Social bookmarking is a term that is often defined as Web 2.0 because it has an online community atmosphere. It is basically a site where people get to list their favorite sites for other people to see and the other people can comment on them and put in their two cents on the content of the bookmark.
Now the question is, how do you use social bookmarking to help your blog?
You use social bookmarking in a couple of ways.
1.) To get your site indexed quickly as the video below will show you.
2.) To get traffic to your site.
I have literally seen over 1,000 visitors in two days because of a site that was submitted to Stumbleupon. You can actually see this in the case study for the blog that I am giving away at Blogging Beginners which is free, but below are a couple of screen captures that show you the increase in traffic and where it came from.
A key point to remember is that you don’t want to submit only your sites to the social bookmarking sites. You want to submit other good content as well so it doesn’t look like you are spamming the sites.
I use a couple of tools to submit to the social bookmarking sites the first one I use is Bookmarking Demon. It is great because after you set it up not only can you submit to numerous sites quickly and easily but you can ping your pages in the sites.
Bookmarking Demon will let you add a bookmark to over 100 sites out of the box and you can easily add more as you find them, but I only have mine set to send to a little over 60 services. The reason for this is there are a lot of services that use the Pligg script which is known to be susceptible to viruses and I avoid those services just on principal. My computer is unlikely to be infected because I have all the proper software installed but why take the chance? Don’t worry, it comes with a comprehensive user guide that will tell you about all of this and even show you how to set up your linking campaigns.
Bookmarking Demon is what I used to get the post in the video above indexed and I highly recommend it to get your site indexed and get backlinks to your site.
The other tool I use is OnlyWire. You can see this by mousing over the Bookmark and Share button below this post. I highly recommend you put this plugin on your blogs because if I see a post I like I will use that button to submit your post to over 16 services. But if I don’t see that button your post I still have a browser plugin that will let me submit any page I am on to multiple services.
Now why do I recommend using OnlyWire when I have already used the Bookmarking Demon?
It is because the Bookmarking Demon does a great job at getting me backlinks and getting the post indexed but there are three services that can get you a lot of traffic that Bookmarking Demon doesn’t do that well with. They are StumbleUpon (as you saw above), Digg and Technorati. These are the main services that I use OnlyWire for.
The combination of these two guarantees that my posts are indexed within 48 hours and I usually see at least a little traffic from them within 24 hours.
There is one more effective technique you can use for social bookmarking and that is to find a community of bloggers that have set up a social bookmarking group (like we have with Blogging Beginners) and you submit your site for bookmarking and if they like your post they bookmark it for you. Having your posts bookmarked by numerous people helps you get traffic and indexed. But remember if you join one of these groups you need to actively participate in the group to get the most from it.
Overview:
Social bookmarking will get your site indexed quickly and bring traffic to your site.
Tools:
Bookmarking Demon – for quick and easy distribution of your posts to a LOT of social bookmarking sites.
OnlyWire – for quick distribution to a number of social bookmarking sites including the biggies, StumbleUpon, Digg and Technorati.
Social Groups – to submit a specific post to be bookmarked by numerous people.
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wow, even can i submit my blogger account to Stumbleupon ? or only custom domains are allowed, at present i m already sharing my post’s on Facebook and in Digg as you’ve mentioned, i am sure gonna use both of those tools ? but are those freeware or Licensed ?
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Hey Mark,
You can submit any thing that has a URL to stumbleupon. Videos, pictures, webpages even tweets from twitter. But it always seems to work better if someone else submits it for you.
nice, i haven’y known that u can submit my blog url on Stumbleupon and that it can bring me new visitors. thanks for sharing, greetings
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Thanks for sharing nice and informative post.Well, Social bookmarking is my favorite technique of promotion of my website. I have an simple question that Deep links are allowed to be submitted by stumble upon?like http://howtoblogsite.com/how-to-blog/how-to-blog-social-bookmarking/ I have never tried because of fear of getting banned.
Yes, you can use deep links at Stumbleupon and all the other social bookmarking sites. They actually prefer it and it helps you with keyword ranking.
Earlier on I was always thinking of how to get my favorite sites listed. These points are very much informative to get my desire fulfilled.
For the online community, the idea of Social Bookmarking is very much useful. I think it is encouraging for the new writers as well.