Social Bookmarking And Internet Network Marketing

Social bookmarking is a way to help the ranking of your various sites with the search engines. Social bookmarking entries can even show up as entries in the search results. This article will discuss what social bookmarking is, how to o it, and some advice to avoid pitfalls.

What is social bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is a way to let people know about sites you think are good or are interesting. Social bookmarking sites had various origins. Some of them started as news-oriented sites. Some started out as simply a way to keep your bookmarks online so that if you had some problems with your computer, your bookmarks would always be available online. As bookmarks became shared with others, gradually online communities developed from the bookmark sites.

How does social bookmarking help my internet network marketing business?

Social bookmarks help you get your internet content listed with the search engines and help them to rank higher. Once you have some new internet content up you can go and bookmark the content at a few of the social bookmark sites. This is created by the amount of traffic to your site generated by bookmark community members checking out your site and by the creation of backlinks to your content (if the bookmark is a "do follow" site which many are not). People also do keyword searches on the bookmark sites so your website may come up that way.

How do I social bookmark?

There are a large number of social bookmarking sites. Some of the more popular sites are Digg, Del.icio.us, Propeller, Stumble Upon, Twitter, and Furl. Go to the registration page of the bookmark site and enter your information to get started. Many of these sites let you find your friends and allow you to link up with your friends. You can also develop new friends who you will come across or you will get invited to be friends by others. Upload a photo and put in a short bio if the site has that available. This will help you in building those online friendships and relationships as you are more real and more human when others can see your picture.

When you come across a website that you would like to bookmark, you would normally provide the URL, the webpage name, the tags (or keywords), and a comment or review of the site. Make sure you bookmark more than just your own sites as the search engines will penalize you if you don't do that. Bookmark "naturally". Try to bookmark 3 - 5 other sites for every one that you bookmark. Bookmark a variety of different websites with different subject matter. Don't bookmark your web content to 50 bookmark sites all at once as that won't appear natural. Some bookmaking sites let you notify your friends at the bookmarking sites that you have just posted a bookmark. Make sure you don't do this too often as your online friends will get sick of you and not respond in the future.

SocialMarker

SocialMarker is an online tool (which can be found at www.socialmarker.com) that you can use to help you mass-submit to the search engines. Even though it was designed for that reason, don't use it like that. Using SocialMarker to mass-submit to numerous bookmarking sites is not how someone "natural" would bookmark. This will penalize you with the search engines. Nevertheless, SocialMarker is a valuable tool as all the major bookmarking sites are listed. When you have SocialMarker and the bookmarking sites set up you can use SocialMarker to individually post to the bookmark sites with just a few clicks of the mouse.

Social bookmarking is a powerful tool to get your web content ranking well in the search engines. But you have to do your bookmarking in a "natural" way so that the search engines don't penalize you. If done properly, social bookmarking can help in your social media and network marketing lead generation.

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