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ElieSession28 — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:08:18 GMT

ElieSession28: Created page with '[http://socialbookmarkn.jigsy.com/ Social Bookmark] - Social bookmarking is the practice of posting links to articles and website pages to various "link aggregator" or social boo…'

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

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

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

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

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

5. Most social bookmarking 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 will often have some kind of "social" element for them, allowing users to generate profiles, have a friends set of other users, etc., in the hope of getting users to talk about content between themselves.

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

Choose your niche

Submitting an article on growing bonsais to the front page of Reddit won't do you any good - you'll get 30 visitors maybe, none of whom will buy your products. But submitting it to /r/bonsai, though it only has around 1,100 readers, will probably garner you more attention from interested people.

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

Write a catchy title, and use a photo

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

Most bookmarking sites add a thumbnail from the page you're linking to, or one you provide. Take the trouble to do this - it generates greater click throughs.

Keep at it, to make your links simple to share

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

Basically, having links to all or any of your articles on half dozen social bookmarking sites is great for SEO.

ElieSession28

ElieSession28 — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:08:14 GMT