Everybody’s talking about Social Bookmarking

This is a guest post by Eddie Wolfe, if you would like to be considered for a guest post please contact me.

If your email inbox is anything like mine, you will have noticed the huge change within internet marketing circles. I receive so many communications showing me how I can make a big difference to my business by doing social bookmarking through the growing number of social web 2.0 sites. Though it is very easy to do, from questions I get asked from my subscribers, not everybody is doing it.

Questions vary from “how do I do it?” to “which ones should I target?”. How do I do it is easy, register with the site which usually takes under a minute.

Which sites you bookmark to is a matter of choice, but I recommend the following ones:

http://Digg.com
http://Technorati.com
http://Del.icio.us
http://www.Backflip.com
http://www.StumbleUpon.com
http://www.Reddit.com
http://www.Fark.com
http://www.Twitter.com
http://www.Slashdot.org
http://www.Bloglines.com

I would urge anybody who is trying to establish any kind of business online to start using the social bookmarking and social networking sites as soon as possible. To me it is a no brainer, free exposure to your site or affiliate product, free backlinks and the most important of all, you can do it over and over again.

One of the key things with doing social bookmarking to me is the boredom factor. Nobody wants to sit at their computer for hours on end doing this, so for most people it just goes on their ‘to do’ list!

To help matters I’ve created a very easy to use bookmarking tool that is free to download for all John’s visitors. The tool is setup to post to over 60 sites, and has a setup page for new accounts. It isn’t fully automated, and to be honest some of the so called automated tools available, just don’t do the job properly. It takes no more than half an hour to bookmark at least 30 entries (more when you get used to doing it), and that will make a real difference to your page ranking and the number of visitors you get.

Obviously there is far more to effective social bookmarking, than just placing an entry on these sites. Effective tags are a must. Also there is cross linking with other tagged sites that the search engines like to see. Just simple tagging of your blog entries is important, then using those same tags as your bookmarks(many people don’t even use the tags option on their blog entries – big mistake!). Make sure you vary your description, as once again the search engines don’t like seeing a whole flood of new bookmarks with the same content. Remember too, that somebody will be looking at your bookmark, so try and put some sort of personality into it.

Anyway, here’s the link to download your bookmarker. Just unzip the folder and upload it on to your website. It is self explanatory how to use it.

http://www.socialmarketingriches.com/planetsms.html

This is a guest post by Eddie Wolfe, if you would like to be considered for a guest post please contact me.