Social Bookmarking For Marketers

Social Bookmarking can be a great way to get traffic to your websites. If you don’t currently use this technique, you’re missing out on some great opportunities to get visitors to your site.

The way it works is this: unlike bookmarking a website on your own computer (because you like the site and want to return to it easily) you sign-up to a Social Bookmarking site (see a list of some of them below) and put the site that you like on THEIR servers/website.

In doing this, you are, in effect, bookmarking the website that you like for all the world to see. You can add comments and a short synopsis of what the site is about.

Here are some Social Bookmarking sites:

Propeller, Digg, Del.icio.us, Twitter,Tagza, Diigo, Technorati, Stumbleupon. There are currently about 47 of these, but more are springing up all the time.

However, it takes quite a bit of time to add bookmarks to ALL of these sites, time that you could well spend on other projects (like creating content for your own sites).

But there is a way around this. Another website called Socialmarker.com makes it a lot easier and quicker to create your bookmarks on ALL of the most popular Bookmarking sites.

It does take a little time (1-2 hours) to set-up initially, as you have to create accounts for each of the Bookmarking sites, but this can be done from within the Socialmarker.com site.

I recommend using the same user name and password for each site to make things quicker. Also, use at least 5 letters AND a number, as some of them require alpha-numeric passwords.

The trick is to bookmark several sites UNRELATED to yours, and then OCCASIONALLY bookmark your own site. It’s a bit like “flying under the radar”, so that you can get links back to your sites.

After all, YOUR sites are interesting too, aren’t they?

Luke.