The Benefits Of Social Bookmarking

Written by Andrew Rondeau in Internet Marketing Advice | 33 Awesome Comments - Add Yours?
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Social bookmarking is a way of leaving a trail of breadcrumbs online.  You might have the best product in the world, but if you can’t generate the traffic you’ve just got a nice website on your hands with no customers.  Even if you have a loyal mailing list you will still need to constantly update this by attracting new online visitors.

There are many options for making connections on social bookmarking sites.  To find the best you need to take your time and surf around.  Once you have researched the best way to start is to set up some social bookmarking accounts that you can use regularly.

StumbleUpon is one of the most popular of the social bookmarking sites which is both powerful and easy to use.  First you need to create an account and then create a toolbar interface.  All that’s left to do is click on the Thumbs Up icon in order to recommend a website.  This can be done for any websites you own and you can also ask your friends to give you the Thumbs Up.  In addition to these ratings you can also add comments (known as discoveries) about your website.

Powerful advice: Do not stumble the same site too many times. Vary your stumbles across a number of different sites. I have had accounts ‘banned’ by StumbleUpon. They don’t really tell you why they have banned your account but I think it was for stumbling the same site too many times.

Can you Digg it? Sounds like a line from a 70s song, but it is actually a very popular social bookmarking site.  Digg works very much like StumbleUpon in that users are allowed to push up the ratings for a particular site so that it reaches the front page.  If you can make it to the front page you will be presenting yourself to thousands of potential visitors and more and more people will start hitting your site to see what you are all about.

Clipmarks markets itself as “scissors for web pages.”  This site lets you submit items that are transmitted to the Internet – including to an iPhone and to Facebook.  It provides a one stop shop and can save a lot of time.

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Start off by installing plugins for your browser.  These allow you to carry out a multitude of functions such as clicking once to submit your item to many sites in one go.  In order for this to work, you will need to join any social bookmarking sites you want to use.  Once that is done, you can use OnlyWire to carry out submissions to these sites.

You will need to ensure that visitors to your site know how they can rate your site.  It is not possible to bribe or reward them for bookmarking your site.  This is the social bookmarking equivalent to stuffing the ballot box.

You can publish links to bookmarking sites as a gentle and polite reminder to your visitors.  Don’t be coy about submitting any updated information to these networks yourself.  You will just need to ensure that you do it in such a way that it doesn’t appear as spam.  If you tell people what you have got and where they can find it there is a good chance they will pass this information on to others.

One tool I use regularly for my personal book-marking and can recommend is Book Marking Demon.

Book Marking Demon allows you to automatically bookmark websites to over 100 book-marking sites in minutes and best of all without spamming.

As a result of using Book Marking Demon, my sites backlinks vastly increase within days.




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33 Responses to The Benefits Of Social Bookmarking
  1. Ching Ya

    Hi Andrew,
    Interesting, and I’m shameful to say I’m not familiar with the Clipmarks and OnlyWire. Thanks for introducing them and will give it a browse. How would you differentiate them from Delicious, Reddit etc? Is there any aspects that we should be considering before choosing which bookmarking sites to be used?

    Thank you for sharing the info. Looking forward to your reply.

    @wchingya
    Social Media/Blogging

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    • BuildYourBlog
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      Ching Ya,

      Thanks for commenting. Once you sign up with OnlyWire (free), it allows you to auto-submit sites to numerous social booking sites in one-go (and that saves a lot of time).

      Clipmarks is slightly different to some of the others because it allows you to syndicate your postings to Twitter, Facebook, Stumble…so again you are only submitting to one place but other social sites are automatically posted to.

      Andrew

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  3. Rajj

    yes this post is very true, i personally use BMD to meet my target. Cheers

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  4. sussane

    hey thx for sharing this nice post, i wonder how much does this BMD cost ?? Can you give it to me for free ;)
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    • BuildYourBlog
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      BMD costs $147 so unfortunately I cannot provide for free.

      Andrew

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  5. Andy Michaels

    I use OnlyWire for social bookmarking. I’ve wondering as well if there are any negative implications (in terms of traffic) of bookmarking your own sites.. What do you think?

