subject: Social Bookmarking, Do You Need to Use It? [print this page] Social Bookmarking, Do You Need to Use It?
This article will provide you with 5 Social Bookmarking tips and also a list of the top Social Bookmarking sites that you can start using today.
How does social bookmarking work?
Each site that you join let's you save your book marks to their site and organize those bookmarks with 'tags' or keywords that enable other users to find them when they search using the keywords that you used to bookmark your sites.
I love Social Bookmarking because it's a quicker way to drive qualified traffic to my websites and spread the word about them without having to wait for the search engines to index my sites or using Pay Per Click advertising.
Here are 5 things that you should do when you launch your social bookmark campaign:
1. Create an awesome profile - Many people set up their accounts without putting much thought into their profiles. One of the keys to long term success is to create an awesome profile so people know you're a real person and someone that they would want to learn more about.
2. Use your personality - One of the worst things your can do is to post content without putting much thought or character into it. Take the time to personalize each bookmark that you add and put some thought into it instead of submitting boring content.
3. Use buying tags - Instead of using tags that are just relevant to your niche you should be using tags that buyers would be using like: buy, on sale, review, discounted, for sale, low cost and also use specific colors, shapes and sizes. For example: Black Toshiba Laptop.
4. Don't spam - One of the 'cardinal rules' across the internet is to don't spam. Let's get one thing straight, you can bookmark your own content regularly just don't do it every day. Make sure you vary the content that you submit so that you're submitting relevant content that other users would want to read in between submitting your own content.
5. Use the same login ID with each site - One of the things that you want to do with bookmarking or any type of social media campaign is to use the same login ID for any site that you join so people who know you on one site can find you on others as well. This is the smart way to get friends and quickly gain recognition. You should consider using your first and last name or business name as your login ID because as you develop your personal brand more people will be able to easily find content from you if they were to Google your name or business name.
Top sites that you should join:
Digg
LinkedIN
Delicious
Stumbleupon
Google Bookmarks
Technocrati
Diigo
Wirefan
Bibsonomy
Blinklist
folkd
linkagoago
mister-wong
connotea
mixx
jumptags
searchles
squidoo
To learn more tips that you can use to grow your home based business visit my blog athttp://www.teachmehowtoworkfromhome.com.
