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It's a public list of your
favorites. Not all your favorites, just the
favorites you want to share with others. You can
add any website to your public list and retrieve
it from any computer. (This is done on someone
else's server, not your computer)
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.
When you do a search in a search
engine, you get all the sites that have
something to do with the keywords you typed into
the search box. It is easy to get a bunch of
garbage sites that are loaded up with keywords
but have poor content on the actual site.
The great thing about social
bookmarking sites is the only sites you will
find there are sites that other people have
looked at and decided were worth saving for
future reference. Real people have decided to
save (bookmark) the sites, not robots. Real
people also monitor the sites so if trash does
get added, it is soon deleted.
The more people who bookmark a
site, the more popular it becomes. As an
example, lets say you are selling widgets for a really great price. You bookmark
your home page on many public bookmarking
sites. When someone is looking for a widget,
they do a search at the bookmarking site and
your bookmark comes up. They go look at
your site and decide your prices are so good,
they might want to come back later when they
need another widget. So they add your site to
their bookmarks for future reference.
When someone goes to one of
these sites and types widgets into the search
box, your site listing will come up in the
search. If many people have bookmarked your
site, you will be listed high in the search
results. It's kind of like a voting system. If
you site is good enough to bookmark, other
people will want to see what all the fuss is
about.
Unlike search engines where all
you have to do is good seo, the sites you will
find in the Social Bookmarking sites are quality
sites that other people enjoyed enough to save.
You don't really have to have a good site to get
listed in the search engines.
At the end of this page, you
will find a link to all the Social Bookmarking
sites I have found. Go to each site and register
for an account. It's FREE! Once you have your
account set up, start listing your
site. Make sure you add proper tags to your
listing.
Tags are the same as keywords
with a twist. These sites will tell you what the
most popular searches are on their site. You
choose the tags that will work with your site or
page and are also part of the popular list. Many
of the sites will also offer a spot to write a
small description of the site you are
bookmarking. Add a description that uses some of
your tag words for added benefit.
As with anything that is worth
doing, this will take you a while to get it all
set up and running smooth but the end result
will be very well worth your effort.
Start with one bookmarking site
and one page from your site. (Start with your
squeeze page and build your newsletter list) Set up your account
with the bookmarking site and add your page to
the bookmarks. Make sure you use the best tags
and description you can. (Check the popularity
list on the site) Doing this in itself
will help you get more traffic. Now you can go
one step further and work both sides of the
system.
Add a link to your site that
will lead back to the bookmarking site that has
your page bookmarked. Ask your visitors to
bookmark your site on the social bookmarking
site. In my example below, I am using
BlinkList.com:
Make your link open in a new
window. This is what my link looks like in code:
<p>Bookmark my site at
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.blinklist.com">
Blinklist.com</a> and access it from
any
computer, anytime. </p> |
The target="_blank" is the
command that will make this page open in a
new window.
You want to make sure the
page opens in a new window so when your
visitors are done setting up their account,
they will still have your page handy to
bookmark.
Now move on to the next
page. You will want to offer a different
bookmarking site on each page. Why? So you
can get as many bookmarks on as many sites
as possible. Use the same information in the
example above but change the social
bookmarking site you are promoting.
Won't this look odd to your
visitors? No. Most people will ignore the
suggestion once they have bookmarked your
site. They won't even notice that you have
changed the name of the link. They will see,
Bookmark my site, and think, "I already did
that", and they will move on.
On
this page you will find my current list
of sites. I have added the google PR to the
list so you can see which sites are most
popular.
If you run out of pages on
your site, don't stop listing your site in
the social bookmarking sites. You will just
have to stop adding a link to the sites on
your website. You can list every page on
your site in everyone of the bookmarking
sites as time goes on. Don't SPAM the sites
though. Make sure what you are listing is
relevant and useful. You don't want to bring
traffic to a page that has nothing but
links, you will probably get banned form the
bookmarking site. Only bookmark your pages
that have actual content. Ask yourself if
you would truly add this page to your own
favorites list? If your answer is no then
don't list it.
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