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What do I do With all These Social Bookmarking Sites?

First of all, let’s define what a Social Bookmark Site is.

Social Bookmarks are web based applications that allow a person to store their bookmarks online instead of on their browser or computer. Whenever you bookmark a web page on a social network site you are posting it on the Internet for everyone to see. Plus you are creating back links to your website to help it gain popularity with the search engines.

Social Bookmarking is thus valuable for Internet Marketing purposes as it draws viewers to your website or blog and increases the search engine ranking of it due to all the backlinks you can get.

Social bookmarks are an increasingly popular way to classify, locate, share and rank news, stories and articles on the Internet through tagging. Social bookmarking websites like Digg (http://www.Digg.com) and Stumble Upon (http://www.StumbleUpon.com) have risen in popularity very quickly and it’s a secret that experienced marketers use to push their webpage up in the ranks of the major search engines.

But There’s so Darn Many of Them.

A recent blog post I read noted 380 social networks of some note, meaning they weren’t just common run of the mill dregs. You will wear yourself out if you try to post your blurb or bookmark to each and everyone of these social network sites every time you write a blog post. There are many smaller social bookmarking websites that can also drive you loads of traffic. But it would be extremely tiring to go through all of them 1 by 1. Here’s how you do it and here’s what you do - you get a bookmarkeing tool like Socialbookmarkit.com, addthis.com or onlywire.com and use them to submit your bookmarks to may of the social networks.

This can have a great, positive effect on the ranking of your website and exposure to drive traffic to it.

Onlywire
OnlyWire.com is the fastest, easiest way to submit web content to all of your social bookmarking sites automatically. OnlyWire users can share and distribute their online content to the range of social bookmarking sites, for increased traffic, increased backlinks and improved search engine index speed. At Onlywire.com, you can submit to 22 other popular social bookmarking sites simultaneously. OnlyWire allows you to manage submissions automatically with The Power of the Button™. Drive massive traffic fast and easy Increase your backlinks Increase search engine index speed Auto-submit new posts to multiple bookmarking sites

1. Go to http://www.onlywire.com and create an account.
2. Register with all the other social bookmarking sites that can be used with onlywire.com
3. Input your username and password of your other accounts into onlywire.com
4. Drag the Onlywire bookmark link “savepage” onto your toolbar
5. Go to the webpage where publish your article and click on the “savepage” button
6. Insert your website title, description and relevant tags or keywords about your article.
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for every new page that you have.

SocialBookmarkit

If you haven’t tried it yet, go for it. Social bookmarking is becoming the best new way to search.

SocialBookmarkIt.com provides the tools you need to quickly add ALL the major social bookmark links to your website. Link to the top social bookmarking services with a single link. There’s no need to figure out each bookmark site’s submission process and no need to clutter your site with dozens of icons. Let SocialBookmarkIt.com do the work, and let your visitors do the bookmarking!
There are two ways to use SocialBookmarkIt.com:

1. Use the free link code to get a button that links to a generic bookmark page, OR;
2. Create a premium account that allows you to generate special code so you can edit your SocialBookmarkIt page and track its activity. By creating an account, your bookmark pages are fully customizable, and you can even add your site logo!

AddThis

Addthis.com has a similar set up to the above, however it is entirely free and does not require you to set up each and every social network account.

Happy Networking!

To Your Success

Mark Schwartz

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