Are You Using Social Bookmarking For Blog Marketing?
Being a blog writer is fun if you are writing in a niche that interests you
. Blog marketing is important if you want to make money from your blog. Social bookmarking is one step that many bloggers miss.
Let's take a look at the steps of creating a blog post for marketing purposes. We will finish with how to easy it is to bookmark your blog post after you have published it.
1. Keyword list. I use Traffic Travis to build my keyword list. Some people use the free Google Adwords tool.
Traffic Travis is a free software you can download. It returns results for Google, Yahoo, and Bing. This lets you see what keyword phrases people are searching for on the top three search engines.
This is important if you're going to use your blog as a marketing tool. You want people to be able to find your blog based on the keyword phrases they are searching for.
The search engines will begin to rank your blog posts if you include the keyword phrases that people are searching for. This may take a little bit of time, but in the long run it's worth the effort.
2. Where to include your keywords. Starting with your title include the keyword phrase in it. You may even want to go so far as only listing the keyword phrase in the title of your blog post.
The exact keyword phrase should also be included in the introduction paragraph, and in the closing paragraph. I like to bold it for additional emphasis to benefit both the search engines as well as the reader.
People search typing in all kinds of keyword phrases so this is why it's important to build a quality list. You can then develop blog articles around these phrases. Over time you will have hundreds or possibly even thousands of blog posts written.
3. Keyword variation. Be careful not to spam your keyword phrase. A better strategy is to use variations of it throughout the body of the article.
These should be written so it sounds natural and not forced. As you become more adept as a blog writer you will find these keyword variations will come naturally to you.
4. Only Wire. Once you publish your blog article you want to use Only Wire to social bookmark it.
This is a great tool for getting your blog article into the top social directories with the click of one button. You will need to take a little bit of time initially to join all of the different social directories.
However, once this is done your blog post will automatically be submitted to each one. The cost for this is $30 a month.
This is worth it in the long run because of the traffic you will get from these directories. It is also extremely helpful in getting the search engines to find you and start ranking your blog post for the keywords you are writing about.
Social bookmarking is important in getting the best results from your blog marketing efforts. Blogging is a great way to make money and social bookmarking is an easy step to take once you're all set up to do it.