So You Want to Use Social Marker to Automate Your Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking

Quickly for those who are not familiar, social bookmaking can be used to increase the search engine ranking of your website, blog or other internet content. Getting visitors to your content is the key whether you are running a business or just want to make a lot of friends.

Social bookmarking creates a link back to your site and that link can be followed in a couple of ways. First people who use the same bookmarking site may follow the link because you have recommended the site. For many of the bookmarking sites this is the only way your site would be found, but it is still valuable for getting more visitors to your site.

The other way that your site could be found because of this link is that back links to your website or blog improve your standing in the search engines. Obviously the closer to the first listing in Google or Yahoo that you are, the more hits you will get.

Social Marker

But putting all those bookmarks up at several different bookmarking sites is slow and tedious right? So you want to add some automation. You heard that Social Marker would do this quite well, and best of all, the price is right. Social Marker is free. It's true that you could use social marker to mark a site on almost 50 different bookmarking sites and you could do that in under 30 minutes (they claim 15 minutes, but I think that would be difficult).

What affect would that have though? Well, at first it probably worked fine. But then the search engine algorithms got wise to that tactic. Now putting up that many bookmarks for the same site would be considered spam. Soon you might find that your site cannot be found on the search engines at all. You've been penalized for spamming the system. So using Social Marker in that way is probably not a great idea.

Bookmarking Strategy

You do need a good strategy for bookmarking at these sites though, so let's talk about how you could use Social Marker. It does have a great list of social bookmarking websites. And you will need to sign up at the sites that you want to use. I suggest you open up SocialMarker.com and use this list to decide what sites you want to use and use it to help you sign up.

Right above the list of social bookmarking sites are the words All, Best, None, Bookmarking, News and Dofollow. The first one, all, obviously causes all the sites to be checked. But some of the others are more important. You probably always want to use the best right? See which ones Social Marker thinks are the best.

If you are bookmarking something other than news, you might want to use bookmarking sites and not new sites. And the last one is important to. Some of your bookmarks should be on do follow sites because these help your standing in the search engines more or at least more directly.

So, don't use Social Marker to spam your bookmarks. It will only cost you in the long run. But you can use it to help you develop a good strategy for bookmarking your content and greatly increasing your search engine ranking and the number of visitors that visit your website each day.