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User:BettyStock560

2012-05-04T08:52:58Z

BettyStock560: Created page with '[http://socialbookmarkn.wikispaces.com/ Social Bookmark] - Social bookmarking is the practice of posting links to articles and website pages to various "link aggregator" or socia…'

[http://socialbookmarkn.wikispaces.com/ Social Bookmark] - Social bookmarking is the practice of posting links to articles and website pages to various "link aggregator" or social bookmark sites, such as Digg, Stumbleupon and so on. Bookmarking sites rise and fall in popularity fairly quickly, but they generally have a couple of common features:

1. Users can submit links which other users can browse, providing a good way to expose your content.

2. Links enter into large pages of lists, which are normally very easy to navigate, and are generally usually divided up right into a "main page" of the best links during the day, and various sub-sections which help you to get exposure in more relevant circles.

3. Links usually can be "voted on" to determine which links have more airtime on the front page of numerous sections. The more votes your links get, the more traffic they get.

4. Some sites, like Digg, fasten a weighting to certain actions and users, so a person who submits popular links will have a vote that carries more importance.

5. Most social bookmark submitting site users are fairly jaded in terms of the internet, and will ignore things that aren't interesting, funny, or very entertaining. This is not a place for your boring press releases.

6. Most bookmarking sites normally have some kind of "social" element to them, allowing users to generate profiles, have a friends listing of other users, etc., in the hope of getting users to share with you content between themselves.

[http://socialbookmarkn.terapad.com/ Social Bookmark] - Those are the basics, so let's take a look at how best to approach social bookmark creating. I'm going to use Reddit and Digg as my main examples, having said that that Reddit itself takes a great deal of familiarity with its culture before you are able to submit links that anybody even clicks.

Choose your niche

Submitting a write-up on growing bonsais to the front page of Reddit won't make you any money - you'll get 30 visitors maybe, none of whom will buy your products. But submitting it to /r/bonsai, although it only has around 1,100 readers, will likely garner you more attention from interested people.

Ironically, submitting to /r/trees could have much less of an effect, because /r/trees is dedicated to marijuana culture. The lesson here is: know your subreddits.

Write an appealing title, and use a picture

Standard newspaper/advert headline formats fail to work too well on the net, because everyone has become resistant to them. Instead you should think of a clever title that interests people enough to find out more about what you're writing, or at least promise pictures of cats.

Most bookmarking sites add a thumbnail from the page you're linking to, a treadmill you provide. Consider the trouble to do this - it generates much higher click throughs.

Keep at it, making your links simple to share

[http://socialbookmarkn.webnode.com/ Social Bookmark] - Social bookmarking is all about persistence, so if nobody selects your first link, make another article, come up with a more clever title and attempt again. Put a social bookmark creating widget on your blog or website, and encourage people to talk about your articles. If you've submitted them already, and they've accounts, it only takes another to click an "upvote" or "like" button.

If nothing else, having links to any or all of your articles on half a dozen social bookmarking sites is great for SEO.

BettyStock560

2012-05-04T08:52:54Z