There are many types of social websites that you can find online, including an entire group that bookmarks favourites for people. These are websites like Digg and Furl, which allow people to save copies of any website or page that they desire and share it with people.
StumbleUpon is another good site that bookmarks favourites, and it operates on the same principles as the first too. You really have to take the time to utilize these sites effectively in your marketing if you want to find success with them.
If you are able to get your content ranked high on one of these sites, you will be able to generate more traffic, better visitors, and many useful backlinks for your business along the way.
Social bookmarking can seem like a useless tool to some, but it actually holds a lot of merit. In fact, many users will rate companies or information that they find based on how many times it has been bookmarked or how popular it is on those sites. If it doesn’t rank, they will assume it isn’t the best information or company and move along.
It’s amazing how people have so much power online, and you have to know how to make that power work for you if you want to be successful.
Any website that bookmarks favourites is going to watch for illegal practices or improper abuse of the rating systems. Therefore, you should never go in and bookmark your own content time and time again or try to find ‘tricks’ to get your content to the top. You simply need to get yourself noticed and let people take your content to the top for you.
If you try to work the system, you’ll likely end up getting banned from the site or getting a bad review, which is even worse than not having social bookmarks at all.
You need to take the time to learn about social bookmarking, hot trends, and how content becomes a preference so that you can follow suit. Any website that bookmarks favourites is going to help you get more business and increase your visibility, and you should be taking advantage of that.
It doesn’t matter how much marketing you do or how many ads you have because if people don’t think that you are the best, they won’t help you become a success. Utilize tools like social bookmarking to reach out and make an impression.
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Sandy these are great points. It is so easy to go to one extreme or the other. Ignore all social bookmarking (and miss out) or go nuts (and get banned). I’m slowly been putting my toe in the water, and have found through trial and error that the best bookmarking sites can vary biz to biz. Some people swear by StumbleUpon, however I’ve found that traffic is not sticky when it gets to my site. BizSugar on the other hand is perfect for me.
Thanks for your insights and the tip about BizSugar Nicole.
Hi Sandy,
Thanks for the tip, I am completely clueless about social bookmarking but I’ll have a read at this article and see if I can’t improve.
Remember to have a descriptive profile, with a slight comic touch. People will praise your profile and will be attracted to you like bees to honey.