How To Boost Your Social Media Marketing – Tip 1 – Automate Your Social Bookmarking

This article is the first in a series of articles to help you jump-start your social media marketing.

You need? Create new targeted traffic to your website, blog, or subscription page? Create more opportunities for your site to appear in the search results of the major search engines? Create viral traffic possibilities?

Of course yes. These may be the benefits to you of social bookmarking. Importantly, the shipping process can be automated, saving you a lot of time.

A social bookmarking service is a centralized online service that allows users to add, edit, and share bookmarks for the website pages they like. You can easily use your bookmarks from anywhere using any computer that is connected to the Internet.

Being listed on sites like Digg and Delicious can drive new traffic to your website. Incidentally, Delicious popularized the terms “social bookmarking” and “tagging”. These sites offer the best type of visitor. People who come to your site from such a social bookmarking site are usually there because your website appeared in a search for topics that interested them.

Search engines will often show the results of bookmarking sites. So if your site is bookmarked, this is an additional opportunity to appear in search results.

Being featured on one bookmarking site can often lead to people tagging your site on other bookmarking sites so that you have the potential for viral traffic.

The top 5 bookmarking sites in terms of monthly unique visitors are Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Digg, and Slashdot. But there are many more. Search Engine Journal has compiled a list of 125 social bookmarking sites, some of which are very popular and some of which are newer or somewhat unknown.

In addition to targeting the major social bookmarking sites, you will find some rough diamonds that are either niche-oriented or well covered by Google and other search engines.

To get your share of the wealth that social bookmarking offers, you need to bookmark multiple sites. This may seem like a daunting task, but it can be automated with the right software, like IMAutomator.

This social bookmarking software allows you to create links in just moments. IMAutomator works with shipping credits. Each site in the system has a credit cost equal to its PageRank, so a PR1 site costs 1 credit to submit, a PR4 site costs 4 credits, and so on. When you submit a job, you choose exactly which sites you want to submit to, and therefore control exactly how many credits you are spending on each one. If you are just starting out, the best option is the free trial, then buy credits as you need them.

You will be surprised how easy the shipping process really is. Once you have completed your details and submitted the job, you will have access to a submission schedule for each job.

The default rate for submitting links is one per day to avoid search engine penalties. My work consisted of 63 scheduled submissions and the cost of the credits was approximately $ 6. The bookmarking site with the highest PageRank was Delicious. The remaining 62 sites had a PageRank of 1 to 7.

So there you are. Automated social bookmarking. The $ 6 automation cost saved me hours and hours of my time. However, out of the top 5 sites, only Delicious was included in the submission schedule. So I’ll have to do Reddit, StumbleUpon, Digg, and Slashdot manually. It’s not such a daunting task considering the many long-term benefits.

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