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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.









22 Comments
May 16th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Twitter: wchingya
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
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BuildYourBlog Reply:
May 17th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Twitter: andrewrondeau
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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May 21st, 2009 at 5:47 am
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July 24th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
yes this post is very true, i personally use BMD to meet my target. Cheers
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July 24th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
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 Reply:
July 26th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Twitter: andrewrondeau
BMD costs $147 so unfortunately I cannot provide for free.
Andrew
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November 25th, 2009 at 4:47 am
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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Andrew Rondeau Reply:
November 25th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Twitter: andrewrondeau
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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February 13th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
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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Andrew Rondeau Reply:
February 15th, 2010 at 9:19 am
Twitter: andrewrondeau
Abhishek
I have used Onlywire.om but not Socialposter.com – thanks for the tip.
Andrew
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February 15th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
And also there are many more sites like this. Mr Wong is also good.
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Andrew Rondeau Reply:
February 15th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Twitter: andrewrondeau
Terry,
Good one – I’ve used Mr Wong before – you can get good backlinks form that one.
Andrew
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March 15th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
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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andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
March 16th, 2010 at 10:30 am
Twitter: andrewrondeau
Fred,
Thanks for the tip – JumpTags.
I often use OnlyWire as well – great little tool.
Andrew
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March 17th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Twitter: socialrandom
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.
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andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
March 18th, 2010 at 8:21 am
Twitter: andrewrondeau
Jancie,
A great share – thanks.
Andrew
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April 22nd, 2010 at 2:19 pm
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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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
April 23rd, 2010 at 9:03 am
Twitter: andrewrondeau
Thanks, Ally.
BMD is a agreat tool but I can understand your views on the price. For me it is worth it, as it speeds things up.
Andrew
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May 15th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Twitter: shilohstreet
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
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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
May 17th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Twitter: andrewrondeau
Jason,
it can save a lot of time – but it can also take a little while to master.
Andrew
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July 27th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
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.
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July 29th, 2010 at 6:41 am
Twitter: erage_nl
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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