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social bookmarking - the benefits!

October 5th, 2008. Published under how to, network marketing, network marketing tools and tips. 2 Comments.

Hi again, and welcome to the first post in my ‘How-to’ series. That is HOW TO get more traffic to your site! and remember that TRAFFIC IS KING! for any online business.

There will be several of them and I will add a post weekly so make sure you subscribe! Here you will learn about some ideas, techniques and tools that I use to drive traffic to my site for FREE!

OK so lets get started!

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

what is it?

Social bookmarking in its simplest form allows you to store and organise your websites on the Internet than on your browser settings. You can then arrange, store, display these websites and share them with others.

Generally it is done in the public domain so as an Internet marketer it is the ideal scenario! Social bookmarking lets people discover what other people are interested in and how they are labeling or ‘tagging’ their websites based on keywords. So people can tag bookmarks to catergorise them and others can comment on them hence creating a complex and highly influencial network.

what are the benefits?

You can immediately see the benefits of Social bookmarking.

• You can generate a huge amount of traffic by bookmarking your sites and sharing them with others with tags and keywords
• Traffic will also be relevant and traffic that fits your site!
• If you have good and fresh content on your site you will not only receive relevant traffic but you will get repeat visits
• AND this one is the most powerful - Search Engines are attracted to these and I really mean it. This is one of the quickest ways to have search engines crawl your site especially if you are submitting to big and popular bookmarking sites.
• It is fast - Fast in the sense that it can work quickly for you! The search engines will respond quickly and get traffic and action within minutes simply because social bookmarking content changes as a news channel but MUCH faster!

So you can see that not only you will get loads of relevant traffic but your site will get discovered quite quickly by major search engines generating all kinds of possibilities for growth and expansion.

purpose of Social bookmarking?

The purpose of Social bookmarking is pretty obvious - people want to network and share their favourite information. They want to access their favourite websites from work, home, on holidays, anyplace they really want to. So the purpose of an Internet/Network Marketer is to get in the flow of information, gain good visibility, and encourage search engine crawlers to pay attention to their website.

who uses bookmarks?

Social bookmarking hasn’t been around for very long however it is growing exponentially everyday. This is a huge dynamic area of the Internet. People use it for various reasons but more and more people use it for business and technology. People also use it to collect and organise resources for a specific group so the more people participate for their groups the more effective it will be!

bookmarking for marketers!

As an Entrepreneur you want to:-

• Get to the heart of of bookmarking as it relates to marketing
• Use Social bookmarking to attract attention and to attract search engines
• You know that there is a lot of movement from the Internet occurring in bookmarking
• You know that visitors will be relevant and specific to your niche and not random
• You know that proper tagging on bookmarking sites will direct the search engines in a way that makes sense and get you ranked according to proper keywords.

so where to get started?

This is probably what you guys have been waiting for - so apologies for going through the background as I feel its important to know why we are doing what we are doing and the relevance it has. Besides you are learning right?

OK the quickest and fastest way to submit your site or blog posts is to use a FREE tool called SocialMarker.

So go to: http://www.socialmarker.com

I recommend you use FireFox as a browser so you can drag the icon to the tool bar. Follow the instructions in the website and get started! Some tips:

• There are over 40-50 sites there if you select ‘All’. Just select ‘Best’ and it narrows it down to the best and most popular sites. You will be amazed on how much traffic you can get from a site like ‘Digg.com’ or ‘Stumbleupon.com’ alone!

• If you want to do them all and have the time - then by all means go for it
• I suggest you register and create an account with all of the ‘Best’ bookmarking sites as most of them will require log-in and are very aware of spam-bots
• The initial stages may take some time but remember that ALL successful Internet/Network Marketers do it and spend time doing this!
• I wouldn’t recommend paid services to do it for you as I just don’t trust them in terms of submitting relevant material.

Social bookmarking traffic avalanche!

Another great technique to encourage and easily allow people to bookmark items from your site is to start from the bottom. What I mean here is to make sure that your bookmark images appear at the bottom of every post whether it is a video, post, blog, article or whatever! Make it easy for them to bookmark! 

Even people who don’t use or know much about bookmarking can easily start using it! You can get the bookmark buttons and code here:- http://www.addthis.com/

It should look something like this. Or you can see at the bottom of my posts on my blog page how it looks and works.

So just to wrap up here are some tips and mistakes in Social bookmarking.

Social bookmarking TIPS

• Identify each site’s general preferences, and bookmark accordingly as every site caters to a particular market/audience.
• Invite people who would really be interested in the content, not just people who will give you a vote without question. Those interested will also leave the best comments, which can generate good traffic.
• Almost every site makes it possible to connect with other people. If you are not connecting, no one will find you.
• Do not give-up after a short while. Social Bookmarking is about making and sustaining connections. The only way you can grow your influence is long term.
• Stop crying - if you hate the fact that it takes time, don’t do it at all. Every marketer does it!
• Use these tools to link to other resources. If you only link to your website or blog and never bookmark or link to other interesting resources, you will never gain the respect of your audience.

Social bookmarking MISTAKES

• Not reading the submission guidelines before posting your links on a site.
• Submitting to a bookmarking site that does not have your category or submitting to a wrong category.
• Bookmarking every single page of your site solely to create backlinks to your website.
• Not making use of other features made available to connect to other users.
• Spamming, lying, scamming and not providing good content!

So there you have it guys! A very simple, fast and effective way to start moving FREE traffic to your site.

So get started and if you have any questions or queries please feel free to contact me and I’ll help you out!

Stay tuned for the next HOW TO series where I will talk about directories and how to generate traffic from them!

Sin Boutkaska

ip traffic to double every two years

September 9th, 2008. Published under technology and innovation. 3 Comments.

study shows that web traffic volumes will almost double every two years from 2007 to 2012 driven by video and web 2.0 applications, according to a report by Cisco Systems, and will reach 552 exabytes (billion gigabytes) by 2012.

Soon after 2012, we will have to adopt zettabytes (trillion gigabytes) to express traffic volumes!

Cisco’s Visual Networking Index predicts that visual networking will account for 90 percent of the traffic on the world’s IP networks by 2012, driven by YouTube clips and business use of video conferencing.

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