 How To Use Social Bookmarking To Drive Massive Amounts Of Traffic To Your Site.
Social Bookmarking Sites
When My Space burst on the Internet scene like a holiday fireworks
spectacular, the entire Internet changed to accommodate this flashy, newcomer to the Web. Soon after, social bookmarking sites started springing up everywhere, some were just online communities with no specific focus and others had a definite niche focus.
Searching Google for a list of social bookmarking sites returned over 500 sites to visit and join. There's a social bookmarking site to attract almost every interest anyone ever had. As a marketing tool this online phenomenon has no competition because of the sheer numbers of monthly visitors to almost any of them.
Social bookmarking marketing is a method of promoting your product, brand or even yourself by making yourself and your business known across several social bookmarking sites. While this technique is not lightening fast, it is very effective and will produce traffic to your site. The key concept here is that social marketing is not designed to immediately boost your business income, but provide the visibility you need for conversions from visitor to buyer.
Digg.com is the most popular of the social bookmarking sites and the definite leader in the number of monthly visits, which is estimated by Quantcast to be 25 million unique visitors on any given month. Take a deep breath and read that again...25 million unique visitors a month. Tap that fountain of traffic and you would have something going on your site that would keep you awake for weeks.
One of the major benefits of marketing through social bookmarking sites and
using their tags to promote your website, blog or Squidoo lenses is the back-links you will receive when some of those 25 million visitors tag your site. Search engines love one-way inbound links and consider them an indication of the popularity of your site.
Each site has different requirements for creating your profile and for marketing your products with blogs, articles, etc. Join some that look interesting to you because of the content or amount of activity or focus.
Take your time and get involved in some of the activities that make each social bookmarking site unique. When you are comfortable start submitting articles or your blog posts to the site and make it easy to make comments.
Invite your friends to join and send "shouts" to them whenever you post
something new to any of the ones you joined. If you have a good giveaway, check the rules for each site and offer it as a free download to the members wherever you can.
Remember viral marketing? Think about your ebook or short report getting
downloaded with your imbedded links to a few million members of Digg.com or My Space or any of the other 500 sites. Be sure to check with each social
bookmarking site for the rules concerning giveaways first. |