Archive for February, 2008

The Buzz on Social Bookmarking

By On February 25, 2008 No Comments
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Everyone seems to be talking about social bookmarking nowadays. Just like blogging used to be a hot topic previously around 2004 and 2005. So what exactly is social bookmarking? What makes it so popular? How can we make use of it?

Well, social bookmarking is basically the collective act of bookmarking and also a platform for sharing of internet links and resources such as websites, blogs, articles, videos and many others. Different social bookmarking services currently available on the web allow people to upload, store, bookmark and share various interesting information.

Some of the popular ones include Del.icio.us, Technorati, Flickr, etc.

Basically, social bookmarking involves the use of tags assigned to various Objects.

Most of the time, the object is linked to a unique webpage related to the assigned tag. However, it can also be a file format or any other format.

One can simply make use of such social bookmarking service to promote your websites, blogs or affiliate marketing programs. Such bookmarking sites are particularly suitable and popular for affiliate marketing programs as they offer a free and effective way to get inbound links (or backlinks), greatly enhancing search engine visibility, which is great news for affiliate businesses.

So, now you see how powerful social bookmarking can be?

Let us get started with some basic pointers.

1. Join major social bookmarking site

Try to choose some more popular ones such as Del.icio.us, Digg, Reddit, Facebook, MySpace, etc. Popular sites have more traffic and they allow you to submit and bookmark websites and blogs just with the click of a button. In addition, they also take advantage of RSS feeds. RSS feeds can be used to syndicate user bookmarks or contents with the same tags. Users can also syndicate bookmarks that are created by other users using RSS feeds.

2. Site research

Different social bookmarking sites may cater to different types of users. Get to know the site that is popular with your targeted niche. Do some research and find out whether other users share similar interest in your niche. Pay close attention to the websites or articles that are being bookmarked with highest ranking or most popular. This will help you to determine whether your affiliate program will receive attention or not later.

3. Contents

Make sure you submit quality content to bookmarking sites. Do not submit for the sake of submitting. Do not ever (I repeat) spam. This defeats your purpose in your niche affiliate program especially if you are focusing on conversion optimization. This will only affect your status and only damage your reputation. And this is not the way to do affiliate business.

Unlucky (or luckily for you), most marketers have not caught on to social bookmarking as a method for generating links (or backlinks) as yet. So by reading this article, I bet you are already one step ahead of many others. At this moment, there are still quite a number of people who have no idea what social bookmarking is about.

Very soon, online social bookmarking will also become another norm method used for marketing. Slowly, it is already spreading like wildfire in the internet world. Dwell hard into this area if you are seriously into affiliate marketing. You will not regret it.

Copyright 2008

 



By: Anthony Heng

About the Author:

Anthony Heng is actively involved in affiliate internet business. He strongly believes one can succeed with the right information, tools and attitude, and he would love to share what he knows with as much people as possible.

To find out more, visit his homepage (Affiliate Internet Business) at http://www.affiliateibiz.com



Achilles


Autopilot Social Bookmarking: Would Social Bookmarking Sites Ban You?

By On February 12, 2008 No Comments
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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.

All Social Bookmarking sites provide a refreshing change for user oriented search. Setting bookmarking tags provide a much better system as compared to categories because unlike a browser – you can use more than one tag. Social Bookmarking will be the future of searches because its powered by humans; assessed by humans and voted on by humans!.

In the old days. If you are looking for a great blog to read in the morning then you will love the chance to find out the most popular blog via your favorite bookmarking site!. Tagging is using single words or phrases (separated by commas or spaces) to describe the links you are posting on these Social Bookmarking sites.

Social bookmarking saves uploading a bunch of urls to your domain or remembering to send them to your Aunt Sally before you visit on the off chance you’ll need to remember that special something while you’re away. 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.

Social bookmarking sites also help you to meet other people who are interested in the same topics you are and who may also have knowledge of web resources that you don’t. 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. Watch out for typos. . Put Social Bookmarking on Autopilot!



By: Anthony Ellis

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Anastasio


The Value and Benefits of Social Bookmarking

By On February 11, 2008 No Comments
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With the fast and effective way of how internet technology has improved communication, marketing and transfer of information from a source, social bookmarking has played an important role with its efficiency and reliability. As what is known about social bookmarking, social bookmarking is an organized method of how bookmarks of web pages are stored, organized, searched and managed. It allows internet users to share the web pages they want with friends and selected people in a group. It allows you easy access by simply logging in any computer. Most people use browser-based method. Social bookmarking lets you employ personalized tags. Bookmarking sites give you added information by measuring how reputable a website is as compared to other sites. New ideas are at reach when you use social bookmarking because it is easier for you to look what others have visited and done. You will be able to visit and discover favorites done and visited by others.

The best social reason why you need to be bookmarked is the benefit of being connected with your friends, family, and people you work with. You will be able to share the websites you love with anybody close to you. It allows you to save time and effort from everybody close to you and even for yourself by knowing what particular thing they prefer as a gift, interest, hobby, or need.

