Most social bookmarking, make money fast schemes, are centered around increasing web traffic to your blogs, or webpages through link spamming.

You join as many social bookmarking sites as you can; copy content including text, video, and images; and then duplicate that content across many domains (e.g. HubPages, eZine, different blogs). Once there, you cross link everything, link bomb the social bookmarking sites, and automatically ping those links.

Such techniques may work initially but it does not work in the long term.

Spamming social bookmarking sites for self promotion destroys the social bookmarking experience.

As a result, all social bookmarking sites have good ways for detecting spammers and community hackers, including relying on their users to flag them. Ironically, if you achieve any kind of high traffic success, you will be noticed by users, and be flagged as a spammer. This will get your webpages banned, get your account(s) suspended, and may even get your ip address blacklisted. Search engines also have good algorithms for detecting this kind of spam linking and once detected, your webpages will be dereferenced.

Believe me, get traffic fast spam tactics do not work. I have tried it out myself and it actually caused a decrease in web traffic. This was because all of my webpages got dereferenced from Google.

Here I explore a new and positive way to make money through social bookmarking: the online talent agent model. This model is spam free, it enhances the social bookmarking sites, and it makes good social bookmarkers some money.

The popularity of online social applications (e.g. Facebook, mySpace, Hubpages, youTube) today have resulted in an enormous amount of content being created by online users. This content ranges greatly in quality, and that is why social bookmarking sites (e.g. Digg, StumbleUpon) are so useful in helping to filter that content.

In social bookmarking sites users submit a link, and the community gets to vote on the quality of that link. In this way, the more popular, presumably higher quality links percolate to the top and get the most traffic.

Social bookmarking experts are good at identifying potentially popular sites. By submitting a string of popular sites, their ranking increases; thereby gaining their future submissions greater visibility.

These experts are our online talent agents.

They identify potential online talent, submit them for review, and develop a reputation for themselves based on the success of their choices. For performing such a valuable service, surely they should get paid. An online talent agencyis a simple way for good social bookmarkers to make some money; while also enhancing social bookmarking sites.

1. Are you a good online talent agent candidate?

Most importantly, you must enjoy and be good at social bookmarking (i.e. be good at identifying future talent).

Are you an avid net surfer? Do you spend several hours per day reading articles online? Do you have an opinion about everything?

If you answered yes to all these questions, chances are you are already an active member of a social bookmarking site. If not, join several of them, start bookmarking, and start creating a reputation for yourself.

2. Create an online talent agency website.

Once you are comfortable with the social bookmarking process and have set up a modest reputation for yourself, it is time to put yourself out there.

Start by creating an online talent agency website. This should be a simple website for people to submit their webpage links to you. Include a short description of your qualifications (social bookmarking site rankings) and add in some paid advertising.

3. Promote your online talent agency.

This step may be easier than you think. There are very many people who would like to promote their webpages and get traffic to their site. To promote your service:

• Join several content creation communities (e.g. Hubpages, eZine).
• Post your services in the general forums.
• Read through some forum posts to get a general sense of the high quality users, the active users, and the up and coming stars.
• Browse through highly rated content, and personally approach their authors.

Once you have gotten some good online talent as clients, and have some successes under your belt, your name and services will spread through word of mouth and you will start getting many hits on your submission page. That will translate into some nice advertising revenue.

You may also get your very grateful clients to point to your site from their webpages, thereby increasing your online talent agency traffic, getting you a higher page ranking, and increasing your revenue. You may also negotiate for a small percentage share in your clients' advertising revenue.

The services of a good online talent agent will be in great demand. Everybody wants to drive traffic to their content; that is why there are so many articles and posts on webpage promotion, and tips for high traffic websites.

Since you are already good at promoting links, you might as well monetize your unique talent. Rather than copying content and trying to scam the system, you can make more money and be a valuable contributor to social bookmarking sites.

In fact, very quickly you will start collecting some nice revenue from your link submission site; and very quickly you will have more submissions than you can handle.

1. Automatically filter submissions.

Automatically filter and cluster your submissions. Check for number of words, spelling, etc. to rule out substandard articles. To further cull down the herd you may automatically look for popular topics in their title and keyword list.

2. Create a Rolodex of good online writers.

Get recommendations from your pool of initial online writers. These authors are more linked-in to their respective communities and will be familiar with new content and promising new writers.

This ensures that you get a first peek at a steady flow of good content, which will further improve your ranking on social bookmarking sites, improve your effectiveness as an online talent agent, and increase traffic to your own website.

Very soon, many people will want to be talent agents, which is a good thing, because a single agent will not be able to handle all the demand.

The ultimate progression of this service will be an online talent agent marketplace that brings together online agents and aspiring online talent. Existing online writing communities (e.g. Hubpages, eZine) or social bookmarking sites are probably best positioned to provide such a service.

The greatest advantage of this talent agent model is that everybody walks away happy. The online writers are happy because now they have a path to success; the online talent agents are happy because now they get paid for something that they originally did for free; and the social bookmarking sites are happy because there is no spam, and they now have good online talent agents who put in the extra time and effort for finding good quality content.

"If this is such a good idea", you may ask, "Why aren't you doing it?"

Well, I really would but my interests and expertise, unfortunately, do not lie in social bookmarking. I prefer to write articles about crazy ideas like this!

So the opportunity is yours; be a pioneer, roll up your sleeves, and start social bookmarking. And remember to sign me up as your first client.