your screen will show a range of tags which are in different colors size and intensity which marks the popularity of the tag. Social Bookmarking is FAST becoming ‘THE Way’ to generate hordes of FREE and super laser targeted traffic to your websites!.
There were (and still are) lots of bookmark managers and browser tools to help keep track of the hundreds and thousands of links people amassed. Finding other people with the same interests via bookmarked tags as you is always a good way to meet interesting friends. Some of the best known sites include Blinklist/ Blogmarks/del.icio.us/ Furl/ Kaboodle/ ma.gnolia/ Simpy/ Spurl and Wink to name just a few. How To Put Social Bookmarking on Autopilot!
post those!. About 6% of my referrers this month are http://del.icio.us related including .8% off the home page meaning that people click on my link when they see it pop up in their RSS feed. Check out http://www.trafficwebsecrets.com/socialbookmarking/bookmarking_demon.html.
But by organizing your bookmarks online; you can help yourself (getting organized/ getting my content exposed) and help others at the same time to finding great content. There’s usually a list of related social bookmarked tags as well so you might find a few things you’d forgotten about. Social bookmarking is all about sharing and exposure and if done properly- you can be as aggressive as you want to be about sharing information. Put Social Bookmarking on Autopilot!
By: Anthony Ellis
About the Author:
How Social Bookmarking tool can get 100s of High PR links Automatically!
Breck
