Social Bookmarking for Business

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Social Bookmarking

• By Jerry Nihen
• Jay Nines Social Media Marketing
• www.jayninelessons.com

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Social bookmarking, basically, is a way for users
to organize, store, and search for bookmarks of
resources online. These websites like Digg,
StumbleUpon, Delicious, etc. are basically a
way of storing your favorites or bookmarks on a
web based level, rather than on your browser
(like you would by adding to favorites in
FireFox). These posts and submissions are
tagged with keywords, which will quietly grow
your websites ranking in search engines.
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Businesses can harness this power to drive
traffic to their websites, articles, videos, and
more while also increasing the SEO of their
website. A great way to increase the index of
your blog or video (like a YouTube video) in
Google is to index it through social bookmarking
sites. Basically, you are creating the back links
back to your article/site, that can last for
years and help not only drive traffic to your
site, but also to increase the pagerank of your
site.
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While social bookmarking is a powerful tool, this
is one of the online marketing tactics I do
recommend you use an automated resource to
submit. This is a long term strategy of
repeatedly bookmarking multiple articles and
videos, to grow yourself over time. Manually
submitting to these websites can take up a ton of
time that is better spent elsewhere.
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Why get on social bookmarking?
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This is not a complex technology, and I fully
believe that more users will be using web-based
bookmarking in the years to come. It is important
for business owners to get a strong foothold by
submitting their OWN articles to these websites
(as you control the keywords and information
related to the article, rather than having
someone without the knowledge doing it.
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Also, youre quietly driving traffic and tapping
into the viral power of these bookmark sharing
sites, and we all know that long term traffic
strategies are the key to a successful online
marketing campaign for ANY business.
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I use a resource called Social Monkee which is
a free resource that allows you to submit to 25
social bookmarking websites with the click of a
button, all for free! The free option allows you
to submit one piece of content a day to these
platforms, which is more than enough for me.
There is also a paid version, but I have found
the free version works perfectly fine for me.
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I highly recommend you use this resource to
submit your own content (even if its just your
actual website right now, or a page on your
website) to these directories. It only takes me a
couple of minutes to do, and has really helped
increase the back link traffic to my websites.
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The only downside I have hit so far with the free
version is that it randomly selects the 25 out of
100 top social bookmarking sites. So, the article
wont necessarily submit to your favorite one
every single time. They do offer paid versions
that allow you to do this, I just havent used
them yet.
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Jerry Nihen is a Social Networking Consultant
that has worked a wide variety of businesses and
individuals that have launched successful social
media strategies and campaigns.