Online Traffic Generation Methods – Part 4
November 29, 2008 | Filed Under: Traffic Generation |
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Social Bookmarking
Today, we are going to look at something that is still relatively new in the Internet Marketing arena: Social Bookmarking. Social Bookmarking is essentially using a social bookmarking service to bookmark your webpages or blog posts, so that other users of the bookmarking site can visit. When you bookmark a site, you tag it with keywords, and people can search for the keywords that reflect their interests at the social bookmarking site.
Does it work? Absolutely! In fact, this is a very fast way to generate really good traffic to your site – for free. Again, you will want to try to get them on your opt-in list, once they arrive at your site, so that you can bring them back again and again. Notice that I said ‘really good traffic.’ This is good traffic because the visitor finds your site by searching for the keywords that you’ve used when you bookmarked it. They are essentially looking for you. For this reason, it is important to use keyword tags, for each page, that are absolutely relevant to the content on that page. Don’t try to use unrelated keywords, this tactic simply won’t work.
There are numerous social bookmarking sites out there, and hitting them all, to bookmark each page of your website, could literally take days, if not weeks. Fortunately, there are social bookmarking services that will send your bookmarks and tags to numerous social bookmarking sites in one fell swoop.
You want a service that targets the best social bookmarking sites, and that service is Only Wire, at http://www.onlywire.com. Only Wire is free to use (another bonus). Getting set up with Only Wire takes a couple of hours, because you will need to go to each of the social bookmarking sites that it lists, register, and then put your username and password for each site into the list at Only Wire.
Once that is done, you will add the Only Wire icon to your browser toolbar (very easy to do – you just click, hold the mouse button down, and drag and drop it up there). Now, you are all set up. When you are ready to bookmark your pages, first go to the Only Wire site and login. Leave that window open. Open another window (tabbed browsers work great for this), go to your site, go to a page that you want to bookmark, and hit the icon.
You will be taken to the Only Wire add a bookmark page. Here, everything is filled in, except your keyword tags. List the keywords that are associated with the page you are bookmarking, and hit submit. You’re done with that page – move on to the next one. Nothing could be easier, and again, it is very effective.
Homework Assignment: Join Only Wire at http://www.onlywire.com. Register for each site on the list, and get Only Wire all set up. Add the bookmark icon to your browser toolbar, and go to each page of your website, click the icon, and add it to the social bookmarks and tag each page with keywords.
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One of my buddies is always talking about your blog at work – finally came and checked it out today, nice work! I’m subscribing to your rss feed – keep on posting!
Social bookmarking is an easy way to get backlinks to your site, but at the same time, you need to make sure that you don’t go overboard and end up spamming the social bookmarking sites.
Onlywire is a good tool and another one that I like to use is Bookmarking Demon, though it is a paid tool (but well worth the money).
I agree, i think the social bookmarking thing is still kind of a secret out there, but i’ve read articles, where it amounts to huge percentages of peoples traffic. nice post.
I have tried social bookmarking on my site but it really has not seemed to produce much. I am wondering if my site is just too niche to benefit from this. They seem to find me more from a general web search than from social sites.
your post is old and I have already using many social bookmarking sites. To be very true, It always take hours and hours to bookmark new content on all sites daily or whenever needed. I am more than happy to visit your blog to have information about onlywire. I think this the coolest blog of the day and site for me.
Thanks for a very useful post. I have tried onlywire and I think that is the coolest application for social bookmarking tasks. It is not free until you would have your own blog or site to show their button. I did it and now I can publish all my stories with a few clicks.
We are liveing in Society & If we have Social Networking we are success. Yes Social Bookmarking effects more then other methods
I’m off to register right now. This has been a great journey through your blog. A lot of useful information. Thanks.
I’ve tried social bookmarking but found it hard going to get much out of it. I’m sure it can work, but perhaps suits some sites audiences better than others.
I already try bookmarking and it really works on me. Its really gives quick and easy access or link to publish new article in the blog spot.