Internet Marketing Training

Introduction

You just created your Website or Blog. Now What? Your site needs to be spidered and indexed in the search engines. One of the fast ways to accomplish this is via Social Bookmarks. Follow the action Plan below and your site will be indexed and have an initial backlinks to jump up in the Search Engine Rankings. Also in order to have a successful and profitable Blog or Website you need traffic. There are many sources of information regarding ways to bring traffic to your site, but Social Bookmarking is one of the easiest ways with multiple benefits. These methods are perfectly ethical and you shouldn’t have any concerns doing them.

What is Social Bookmarking?

Definition from Wiki:

On a Social Bookmarking system or network, users store lists of Internet resources that they find useful. These lists can be accessible to the public by users of a specific network or website. Other users with similar interests can view the links by topic, category, tags, or even randomly. Other than web page bookmarks, services specialized to a specific subject or format – feeds, books, videos, music, shopping items, map locations, wineries, etc. – can be found In a social bookmarking system, users store lists of Internet resources that they find useful. These lists are both accessible to the public or a specific network, and other people with similar interests can view the links by category, tags, or even randomly. Some allow for privacy on a per-bookmark basis. They also categorize their resources by the use of informally assigned, user- defined keywords or tags. Most social bookmarking services allow users to search for bookmarks which are associated with given “tags”, and rank the resources by the number of users which have bookmarked them. Many social bookmarking services also have implemented algorithms to draw inferences from the tag keywords that are assigned to resources by examining the clustering of particular keywords, and the relation of keywords to one another. Its increasing popularity and competition have extended the services to offer more than just sharing bookmarks, such as rating, commenting, the ability to import and export, add notes, reviews, email links, automatic notification, feed subscription, web annotation, create groups and social networks.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking can bring immediate traffic to your website, as web 2.0 community websites such as Technorati, Digg, Reddit and Tailrank provide almost immediate information on various topics. These type of Bookmarking sites index and categorize content usually faster than the major search engines. People looking for the latest information on certain topics usually refer to these types of services. The benefit is two fold. They provide immediate traffic from like-minded targeted viewers but also powerful backlinks to your sites that bring positive SEO and Search Engine results.

Bookmarking Accounts You Should Utilize – Digg.com

http://digg.com Digg is a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on Digg is submitted by our community (that would be you). 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 tool 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.

Bookmarking Accounts You Should Utilize – 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. We search, 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 vie for readership with 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. We rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and so we monitor 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. 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, but OnlyWire does provide a very easy explanation and video sample from there help section. If you need to view this go here: http://www.onlywire.com/index?services&sec=help Note that the Bookmark will be called : Save Page (std)

Once you have created your OnlyWire account, Updated your bookmark accounts and dragged the interface into your toolbar you are ready to auto bookmark your blog posts of content pages. Simple navigate your browser to a individual blog post. Click on the Toolbar tag named Save Page (std) The Title and the URL will be filled out with the information about the post you are attempting to bookmark. Fill in the Relevant Tags that represent your post Do Not Click the Private Box Add any comments or short description of the Blog post Make sure you check which Bookmarking sites you wish to bookmark. Then click Bookmark Page. You have just bookmarked several accounts with your post.

Supercharge Your Bookmarks Once you have bookmarked your pages via the Onlywire.com interface, you can supercharge your bookmarks by pinging your individual Bookmarks accounts Like de.lirio.us, del.icio.us, blinklist, bibsonomy and any bookmark accounts that file you under a username. If you go to pingoat.com and pingomatic.com you can PING your actual book mark accounts. For example, with del.ico.us just go to your account. Copy the URL. http://del.icio.us/yourusername Open up pinggoat and pingomatic. Enter your URL and Ping several of the ping services. Now repeat the process with your other bookmark accounts. By using Social Bookmarking you are driving traffic and links to your websites. Remember, like with any solution, “Don’t Spam the Technique”.

Create a Circle of Bookmarks

Several of the Bookmarking sites are designed with individual username profiles as distinct URLs that list all your Bookmarking links. These are actual URL’s and not a Session ID when you login to the site. To create a circle of links, add your profile bookmark pages URL to other Bookmarking sites. Below is a small list of sites that have Profile Pages URLs that you can BookMark. (Replace Username with your own login site name) del.icio.us/USERNAME de.lirio.us/bookmarks/USERNAME bibsonomy.org/user/USERNAME www.blinklist.com/USERNAME You get the idea right? For example, you bookmark your Delicious profile URL on Blinklist and your Blinklist Profile URL on Delicious. When you periodically Ping some of your bookmark pages you will have a circle of links for the spiders to follow back to your sites and develop increasing value of Backlinks.

Conclusion

Applying the strategies in this report offers an easy way to get backlinks and traffic to your websites and blogs.

About The Author

Christopher Andrew is a Internet Marketing and SEO Expert who has been doing online
marketing for the last seven years. http://epicycledigital.com/store provides
Internet marketers free and low cost MRR And PLR products, as well as support to
build Internet businesses. Go ahead and give it a try – it’s free and it really does work

Search engines are the gateway to the Internet; they are the first tool that potential customers use to find the products and services they need. This is why link popularity is so imperative. If the customers do not find your website, you have no possibilities of making any sales.

