Social Bookmarking -- Marketing Tips

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By JJC13



If you are an Internet marketer, there is no reason for you to ignore social bookmarking. Do not just regard it as a pastime for bored Internet users. In fact, there is a lot that you can do with social bookmarking: marketing strategy for someone like you who is looking for a more innovative and efficient way to get your website known to a larger audience.

From an interactive tool of saving and organizing one's favorite URLs, social bookmarking has been brought to a different level. More often than not, social bookmarking, marketing, and targeted traffic are now associated with each other as each word influences each other.

How does social bookmarking become an online marketing tool?

As you know, social bookmarking allows an Internet user to save and share his or her favorite websites using a social bookmarking site. From this kind of service that the social bookmarking sites offer is where you, as an online marketer can take off. By being a member of at least one of the major bookmarking sites, you get to do the things that the other members do: bookmark URLs, save and organize them, and vote and comment on other users' bookmarks.

But, as an online marketer, you have a goal, and that is, to make your site more visible. So, what you are going to do is bookmark your own website or Web pages, and tag it with appropriate keywords. The social bookmarking sites that you are a member of will then create a page for each of your bookmarks, which other users get to see, and which the search engines spider. This then gives you a one way link to your website or Web pages.

Furthermore, when a user finds your site interesting or useful, he or she would bookmark it, and he or she may also recommend it to his or her friends. Thus, you have found a group of regular visitors for your site. And, these regular visitors are most likely to become your potential customers. Social bookmarking also works like word-of-mouth, a proven and tested marketing strategy. When your site is making a noise in a certain social bookmarking community, other members become interested why, and then they will check out for your site.

And, what is the best thing about social bookmarking? Marketing, one-way links, promotion, and targeted traffic for your site, for free! Be sure, though, to also participate in the activities of your bookmarking community to make yourself and your site more visible and to strengthen your credibility as a social bookmarker.


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Jason Su  says:
4 months ago

Thank you, this post was very useful. I really tells the readers what social bookmarking it!!! keep up the good work.

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