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    Andy Michaels
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    • Andrew Rondeau
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      I don’t think there are any negative implications (in terms of traffic) when bookmarking your own sites. However, the social bookmarking sites do monitor activity and you could be banned if you keep bookmarking your own sites. Try and get others to bookmark for you, first.

      Andrew

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  6. Abhishek Gupta

    Thanks for sharing this nice blog with us and it seems like that social bookmarking only the way for increasing website traffic for any website…I prefer to social bookmarking submissions manually but we can also use Socialposter.com and Onlywire.com.

    Thanks, it is really nice post

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  7. Terry Creswell

    And also there are many more sites like this. Mr Wong is also good.

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  8. Fred

    Im amazed at how often I see social bookmarks at the very top of Googles rankings. One I often see is JumpTags so you might want to check that out if your keen on the idea – you can use onlywire to submit to several social bookmarkers at once – its a tool i’ve used for about a year now and find it really useful.
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  9. Janice from chiropractic social media

    I love clipmarks, If I’m not mistaken I’ve got around 70+ links over that website that is pointing to my domain. What I love from it is its unique bookmarking way where in we can clip some part of our website and it will be the content for our entry in clipmarks.
    .-= Janice@chiropractic social media´s last blog ..How to Build a List with Video Marketing =-.

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  10. Ally

    Im a big fan of clipmarks too, im surprsed at the price of BMD though i think i will cary on without it, a bit our of my price bracket Andrew but a great blogg, hats off to you! Thanks

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  11. Jason

    Andrew,

    This is great. I’m starting to learn the importance of backlinking and using social bookmarking in my backlinking plan.

    I had never heard of “Bookmarking Demon” so I’m going to have to check it out. Looks like it’ll save some time.

    Thanks again,
    Jason
    .-= Jason@Real Estate Agent Marketing´s last blog ..Internet Leads for Agents – Big Scam or Goldmine? =-.

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  12. AndyN

    I have been using Only Wire but had a few problems which they could not seem to solve. Have been trying SocialADR where other people bookmark your site. It seems to work well but I am waiting to see what the results are like.
    .-= AndyN´s last blog ..Streaming Video Hosting Facts =-.

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  13. Angela from CMS Breda

    Thanks for all the great tips Jason! Unfortunately I’ve used one Dutch social bookmarking site a bit too much. They’ve banned my account. What should I do? Create another account or politely send an e-mail to them? Cus I’d love to go on with my social bookmarking strategy…

    Thanks in advance!

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  14. James

    I bought a site not long ago and when I started to submit new posts (it was a blog) to social bookmarking sites I found a few of them had banned the URL. Presumably the previous owner had been a bit heavy on promoting it this way at the expense of participating in the site with other bookmarks. The OnlyWire plugin in excellent for this because if you are bookmarking for SEO then all you have to do is to remember to hit the OnlyWire button on your browser as you’re surfing the net and you’ll get heaps of sites on your bookmarking account that aren’t self promotion and you’ll be doing the right thing by them.
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  15. Phil

    I use onlywire in bookmarking articles. But in some bookmarking sites, the article does not appear and I have to log in to the site. In some cases, onlywire work fine.
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  16. Tom

    Hi,

    I use ping.fm but. It is free but limited and doesn’t support all platforms.
    Will try onlywire, because it sounds good what your write.

    Looking forward to receive your newsletter.

    Tom
    Tom recently posted..Wie Du erreichst- dass eine Frau Dir gefallen möchteMy Profile

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  17. MikeF

    Very useful tips. I would like to add one: Apply a bit of networking to you bookmarking accounts. befriend or follow other stumblers, diggs etc
    That makes it less likely that your account gets banned. It is also useful to create “real” account profiles with a photo and some information.
    Mike
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  18. Frauen ansprechen

    I have just been searching for different ways to get social bookmarking done … faster and easier. I knew there were certain tools, but I were missing a list. So I am glad I found your list :-) I think I will give onlywire and bookmarking demon a try.
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  20. Mike from Black Cohosh

    Thanks for the tips. My G search was about how to use bookmarking without getting banned, now I have an idea.

    I’m probably going to get Bookmarking Demon, I just don’t want my work to be deleted.
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