“SEO and Social Book Marking”
How to Generate Traffic with Viral Marketing
Before I get into the topic I want to explain to my regular readers and subscribers what I have been doing for the last week. If you have noticed my posts have been written in a fairly matter of fact way. The reason is that I have been busy putting into practice the things I Blog about. I have been writing and submitting articles to build links to this Blog, the good news is that the traffic has noticeably increased (by 3 times).
Because of that, I haven’t had the time to post as much as I would like, and I know that readers have come to expect regular post. As a result, I have been posting some of the articles in order to keep passing on some information. Today I am back to writing exclusively for the Blog, and then onto the next project, social book marking. Which brings us to my topic for this post (finally).
If you look around some Blogs, and now at the bottom of my posts, you will see a button saying something like “Digg this” “Delic.io.us” etc. these are shortcuts to some of the forty plus, “Social Book Marking” sites that have sprung up all over the internet.
What a Social Book Marking site is all about, is telling other members what you have seen, liked and why you liked it, on the internet. They are extremely popular right now, so they are a SEO dream.
If you draw the attention of the community, enormous traffic will be sent to your site. even if you don’t you will come across the few that will like what you have and poke around your website. The bookmarks can be categorized in virtually any topic, so you wont be sending people looking for something totally unrelated to your site.
I have mentioned in prior post the importance of building links to your site. Each post on these Social Book Marking sites counts as a link to you. As I said there are over forty of these sites, so you could literally put forty links to everything on your site if you had the time to visit them all, and who does???
Good News! I have come across a very cool little tool, and yes it is free, to help with all of this. There is a site called “SocialMarker” that will allow you to post to ALL of them in an almost automatic way. You simply select which Social Book Marking sites to submit to from a list. You can pick and choose, with various types of sorting, from the most popular, to those that do follow, or just one or two you want to use.
I am not talking about spamming, I hate spamming. I am talking about semi-automating what you are doing. You will still have to enter the codes to prove you are human, and work through some quirks on each site, but instead of spending hours going from site to site you are brought to each site’s submit section with the fields pre filled.
If you are not a member of the sites you will need to become a member, which will take some time just filling in the forms and replying to the confirmation emails, but once you do that you are done.
All you have to do is click the button, or install the button on your browser (took me 3 seconds to figure that part out, it is just drag and drop). Hit the submit tab in the top right of the SocialMarker site, and you’re off. When you are done with the first submission, just click the next tab, and so on until you have submitted your website to as many, or few, of the Social Book Marking sites that you choose.
A very big benefit of this is that your link will be noticed, and indexed by the major search engines sometimes within minutes. The reason for this is the popularity of these sites, there is constantly new information being posted, so the crawlers keep coming back for more.
So that is the free SEO tool of the week, I am off to finish registering for the other thirty sites I haven’t done yet, and of course I will be submitting this post as a favorite to each of them.
Until next time
Rob
P.S. if you liked this post and want to get started, just click the bookmark button at the end of this post, you will be taken straight to SocialMarker’s site. Remember to vote for this post on all of your favorite sites tooJ
P.P.S. I am going to be adding SocialMarker as a resource to my new eBook “The SEO Secret Revealed”, and remember Subscribers to the Rob Emmerson’s SEO Blog will get a free copy of the book which is loaded with SEO strategy and secrets.