Social bookmarking is now an important promotional tool that you can use. If you own a website and wanted to enhance it, social bookmarking has several beneficial features that you can use at your advantage for optimizing search engines.

Search engines are also compatible with social bookmarkings. If your own website appears on the front page of a search engine, expect an increase in traffic. An increase in traffic will mean that your website will be exposed to inbound links. This in turn will make you popular and increases your page rank. This is a form of a viral campaign that is of your advantage. Your web site will be more noted in the internet and will gain an assured popularity.

Repeat visitors are gained with social bookmarking. Most visitors do not register or take action on their first visit to your website. However, if visitors will visit your website again, chances are, they will be taking actions on their next visit. The more visit, the more chances of taking action. The more bookmarking options, the more visitors will likely to return. However, you have to make sure that your website will have quality content. This will make anybody to bookmark your page.

Social bookmarking existed several years before and people will always discover new concepts about the bookmarking world especially with the fields of marketing and promotion. Many have benefited from its advantages and new ideas are still being developed to maximize its use. The online marketing industry and community eye social marketing as one of their major tools in the future. No wonder many social bookmarking sites have come to provide the basic advantages and enjoy the benefits of social bookmarking.



By: Eabharoid

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Ashby


How Using A Social Bookmarking Automation Software Will Save Time and Generate More Sales

By On February 10, 2008 No Comments
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Getting listed on the social bookmarking websites is one of the initial phases of getting your website listed in the search engines. Yes, there are plenty of ways that you are able to get your website listed but if you want to be recognized quickly and to move up through the search engine rankings with ease, it is difficult to beat what social bookmarking can bring you. Unfortunately, it can also be difficult for you to have the time to take care of this process, as it can be quite time consuming. Often, if we try to manage every aspect of our business including social bookmarking, we can be overwhelmed and not accomplish anything at all.

The easiest way for you to overcome this is to employ the use of social bookmarking automation software. This will help to cut down on the amount of time that it takes to get your webpages listed on the social bookmarking websites and to get them listed in the search engines themselves. Since there are a lot of different options as far as the software is concerned, I thought that it would be important to cover some of the basics of the software and discuss some of the options so that you know what to look for.

First of all, any good social bookmarking automation software is going to be fully automated, every step of the way. After all, the last thing that you want to do is to try and automate a process and then to have to manually go in and micromanage every step that you take. A good software program is going to get you signed up on the social bookmarking websites automatically, post the links automatically and then follow up on any changes that come about in the social bookmarking websites themselves. This is the only way that you’re going to find your success by using one of these software packages and not end up frustrated in the process.

Looking for various reviews of social bookmarking automation software will help you to be able to make a wise decision. After you have the software up and running, you would be surprised with how efficient it is and how much time you will be able to save by not doing these things manually. You will then be able to take the time that you save and put it into efficiently running the rest of your business.



By: Deep Arora

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Deep Arora is an Internet marketer with over 7 years of experience and he teaches internet marketing from his blog at HowIDid.com. Check his favorite marketing tool that covers all points discussed in the article above by
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Internet Business Advertising – How Do You Find A Good Social Bookmarking Service To Use?

By On February 9, 2008 No Comments
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When you have an online business there are many different internet business advertising methods that you can use to advertise. One of the ways that is becoming more popular all the time is to use social bookmarking to advertise your business. There are many different sites that you can use to market your business, so you will want to make sure that you look at the different ones before you decide which one to use. When using this marketing method you want to find a social bookmarking service to use.

There are many different sites available that offer a social bookmarking service. Now, when you want to find a good service to use there are some things that you want to look for before you decide which one to use. Here are the most important things that you need to look for.

1. It is important that the social bookmarking service have a good amount of users because if there are not then you will be wasting your time using them. So, you have to make sure that there are enough users for it to be worth your while.

2. The service for social bookmarking needs to have extensive documentation. In other words, they need to have lots of different ways to help their users learn to use their service. So, you want to look for FAQ’s, help pages or guides that will teach you how to use the social bookmarking service effectively.

3. It may not be important to you right away but eventually you are going to want to be using a social bookmarking service that has good export and import possibilities. The import is essential for transferring old bookmarks from your browser or other bookmarking services. The export is necessary for backup copies and to make sure that your bookmarks will be able to go with you to another service if you decide to switch.

4. Any good social bookmarking service will have RSS feeds or Atom feeds of tags or groups of tags.

5. Not all of the services will have a blog but if it is a good service for social bookmarking then it will. The blog will help you stay up to date about any new bugs, features or ways to fix bugs, plus more.

So, now that you know what to look for to find a good social bookmarking service you can start your search today. Social bookmarking is a very effective method of internet business advertising if you learn how to use it effectively. So, find the service you want to use and then learn all you can.



By: David Ogden

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Most popular social bookmarking site?

By On February 8, 2008 1 Comment
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