 You’re probably wondering what the blazes is popular about a link! Well, in a word – plenty! Link popularity refers to the ranking assigned to your website by the search engines, and it determines the ranking your page gets when keywords are entered into a search engine. So, you’re probably wondering, how do I make my link popular?

 Search engines are discretionary, giving status and ranking to sites that have links to their pages from related, quality sites. It’s a simple formula, but a very important one. Google created the system, and now virtually all the most popular search engines employ it to rank your web pages in their indexes.

 The more commonly used your keyword is, the harder it will be to achieve link popularity, but without achieving this step, it is almost certain your site will never rank highly on any search engine. But don’t be discouraged; there are tried and true ways of achieving link popularity using the most competitive keywords.

 There are a few things you should be aware of. The first is that just linking up with a large number of other websites will not achieve link popularity. In fact, it may have quite the opposite effect. This is particularly true when pertaining to websites that are nothing more than “link farms” – pages containing line after line of indiscriminate links. Search engines may aggressively discriminate against your website if you are associated with a link farm, so steer clear of them!

 The next thing to bear in mind is the quality of the site you are linking to. Never link to a page you have reservations about your visitors seeing. The last thing you want your website to appear as is indiscriminate and cheap. Linking to sites of poor quality will only lessen your link popularity, if not completely destroy it.

 So let’s get to what you need to do to achieve supreme link popularity and improve your rankings to stellar status on all the popular search engines.

 The first step, and the fastest way to get your foot in the door, is to get a listing in a popular directory, such as Open Directory Project and Yahoo. If your site is business-related, you will want to be listed on Yahoo, and despite the fact that it will cost you around $300 a year, it will be money well spent. If your site is non-commercial, the listing will be free, but it will take time and follow-up to actually get it listed. Open Directory is gives you a free listing whether you are business-related or non-commercial, but be prepared to make a lot of follow-up inquiries before you see your site listed.

 You are aiming to get listed in the highest level of appropriate category, and this just takes some common sense. For example, if your company ships Alpaca wool from an Alpaca farm located in the middle of Nowhere, Tiny State, do NOT submit your listing to “Retailers from Nowhere, Tiny State.” BIG MISTAKE! All you have to do is look a little deeper – and submit your listing to the “Fine Alpaca Wool” category. You will not only associate yourself with culture and quality, but you will be listed in a national category.

 The next step after you have attained directory listings is to locate other quality sites that will increase your link popularity. Try to find sites that are in some way related to yours, so not only will your link popularity increase, but your customer base may also be expanded. You want to avoid your competitors and look for sites that are useful to your site’s visitors. Let’s look at the Alpaca Wool site example. Linking up to a site that sells knitting supplies would be helpful to your visitors, and the chances of the knitting supply site wanting to link up to your site are also greater. By linking to a related site that will be relevant to your website’s traffic, you are increasing both of your site’s business prospects – and both of your sites’ link popularity.

 Not all sites want to link to other sites, so you will have to do some research when you are looking for possible linking partners. Google is an excellent starting place for your search. Make sure you enter keywords that you think quality customers will also enter to find your own site. Remember, your criteria are quality, highly ranked, non-competing websites that have a links or resources page. Go to these sites and objectively assess them. Look at the quality of the product, the graphics, and the ease of use. Then check out the other sites they are linked to, and determine if your own site would fit in with the crowd.

 When you decide you have found a good prospect, you must set out to woo them. The first thing to do is to add a link on your own links page to their site. This is an essential first step; it shows good faith, and ups your chances significantly of their reciprocity. After you have added their link, you must contact the webmaster of their site. Since this is almost always done by email, you want to make sure it is immediately clear that your message is not junk mail. This requires that you tell them right off the bat that you have added a link to their page on your site. A hook like this almost always insures the reader will read on.

 Next, be sure to be flattering and let them know how much you appreciate their website. Make sure you emphasize that you have actually visited their site, and that their site is not just a random pick. Give them the address of your links page, and ask them to check out the link for themselves. It’s a good idea to mention that they will not only benefit from the increased traffic your website will direct their way, but you will also increase their link popularity. Briefly, explain why link popularity is so essential, but do this in a sentence or two so you don’t sound like a professor! Finally, tell them you would greatly appreciate if they would reciprocally add a link on their own links page to your website.

 Go through this process with as many appropriate sites as you can find, bearing in mind the criteria of quality and non-competitiveness. After you have emailed all relevant sites, be sure to check these website frequently to see if they have added a link to your page. Give it about a month, and if no link appears, try another charming email. Then give it another month, and if your site is still absent from their links page, it’s time to remove their link from your own links page. The only time you want to pursue a link further than this is if you believe a site is crucial to your link popularity and your business needs. Just remember to keep all your communications complimentary and cordial.

 Then set up a schedule to check your ranking in search engines frequently to see if your link popularity has improved. This is not achievable in the blink of an eye. It will take some time and a good deal of work. There is no way around the labor-intensive quality of improving your link popularity, which is why search engines regard it with such importance.

 By the way – make sure you have a beautiful, streamlined site or you will never persuade anyone to link up to you. Be prepared to keep plugging away at this process, as long as it takes, until you achieve link popularity stardom!
 
 Christopher Andrew
 http://epicycledigital.com
 

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