Internet Web Site Traffic Course – Part 2 – Social Bookmarking

Internet Web Site Traffic Course – Part 2 – Social Bookmarking
By Marlene Kristensen

There are several ways to increase the traffic coming to your website. The internet web site traffic course is in 5 parts. In this second part we will focus on Social Bookmarking. You will learn about what is social bookmarking, how to bookmark, what not to do, how to get others to bookmark your links and most important why even bother.

What is social bookmarking?

In a nutshell, Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Bookmarks are links to web pages, pictures, videos or other content found on the internet.

Bookmarking is growing in popularity and if you really want to get all the benefits and generate internet web site traffic with social bookmarking, you should start as soon as possible. I know it seems like a huge task but you will soon get the hang of it. If you do not want to do this yourself, it is quite easy to outsource. You can even find software that will speed up the process for you.

Where do you bookmark?

There are a ton of bookmarking sites available, but I recommend that you start with some of the most popular ones like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Delicious. Make sure you at least do these ones. Maybe you can begin to see, that you can create a whole linking network, with these services. And what do you catch in a net? No, not flies, something better: Targeted leads. You can share whatever you want on these sites. Blog posts, videos, articles and so on.

How do you use social bookmarking?

There are a few simple steps you can follow to really harness social bookmarking.

1. Book Mark Your Links

Social bookmarking sites have a high authority in the search engines, this means, that a link from one of these sites gives credibility to your site. This, in turn, means your site will gain trust and a higher rank in the search results. Combined with article writing, this is a powerful tool, as we spoke on in the last part of this course. So of cause you use bookmarking on your main page as well as your articles. This will over time give you huge targeted exposure and explode your internet web site traffic.

2. Choosing the Category

It is very important that you submit your link to the right category. The better fit between link and category; the easier it is for people to find it. It also makes the viewer highly targeted, because they are looking in a certain category out of interest. Also it sends a wrong picture of you and your brand, if your bookmarks show up randomly. And here it is important to think about that what you are doing is actually branding, creating awareness and that is to be taking seriously!

3. Get others to book mark your links

Here we are talking about popularity. Each of the bookmarking sites has a main page where all the most popular links/bookmarks are listed. When people see a submission that they like, they can vote for it. This is done differently on each site but the idea is the same. The more people vote on your links, the more popular it gets and the snow ball effect takes over. Always use catching headlines that intrigue people, this will get you more readers. And most important, only submit quality, unique content. This will build your votes and your brand as well.

4. Read the rules and guidelines

Before using any social bookmarking site, make sure you read and understand their rules and regulations and use accordingly. You do not want to lose such a great source of internet web site traffic!

Get on Google’s first page

We have talked about getting targeted visitors direct from the bookmarking sites. We also briefly touched the concept of search engine ranking. This is a great benefit of using social bookmarking. I greatly improves your site’s ranking. As you know, Google ranks websites based on their importance, and the relevancy of the keywords used. Also on age, but only time can do something about that  If you go and take action on this information you will quickly get new pages indexed and all pages highly ranked. The above mentioned sites have great ranking and a link from any of them will increase the value of your page in the search engines.

Social bookmarking is a very powerful tool to increase your internet web site traffic. But remember without quality content it is a waste of time. You can’t put a price on targeted traffic, it is simply to valuable, and social bookmarking will get it for you. Use it wisely! Hope you enjoyed this second part of the internet website traffic course. Remember this is a 5 part course, so go look for the other parts to really get you moving! If you want to learn how to generate traffic using web 2.0 techniques, go see the resource box.

Marlene is an expert author on internet marketing with focus on how to generate targeted internet traffic to web sites. To learn more about Marlene, please visit her blog at: http://www.marlenekristensen.com. To get her f.ree report on web site traffic promotion with Web 2.0 click here: http://www.web2stampedetraffic.com.

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