What Bookmarking Accounts Are Worth To Utilize From A Marketer Standpoint?
As you already know there are plenty of social bookmarking sites. From a marketer standpoint there are 3 sites that are worth considering for your marketing efforts. Let's review those sites.
- Digg.com
http://digg.com
Digg is a user driven social content website. Everything on Digg is submitted by its community. After you submit content, other people read your submission and "Digg" what they like best. If your story rocks and receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of visitors to see.
What can you do as a Digg user? Lots. Every person can digg (help promote), bury (help remove spam), and comment on stories... you can even Digg and bury comments you like or dislike. Digg also allows you to track your friends' activity throughout the site - want to share a video or news story with a friend? Digg it!
Digg offers many tools to include the Digg buttons right to your sites so that others can Digg you as well. It is recommended however that you Digg a few of your post every once in awhile to get the ball rolling and traffic coming.
- Technorati.com
http://technorati.com/
Currently tracking 79.2 million blogs, Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. Technorati searches, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as "citizen media."
But it all started with blogs. A blog, or weblog, is a regularly updated journal
published on the web. Some blogs are intended for a small audience; others for wide readership like national newspapers. Blogs are influential, personal, or both and they reflect as many topics and opinions as there are people writing them.
Blogs are powerful because they allow millions of people to easily publish and share their ideas, and millions more to read and respond. They engage the writer and reader in an open conversation, and are shifting the Internet paradigm as we know it.
On the World Live Web, bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation.
Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. It rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and so it monitors these live communities and the conversations they foster.
The World Live Web is incredibly active, and according to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that's just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second. Technorati tells who's saying what right now!
Using OnlyWire To Bring your Bookmarking To The Next Level
You can put your Bookmarking efforts into overdrive, using a free submission site like OnlyWire.com to bookmark many accounts at once.
When you signup for www.OnlyWire.com you can interface many bookmark accounts and with one simple procedure bookmark your blog post to all your accounts at once.
OnlyWire.com interfaces with the following Bookmark accounts:
Backflip
Bibsonomy
Blinklist
Blogmemes
Blue Dot
de.lirio.us
del.icio.us
Diigo
Furl
Jots
Linkroll
Looklater
ma.gnolia
Markaboo
Rawsugar
Shadows
Simpy
Spurl
Wink
If you don't have a Bookmark Account from the ones listed you can easily sign up.
When you log into OnlyWire you will see all the accounts listed and a place to put your individual username and passwords for the preset account. Add your username and password to the lists then at the bottom of the page click Save My Logins.
Next step is to "Drag these links below into your toolbar". It is a simple drag and drop scenario. OnlyWire provides a very easy explanation and video sample from there help section.
In conclusion, bookmarking your pages is useful to quickly index your websites, to create some initial backlinks to start the ranking of your websites and to drive some traffic. If you create good content, your visitors will be motivated to "bookmark" your pages as well. Remember, like with any solution, "Don't Spam the Technique".
If you want to learn more on how to drive traffic from social bookmarking and social networking sites, you can get a FREE download Web2.0 ebooks and resources at this link:
www.marketingsoftstore.com/web2.0/socialtoolkit.html
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