When you have a website or blog, you need to promote it in order to get traffic. It is not enough to just make a website. If you expect to make money from it, promotion is key. The competition online is tough, so if you want to make any money online as an affiliate or with Google Adsense, then learning about website promotion is critical.
Specialized bookmarking software is just one phase of a good promotion plan. If you are new to internet marketing and wondering what is social bookmarking, here is a brief explanation:
Let’s say you find a website you like, you want to “bookmark” it so you can easily find it again, right? Now comes bookmarking sites like Digg and Delicious. You create an account with them and load in your bookmarks. Now, tell your friends and family to do the same so they can share the great websites you have found and you can see theirs; hence social bookmarking. These bookmarking sites have taken the concept one step further. They send emails to their members recommending other websites along with links to those websites. What all this boils down to is traffic to those websites. Social Bookmarking is important, automating it just makes sense.
Social Bookmarking Software is designed to automatically create new social bookmarking accounts for you. Normally, when you create social bookmarking accounts, they require you to login to your email and click on a link to verify your account. Bookmarking Software has gotten much more sophisticated so you don’t have to do this anymore.
You just add your email address and the software will verify the account for you with just a click. With gmail accounts you do have to login to your gmail and manually enable POP access so the software can properly retrieve your emails.
These relatively new software products are designed to provide targeted traffic & back-links automatically to any number of sites and pages you wish.
There are two types of bookmarking sites that can be used: the big “legitimate” sites such as Mister Wong, Spurl, Simpy, Faves, etc as well as scuttle sites which are Open Source script bookmarking sites that anyone can build.
Bookmarking software takes an hour or two to understand, but most are not very complicated. A beginner should be able to understand it quickly.
The links you’ll be getting may show up tomorrow, next month, six months from now, or never. Be patient, that is the nature of the Internet and the major search engines. Links will show up in Yahoo first – they are more liberal with showing links than Google.
I have notice bookmarking links showing up on the first page of Google when my actual site was no where to be found. Anytime you can get on Google’s first page, you will get traffic to your site.
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