Like any other good tool there are many uses for it.
Bookmarking the pages of your own websites will place your
site in front of people that are looking for your kind of
content.
This can serve a few purposes:
Other people who find your content compelling will
bookmark your site making it rise in popularity. As it
rises in popularity more and more people will bookmark it.
You get free traffic. If your content is
good and other people start bookmarking it then it will
gain momentum and you will get more free traffic.
Some people will find your content interesting enough
to place a link from their website to your website giving
you a relevant one-way backlink.
The main purpose is to put your site in front of
people that are in your niche that may not have otherwise
found you.
Using search engines, a potential loyal reader, client or
webmaster may never see your content. By bookmarking and
tagging your content you are seen and evaluated by humans
who then decide if your content is worthwhile.
Bookmarking is an easy way to get recognition for the
pages in your website. Sign up with all of the bookmarking
sites and then bookmark and tag each new page you add to
your site.
This is a new way of telling the world that you have new
content. People interested in your niche will check it out
and if its good the reward of free traffic and one-way
backlinks will follow.
How to Bookmark and Tag
Here is a video example of blinklist. Most of the
Bookmarking sites work much like this one:
As you can see from the video, it is very easy to get
your site listed under a relevant tag for a page in your
website. You have the added benefit of possibly having your
link stay on a page long enough to have pagerank passed to
your web page.
Do not rely totally on this for getting backlinks because
it is likely that your listing will be bumped down by
another listing before pagerank can be passed to you. It is
far better to write good content and have other people visit
and bookmark your site with the added bonus of a site or two
linking to you because you have good content. There is a
tutorial on
how to create unique content in another article on
this website. There is also a tutorial on
how to write articles.
If you have good solid content, the reward of relevant
backlinks and social bookmarking will follow naturally. If
your website isn't getting bookmarked by others then you may
need to re-evaluate your content. Social bookmarking is all
about real human visitors. You can't fool your way to the
top when actual humans are crawling your pages.
A Bookmarking Action Plan
Before submitting your sites to the bookmarking sites,
take some time to do some tag research first.
Technoriati is a great place to do tag (keyword)
research to determine what tags you should use for your own
site. See what tags are popular for your keyword by first
clicking on the Tags button and then doing a search for your
keyword (tag). Technorai will show you other related tags
that you could use to categorize your web page under.
Sign up with several bookmarking sites from the list
found in the previous tutorial on
social bookmarking. Then submit a few pages from
your website under relevant tags. Then each time you add a
page of content to your site, bookmark and tag it.
Over time you will gain relevant one-way backlinks,
exposure, traffic and sales from the effort.
A Blog Action Plan
It is possible to automate the tagging and pinging of
your blog posts. Technorati gives a good tutorial on how to
automate this process with them.
They will teach you everything you need to know to
automatically tag and then ping your blog posts to appear in
Technorati.
Get Ideas from Bookmarking Sites
Bookmarking sites are a great research tool. Look at
popular tags and then look at what sites are being
bookmarked the most. Visit those sites to get an idea of
what you should be writing about. Put a new twist on it, add
a video to your content, do something a little different and
you will find that your site will gain in popularity as
well.
Bookmark sites are also great for figuring out new
subjects to write your own information products about. They
are also good for figuring out new niches to jump into.
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