Social bookmarking offers you a free way to increase your exposure. In fact, there are many Advantages Of Social Bookmarking; it can help you make friends, share information, strategise for your business and improve your search engine optimisation to boost your rankings.
Some social bookmarking tools are simple. Some are more advanced. Some send your message to several services at once. There are dozens of different services you can utilise so that you can increase your online profile.
Social marketing is increasing in popularity, is not a passing fad, and the sooner you get in on it, the more potentially profitable it can be for you.
Social Bookmarking Helps You Get Attention
By bookmarking, you’re saying “Hey, look at this!” You can use bookmarking tools to draw attention to things. They can notify the public and they can be used to notify your online followers as well. Some services have subscribers and some do not but they’re all very interactive and internet marketing is definitely an interactive business so more interaction equals more opportunity.
With Google starting to pay more attention to social sites in their search results, there has never been a better time to use it to your advantage. To take full Advantage Of Social Bookmarking, do be sure to use tags and categories so that you can get the maximum exposure from your efforts.
Data Mining
Using social marketing tools to get data can be very useful as well. Many tools use contextual advertising to help you display ads to potentially interested parties and you can gather data from those tools as well.
Searching on Twitter hashtags (#keyword) or looking for “friends” to connect with based on certain information as well as searching through a tag cloud (a list of popular topics on a site) can help you find followers, get article writing ideas, do keyword research, and learn more about your target demographic. Social bookmarking brings you traffic, brings you search engine rankings, gives you the ability to manage your brand reputation and find new customers as well.
Where Do You Start
There are a lot of different social bookmarking and social media sites to choose from. Where do you begin? Some of the most popular social media sites are very user friendly and beginning there can help you get a good handle on the process and the benefits. Good starter sites include: Stumbleupon, Delicious, and FriendFeed. Friendfeed, in particular, aggregates many other services to save you time from having to update multiple sites.
Onlywire is another tool that is a bookmarklet that allows you to set up several social bookmarking accounts in one to save time (it has a premium edition and a free edition you can use if you include their widget on one of your blogs). When it comes to Web 2.0, time and learning curves need to be invested but the results can be very profitable.
Hopefully you can now see some of the many Advantages Of Social Bookmarking and will consider using this very effective tool as part of your overall internet marketing program.
See you at the top of Google!
Sean Rasmussen
SEO Australia Pacific
AussieSEO.com © 2007 - 2010
Hi Sean,
There are definite advantages of social bookmarking. It is the ultimate free way of gaining exposure for your content and your site. Once your content is bookmarked, any number of people can spread it further than you can on your own.
I think the advantages of social bookmarking become increased when you add social networking to the mix. If you can build a dedicated team of bloggers who are willing to help share your content in return for you sharing theirs, the results can be impressive.
.-= Jazz Salinger´s last blog ..Learn and Earn – It’s a Marathon Not a Sprint =-.
Hi Sean
I have just recently started to realise the importance of social bookmarking, being more intensively learning to write content in the past 12 months and getting my head around Internet Marketing procedures before building my blog, which I have begun at last.
It is very clever how all these social sites work in spreading information around and I can now see why it is so essential to use bookmarking tools, not only for this reason but also for extracting information as well. I am interested in having a look at Friend feed and Onlywire and have made a note to search these sites out.
Great information, thankyou
Blessings,
Elly
.-= Elly´s last blog .. =-.
My pleasure Elly, have fun bookmarking
Hi Sean,
If you don’t use the advantages of social bookmarking, you are just making it harder for yourself.
Letting people know about your Content, gives them the opportunity to pass it on to their contacts, and getting attention is what it is all about.
You in return share their content with all your contacts. By giving each other help you will all increase your search engine rankings.
.-= RitaPepper´s last blog ..Learn Affiliate Marketing- For A Few Dollars more =-.
Exactly Rita, you have got a good grip on what social bookmarking is all about
I’ve used social booking marketing on and off over the last few years to promote my main two blogs which are essentially on-line personal journals with nothing to sell. And it is truly amazing the extra traffic you can generate but using Stumbleupon, Digg, Delicious and other social bookmarking sites. It seems there are a lot of people out there on the ‘net just dying to read anything new.
.-= Don White´s last blog ..Psycho- =-.
Don
If you were going to recommend two sites out of the ones you have listed above, which one’s would they be and why?
I am just beginning to branch out . Thank you.
Learning to use all of the social bookmarking sites to our advantage is something I am looking forward to. I feel I will make better use of them if I know what each particular site is set up for.
.-= Jackie Stenhouse´s last blog ..Anxiety Separation in Children =-.
Hi Jackie,
The great thing about the social bookmarking sites is they really help to drive traffic to your site. It’s even better when you have a small group of people willing to share your stuff.
.-= Jazz Salinger´s last blog ..Sean Rasmussen – Aussie Internet Marketer Making a Difference =-.
G’day Sean,
Social Media is really important for our efforts and I use it as much as possible, and have joined twenty of the sites so far. Probably enough for now.
I really love the SEXY BOOKMARKS WordPress Plugin at the bottom of my blogs.
Cheers,mate,
Harry
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